User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 499: Gray and Juvia, Review./@comment-7418318-20160829160040

I want to be happy with the chapter, but I feel like I really can't judge this chapter by itself.

If Juvia's death sticks for at least a while it'll be a good chapter, but if she's brought back in the next or next two chapters like Gajeel... this will just end up as a tease to something good we could have gotten but won't get.

So yeah, I tentatively like the chapter so far... but I can't get too emotionally invested (yet) over a death after so many quick cop-outs as Mashima already made. Besides, compared to Gray's very sudden death in the GMG and even compared to Gajeel's semi-death, this one was rather predictable. It's hard to be shocked by stuff you expect to happen.