User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 287: Real Family, Review./@comment-4047931-20120615175626

Well another good chapter and what’s with all the brilliant chapter covers lately? Lisanna and Cana? Hiro is dishing out the goods when it comes to covers. Well with the lead up to this fight gave me the only one option, had to like it. I did enjoy the conversation between father and son before the fight but it did make me wonder with Gajeel gone for seven years who gave Fairy Tail the information on Raven Tails of the past seven years? I guess that Jura did tell Makarov about Raven Tail when the Tenrou Team returned, but still... Anyway moving on. Hearing that every guild has their dark secret was rather interesting. Seeing that Lumen Hirtoire is Fairy Tails it made me wonder about other guilds secrets. I got one for Lamia Scale, does their guild master EATS CHILDREN!!! Huh got side tracked again. Well on to the fight.

This fight was a love letter to Laxus fans. I was disappointed in it seeing it being too one-sided, but dam Laxus you strong. Seeing him dominate the RT elite was awesome and the way he smacked Nulppuding and blasted Flare away was awesome, but poor Kurohebi. Nulppuding and Flare put up a better fight than you. But Man this felt like a completely different Laxus fighting. For cool d-bag, to angry ally and no a friendly everyday badass, avenging his friends was cool, but even referring to his guild-mates as friends was even more surprising. Laxus really polished up on his skills, but it was a shame to see Iwan do so little in the fight and I hope to see more of him later and what he said about Lumen Histoire has made me really to see what Fairy Tail's little secret. Also Orga smiled over Laxus's win, they need to become rivals of lightning and seeing RT getting dragged away was kind of funny seeing Nulppuding struggling (it's funny cause he's small) and Kurohebi looked like the only one that didn't need to be picked up seeing that it looked like he smacked the knight away from him. A good fight but it was too one-sided. By the way I think I was right about Obra with the body being the puppet and the Black Creature pulling the strings.

Now the the last battle of the day begins. The battle of the two cuties and Hiro seems to have done what he did with Juvia to Cheila. Slightly change her appearance (for the better again) and Wendy's clothes looked to me a bit like Kagura's clothes, but without the annoying ribbon and likable character. It was cute to see them both head out into the battleground, but the best part of the chapter had got to be what came after. The STRANGE MAGICAL PRESENCE! The plot thickness. I can wait, we're finally moving along with Zeref's presence at the games. Personally I hope Cheila's magic isn't related to the Presence and I think poor Yukino will have been caught by Arcadious, but we will see next week.

Overall it was a good chapter moving the plot along a bit. It was a bit disappointing with the fight, but a good fight none the less. Hiro made a love letter to Laxus fans like Al, but I hope the next chapter will be better with the plot of the Magical Presence moving along and I hope the battle of the two cuties doesn't disappoint.