User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 362: Natsu vs. Jackal, Predictions./@comment-174.113.47.178-20131125214846/@comment-3987368-20131126185946

While I agree Rave is far from perfect at it, Jellal was a relatively easy villain to turn into a good guy. When you already have a factor on the character like brainwashing, it's a simple matter of placing the blame and learning to forgive oneself to overcome. Sadly, he spends a great deal of time beating himself up over what he did. While he's switched to the good side for sure, I'm relatively unimpressed by how he did so because he as a character was set up rather simply. In the latter case, Doranbolt was merely a busybody who rose up against his expectations and came to care for the ones he was trying to stop. While antagonistic, he doesn't qualify as enough of a "villain" for me to really give Mashima props on turning him good, the way I would for spoiler alert Reina