User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 392: I Must Not Forget, Review./@comment-4449950-20140712011520

Mkay...

My thoughts are all over the place on this one, and I've decided to leave most of my final opinions for next week because I don't want to overreact and say "this is all crap" when we have no explanation thus far (seriously, I wish all of the people on the forums/tumblr going "I didn't get it... this is shit... Mashima is shit" would fucking shut up and wait for crying out loud). From the looks of next weeks title, we will get some kind of backstory, and, depending on what that backstory is, I will decide whether the turn of events in this chapter were good or bad for me.

From a quick scan and read of the comments, I can see some people have pointed this out, but I linked a tumblr post in chat that I found a few days ago that had a rather interesting idea on Silver and Keith. You can read it here if you like. It is worth it and lol tbh I get the feeling some people read it or a similar post and are claiming points as their own: "I thought this would happen because I thought X" when they should really be saying "I thought this would happen because I read X on this blog and decided that that person was correct." I digress though...

The problem I had with this was two things:
 * 1) This "you're not my father, oh wait you are" thing. Gray blatantly said that Silver wasn't his father and flipped his shit (don't tell me this was an act, he went nuts) when Silver said he was Deliora. Why then half way through the revenge fight has he gone "this asshole isn't Deliora... he's my father"? I don't get where the change and realisation came from. Like... ... huh o__O? Again, this could be explained, but I'll likely still not get it...
 * 2) As many people have pointed out, Gray gave Silver a bad wound that had the potential to kill him. Like... Again... Why? You flip your shit because your dads body is being defiled, then realise the guy is lying and he is your father... so you kill/very badly wound him? Man, Gray's lack of sympathy reached a new level if this is the case. Stay back for good now Juvia... bloody hell .-.

As for the fight, which I can judge based on this chapter alone... well, it was okay, I guess. Dunno... the clones confused me further cause I don't remember them being able to move so convincingly, or bleed or cast spells etc, and I also think that as soon as Silver realised the second clone that he would have insta-froze the place, but of course he didn't ( -__-) I said this with the Wendy/Carla/Face/Magic circle chapter, but I hate all the sad flashbacks/apologizing to characters when everything is going to be okay IN THE SAME CHAPTER. Yes, sad things can be touching if a fate is left hanging, but here I again saw those "goodbye/sorry" panels as wasting space, especially since Gray knew himself that he wasn't using Iced Shell. I mean, at least Wendy and Carla thought they were dying and had an excuse >__>

So, all in all I think Mashima screwed up just in the sense that there was too much confusion all at once. If the fight had been clearer (clones, I'm looking at you) or the revelation clearer, this might have been a bit smoother, but, as I spent the whole time with a wtf face, I ended the chapter with my brain in a clusterfuck.

Waiting for next week though to know if this clusterfuck can be sorted. I hope so and I think it might be. Silver seems like an important character, so I hope Mashima has all of this wrapped up nicely. I have to admit I'm also excited to see where Silver's character goes form here. Death? Rampage of evilness? Good guys? Runs away? \( .__.)/ I dunno...

Oh! I almost forgot Wendy. Nice to see her and her idea is good, but two things:
 * 1) I hope by "all guilds" that Mashima doesn't get lazy and show the mains and leave the others. I wanna see Hound Holy and Phoenix Grave and Gramlush and all these other guilds that are never shown :<
 * 2) GO TO JELLAL ALREADY! God damn it Doranbolt, you left 2 people to deal with a guild of Dark Mages and you haven't thought about Jellal ONCE!? Come on man... get your damn act together!! >:(

I also had this weird dream last night that the romantic chapter was about Jellal and Erza's wedding and that the next arc introduced one of the Four Gods, who turned out to be female and had some interest in Erza. Whatever though... my dreams are fucking retarded >__>