User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 442: The Law of Space, Review./@comment-24367018-20150629153121

Attempt three at this... >.<

Ok, this chapter was definitely enjoyable as it more than allows for readers to speculate what might happen in the med-long term of the arc, so thank you for that Mashima <(_ _)>

Chapter cover was pretty cool, nothing much else to be said about that. Unless your name is Tristan... :P

The introduction of Marin Hollow was very well done in my opinion, I hate his guts already - fucking perverted split personality nut job, so props to Mashima for creating a decent character in that regard. As for his magic, the spoiler made it sound pretty good, however in the actual chapter it doesn't really appear to be that impressive. If anything it just seems to be a cross between Teleportation magic and Human Subordination magic, having said that it was very good seeing Erza being nerfed by it, so perhaps it's not as underwhelming as first thought.

As well as that, this is what I meant earlier about thinking ahead. If Mashima's smart about this plot, this arc will hopefully cover only Makarov's retrieval and the pissing off of Albareth, followed by an arc about the preparation for suspected war, followed by the actual war, in which case it would allow for Marin to come into contact with Minerva. Furthermore, because Erza and Lucy are supposedly in the hands of the Empire, what I'd like to see is Erza and Lucy enslaved/controlled/brainwashed (I hate that latter word >.<) into fighting FT. I doubt that will happen but I will most certainly be happy if it does.

Team B didn't make an appearance which isn't much of a surprise as I suspect what will happen is that they'll be coming in Clutch later on in this arc, avec Laxus, and then explain how they found him and the Raijinshuu in a flashback or something, to save Team A's arses.

Eh what else? Oh yeah, Bae-Brandish' debut. ^_^' Finger's crossed that if she's managed to put the fear of God into Gray and Natsu just by standing there we won't be getting a repeat of Jackal vs. Natsu BS or Arlock vs. Natsu bollocks. It's interesting to see that Stream translated her name as Brandish μ, could the other 11 (minus God Serena) be getting Greek letters at the ends of their names too? Can't say I'm too thrilled at that prospect, to my knowledge Spriggan's are from a Cornish legend, not Greek, unless any Greek or Cornish users wish to correct me on that.

What I don't understand most is that, if Brandish is so powerful, how did Natsu and Gray not notice her when they approached the island in the first place? Or at least earlier then they did. Yes mages can lower the power levels a la Dragon Ball, but as was stated by Lucy it's possible to tell when someone is doing so.

So yeah, definitely liked this chapter. ^_^