User blog comment:B214/Chapter 487 review/@comment-7418318-20160530174400

Warning rant incoming, skip below the line if you don't want to read it.

God damn it Mashima... In this very chapter you just said that MPB "destroy magic" and now Gajeel fuses his owm magic with something that destroys magic?

That's like saying that a base and acid combine into a weapon... no they don't, they neutralize each other resulting in something far more harmless than either of the components.

Magic and ani-magic can by definition not mix, no matter if there's any iron in the anti-magic particles or not... and since when is there iron in those? Isn't it more than 100 chapters too late to reveal such a fundamental fact?

Natsu could absorb the other stuff in Etherion because they were all different kinds of magic fused together with fire magic, but this is totally different. It's like saying you can digest a mix of acid and poison as long as something edible is in the mix too... that so utter bullshit, as B214 said worse bullshit than Laxus healing himself or throwing out-of-nowhere red lightning... or crying fists for that matter.

This is seriously the single worst decision that Mashima ever made when writing Fairy Tail in my opinion.

*rant over*

Okay... other than this the chapter wasn't too bad.

It really caught me off guard that Gajeel is already at a stage where he admits to himself to be in love with Levy (have fun all you shippers ;) ). I thought he was - and still would be for quite some time - in self-denial or too dense to figure out his own feelings.

As cruel as that might sound I am very happy that Levy's mask never worked to begin with. At least something is making sense here. Magic shouldn't protect against anti-magic particles.

Brandish really isn't a good speaker. She could have worded her responses a dozen different way less likely to piss August off so much. ^^ But then I never expected her to be an expert orator. Maybe Lucy can calm August at least enough down to let Brandish off the hook and let them return to FT.

Mest just shut up. You're just scared witless and thus can't think clearly. Obviously Natsu and Lucy realize that August can squash them like a bug, but freaking out won't change anything. Now that you are already in August's range, there isn't really anything they can do except trying to talk their way out of it... and that requires a certain calmness (as well as tying up and gagging Natsu ^^ ).

I wonder if the next chapter will be the obvious (Gajeel + Levy) or if the title is to get us thinking it will be about that, but will really be about Angel and Yukino or Natsu and Lucy or some other pair I can't think of right now (it'd be hilarious if it was Sting and Rogue though :P ).

Another issue I have is Bradman using Silver's Devil Slayer Magic. That was a magic not a curse and it was something that Silver learned, rather than his inherent ability like all the other Nine Demon Gates had.

I wonder if Bradman and Mira will have a Macro Duel.

I'm also glad that Bradman is not yet out and determined to take down Gajeel with him.

I can understand very well why Larcade would stay away from Bradman. MBP don't differentiate between friend and foe, so keeping a distance it a smart move. But I don't understand why s/he isn't decimating the other FT, Saber and Pegasus mages in the meantime.