User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 455: Magnolia's Defensive Battle, Review./@comment-24546844-20151005142615

YES!!! This chapter was everything I was expecting from this war. This is supposed to be an all out conflict between continents (even though only FT is battling for Fiore so far) that may decide the future of of humanity. It's only logical that Zeref should send all of his forces and corner FT from all sides. "Quantity has quality on it's own" is what they say right? And Alvarez has both quality and quantity, while FT only has quality.

You know, I'm a bit interested on those two underlings of Ajeel. I wonder if they'll fare as well against the DS as Marin (even though that was barelly a fight). The big one didn't looked a bit impressed by Natsu, but he don't look like someone who's got all his screws in place. The more logical will probably take on Gajeel. I wonder if both of them have original magics or will they all have some variation of earth/desert magic like Ajeel.

I'm glad Ajeel is the one dominating the fight and not Erza. It's a good way to maintain the Spriggan hype by defeating one of FT's strongest, instead of undermining it by doing things the other way around. Also I wonder why Ajeel's magic interfere with Erza's requip. Maybe the sands are blocking the dimensionl hole from which the armos come out? Or maybe it's just turning her magic into more sand. I hope Hiro explains it.

Also I'm almost convinced that Wahrl has some conection to Obra considering his anti-magic abilities but I hope he have something else up his sleeve. And what's up with those Minion-like minions, can't Hiro make those references more subtle?

Brandish's moment intrigued me, after I recovered from lauguing so hard that is. Igonoring the fact that she just invaded Lucy's house and is taking a bath, her being interested in Lucy makes little sense to me. At no point she explicitly looked a Lucy when they met and Lucy did't even do anything worth of mentioning that time, so why would Brandish be interested in her? My best guess is that, considenring Brandish's magic she has some passive skill of noticing and calculating the mass of everything no matter how small it is. With this she probably sensed that there was something inside Lucy that shouldn't be there, and it was something that she couldn't ignore. Anyway I can't think of anything else right now.

On the current situation and next chapter I wonder what Hiro will do. FT is clearly outmatched and fighting now would be sure death of course. I wonder if Mavis wil accept defeat and try to negotite the Fairy Heart with Zeref. Or maybe this is the time when every guild in Fiore joins the fight and give FT some morale. It's to be noted thatnot even Crime Sorciere as showed up yet. Or maybe as people comented earlier, it's time to unleash FH? I personally want it to be the second one, but considering the title it may be the first one and the order is for the mages not to interfere.

If this stage of the war ends so fast and FT actually loses maybe it means that Mashima wants to make a second conflict with FT realizing how they couldn't take on Alvarez alone and actually making a war effort with every other guild and the council to attack Alvarez on their own continent to rescue Mavis and potentially Lucy too. Let's see how this play out then, see you next week.