User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 431 & 432: My sword is... & Brair in Love, Review./@comment-4449950-20150429005748


 * wakes up to find the new chapters* Mkay then, I thought we might have been skipping this week due to the double issue, but okay~

I'm... all over the place about these. I liked what I saw (who doesn't like kick-ass fanservice of awesomeness?) but at the same time I'm going "what is the point of all this?"

I mean, seeing Gray casually freeze those guys was cool (I love casual attacking like that - Mard and his fucking chair is another example). Natsu was... Natsu (eh >__>). Lucy's Star Dress abilities were great now that we've actually gotten to see more of them and hot damn that armour Erza was wearing was so pretty and I love the way all of those panels were drawn when she was taking out the fodder.

But, we kinda already knew Team Natsu was great and cool :/ Jermone and Briar and Mary going down was just... lame. Okay, actually, I take back Mary - despite the page being up-side down (good job Panda!) that was great XD

I just don't like seeing all of this awesomeness displayed just for the sake of it being displayed - because that's the only reason these chapters are here. I'd rather see this new armour for a proper enemy, because I bet it's not used later and we get flame pants 2.0, the timeskip mega version (*gags*). I'd rather see bad guys who can challenge them at this point in the series. All these chapters did was make me go "Damn, they're awesome", but also "Damn, who else besides Zeref is going to be an actual challenge?".

It also makes me question this whole arc. If the whole point is just to show off how awesome and powerful Team Natsu is, then... what's left? What awesomeness is left to be revealed in later battles and such? Take Wendy for example. She apparently went into Dragon Force. Last time she did it was such a big thing for her and she struggled a little and I loved that because there was room to grow. I was looking forward to another fight where things would get sticky for her and she would use it again and show an improvement. Here is was more sort of "Oh yeah, she can use it whenever and is really great now and you missed all of that but oh well... BADASS"! It also means that later when they're in proper fights and Mashima is forced to nerf them at the start to hype the enemies, all of us are going to be rolling our eyes because we've seen them counter just as much here. I just hope Mashima hasn't dug his hole deeper with these chapters.

So yeah, kinda conflicted. I love badassery and awesomeness as much as the next person, but I guess what I'm saying is that I like it at the right time. I'd prefer to see proper battles than all of it coming out against fodder. They can fight these guys any day of the year and I'm wondering what else can possibly be squeezed out of them to make future fights interesting if we know they're all so OP and skilled. I just feel like nothing is a challenge now, and that scares me .-.

Still, Lucy punching Mary though XD Hot damn... *applauds* Chapters get bonus marks for that alone~