User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 416: Tartarus Arc: Final Part, Review and Commentary/@comment-24546844-20150119160603

Wow, so many things in this chapter, I guess most of them were positive but well, some of them were not exactly what I was expecting. Let's see, the city and the guild building are destroyed, and Lucy is narrating. Nothing to see here. Laxus is healthy and... all sentimental? I didn't liked it at first but then I realized it was a good thing for his character. It's a good way to show how much he changed since way back then, and as Carrt said, it's a sign that he is developing guild master potential.

Wendy's long hair is back. Well, some people didn't liked it back, well I liked but most because I didn't liked her hair short at any point. Yes the symbolism was killed and it would be so much better if she let it regrow naturally but any wa, the point is that yes, she does look prettier with long hair. Gajeel didn't look any different, but well, Levy was there and Levy makes any page 75% better. Also they're stickinng togeter more so I hope that they oficialize theyr relationsship already duting the timeskip that's coming.

Gray is sulking at his parent's grave and Juvia comes and say whatever about having killed Keith. I'm glad that he reacted fine to it. He can't get angry at her for killing the demon that was threatening his guildmates and the whole world right? Also he crying with Juvia there was really nice.

Well, I could care a lot more about Erza and Jellal but I don't so I have nothing to say here. I like to see that OS joined with CS thought and realy hope to see them more in the next arcs. Next is Saberthoot. Seriously since the start I hated Minerva's "redemption". It didn't fit her character at all, she had great villain potential and it was wasted, and now she's here back to the guild as if she was kidnapped or something and never did anything wrong. And she isn't a demon anymore... there must be some explanation for this.

Now the part which I hated the most in this chapter: Doranbolt is a member of Fairy Tail. I mean, seriously Mashima? Did you realy had to do this? Doranbolt has always been one of my favorite characters exactly because he wasn't part of the guild. His interests were different from those of FT and that was good because the potential of alliance/conflict was there depending on the situation. Not counting it don't make much sense given all the events they went together.

Fortunatelly the next revelation makes up for the previous let down: the guild will disband. If you ask me I will always say that this is a good thing. I mean, it at least has the potential to be a good thing if Mashima handles it in a good way. It's a chance for us to see the guild members as individuals with interests and objetctives of their own. Some of them will join other guilds, travel around the world, get "normal" jobs, marry, things like this and the reunite when things call for it becase we all know they won't be disbanded forever.

And well, we got the last important things. We'll most likelly get a (training) timeskip which is a good thing if the above mentioned disband will actually happen. Gray plans on taking down E.N.D., nothing new here but we still need to know if he is still a Demon Slayer. Natsu plans on getting stronger to... protect everyone... for some reason I hate this line, it lacks a deeper meaning IMO. The majority of your friends can take care of themselves and right now there's nothing really threatening them. If he said that he would take down Zeref, Acnologia, E.N.D. or even Gildarts that would be ok but protecting everyone isn't really good to me.

And to finish we learn that E.N.D. is actually Natsu like a lot of people (but not me) predicted. Don't know... I was hoping that it wouldn't end up like this, but it's not that bad too. With things like this I hope Mashima will use this oportunty to explore Natsu's realationships especially woth Gray. The dillema of fulfilling your dad's last wish and you new driving goal equals to killing you best(?) friend is an interesting thing to me. We all know he won't do it but what happens in between is what matters.

I have a question for all of you. Was it just me or did you all think that Mashima made the girls boobs look bigger than usual in this chapter? Lucy, Erza, Minerva, Yukino, don't you think so? It's just a question, don't get me wrong ( ^_^). Well, after all this chapter was a good way to end the Tartarus arc. It really gave a vibe of a book ending and paving the way to it's sequel. Of course it wasn't the best book in the library but you can't say that it wasn't worth it (at least I can't). I can't wait to see what's coming next, hope it's not E.N.D. or Acnologia yet, let's give them some time. It should be something related to the world's politic in my opinion, I mean, there should be a crisis going on after all of this happened. Well, I guess all we can do is wait for the next chapter and hope Mashima do it right.