User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-24039234-20160606172057

Gajeel: Stay.The.Fuck.Down. I know, I know, M-sensei won't do it, but even now something in me wants to take this series seriously, against all odds. BTW, the fight was awful, even if the ending to it is great. It's a shame that the relationship that's supposed to give it some weight happened almost entirely off-screen...panel, whatever. Oh well, one more notch to the off-screen important events column, right after the defeat of the wizard saints.

Levy: Chick got mad skillz, yo. Finally some non-bullshit winner (e.g. Natsu, Laxus, Erza...) who really improved during a timeskip. If Levy will be the one who manages to piece Gajeel back together, I won't even be mad. 'cuz she deserves it. I mean come on, the scene when she tried to get to him was just awesome!

Lilly: T_T Brother amongst brothers. Respect.

Acknologia: He... actually has a plan? Wow. Idgf, boring destructive villain is boring, but I guess every series needs one.

Irene: I hope she has a veritable plan that will work to some extent. I will be really mad if she misjudges Ackno's strength and simply runs headlong into her destruction. Any other villain, I would be okay with, but she's hyped to be one of the two strongest mages in the entire world. She's supposed to know this stuff. Good luck, magic milf, I'm curious and still moderately hopeful about you.

Megahappy vs Augostozilla in Neo-Magnolia: Wow. Brandish. Actual reasoning and a legit change of heart? And I really think its legit; August was already shown to have some reluctance when he was introduced in the Spriggan's meeting ("We're but pawns"). Color me impressed.

Mest: Again, wow. But a completely different kind of wow. After a couple 'o hundred chapters of being a moderately useless teleport beacon for loli transport, now you decide to be OP as fuck? I literary facedesked. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with him trying something and angering August in the process. Yes, it is a mistake, and yes, it is an idiotic move, and yes, it demeans Mest's character, but! it is a good twist from a story perspective. People make mistakes, especially people like Mest, and especially under pressure of this magnitude. A tragic mistake that completely destroys an otherwise successful peace talk, breaking Brandish in the process; delicious, delicious stuff.

What I have problems with is Mest's completely OP bullshit way to pull it off; magic never did work like this.

But, despite this, I still think that taken out of context, this may be one of the best chapters of FT. Of all time. A lot of things happened, all of them great, and the pacing wasn't off for a second. If the entire series worked liked this, I would've been sooooo much happer with it, than I generally am. Let's see if we manage to get some real consequences. :)