User blog comment:CNBA3/Fairy Tail Zero 6 review/@comment-25111584-20141217170017

Finally something happened in Zero, so yay! \(^_^)/ A bit of plot, quite a bit of fight. Also, anybody else think Yury's crystal look like the Hogyoku? No? *goes to rinse eyes*

The good:
 * 1) Mavis seems to know only Illusion Magic. Which means that she'll hopefully have a mentor to guide her in learning the other Magic. Also, she's not gonna pull any OP BS. Seeing why they chose to make her the First Master should be fun now.
 * 2) Mavis finally behaving like a real human girl and crying when her trick failed.
 * 3) Blue Skull guys are not complete fodder.
 * 4) The heroes had the good sense to try and retreat even before any of them was hurt. Very good.
 * 5) Warrod be awesome! \(^_^)/

The bad:
 * 1) The old man's death should have had more of an impact on the kids, especially after their entire village was slaughtered by Blue Skull. That one panel with Zeira (if she's Mavis' imagination, then it counts as Mavis' reaction) doesn't cut it. The childish trend continues. Actually, that whole scene was childish. He was walking pretty leisurely, expression was pretty dejected at the most. He had given up on life? Why not just run away? Most people would choose the latter option. We could come up with many reasons (sad history, no desire to live, terminal disease, yadda yadda), but then he'd've committed suicide. The whole scene was a bit surreal and seemed to have been inserted just to show 'Blue Skull be bad and ruthless', didn't really make any sense.
 * 2) Losing interest in Yury, dunno why. ( ._.)
 * 3) When most of the Guild (presumably) was present, it still took the Master to see that Mavis' illusion for what it was. Like all other fodder Guilds, it seems nobody but the Master actually knows anything about Magic. If Mavis' illusions are just that good ... works the other way around. Just being a child prodigy doesn't mean she gets this good. Not when she doesn't have a guide or something. Still, useless Guild members is pretty common, so not worth really complaining about.
 * 4) The Precht eye thing was ... disappointing, to say the least. Very boring, actually.
 * 5) "They won't be coming back." Overconfidence of the villain. I realize that this is a necessary evil though.

Anticipation:
 * 1) Looking at how many times Zeira has been omitted, especially in the pic where they all run away, she's mp dead. Looking forward to this, hopefully Mashima won't turn this into a normal sobfest with Mavis realizing, "I have real friends now, I don't need to hold onto the past."
 * 2) Mavis might get a mentor in the forest.

Forebodings:
 * 1) The Dragon is most probably just a showpiece ... which completely shatters the excitement from the previous Chapter's last panel.
 * 2) Blue Skull might've moved into Magnolia recently, but, if it moved in a long time ago ... makes no sense. Nobody tried taking them out? It's a whole town after all. And then the old man thing would be even more stupid. This is, of course, only if Blue Skull moved into Magnolia a long time ago.
 * 3) Looking at how Precht's eye was dealt with, the 'battles' Mavis was involved in, all the 'wars', might just be trying to wrest back control of Magnolia ... which would be pathetic.

My 'bad' list seems more imposing than my 'good' one, but all points except for the first one are pretty minor. So a solid 7/10 for me for this Chapter. \(^_^)/ Much better than the last 4 rotten chapters, but nothing really stunning or fantastic about it. Nothing truly captivated me to increase the score, but very few flaws too. Though there's still my pet peeve about it being short for a monthly (20 pages?! That's his weekly FT!) ...