User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 516: The Truth About Enchantment, Review/@comment-5303512-20161227040743/@comment-29874610-20161227113700

Jeez, why all the fightning? This chapter can be good/bad, it just depends on how you look at it. All the points that you brought up(okay, MOST of the points) could be seen as okay, or bad, it just depends on how critical you are. And as you should know, CNBA3, people in this forum, are all VERY critical. I myself see this chapter 50/50. There are some things that bug me, but overall I don't find them that bad. Here is MY opinion on the points you brought up, Zetarion:

1. Dragon Slayer Magic: While it is true, that it was used to link Erza closer to the story, it is not BS. You all look at it that way, while forgetting that if Erza isn't at least somehow connected to the story, she becomes a meaningless character, and in the result just has more BS. This way, while not really fixing her BS, it at least gives her meaning.

2.Erza's Armor: Really...? Is THAT your problem with the chapter? Well jeez, if you're reading fairy tail, you should be ready for fanservice, it's as easy as that. I still don't get why people are complaining about fanservice at this point, it's something that ALWAYS will be there. And about the armor, while it is a bit dissapointing that it doesn't have some special abilities(probably, we don't know for sure), it's not really bad. This new armor is not BS, because we had a timeskip for crying out loud(and people tend to forget that). Besides a lot of fans love Erza, and want her to "progress" and get new armors. So it's not BS at all.

3. Well, if you look at it, it still is obvious that Irene is a lot stronger with enchantments than Wendy. The fact that Wendy had a contrspell for Irenes spell, doesn't exactly mean that Wendy is more adept in Enchanting magic. Can Wendy create fireballs and blasts with her enchantment? No. Can Wendy enchant herself into another body? No. So the fact that Wendy had a contrspell, just shows her growth.

4.Okay, this point irks me as well. While it isn't BS, and it is logical, it's just.... I hoped Hiro managed the fight better, than putting Irene in a smaller body. Again, we can't really complain... yet. We have to see how it goes first. But it will probably go the way we fear, and that is gonna be bad. Still at least Hiro managed to make a logical way of defeating her, cause to be honest, anything else would probably be BS(except Acnologia defeating her). So while it irks me, at least it's not a completely BS path.

5.I don't understand what's the problem with that? That Natsu is gonna get another powerup? It was obvious from the start. Seriously, what's the problem? The tumor started because Zeref shot the book, which caused the "demon seed" to grow, creating a tumor inside Natsu. While I do belive CNBA3 got it wrong: Etherious Natsu won't have a change of personality, it's just that demons have an instinct to beat Zeref, and so Natsu will have that as well. The fact that the seeds are merging is actually interesting, even though I hoped that Natsu would transform into a dragon in a later arc(if there is one..). And the fact that Natsu is dying, well, we still don't know how will he stop that. As well as the fact that if he kills Zeref, he still will die as well. So seriously, I don't see a problem here.