User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 489: Universe One, Review./@comment-7418318-20160613161549

Overall this was certainly an interesting chapter for me, but I'm not quite sure whether I truly liked it or not yet. That will depend on how the story goes on from here, but it does look promising.

I guess I'll just go through it part by part (page by page would be overstating it a bit).


 * Whatever August did to Brandish reminds me a lot of when Mira used Sleep Magic on Lucy all the way back in the Phantom arc. I think August put her to sleep rather than doing anything drastic.
 * Nice going Natsu, to jump in to protect Lucy there... too bad that this scene will inevitably attract the shippers like flys to a fresh corpse too. ^^
 * There's this smaller thing that looks almost like an explosion in it's own right, square in the middle of the massive pillar of light and we only see Natsu and Lucy, Happy and Mest caught up in it. I think August this small area is August protecting himself and Brandish.
 * "What is that? Natsu, Lucy, Happy..." So nobody cares about Mest despite not even knowing what he did? Okay. ^^
 * Good job Cana. You made Tristan very happy. :P This together with the next chapter's title Zero really makes me want to know how Zeref will react to seeing Mavis still alive and mobile. I'm sure his guilt over killing her is a big reason for shaping his behaviour. Seeing that he didn't kill her after all... I really want to see that.
 * So Acnologia vs Irene... this is the part I don't want to judge before it's over. Changing the entire peninsular's magic does seem impressive, but then we already had one person who's magic changed the entire planet... and that didn't turn out to be somewhat lacklustre too. If Irene can do that and still be considered only number 2 among the Spriggans what the hell can August do? O.O