User blog comment:CNBA3/Chapter 474 Review/@comment-25405775-20160222170903

The chapter is basically the original Crime Sorciere trio making grand entrances and I am completely fine with this. Not very fond of Jellal's new outfit but perhaps we only saw it from an unflattering angle this chapter. But yeah, sure "I came here to defeat Zeref" -> lands on the opposite side of the continent where Zeref is on. Um. Yeah.

I don't mind the Lyon/Meredy tease - FT has always been heavy on romance and ship teasing compared to most shonen manga, and an all-out war ain't gonna stop it.

I'm torn between feeling angry about Ultear's return - Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore her, but this basically kills any emotional weight I felt about her letter to Jellal and Ultear and Gray's eventual realization that she sacrificed herself at the end of the GMG arc, and now FT has officially proven itself to be a manga unable to kill or put any significant character on a bus permanently and that just really sucks (Jellal has evaded death like, 4 times already. I'm pretty sure that's a record). On the other hand, I'm willing to wait for an explanation for this sudden youthful!Ultear's reappearance. But I wouldn't hold my breath for anything groundbreaking.

Really looking forward to the Kagura-Jellal drama, since it seems to be headed that way. I was pretty disappointed with how the whole thing was handled back in the GMG arc so here's hoping this time it turns out better, if only slightly.