User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 316: The Future Accelerating Towards Despair, Review/@comment-99.226.148.82-20130125163114

So, this chapter was a good one.

Every time Minerva outplays her opponents, an angel gets its wings. She's excessive, brutal, and clever. A perfect villain to the core, and one that is probably going to get taken out in a few chapters from now. The Orga/Laxus/Jura thing happened about as I expected it to, what with the Jura vs. Laxus foreshadowing of several chapters ago. It should be good. And Juvia/Gray vs. Lyon/Chelia is something I have mixed feelings on. I hate that Juvia and Chelia have basically been relegated to joke characters, despite their power. So, if that shifts to them actually having a serious fight, that'll be good.

As for Gajeel/Rogue, I like where that's going as well. Rogue playing on possible seeds of doubt in Gajeel's mind is a pretty good strategy. After all, it must burn the man to be 'that other dragon slayer' in Fairy Tail. If Rogue can get him angry enough to start making stupid moves, then the man may have a chance.

Now, as for the final panel: that is some of the downright funniest shit I've seen in a while. I think Mashima forgot how to raise the stakes, and just decided on an arbitrary number of dragons as a threat. The number is just so high that I imagine the man sitting at his desk, and thinking 'you know what? Fuck you all, dragonocalypse!'. So, that's a thing. Hopefully that set-up doesn't occur until the tournament's done, just so it looks like the tournament still has a point to it.