User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 456: Orders, Review and Commentary/@comment-24546844-20151011013708

Damn, was caught off guard with this early chapter and... Hey it's Raven! Hi Raven!! o/. Anyway, almost everything I could say was already said so I guess I'll keep this short. Simply put it was mostly bad. Nothing to say one the panels of the guild members fighting but did anyone notice that the arab guy is using something akin to oil magic?

I like that Hiro is keeping the maturity of Natsu's character because I thought he would forget it as soon as the battle start. I still think he will eventually have to drop it later for some reason. For some reason I keep remembering Jaden's second duel against Zane (YGO GX) where he tried to be more cold and analytical but it ended not working so well and he reverted back to his natural spontaneity giving him more chances to win. Somehow I see Natsu saying "screw this I'm going all out" then just rampaging and one-shotting everyone.

I completely disliked everything about Mirajane's Sayla take over. Even though I liked Sayla having her as a Take Over makes no sense to me after all that "you can't taake over an Etherious". This would be at least more bearable if, like you said, she morphed into a form with traits from both, but she just became a Sayla with the front tail. Also she acting cutesy in that form doesn't fit at all. It's strange.

I seriously don't know what to think of Brandish's interaction with Lucy. It was obviously played for nothing but fanservice, as it expanded nothing (at least that I noticed) on Brandish's character, and next chapter we'll have the exactly same scene as we had on last week's chapter except that Lucy will be naked.

Not counting the naked part I wonder how Lucy intends to fight Brandish. She's clearly outmatched and I don't think any key or Star Dress can give her an edge in a battle. On the other hand it could be, as someone pointed, a battle of wits somehow. It will be they both talking about each others wills and reasons to fight maybe? Anyway, not sure if I'm in a hurry to find out. This is it.