User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapters 532 & 533, Review/@comment-24489996-20170421215210/@comment-2214433-20170421220005

I have faith that Mashima won't go down that route, otherwise... blockity block

And yes, Tales was the first thing I thought of, but I wasn't sure if enough people knew about it to get the reference. Final Fantasy stuff was another impression I got...