User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 377 & 378: Imperial Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon & With Friends, Always, Review./@comment-17764746-20140329001023/@comment-5303512-20140329184915

All I can say is this, I found the fight to be fair, not one-sided, Ezel didn't go down with the first strike, Wendy also being hit back. And yeah I had issues with the ending of ch 378, anti-climatic. I mean the only characters Mashima killed so far was Simon, Future Lucy and Lahar. And it is strong guess that we will not be seeing Ultear anymore, so yeah the death ratio is quite low compared to the suriving ratio.

As for Dragon Force, I don't think we can judge if both the First Generation's DF is the same as Third Generation's DF. Like what @Nick said, First Generation get a massive power boost from the Ethernano enriched magic while Sting and Rogue used energy already inside them.

I still find the Nine Demon Gates to be awesome (despite and disregarding the crappy Happy surviving the bomb end), and when we found out they can Ressurect themselves I thought to myself what if they can become stronger because of it.