User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-203.87.133.132-20160609092619/@comment-7418318-20160609151639

Okay....

One one side we have the Lisanna who had broken bones and blunt force traume and was teleported to the perfectly livable world of Edolas with a friendly Fairy Tail Guild.

On the other side we have Gajeel who's body by his own words has become "a mass of Magic Barrier Particles" (which makes it sound like he'd have died either way) getting sucked into the underworld/hell/oblivion/death.

Yeah... totally the same situation... I too can't see how Gajeel would have any less of a chance to return than Lisanna had... .