User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 426: Black Heart, Review and Commentary/@comment-4449950-20150330133107

M'kay, gunna be quick 'cause I need to be up early tomorrow and it's late.

Gajeel took the role I thought Erza would have, though I guess I don't mind that it's him - as you said, it's a nice tie-in to the Belno thing. But now I have no idea what Erza's up to .-. Hope it's not Mermaid Heel :/

Agreed on characters too. I found them all bland except for the bishie. He seems like the only one who could put an interesting spin on things; the others just seem, as you said, formulaic. I also don't have that spark that I had with at least half of Tartarus. Not to mention that I don't get why they're just letting Gray do as he pleases. If they had this info, why did they let him join? Or wander around in their HQ being a potential threat? I'm a little confused tbh.

I'm also hoping that if this Mary turns out to be IT Mary that Mashima gives her a proper story in main FT. What I mean by that is that none of us are forced to read IT to learn of her motives and stuff, rather it's explained in the main story. If I have to go read IT just to learn more about her I'm going to be quite irked tbh.

Well, hopefully next week isn't just half of Avatar falling to Natsu and Gajeel >__> And hopefully Erza's whereabouts are touched on and Mashima isn't just keeping her at bay because he has no clue what to do with her.