User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 372: Breach, Review./@comment-4449950-20140222062948

I'm all over the place about this chapter and I can't decide whether I liked it or not :/ Guess I'm somewhere in the middle. Maybe I should make a list of goods and bads and see which one is longer XD

THE GOODS:
 * Colour page of Kyouka \( ^__^)/ Yay~
 * That cover... 'Nuf said...
 * Curses. So... Kyouka's Magic-sealing cuffs didn't work on her own person? I find this interesting, and I'm really hoping Curses are explained. I have a theory (was thinking about this on the train yesterday), that, if Magic comes from Ethernano in the body, perhaps the Demons' Curses just have a different power source. I mean, it would explain why they have abilities that seem just like Magic, but aren't, and why Face won't affect them. What if they have a source from Zeref or something? Like, their books hold the energy they need to use their Curses? If Face were to get rid of Ethernano (I assume it does this) then their source would remain. Dunno, it's just a theory, but I like it. Hopefully Mashima offers one too.
 * Juvia XD I loled
 * Cana telling Elfman that if he has time to whine, he has time to help them. Damn straight Cana! Nice one. Elfman, get off your ass already! >:(
 * ZEREF!! Damn it, I think this is why I liked this chapter so much. When everything went black, I actually thought it was the Black Priest Keith who had found Natsu, but it wasn't. I know people think it's a spell or illusion or the like by one of the 9DGs, but I don't think so. What he's saying is a little too specific to his and Natsu's previous interactions in my eyes, so I think it is him. Plus, I think the 9DGs are so worshipping of him that they'd think it blasphemous to make a illusion/spell in his form. But that's just me. Zeref turning up though completely saved the chapter 110% though, so thank you Zeref ^__^
 * Next week's title. Ooooh!! Interesting! I hope it's good :3

THE BADS:
 * Kyouka talking so easily >__> I mean, when they asked her up first where Elfman and Mira was, I thought it was laughable... completely stupid... that when Kyouka said "two floors up in a lab" that Natsu and Lisanna automatically went "Lol, okays :3" and ran off XD I mean... you're talking to the leader of a group of Demons and you automatically believe everything she says? God damn... God damn people are stupid. But... but... but... then suddenly, Kyouka reveals all this other stuff that we know to be true, and I realise she's likely not lying at all, which is even more WTF for me o__O Even worse, when Erza asks about Jellal she DOES NOT LIE... YOU HAD ONE JOB KYOUKA!! ONE FUCKING JOB!!  Sooo, that completely destroys any last threads of character development Erza had for this arc... *sighs* Oh, speaking of which:
 * Erza. I... I have no words. Erza used to be my favourite character (since a few arcs ago I find I answer Meredy when asked for my fav fem) and was always really high on my list. Ever since the GMG arc though she's been pissing me off. Erza used to fight and yes, she had some battles with total plot hacks and nakama power, but these fights were always about her realising she isn't strong and using her friends help to win (see Azuma and Jellal). If it wasn't this, she'd fight in sort of this "I'm just taking you down because you're in my way" sort of thing (see Ever and most early fodder). Before GMG, the only time I remember Erza giving some over the top lecture to her enemy (not a person with her, see Midnight [she was lecturing Jellal, who needed it]) was to Knightwalker, but even then that was interesting because (well, mostly Knightwalker just really needed a lecture) it was like she was lecturing herself. Since the GMG started though, Erza's been pulling out these over the top, BS lectures that she spits at her enemies for no reason before she pounds them. This one didn't even make sense. "You must follow your own faith" sort of thing.... Uh, HELLO!, Kyouka is following her own faith... you just don't like it >__> It's because of this that Erza is slipping from a person who would criticize and work on herself to beat an enemy into a Natsu-act-alike who tries to criticize the enemy and thinks of herself as untouchable. And, it's REALLY PISSING ME OFF! So much so, that, if she keeps it up, I may end up removing Erza from my top three fav females list, which I'd hate to do. I just don't understand where all this awesomeness went and why it had to be replaced by this stuck-up need to preach. I mean, she tried to lecture Minerva in Sun Village ("be good"), Minerva in the GMG ("you hurt people so you're bad") and now Kyouka ("follow your own faith"), yet I think (like I always think with Natsu) that she has no right to say these things. Again, I used to look up to Erza because she fought by changing herself to make herself stronger/better (morally) than her opponent, and that's how she won. Now, she's just rushing in, pulling some huge move and bitching about the enemy's personality, and I'm really over it. Mashima, please, give me back the Erza who actually was decent enough to understand that an enemy was just an enemy, not a student.
 * Natsu leaving Lisanna to go on ahead. Oh... Fuck my life. LISANNA. CAN. NOT. FIGHT! LISANNA. CAN. NOT. FACE. AN. ENEMY. IF. THEY. FIND. HER! LISANNA. SHOULD. NOT. BE. LEFT. ALONE. BECAUSE. SHE. IS. SO. USELESS!! I can already see it: Mirajane's all good to go and bam, around the corner walks a 9DG with Lisanna at their mercy. Repeat of MiraVAzuma no thanks to fucking Lisanna. I swear... if Lisanna gets caught again at any point in this arc for any reason, I will draw a very nice picture of her dead and post it to my Dev account.

THE I DUNNOS:
 * Erza holepunching Cube. I wish we got some info on that armour, but overall I can't decide if I'm angry an entrance was made so easily, or if I don't care... Guess I'm just pissed at Erza in general right now >__>

Outside this, I don't think Kyouka is down at all (maybe that's why I'm not cursing this chapter) as we have not seen anything of her yet and it's too soon for her to lose to unnamed abilities and armour.

Also, this 5 chapters in 5 magazines thing. Sounds neat, and I applaud Mashima. However... HOW THE FUCK EVER!! The chapter featuring Erza is apparently going in Young Magazine, which, according to Chaos, is targeted for older readers (15-24) and is the only one that could potentially (if at all) contain more mature content...

*stands over Mashima's desk with her fangirl whip, threateningly smacking it into her left hand as she glares*

YOU HAVE ONE JOB MASHIMA! ONE FUCKING JOB!!

Fingers crossed with all fangirls that Mashima makes up for this blunder of potential JellalErza development and makes this extra chapter feature them somehow. Mashima is a troll, so I doubt it, but I can hope~

Here's also hoping for some coolness next week~

Carrot out... bitches...