User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 396: Air, Review./@comment-4449950-20140813065040

Okay... Finally home from teaching eighth graders about neurons and developmental plasticity~

I wish I could have typed this up last night, but there were no review blogs and I needed sleep.

Anyways, it's rather easy to tell when I find a chapter awesomely good, or when I find it awesomely bad. This is because AS SOON as I read it I will do anything to be on the Wiki ranting about it. Dinner? Fuck that! Meant to be going out that night? Plans cancelled! Sleep? What's that??

And then there's the third option. I read the chapter, go "hhnnnnmmmmm" and go about doing whatever I was doing.

Yesterday was the third option.

I don't know. Maybe the way the chapter was set up, the just... odd-ness of it? I'm not sure, but it DEFINITELY does not deserve full stars, Gajevy or otherwise.

Firstly, I do like Torafusa. Really, I do. He seems pretty cool, his powers are cool, BUT...!! And this is a big but. AS SOON as he cast that curse/spell/wtfever, and said "you'll all be dead in 5 minutes", I wanted to sigh, end the chapter there and walk off. I mean, fuck... Mashima might as well have said at the end 'P.S: Torafusa gets his ass kicked next week'. I mean, this can only end two ways: A) Tora is defeated and all are saved, or B) Everyone drowns/is poisoned and dies. So, fuck me, option A it is. And now we have to waste a week seeing Tora getting his ass handed to him. Not that he wasn't going to (I mean, all FT bad guys get their ass handed to them), but this is just so cliché and obvious omg... I just don't like it.

Then we get to Gajeel. I know he went all shadow for speed, but this brings up a different point: how can he swim whilst being in his metal form? Shouldn't he be hella heavy? I just... arg...

And then Gajevy. It was... well, tbh I think I've realised over the last little while that I ship Jerza to death and don't really give five shits about any of the other couples. I mean, I was like "awww, cute", but apart from that, I got no feels. I mean (and sorry if you think differently) but resuscitation to me is not romantic. Gajeel was drowning, Levy looked like she was in pain. It was a nicely drawn panel, but I got no love. If anything, I got desperation, which makes me feel different. So I wasn't screaming "GAJEVY! OMG! FEEL THE LOVE!"... I was more "God damn, Levy's brave... you go girl!"

But even then, I feel that Levy came out of nowhere .-. Sorry, but it's true.

Add to this that the Gajevy fandom is now screaming canon and that Gajevy got the first kiss and I'm grinding my teeth. I don't see this as confirming anything. Hell, I thought the two were just as close before this as they were after this moment. I always thought they were this close. Secondly, Jellal and Erza got the first kiss. I hate that Gajevy fans are going "they didn't kiss", when it's ambiguous. Ah shit, now I sound like an angry fangirl who's butthurt that there was no Jerza. I'm not... really... no really... I've just been hit by a Gajevy bat from the Gajevy fandom and I'm a little over the hype that I never saw much to begin with.

Though, I am laughing over the fact that Mashima's "romance" always seems to come with an asterisks.

Jellal and Erza kissed!!*

*it was ambiguous

Gajeel and Levy kissed!!*

*it was actually resuscitation

Well, at least it wasn't Gray and Juvia. BY GOD! THANK GOD! I would have had to leave Dev and my browsing of tumblr for a good 3 weeks if it had been Juvia and Gray >__> Jeez, I don't get what the hype is around them...

You can ignore the following if you like:

I mean, I saw a post the other day on tumblr that said "Gray and Juvia is true love." Uhhh... fucking excuse me?!? How is a guy who has rejected a girl and tries not to be with her and who tries to come up with excuses to rebut her feelings and who actually isn't with her true love? Fuck me sideways, I hate Gray and Juvia fans sometimes >__>

I'm ranting. By God I'm ranting. I should stop, right??

Anyways, odd chapter with annoying set up and obvious "what's-gunna-happen-next-week" layout that I didn't appreciate. And no, the not-as-romantic-as-I-would-have-liked Gajevy moment didn't save it in my eyes at all.

And now I'm stuck waiting through Tora's downfall next week... *sighs* I just hope there're some cool moves, if anything :/

Aaaaand, I think I just pissed off 95% of the Wiki... maybe I should leave for the Asian hub early and stuff my face with noodles .-.

Come at me bitches!!

Carrot out~