User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 397: Steel, Review and Commentary/@comment-25111584-20140826105558

This chapter was extremely ... anticlimatic for me. I'm sure I'd've liked it if not for the hopes built up by the previous chapter. For me:

The Good:-

1. Gajeel's flashback. Nice to know something about Gajeel's past and that council members actually have a heart. I hope the son doesn't come back from the dead though, would be too cliche ...

2. Reason for the power-up.

The Bad:-

1. Levi's embarrassed moment. I'd've preferred it if she had explained that she couldn't use the Air spell in water or something. I didn't mind overlooking her sudden appearance in the previous chapter, but now the 'resuscitation' just seems like something thrown in for shippers ... Come on! She's one of the most intelligent mages in FT, she doesn't think about using her own magic?! Heat of the battle hardly counts, not to mention that she has just come there and realized that Gajeel needs water ... '"Oops, teehee." *sticks tongue out and bonks on head.*' just doesn't work here. I love her being useful but that ruined it for me ... Almost as bad for me as Silver being Silver ... Well, not really ... 2. Tempesta! You're a bad guy! What do you care about one-on-one battle rule?! You see that Torafusa, a demon, might be beaten by Gajeel, a human, you help Torafusa beat the living crap out of the human, not sit around like a big useless lug with 'Shock' written all over your face! That's not how battles work! Winning is the objective, especially for you bad guys!

3. Tenchi Kaimei is ... Coca Cola?! Seriously, with all that hype ... Let's just say that, if Mashima wants to introduce science into FT, he should consider taking the whole picture into view rather than just one small corner. Also look at Nick's knitpicking comment below. Huge letdown.

4. Seriously didn't want Gajeel to get a power-up from the water. One of the two things I didn't want to happen (the other being Tempesta just watching Torafusa getting pummelled, but already talked about that).

4/10 for me, maybe 5 if I think of Tempesta as Azuma ... Nah, can't wrap my head around that. On a sidenote, as Wrath said, this definitely wasn't a 'nakama power' win. More like proving oneself, and I completely relate that to Gajeel's character.