User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 452: The Prelude to the Final Battle, Review./@comment-24102956-20150914112235

Oh for crying out loud Mashima! Can't you just let Marin stay dead already! Although the scene with Brandish and the Ant-Mannish Marin looked kinda weird but cute, but seriously I thought killing Marin in front of Team Natsu was needed to show that Alvarez ain't someone they can KO with nakama pawa that easily along with the growing and later shrinking of an entire populated island by Brandish. Nice outlooks on her personality though, kinda awesome! :D

Anyways, the Spriggan 12 seemed a quite interesting about themselves as explained by Makarov: Invel the Winter General which might Gray's opponent since he has a special Ice Magic and has a really boring personality of a strict military man, Brandish is known as the Nation Demolisher which is very convincing since the last several chapters ago, Ajeel is the guy who loves to fight and nearly curbstomps Team Natsu earlier and wanted more fights, Dimaria is a battle-hardened veteran of a hundred conflicts or so that somehow pisses off Erza "Mary Sue" Scarlet, I guess she's a Magic Knight not a Mage, God Serena, the turncoat of Ishgar looks like he's gonna give Ichiya a run for his money in his fabulous moment after being questioned if he felt remorse in destroying his own home and also his glimpse of personality has shut down the Yury theories unless he's playing along lol, August has a wealth of knowledge of over about a plenty of Magics of any type and a greater power level since he's the Magic King for a reason, and Badd Mann looks like some aquatic dude from One Piece or something but still he looks pretty dangerous. Other Shields of Spriggan: Neinheart and Bloodman sounds pretty terrifying even with their names. I wonder if the last remaining two will show up soon enough.

For Natsu though, I held some doubts whether if the "secret technique" in his bandaged arm might be enough to defeat Zeref unless he pulled a Saitama. Funny on Mest still doing the biting thing on Gajeel. Nearly died laughing! XD

And Acnologia is finally on the move to prove who's the king of the world after transforming into his Dragon form once more which is seriously badass.