User blog comment:Derax-Pagani/Fairy Tail Chapter 494: The Hill Extending Towards Tomorrow Review/@comment-4449950-20160717022932

I dunno whether I really liked this chapter or really didn't. Reading the comments and such, I only have 3 points to make:
 * Anyone who didn't expect Erza to be fully healed in the span of like 2 panels was kidding themselves.
 * I like Invel a lot now after this chapter and I'm digging his serious and logical personality. However, on the flip-side, this makes me incredibly hesitant because no FT fights nowadays operate by logic or any sort of sense. As such, he can be as smart as he likes - that might have mattered 4 arcs ago, but now he's just going to be one-shot stupidly anyways :/ And that makes me sad.
 * All the Spriggan returning? Meh, I don't mind it tbh. I'm glad Historia is responsible for some of them, but, again, on the flip-side I'm kinda irked that 9heart wasn't down. I mean, Mashima RARELY gives anyone outside of FT a chance to shine, and Jellal is one of the few characters to get such a chance. And... Mashima just undid all of that. I mean, it was a shit fight, but I doubt Jellal is going to get another fight to make up for it (unlike Laxus, who'll get another crappy fight I bet >__>). It'll be some illogical FT fights as always. And then, if someone from FT does beat 9heart all I'm going to be doing is sitting here going "so... X was stronger than an incredibly pissed off Jellal? Really??" I mean, I get why he needed to survive, but I just wish if Mashima knew this would be the case that he hadn't given the fight to Jellal the first time around. It gives me a real "Crap, I need to get Jellal out of the way so he can just have this first fight that will ultimately account for nothing. Awesome!" vibe, and no, I don't view Laxus and Gajeel's fights in the same way because they actually took out their opponents. I guess all I can hope for now is that Jellal gets to at least assist Erza in a fight. Because we know FT are going to get all the spotlight this time around. I feel bad for all of the amazing non-FT characters that miss out because FT has to win - and illogically. Going to go pray for some better fights than the 90% crap we got the first time around with these guys, but I'm not sure right now.
 * Oh... PS, I agree with Misk's "Larcade is an anti-Acno Mage"