User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 398: The Final Duels, Review./@comment-4449950-20140902085348/@comment-7418318-20140902094257

What was "ceebs" again?

Anyway, since I don't remember anyone else complaining about Gray's one-shot (the vast majority seem overjoyed about it actually), I feel a little obliged to respond to this:

I'm not calling BS or anything on the one-shot itself. I'm just terribly worried what this could mean for the future. If his IDSM isn't permanent or if it works only on Demons and nothing else (or can only be activated against Demons), my worries will be put to rest, but if it's permanent and anything near the utility and efficiency that Silver demonstrated (freezing an entire village with Giants, a dead Dragon and all), it'll be really bad for the story I think. Gray already showed that if he can, he just overpowers the enemy and only uses his brain when he has to, so he won't use it anymore if the new power is permanent and universally effective.

So unless Mashiam deviates from how he made the fight of the main team ever since the end of the Nirvana arc, that leaves us with Natsu, Erza and Gray all only fighting power with raw power and Lucy who's barely allowed to join the fighting.

That cover... it looks so nice and happy. If someone doesn't know the story, they might think that Lucy and Aquarius finally manage to get along fine and become best friends or something and then when they read the story... *sniff* You are a mean, mean man Hiro Mashima!