User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 493: The White Dragneel, Review./@comment-24039234-20160711163703

Okay transition chapter. Yukino and Sorano are still boring (I mean the concept is great, but the placement of their reunion is incredibly bad - it's like some side-scene nobody, not even Mashima himself really cares about), but Rahkeid looks great and interesting so minus one, plus one (BTW I would laugh myself senseless if Dragneel was a very common surname, like Smith or something, and he had no relation to the other two whatsoever :D). Irene vs August staredown FTW.

The panel where Mira actually lifted her breast out of the way to see her wound was beyond hilarious. Mashima's art is godlike in a lot of ways, I give you that, but realistic female body proportions/anatomy is not one of them. :D

"her fighting against Irene and getting her ass handed to her would've been a lot more interesting than her beating irrelevant small fry" <- This. And why not both?

And on another note: I do not count this time as a "death fake-out". We have seen her pierced, yes, but the story did not use the dramatic effect. Now, Lisanna and Elfman getting broken over her death and mourning for two chapters before she comes back - now, that's a fake out, because the effect of her death was used. If it happens this quickly, I can chalk it to a battle trick from Brandish. Gajeel from a few chapters back, now, that was an atrocious fake out. :P