User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 440: God Serena, Review./@comment-26389992-20150615123219/@comment-1153699-20150618122257

@Jakuho -> 1) Hype during a dramatic atmosphere >> Hype during a comedic atmosphere. Both Kagura and even the low level monsters were hyped, yes. But the ways they were hyped are different. Besides, I said that by feats and portrayal together you can get an estimate of how strong a character is. Not just one of them.

Judging a character by hype alone (S-Class monster that even a WS isn't guaranteed to defeat it) is wrong. If Jura had to take on all 100 of them too, he would've cleared the whole event easily.

Jura isn't just a WS. He's the 5th strongest WS.

2) They weren't wrong though. He really was gone like a fart in the wind. As for MangaPanda -> http://i14.p.mangacdn.com/fairy-tail/321/fairy-tail-3952069.jpg http://i20.p.mangacdn.com/fairy-tail/321/fairy-tail-3952071.jpg Without digging that dip into every FT chapter there is at MangaPanda, you can see how sloppy they are when it comes to translating.

Of course, MangaStream aren't perfect in that aspect as well. But they are at the very least just as accurate as MangaPanda while providing much better quality. Actually, MangaPanda themselves change their versions of the chapters to MangaStream's versions quite often (chapter 357, 356, 350 just to name a few).

3) Can you see someone like Jura or Laxus having the same expression as Makarov (not grinning like Gildarts or smiling like Erza) had while describing Kagura as being overwhelming? Can you see someone like Kagura or Minerva or Erza calling Flare overwhelming? I know I can't.

Someone who has already been confirmed to be a lot stronger than the other, doesn't act the same way Makarov did.

I guess it comes to personal opinion here so we might as well just agree to disagree on this particular point..

4) Yes it does. Erza said Makarov and Jura are among the 10 WSs. As in currently. And in the next panel she talks about past WSs. Meaning Makarov was really an active WS at the time.

Ooba was talking about the core members's absence, not Makarov's absence specifically -> http://img4.mangasee.co/series/FairyTail/0320-014.png.

5) Fair enough. My bad then.

6) Saying Makarov surely has a counter for Gravity Magic because he has a lot of experience is still speculation. He didn't counter anything Hades threw at him. Someone like Aria managed to get him even though Makarov has a lot of experience -> http://img4.mangasee.co/series/FairyTail/0049-017.png http://img4.mangasee.co/series/FairyTail/0049-018.png

Having a lot of experience doesn't mean you can counter almost everything. We've seen Hades (someone who has at the very least just as much experience as Makarov has) get his ass handed to him when he was up against someone stronger than him (LFD Natsu).

Kagura saw no need to use Gravity Magic. She already kicked Erza's ass easily without it. It wasn't needed.

And Kagura wasn't really in that much of a hurry, actually.. She stopped in the middle of the fight to talk to Erza -> http://img4.mangasee.co/series/FairyTail/0314-015.png http://img4.mangasee.co/series/FairyTail/0314-017.png

And Kagura didn't know Minerva was abusing Millianna during her fight with Erza.

7) It comes to personal interpretation here as well. Might as well agree to disagree on this point too..

8) I still don't see him training tbh. He's busy enough as it is being the GM of FT. He also can't leave the guild to train like everyone else did. And when he did have free time, he was shown to sit on the bar, and start drinking without a care in the world.

9) That's because Elfman sucks in all other departments (reflexes, agility, mobility, defense and durability).

Actually, x784 Elfman also sucked in endurance as well. Only after the 3 months of training he did, his endurance really started to shine.

And tbf to Elfman, he did lose to Evergreen when he was blindfolded (A.K.A not a fair fight).

10) Well, imo at least, it does. It depends on how you interpret the Manga.

11) Ok. So if his MP really is "immeasurable", will Makarov score 9999 on the MPF if he strikes it?

And immeasurable can be in comparison to an average Mage (which in that case, "immeasurable" would be correct). But compared to people like Laxus, Jura, Gildarts and even SO Erza, his MP isn't anywhere close to being immeasurable...