User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 488: The Two of Us, Always, Review/@comment-24546844-20160606192748

Well, I sure was shocked multiple times this chapter. I wasn't really expecting Mashima to go on and actually kill Gajeel but he actually did it (or at least want us to think he did it). Now, can I say I was satisfied with it? I don't know. The moment with Levy was good and all that I can't deny but I can't say I was really touched by it, not as much as I think I would. Maybe because of the situation that led to it or the feeling that it will be undone eventually. The closest association I can make to this moment is Neji's death on Naruto, though with a more relevant character.

On Mest's screw up, it looks like I'm in the minority and think it was a good moment. Okay, the resolution was poor but it was really nice seeing Mest taking the initiative a using the best opportunity he could find to his favor. He had no guarantee that August would accept a truce and tried a more pragmatic approach. Bonus points for the shock factor. I'm sure he'll end up redeeming himself later this arc, given that he survives the next few chapters that is.

This chapter gave me the impression that August is seeing FT as some kind of th rest to his majesty, as if he thought they were the evil ones while he should know that from the start Zeref's plan was to wipe mankind and FT was trying to prevent him from doing so. If I'm right than this would sort of makes Brandish's plea convincing him inconsistent.

I got nothing really to comment on Acnologia and Irene except that she's a bit too overconfident to be teasing someone that is stronger than her boss. Next chapter will just be August thrashing everyone and hopefully Natsu too. Universe One is probably reference to his magic being so vast that it's like itinvolves every kind of element on the universe or something like this. Yeah not a bad chapter I guess, just the part that matters didn't hit me like I expected it to.

P.S.: August's blackened face is a bit lame.