User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 487: The Third Seal, Review./@comment-2214433-20160530223310

Eh, I thought the chapter was pretty okay. I'm not personally too rocked about Gajeel and his character, so I wasn't too hyped for this fight to begin with, but I'd say it was one of the better of the arc.

I'm not bothered by Bradman being a copy of sorts, in fact, it actually makes perfect sense that Zeref would perhaps create a combination of his Demons to serve him in his empire.

I have absolutely no idea what Brandish thought she'd accomplish, however, I'm more interested in August's statement about God Serena, was he being sentimental? Or is he perhaps carrying his (maybe still alive) body? Or did he absorb him, or his abilities?

And back to Gajeel's fight, I found it to be a nice parallel to God Serena in sense that Bradman could literally spam bunch of elemental attacks. Levy was actually somehow useful besides pumping Gajeel up.

We also have Gajeel talking about her as the woman he fell for which is, I guess, one of the first, if not the very first open announcement of love between main characters.

Finally, Gajeel's Dragon Force, I don't even care about how he achieved it, however, I'm upset that the fight was seemingly finished with a punch. Mashima completely stopped using flashy finishers, when Natsu unleashed his Dragon Force, we got a super cool move to finish Zero, but then... Wendy just pew pew'd whirlwinds and now Gajeel punches his enemy down. O well.

I did say at the start that I'm not exactly a fangirl of Gajeel's, however, I find his fights to be the better ones in the series and his character being steadily developed thoughout them. He's come a long way.

Last thing, I am usually able to see why people would dislike certain chapters even though I'm usually on the opposite side of the fence, but this time I absolutely don't understand the hate.