User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 516: The Truth About Enchantment, Review/@comment-2214433-20161226235007

This chapter pissed me off. And those who know me surely realize that such a comment coming from me, things must have been truly stupid. I usually view the series in a positive light, because I feel I can enjoy things more if I just don't take them seriously at all. I guess I made the classic mistake of having "expectations" after the relatively good backstory for Irene. However, this chapter contained more asspulls than the rest of the series combined. I don't even know where to begin. Seriously, "what the fuck" is all that came to my mind. At least the art was good, but... ( -_-) Really, I usually don't try to overanalyze things, but I just have to in this case.


 * What the hell is Erza's armor for? Should've just donned Seduction Armor, would be the same thing.
 * Mashima, I think you need to have a serious talk with your assistants, or just remind yourself of Wendy's Dragon Force design, because you seem to be forgetting what it should look like.
 * So Irene can casually dodge Acnologia's attack which instantly blew a hole all the way to a friggin' Earth's core, but Wendy can blitz her with a basic DS spell np. OK.
 * And yet again, the calm and collected Irene turns into a classic villain because Wendy mentions her "mother" and the fact that Belserion was stupid as fuck or just didn't care at all about Irene to stop Dragonification.
 * Can I just say that the whole Dragon, and now Demon as well, Seed is weird as hell and it literally tells us nothing about what's going on with Natsu? How is it related to the 'tumor' that Brandish seemingly shrunk? At least the page with Igneel was cool.
 * I truly hope that the translation was just bad, because Irene kept contradicting herself about the "enchantment truth"
 * Yeaaaaah, I pretty much dislike the 'development' at the end. Irene made herself weaker and Wendy will probably just fight her off eventually after some talk. Lucy vs. death metal Juvia, anyone?

On top of that, I reaaaaaally hate the early release of the chapter. If this week's is a double issue (it should be), then 516 shouldn't have been out till two weeks later. What a way to get the companies crack down on 'piracy' again. ;)