User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 480: The Northern Gravestone, Review./@comment-73.191.17.103-20160406150923/@comment-26389992-20160406155612

The last thing I would be mad about is other countries being involved cause if you think about it Alvarez is only one country too, so Fiore being 17 million people or whatever it matches up well. Think the biggest faults of the arc to me has been some parts of the fights, not enough conflict on Ishgar's side (but it feels like this category is starting to pick up) not just simply death even if it would be nice, and the air of the war at some points.. whereas it didn't feel like it was a war (478, parts in 469 a good example)

Power scaling has always been something of an issue in FT so I'm not hung up on that now but the 12 were propped up to be like gods so I see both sides but at least we don't have many solo fights and that's all I wanted from the jump

More type of conflict is all this arc really needs tbh, a protagonist dying would be great but FT isn't built like that so I'm holding out hope on it... besides that really feel like this arc has been steadier than Tartaros cause there was a huge dip in Tartaros in the middle and it didn't recover till towards the end, feel like the biggest dip in this arc might of been Laxus vs. Wahl, everything else is your own preference but war arcs are hard to do so I'll give Hiro the benefit of the doubt

This arc is gonna look crazy good in the anime though