User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 244: Thunder Crashes, Review./@comment-5234862-20110724062038

Why couldn't have Hades killed Natsu? He's just a bunch of shonen main character cliches mashed together into one character in my personal opinion, but I feel the only person who believes Natsu should stay a boring cliche is Mashima. Erza for main^^. Otherwise, IamJakuhoRaikoben, I agree, this chapter was awesome. Hades is the most effective villain yet. I felt that the way Wendy survived was a bit of a copout, though, and the "fight" was great, Laxus will probably stall for time and will Zeref pull a deus-ex-"mashima" (man, that joke stinks) and stares Hades to death, since I can't see Laxus winning just yet, unless he's gotten a heck of a lot tougher.