User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 423: Do It All for Love, Review and Commentary/@comment-121.54.44.90-20150309182759

Even I can't hide my disappointment when Bluenote got zapped that easily... I really want to think that his powers waned after eight years, BUT it doesn't explain how Wendy and Chelia still struggle against him. I also want to think that Natsu trained with Gildarts during the time-skip, BUT it still does not explain how he could deal with Bluenote that easily.

It's disappointing, really. There are other ways to show Natsu's improvement, and you don't gave to turn a once-formidable foe into cannon fodder just to show ow far he's come.

I just hope it gets better in the next chapters. After this chapter, I really hope Mashima drops a bomb just to stir things up. Perhaps he can explain that Juvia's "Rainwoman" persona manifested after Gray suddenly shut everyone off and fled... with the reason being that Gray started hearing demons in his head (the demons he killed), and it drove him into some mild form of insanity. Natsu and company would be helpless in solving the predicament at the moment... and forces them to move on to the other characters... Anything... Something... Just stop one-shotting formidable villains for no reason. I get how Natsu defeated the Twins. I get how Erza defeated Azuma. I get how Laxus defeated Jura. I get how FT won the GMG... I get how the Twins defeated Jiema... But I do not get this chapter.