User blog comment:Derax-Pagani/Chapter 502 Review/@comment-24546844-20160917201439

Straight to the point: what was the role of Zera in this arc? Apart from showing everyone the way back to the guild, something that could be done by other characters, I can't find the point of bringing Zera back. She didn't provide essential information about Mavis, Zeref or the guild and her interaction with mavis this time wasn't anything that we haven't seen in Zero so I can't really see the point off Zera being brought back.

Back on the chapter, while I like the idea of Mavis being able to free herself and escape I find it hard to believe that Eileen would make such a mistake as not noticing that she's fallen in an illusion. While it's a way to show that her magic improved it's like Hiro is downplaying Eileens skills. I'd like it more if Mest (and I may be the only one here happy that Mest is back) had created a true distraction and then Mavis could escape.

Yet another non-killed character. At least this time Hiro didn't make it seem like Bradish's "death" was a big deal last chapter. Three problems come from that tho:
 * With Porlyusca's comment it didn't sem like Brandish used her magic to block the wounds so Brandish should have bleed to death by lack of treatment (confirmed by Juvia to be possible).
 * If Dimaria loved Brandish so much she should at least have taken her body to give a proper sending, or simply made sure that Brandy was dead.
 * What's the point of taking Lucy somewhere else to torture (yay, torture) her? She could've done it right there, and I'm sure that as a goddess of time she could think of something interesting. Instead we have yet another situation where Hiro takes advantage of a girl being tortured to draw some blatant sexualisation of her helplessness.

I have nothing to comment on Gajeel 's return (except maybe that Levy has more bust than I can remember), it didn't really have impact. Natsu's tumor in the other hand might be something interesting as we'll at least move from this meaningless fight to something more relevant to the pot. Also, I'd love to see Natsu being beheaded by I won't keep my hopes up.