User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 465: 400 Years, Review and Commentary/@comment-25111584-20151207131906

Raven! o/ Fitting to have you reviewing Minerva Cover Chapters... Just don't go missing when we have actual Minerva Chapters. ;D

Btw, I think Mashima tweeted that Anna is pretty unimportant... Dunno if GT is correct there tho...

Wendy, Rogue and Sting have ages given on Covers. They aren't 400 years old, just come from 400 years ago. Natsu's age should also be changed, but don't wanna get involved in any, "The book is also Natsu," debate. e_e

"At the same time, Layla opened a gate in the X777." Okay, I know what Mashima/MP are trying to say here and it makes sense, but the wording is just too damn funny. XD

Hmmm... I'm somewhat conflicted about the Chapter. I like the implications, the content itself, on the other hand...

For implications:
 * END is most probably not a split personality, despite Zeref's convo with Natsu in Tartaros arc. That's good. Means END is not evil. Lends flavour to the Gray vs. END dynamic instead of it just being an endgame brawl.
 * I really wonder what's going to happen to the Gray vs. END thing now. Gray simply refusing to listen to reason and blaming Natsu would be absolutely ridiculous... but I really would love to see Gray as a villain, enough to swallow any BS involved. So conflicted! /( >_<)\
 * END is most probably not a power-up. That's great too. And Natsu might not be the one to kill Zeref. With Layla being somewhat important, it seems that Lucy might be the one to do it? I don't mind it if there is a good reason, like her using some powerful Magic in tandem with Lumen Histoire (no One Magic plz, that'd be BS). I mean, if remnants of Igneel's power are considered enough to kill Zeref, then how about limitless power like LH? Or maybe we have a wildcard Gray (yeah, I like the guy getting the spotlight, any problem? >.>) who reveals that his ace-in-the-hole is Memento Mori (yeah, I know it's mp Devil Force, but a guy can dream, right? >.>), which is a technique he showed to Avatar so that they would allow him to join?
 * Well, Zeref has lived through the ages, so all he has to do is to live up to July 7, X777 and tell Layla to open the gate. But, seeing about how Brandish also seems to have some history with her, maybe Layla is actually a much greater existence who simply knew that the gate had to be opened then? Maybe had some ulterior motive (hopefully not goody-goody-gumdrops) in having the Dragon Slayers come to the future? The decadent setting of her pic makes me hope that she is actually the last boss. 'Cuz that'd be awesome! \( ^_^)/

As for the recent Chapters' content... It's so damn bad, that it's hilarious! Mashima pretty much wanted to give us an info dump, but had to do it in a Natsu-Zeref dialogue, so we got all the recent BS of Erza and Mavis acting absolutely retarded (not that unexpected from the latter, but expected more from the former). Natsu's power-up (ngl, was actually hyped about it until it turned out to be just another boring mode) basically does nothing other than injure a thousand soldiers. He came, he got infodumped, he left. The only role for it was to have a Natsu-Zeref one-on-one. Oh, how I wish we had a steam-coming-from-head reaction here! /o/ Still, so damn forced that it makes me laugh. XD

That got too long. >.<