User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 473: Red Lightning, Review./@comment-1776824-20160215141101/@comment-1776824-20160215150652


 * As far we are concerned, Wahl is a robot, and robots don't eat, breathe or shit. He may not have been able to cast magic because of the ethernano-consuming property of the particles, but he can still move around and hit things. You and I both know that we saw Wahl dispel the barrier, and then Laxus stand up and go, "Because you can dispel the barrier of my friend, then you can also dispel the poison the inside me!" It's garbage. If you have to speculate and twist words to make something make a lick of sense, then it's bad writing.
 * We never got an order for the Jutsu Shiki. The particles are also nestled in his organs; if it was as simple as create a barrier that forces them out, then they could have fixed Laxus a year ago. Again, you're speculating to make it seem acceptable, when it just plain wasn't. As far as we are concerned, it was just a plain, "nobody can exit, nobody can enter barrier."
 * No, I'm not saying I want to see Wahl analyze things every time. However, if Wahl had actually analyzed the barrier, he wouldn't have dispelled it.
 * Yeah, okay, Laxus had one year to train. How about, "This is the result of my training!" or better yet, a flashback on how he learned to create lightning that is percussive? Not just, "Look, lightning that surpasses lightning!" There's no grounds for it. Again, if we have to speculate as to how he created a move like that, then it's not good writing.
 * Torafuzar was resistant to physical attacks that had a composite hardness below his own skin. Gajeel's iron was somewhat effective before Torafuzar increased his hardness to max. It was just a composite that was, again, weaker than steel. It's just common knowledge that something that is hard, when struck against something that is softer, will damage the softer material. Moh's Hardness Scale. What happens when you take a diamond and put up to a piece of glass? You're gonna shatter the shit out of that glass. Here, you see a whole lot of Mashima throwing shit out there, defying his previously established rules for things, and then without explaining a single thing having Laxus win. Logic is...where?