User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 458: Morning Star, Review./@comment-4449950-20151026034141

A much better fight from Erza. Better, but still not amazing I'd say.

I can't really complain about what happened, because I agree with you Jak, Erza using the different swords to counter Ajeel was great, and his Sand World attack (or whatever it was called) was cool too.

I also liked that Bisca helped. Well done Bisca! She's the MVP right there. That giving Erza the chance to use Nakagami was cool too, and it certainly was better than a nonsense one-shot that comes out of nowhere and for no reason.

However, I'm still not 100% happy. I don't know if it's because Erza still needs to have more fights like this for me to get on board with her again, but I think it might just be the timing. I'm happy we've gotten a more logical fight from Erza, but now I want Erza to actually lose a fight. Maybe that's what I wanted from this. I guess I might have preferred it if Bisca shot Jupiter and Ajeel got hit/very badly hurt and he sand teleported himself back to Alvarez and we got to see him later. I think Erza needs to properly lose a fight, and this could have been that chance. I was just starting to like Ajeel too... but we all pegged at his intro that he'd be the first gone, so toodles it is I guess~

Still, great chapter. One of the better ones from this arc. I hope the other fights all are smarter like this one. I'll be very pleased if they are :)