User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 506: The Broken Bond, Review/@comment-25111584-20161017131428

If I wasn't incredibly salty about Makarov's ignominous and farcical death, this would actually have been a decent Chapter, despite the fact that I found most of it retarded. Ironically, it's Erza who makes the Chapter great. Go figure. /o/ ...Still an Erza disliker though. Never gonna change that. \o\

Laxus: Mashima's unique brand of incompetence has characters develop from individuals to a generic collection of cliches. One of the few mangaka who have their own characters go OOC at a whim. Mashima plz. Also... where exactly did he pop up from? And the guy whose body is suffering from the aftereffects of MBP and severe beatings by Wahl and Precht has hobbled up to the battlefield before the guy who is supposed to rival the Dragons who traversed the entire continent in a matter of minutes and the guy who can use Meteor? Great. \( ._.)/ Acnologia's early presence in the arc made sense, his current absence has gone on way too long. And I positively dread the undoubtedly farcical arrival of Jellal...

Makarov's death: Still salty. And not even because it was underwhelming and not the least bit emotional, no matter how many tears Mashima has the FT guild members shed.

Gray vs. Natsu: lel, the premise of the fight was incredibly retarded, but one could at least have expected some good action. Instead, this shitfest happened. Oraoraoraora? .-. And Gray has stopped being a Molding Mage, it seems. One can count the number of objects he has molded post-Tartaros on the fingers of one hand. Such a shame, he has basically lost his last redeeming feature. Natsu... fought like he always does, so no real complaints there. Plus, the only good moment in the fight (underground attack) came from him. Of course, the worst part is that Gray isn't going to get excommunicated and condemned like he should be. Oh no, he's going to live happily ever after because Mashima seriously has absolutely no idea how he is portraying his own characters. e_e

Erza: For all that the title is worth, she has been the MVP of this arc. Invel loses the position because his entire role turned out to be to wank Gray, Gruvia and set up Gray vs. Natsu, all of which are pathetic results which never should have happened. Good on Erza for at least stopping the last one. The best part is, of course, that Erza stopped the fight instead of Lucy and Water Whore. Though I still dread the moment they meet Gray and Natsu. It's going to be so incredibly repugnant and cringeworthy. >.> Plus, Erza's reaction to Makarov's death was by far the most in-character, a fact which needs to be praised in the current FT.