User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 524: Black Future, Review/@comment-7418318-20170225074632

Well... two things I was expecting and hoping wouldn't happen did happen.

First that Cana is once again reduced to a firing mechanism of Fairy Glitter and that August goes all generic rapy villain. That smile didn't ruin anything for me other than a very slight hope of it not happening, since he already had the same "I'm going to torture your daughter" smile last chapter. People were just so caught up with the everything else they didn't seem to notice.

And I'm pretty sure that my third and final fear will also come to pass: Cana won't be able to do anything by herself and is only there as a plot device to give more drama and seriousness to Gildarts vs. August.

Nothing to rage about... more like a resigned lethargy of the inevitable happening as it must. *sigh*

That being out of the way, the rest of the chapter was enjoyable enough. It was mostly transition with barely anything happening, but as far as transition chapters go, it was nice enough.

I am glad that Acnologia just did what he did quickly with just a single stomp, instead of going full-psycho by tearing Irene's body apart piece by piece. All doubt about Irene still being alive are now gone.

So to sum it up, an overall slightly below average chapter of FT in general, but slightly above average in this arc.