User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 457: Naked Battle, Review./@comment-24039234-20151019192313

I'm not an Erza hater, 'mkay? But.

Let's talk about shounen endgame here. And powerlevels. We all know that powerlevels should be consistent with each other. Well, they never are, after a series is too long things get out of hand, that's nothing new. However, I think that powerlevels have to be consistent not only between themselves, but compared to the world as well. A power is a power outside battle; a utility, an ability a character has. Strength can be shown through the effect on the world, not only by beating a hyped up enemy. Of course, it is much harder than pitting arbitrary characters against each other, because the logic of the universe of the series is at stake on an absolute scale, while in a battle only the relative scale can be fucked up. Indeed, we rarely see what wizzards could do outside of battle.

The reason I'm talking about this now is that we're in the endgame of FT. We're supposed to see people here, who are called friggin gods. Now is the time when you could throw all considerations about powerlevels out the window and show us some absolute OP bullshit that trumps anything sane, because, you know, these are friggin' GODS.

On a side note; that's why I bought Walrod. Oh, don't mind me I'm just a weak, old broccoli, who can't do shit, I'm only doing, what, keeping back a fkin desert and re-forest it?! That's what I'm talking about, that's god-level power right there, handled with good writing and subtlety. The series is about a duels, or smaller battles, and sometimes, it is good to see somebody, who is really on an entirely different scale; keeping back a desert is a continental-level environmental change that is completely of the charts compared to everything else we have seen, even post-time-skips.

And that's why I didn't buy the Spriggans (and all the other gods of Ishval, for that matter) at first, because Walrod's power was that awesomely chosen. Then we've seen Ajeel summon a friggin sand tsunami and I was hyped out of my mind. Yes, that's it. Taking down only one of these guys is a worthy challenge needing a coordinated effort of multiple characters (like the Hades fight, which was, incidentaly, awesome).

Now, what does the same Ajeel do? Swirly sandtrap. Come on, we've seen Max do better than that! So, to summarize: I don't mind Erza winning. But make her win somehow against the powerful being who could summon a sand tsunami to level the entire town of Magnolia in two seconds flat. Erza winning against a suddenly depowered Ajeel is a disgrace, even to her.

Wow, this turned out quite the rand. I didn't expect that. Sorry. ^^" TL;DR version: MORE SAND >_<