User blog comment:Real Godisme/Chapter 476 Review/@comment-7418318-20160307173105

I'm quite pleased with the chapter.

I feared that once again Mashima would weasel out of consequences, but this time he pulled through with it... at least for a while, though I won't be surprised if Chelia get's magic back later in the series after all.

Sure the fight was short and rushed, but then what non-end battle in... forever wasn't? I too would have liked a longer and more fleshed out fight, but I would have been surprised to get that wish granted. Maybe they'll extend it in the anime (if it goes this far).

I'm also happy that FINALLY Wendy remember that she has support magic. She hasn't used that in quite a while. I also thought she was inclredibly stupid to just rush at Dimaria without using any buff-magic when she thought Ultear had unlocked her Third Origin, but then she finally remembered, greatly mitigating that particular problem for me.

Though having her leg pierced through was unnecessary, especially considering how the wound doesn't seem to give her any troubles at all, but then maybe she's still in shock and the effects will only really hit her later... If you give them wounds, let the wounds have consequences and if you don't want wounds to have consequences, don't give them to characters in the first place.

I was also pleased with Hiro Mashima showing us Ultear's real body for a bit. Now we know at least a minimum of her current status. That should put an end to the "Ultear should be listed as dead" demands.

To sum up a nice chapter. It could have been better, but it also could have been a whole lot worse.