User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 403: Erza vs. Kyouka, Review./@comment-1248963-20141008003345/@comment-1248963-20141008082921

Have I bothered reading 100+ comments of mostly rage and "Fuck you Mashima and your fucking flaming pants" to see if someone's brought up the same issues I have? No, sorry, ain't nobody got time for that.

I stand by the fact that Kyouka stealing Erza's senses mostly beats the purpose of strengthening her "sensation of pain". Kyouka said the pain was so bare even a slight breeze would wreck Erza's body. But the kind of pain "breeze" could produce would trigger the pain nerves on the skin. The sames that would be set off because skin is touch and Kyouka took Erza's sense of touch away. Making Erza susceptible to pain isn't the same as making her fragile. Just that things that usually wouldn't hurt (a light breeze on your skin) become excruciating. I have no medical degree, but from a logic point of view, removing the sense that is directly connected to pain does sound as something you wouldn't do if you wanted your enemy to feel pain

Something minor I forgot to mention in my list of "Shit I can't stand from this waste of a chapter" is Mashima completely recycling Erza's angry face from the last page. It's the exact same face and pose she had when Minerva beat the crap out of Milliana or Kagura or both, in the Fifth Day of the GMG. I wouldn't be bothered by it if the rest of the chapter weren't such a stinky pile of crap