User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 517: Wendy Belserion, Review/@comment-7418318-20170115084850

This chapter started out fantastic.

Irene Belserion beating Erza up and Erza being in this emotional conflict about hurting Wendy's body... very nice. And the art is amazing! That mix between intimidating, creepy and yet still adorable makes for a relly peculiar mix of feelings that's hard to describe and absolutely makes the scene.

But then... it went downhill. As Wrath said it didn't go so far to become horrenduous, but it was still far from good for Wendy to instantly know several of Irene's abilities from seeing them used just once.

I have no problem with Irene knowing some Dragon Slaying techniqus instantly, because she used to be a Dragon Slayer and a Dragon, so she probably had similar abilities only of a different element. She didn't use the Sky Dragon exclusive healing abilities for example so it's absolutely fine.

But Wendy suddenly throwing around fireballs and explosions? Yeah no...

I don't mind that she figured out how to switch bodies, since that was necessary for the story, but the rest she did was going too far.

So yes, I agree that this chapter was better than the last, but not by that much... but then I was one of the few people who was more or less fine with the previous chapter.

On to the future!... or something like that. Here's what I hope will NOT happen, but I think there's a good chance that it'll happen: After getting a taste of her long-held with and then being denied it, Irene will have a depressive breakdown "Why can't I have a Human body" sob, cry, scream....

Wendy will then feel sorry for her and somehow figure out how to use her healing magic (maybe coupled with enchantment) to turn Irene's body fully Human.

So far the parts I wouldn't mind, but in all likelyhood this will lead to Irene either outright switching sides, or at least abondoning Zeref's cause... which I would HATE!

What I hope for, if this scenario comes true, is that she's a bit like Brandish... was supposed to be anyway. She'll still serve Zeref loyally, but will temporarily retreat and graciously allow Wendy and Erza to escape along with being a bit more reluctant to kill and maim in the future. It wouldn't be perfect, but still way better than instant namakafication.

Even better would be if she just said "I'll let you live this one time as a thank you, but next time we see each other, you'll be dead." and go back to being her old semi-sadistic self, though maybe with a tendency to kill quickly instead of torturing people to death.