User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 445: The Ugly Fairy, Review./@comment-68.179.188.168-20150718233204/@comment-3290324-20150718233653

I'm sorry, but I completely disagree with everyone's obsession with Makarov dying here. That would be completely anticlimactic and frankly, poorly done. Makarov almost died in the Tenrou Island arc, and if he would've, then I'd have been okay with that because it was emotional and set up nicely. If he died here, it would be random and more shock factor than anything else. Natsu and Zeref are going to bump heads eventually. No need to use Makarov as a scapegoat to cause that.