User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 334: Sin and Sacrifice, Review/@comment-5840892-20130607181616

A main character died...To be honest I was expecting rage (yet no ones doing so).....But no one can say we weren't warned about a tragedy, Mashima has been saying that he wrote a chapter that made his editor cry (Source for the claim is twitter). But still killing off Grey, whoa. I can say this though: Mashima is a plot genius. Here's why: He used comedy to give a very dark plot-line an unnessacarly light feel for the longest time, then in one move completely and utterly changed the entire mood with Grey's death, in front of Juvia. That sort of thing is know as Mood-Whiplash. (Meaning a mood or feeling is set, and when least expect it to, it changes to completely the opposite in a way most people would even predict.) Mashima is a Master of it, which is why I say that he's a genius. Setting something like that up, and then pulling it so well with the perfect emotional build-up of this single chapter; (especially involving what Grey wanted to tell Juvia) he then killed off Grey in a way that made people have a reaction to it. And he did so perfectly.

And I sincerly doubt that Grey will survive that, he might last a few more minutes and tell Juvia what ever he meant to, but that's it.

And I doubt he'll come back (or get revived) if he dies, because they wouldn't ever try to use the Eclispe Gate again after this. His only way to survive is that someone heals him. And the only person who could help him now is Chelia, unless Meredy can use her magic in a way to heal people. (I have a theory for how that type of Magic can be used to heal a mortal wound, but it would cost the user of it their life.)

Still this chapter is great, tragic and great.