User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 453: A Father's Job, Review and Commentary/@comment-3290324-20150919185609

Early chapter!! Nice surprise! Since not much happened (in the way of actual events), I'm not going to make a full review and will comment on this sub par review instead. Overall, this was a pretty good chapter. Transition chapter, obviously, but as I mentioned previously, I love chapters like this.
 * For the first time in a LONG time, I actually respected Natsu in this chapter. His little speech about fighting was actually somewhat mature and showed some nice character growth. I still don't like him, but I do respect him a lot more, lol.
 * The moment between Erza x Wendy was very sweet. Erza always tries to protect literally everyone, and for Wendy to say that she was going to protect her instead was adorable. Melted my poor little heart, lol.
 * In other news, Gray's balls have finally dropped and he and Juvia are going to have a legit conversation about their relationship... after the war. I hope that since Juvia and Gray are postponing their relationship conversation until later, that during the war we'll see Juvia actually doing some fighting that has nothing to do with Gray. It'd be a nice change of pace for her character. And I see a lot of people mentioning that Gray might possibly die in this arc. He won't 'cuz this is Mashima. BUT I'm going to entertain the possibility that he could for a moment.... and I have mixed feelings about this. ( .___.) On one hand, if done right, that could be AMAZING. On the other hand, as much as I hate Gray, I'd never want to see him die. >___<
 * As many shippers have pointed out, Gajeel and Levy were lying on sheets with the same design. I don't care what any of you ship-haters say *looks at Misk*, in my mind, they banged. :D Period.
 * I'm really glad that other guilds besides Fairy Tail will be participating in this war. At the moment, it's just Crime Sorciere, but I think it's a safe bet to assume they won't be the only ones. Hopefully we get to see some pretty good fights.
 * Ajeel has arrived!! Dude is about to get his ass handed to him. ( .___.) As I mentioned on my review blog when he was first introduced, he's like the Zancrow/Jackal of this arc. Lots of talk, but goes down first.