User blog comment:Real Godisme/469. What I want to do/@comment-4449950-20160118221454

I... don't even want to talk about this chapter tbh because I don't have much good to say ( -__-) Alas, this chapter was just really poor in so many aspects that my want to rage > kiddish anons. So:

I only really enjoyed the part with Aquarius and Lucy talking. Even if Aquarius just kinda vanished and reappeared(?) her words give Lucy something to do when the story is said and done: Lucy's next adventure. She can travel farther than ever before and see new places, meet new people. I was scared from the start of FT that Natsu would take over FT and Lucy would settle with him, so if Mashima follows through with this plot thread I will be happy with Lucy's character and journey. It's a nice way to send her off, if he chooses to do that. Will wait and see.

But... the rest of this chapter? I... just find it lazy. Tbh, I SHOULD be 100 times angrier (especially with the ending) but as myself and a few others foresaw this... well, yeah I'm not surprised >__>

First, Natsu. To me the entire out-of-nowhere tumour thing just seemed like an excuse to really show that Brandish has really changed and really isn't a bad guy anymore. I mean, in terms of Natsu's role in the story, he could have just collapsed from over-exertion and that would have been that. The only reason we got what we got was for Brandish, and, again, I feel like Mashima is once more being too forceful in his story writing. LOOK, SHE REALLY, REALLY IS GOOD! I get it... I saw in the last chapter. Brandi's tears said it all: she had lost her will to fight. I didn't need this as some sort of consolation and it felt like wasted space for me.

And then we get news about the retreating parties. Could have been fine if the entire Kagura being naked thing didn't happen. Like, really, wtf did she expect wearing a freakin' kimono into battle? >__> Like... *sighs* Then everyone in the war ground stopping to perv on her DURING the battle where they were all apparently scared shitless. Yeah... right >__>

And finally, the predicted off-screen fall of the Wizard Saints. *sighs* Yep, we all saw it coming, but that doesn't make it any less annoying. Take these characters we've been waiting the entire series to meet and have them not even show any of their abilities in actual battle. Whatever. Have it so Serena is hyped and then Natsu or one of the other mains can punch the shit out of him easily later. Whatever. This is old hat by now, but it still irks me. I won't even bother to type out the way I would have done this entire scene because I'm kind of over trying to correct plot points like this at this stage.

Sufficed to say I'm annoyed, and not even my sadness over Warrod's death(?) will change that. Poor man, should he die, literally received his killing blow off-screen, and that actually annoys me more than anything else.

Warrod deserved better.