User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 394: Juvia vs. Keith, Review./@comment-117.195.58.141-20140727054810

meh, poor Gray, getting all that hate. Am I the only one who thinks that he completely deserves that powerup and that it should be permanent?

Everybody seems to think he didn't work for that powerup, conveniently overlooking the fight with Silver, in which Silver might have held back just a little, but still gave Gray a load of pain. Not to mention the fact that Gray can already use Ice attribute magic, Ice Devil Slaying just means he gets a few new spells and his magic is particularly effective against Devils. And the Sun Village Arc was coming to this, what with him being able to channel the magic.

Seriously, people like Lucy's powerup and Wendy winning against Ezel, but hate this? I saw somebody saying that Lucy sacrificed Aquarius, so she deserves it. I agree with the responder. Gray sacrificed his father and there's no comparing the magnitude of the sacrifice. I mean, Aquarius and Lucy's relationship was quite ... short, though I won't deny it was a big sacrifice. But no comparing to Gray's sacrifice. And all I can see is praise when Wendy defeated Ezel. I mean, no rants about the ambiguous nature of DF, where Sting and Rogue in DF can't defeat a Natsu who's not even in LF mode, but little Wendy can defeat one of the Nine Demon Gates? As far as I am concerned, this is just playing favourites, praising chars liked when they get something cool and hating on chars which are, well, not disliked, but not really interseted in. Talk about double standards.

And, no, let it be permanent. Remove those shitty dual dragon modes rather than this. Well, just my rant after seeing all the hate. Now bring on the flames. Eheheheh. Oh, and I actually liked Wendy's fight and Lucy's powerup, just used those as examples. Though I hated the Sting and Rogue vs Natsu fight and dual dragon modes.