User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Episode 176: The Dragon King, Review./@comment-24536822-20140406201326/@comment-83.255.207.11-20140407094528

The Point of the journal was to explain to the readers why future rogue and the dragons would get defeated and return to the past if the gate got destroyed. Many people probably would have gotten really confused if Natsu just destroyed the gate and the dragons and Rogue disappeared with no explanation before it. We saw future Lucy get run away and drop her journal when that guy scared her in this episode 176 and the guy trew the journal in the trash so Lucy could find it later. That the big battle against future Rogue and the dragons could have been longer and showed more stuff before it ended is one of the few things that annoyed me about the Grand Magic Games and that i agree could have been better but they will probably make it longer and add extra scenes in the Anime. Except that it felt kinda short i still think it was a really epic big battle. And except that the battle could have been longer i loved the way the Grand Magic Games ended. The big party in the castle with all the Guilds, the good bye to Ultear and them getting there Guild building back in Magnolia and Mavis and Zeref talking. The death of future Lucy when she meets Natsu, Happy and all her friends in the afterlife is one of the most beautiful, touching and sad death scenes i have ever seen and it almost made me cry in the Manga. It probably will make me cry in the Anime.