User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 316: The Future Accelerating Towards Despair, Review./@comment-4047931-20130127221954

Well this may have been a better chapter then last week's but it still wasn't necessarily good. I would have preferred if we could have sticked with Erza or at least move on to another fight and focus on that. Like a lot of people have said this was just a set up chapter which annoyed me because we all ready knew these battles were happening so it seemed a little pointless just to have a brief look over all them but it wasn't all that bad as what we saw of the as at least what we saw of the fights was enjoyable enough for me, especially with Rogue but I shall get onto that later. With all that was going on with the GMG I really wished a new battle could have started rather then seeing team CHLLMPWY with Future Lucy as I am having a lot of trouble caring for what's happening with them. Anyway on to the chapter.

So we start of back where we left off with Erza. Now there isn't much to say that hasn't already been said about this sequence of events. Minerva's a b*tch blah blah blah Erza has to beat her blah blah blah and she really f*cking hates cats. I must say Minerva kind of out did herself here though by slashing Milliann's back out of boredom. Anyway not much to say here other then I will be really disappointed if Erza beats Minerva without doing something about her foot because Erza winning in her condition is beyond ridiculous. There are a few possibilities to how Erza can fix her foot but if she doesn't and wins against Minerva, which would be the nail in the coffin for this arc. At least Erza's star down was cool and look on the bright side, at least they rescued Millianna... kind of.

So we then moved on to briefly check up on the other battles and even though I would have loved to see further into at least one of these battles they were still really enjoyable at moment. Now we started off with Rogue and Gajeel, which is the battle I most want to see looking how badly these two were trolled. What made me enjoy this moment wasn't the action but what came after as when Rogue told Gajeel he was weaker then Natsu I just laughed my ass off because of the reaction. Respect gained for Rogue for his guts and I actually hope this is played upon later as by making Gajeel angry could make his attacks clumsy and more predictable giving Rogue the chance to fight back keeping the battle close with no clear winner. One thing I am a bit annoyed at is Rogue's stating how Gajeel is weaker then Natsu after Gajeel went through his training and Natsu basically took magical steroids. It just bugs that I would rather have those who worked for their power be above those who were given it. Then we moved on to Laxus and Orga. This was a really good scene as we got to see them on par with each showing why they are the powerhouses of the GMG and the dialog between the two of them was very entertaining as they both appear that they have found some form of enjoyment out of their battle unlike other FT and ST fights. Then, along comes the big dog, Jura Neekis. What has thou mortal adversaries done to incur the wrath of this god-like figure that calls the very earth to his whim? Needless to say this should be good fight, enthuses on should. Now we finally get a glimpse of Juvia and Chelia going at it being hilarious like the rest of what we saw from her. Suddenly Gray and Lyon arrive on the scene much to the two ladies delight. Well I do look forward to see how this will play out as I am a little bit surprised in how Chelia was able to damage Juvia so much as there is Juvia's water body and you would think Juvia to be above Chelia on terms of power but I guess that is not the case, but at least we now they are both above Wendy. Anyway I wonder how Gray will do in this fight and I kind of want Lyon to win at the moment seeing how Gray has had his big victory. I just guess we'll just to wait to how this.. um... "love square?" will work out. I also did like seeing Juvia and Chelia try cling to their love interests but let’s just move on.

Now we see Lucy, Lucy and the others lost in the castle and I'm just wonder why they don't just open a window and crawl out. Anyway to make this sort, it is interesting seeing how Lucy is reacting to her future-self, I think it's pretty retarded how they were caught by the guards by going towards the Eclipse Gate, which fyi it really should of had more of a toll on Natsu and the 10,000 dragons is just stupid.

Anyway I'm a bit under the weather at the moment so It was pretty dull overall, just being a set up and all, and the big reveal at the end was just too unbelievable as dragons are meant to be few in numbers or even extinct for that matter so making 10,000 of the appear I just find is to much and ruins any shock factor. 100 would be fine and I would even go as far to accept 1000, though that would be pushing it. However the clips of the GMG were fun and the fights look promising. You really can't f*ck this up considering what has been set up here but somehow in the future I can see myself screaming something along the lines "How could you f*ck that up!?!?" Pleas Mashima, don't end these fight's like Kagura's battle.