User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 492: Elder Sister and Younger Sister, Review./@comment-24039234-20160704201756

Okay. Mira and Lisanna. Kinda expected that. Should not be disappointed.

Heh. Zera's still cute as a button. No complaints here. ^_^

The two girls attack Mira. Nothing unexpected. But if she's down for the count I'm gonna fli... hhhheeeey, baby. Satan's soul never looked that good. This gunna get good.

BOOM, that's my girl. As far as bigass explosions go, you can keep your August, I'm dancing with the devil.

"I alone am more than enough to take these two" - and here I am, jizzing in my pants and hoping Mashima will allow her to keep true to her words.

Then there's two minor characters having their moments and reuniting and shit, and two other now know that they are not dead, or one of them is not dead or I don't know, idgf.

Back to the battle that matters (BTW I'm too sophisticated to make a joke about Mira being nice and sticky, but somebody should take the opportunity... just sayin'). She's getting beaten. If she's down, I'm gonna fli...

YEEEEHAAAAA, I'm floored. We've tried to speculate who did Mirajane consume from Tartaros since we've seen Seilah, but Mashima one-upped all of us. Marde Geer? Nah, guy wouldn't be enough for breakfast. Try the entire Plutogrim, champ. Now, if Mashima is out of good battles and all of them have to be won by random powerups by now, Alegria is awesome, and quite fitting, given Mira's personality. Red Lightning or whatever can kiss my ass.

Rest was textbook curbstomp. Then, at the end, If Mirajane has to be beaten, I'm content with Irene doing the honors. But, disregard that, give us more Mira, we've tasted the blood, and now we want more... L-sama out, peace!

...or not. With my incessant Mirajane fanboying aside (hush, hush... I deserved that), the chapter was on the upper end of mediocre (except the art, that was awesome - Mashima's still got that vibe, when he tries, y'know what I'm sayin'?). We got a nice, stylish powerup for Mira, other than that it was a typical easy battle. At least the two enemies weren't hyped up too much so it's not a disappointment. That "personality in the swords" trick was nice, I did not expect that. Yet again Irene's shaping out to be more of a magic queen than the much hyped king-in-name-only grandpa.

BTW, I've written this while reading the chapter, without reading Rai's comments first, but it turns out we agree almost word for word. What can I say? Great minds think alike. Cheers!