User blog comment:Mangetsu20/The Best Fairy Tail Chapter This Arc...?! (FT - 488)/@comment-21119641-20160610031949/@comment-4326112-20160610035608

Yeah, I guess that served its own double purpose, for Acnologia that is. Make him to exist for pure hype set-up and to confirm to the audience, "Yes, Gajeel is dead." Still given Hiro's track record of defying laws of magic via retcon or bringing the dead through alternate universe bullshit....yeah, I'm still rightfully skeptical. I feel sad, and my brother is even more depressed but hey, it was done pretty well. So I give him credit for that while still being apprehensive he may screw up int he future...possibly

I'm not even in the LOOP about this "Countdown". What is this about? o.O