User blog comment:Mangetsu20/The Super Flame God Demon King Slayer Mode! (FT - 464)/@comment-4072803-20151205205240

The time when it went all DBZ was honestly the only part of the chapter I kinda liked and was interested in. I just figured that if Hiro was giving us a final fight he could at least also give us something nice to look at, even if the villain is a much more sympathetic character than our protagonist (which would be fine if Natsu was even remotely likeable anymore and if Zeref showed real malice or evil intent in this chapter). And then it's only one single panel before things return to normal. Felt a bit... underwhelming for a final fight, but since this probably isn't one, I'll just have to hope that we go to ridiculous laws of physics, DBZ-style, for the actual final battle. It could make the final battle actually entertaining, something that FT has struggled with in its 'fights' recently.

And my GOD this reveal was dissapointing. The Dragon Arm wasn't a bad idea (I refer to my Archer's arm theory that was sadly proven wrong T-T), but I have to honestly question why this was given a MODE. Igneel's remaining power isn't the worst of ideas and the idea that it's a one-use thing is actually pretty reasonable, especially because powerups like that generally DON'T have a time limit like that in FT, but why did it need to be called a mode? It just looks like a bunch of superhot flame (wait, shouldn't that make it lighter or something? I dunno, I don't know crap about how flame colors work, but hotter flame = darker color feels... off to me.) Just feels like a letdown with a name like "Blaze Dragon King Mode". Feels like Natsu should've gained a full coating of honest-to-God dragon scales or something like that, not just remaining virtually unchanged. Heck, since he's ripping off DBZ in parts of this Hiro could've just gone all the way and made "Dragon Force Level 2" or something like that, with Natsu's hair going all spiky(er) and with lightning stuff. Just a thought.