This was so fucking predictable
Lucy yet again is thrown under the bus to push Natsu's story forward, Natsu treats another shitty spriggan like trash(am I supposed to be awed that Spriggans are trash? Am I supposed to have been thinking they are strong? Mashima, pls)
And now we get the cliche encounter between Gray's asspull powers and END. Let's see how Mashima fucks up this situation and manages to do worse than expected again.
Mashima had something unique with possibility of reversed situations in Avatar arc, there was a great chance of subverting the tropes with END and averting the whole "sealed dark side power" cliche but that train haslong since passed. Then we had a chance of having LUCY be the one to talk down Natsu because it makes sense but even that train has passed since she literally does not matter now. Now its time for the repeat of the same old cliched encounter but with more nakama talk and more disappointment.
3/5
Zinzoo said:
At this point the only thing Gray can do is talking to Natsu.
If Natsu was fast enorugh to move in Dimarias realm/had the same powers as her, then theres no way Gray could defeat him in 1v1 battle.
You are underestimating Mashima's writing of asspull powers.
Gray went from trash tier weaker than freaking Wendy to somebody who could stand equal to the likes of Erza in matter of single power up.
I fully expect Gray to nakama talk him down in half a chapter :^)