Thread:SpectrumRay16/@comment-26091443-20160725181350/@comment-26363301-20160726001441

Here is my opinion of what this chapter has going for it and what it does not:

Does:

- HYPE (Which will die down after 2 weeeks)

- Closest we've seen of Escanor's power

- The debate between Mel vs Escanor is over, Escanor has it now... hands down!

- This chapter's events may force the commandments into hiding for the training arc to commence, which i've been wanting for a while!

Does Not:

- It makes Escanor a plot point, which means no commandment can best him now. It relys on Escanor being hit by a commandment or being busy for the remaining commandments who are there to survive, which is sort of bad.

- His defeat of Estarossa, even if the man isn't completely dead, still says that Escanor is strong enough to obliterate any commandment and can probably only be bested by the Demon King, yet he was able to petrify Estarossa in place half an hour before hand.

- I was personally hoping for a closer fight! I didn't care who won, though Escanor was the one i wanted to win slightly more, but, i wanted the fight to be closer and although Escanor did suffer two of his own swings doubled back on him and received quite a lot of damage during the fight. After he stopped holding everything back and got angry... it wasn't a close fight. I would have preferred to see Escanor think outside the box, maybe dodge Estarossa's attacks or even block some of them. But, as soon as he got upset... it was just over, there was nothing left of the guy afterwards.

I'm equally happy and upset with this chapter. Happy that Escanor was a badass and as my favorite character he obliterated Estarossa, but, as someone who looks at it unbiased i can't help but feel like the fight itself from both parties was not all that satisfying and that he basically became a walking, talking, commandment slaughtering plot point!