User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 250: Tartaros arc: Erza vs. Minerva, Review/@comment-10956583-20150912143523/@comment-7418318-20150913084655

That a nice comparison for the art, but we've moved on onto the animation.

I would bring to your attention all the pre-made animation pieces for the Fire Dragons whatever spells, Ice-Make whatever spells or the animation for Erza changing armour that the old anime used so often, but sometimes didn't.

Sure there are some scenes where the spells are very nicely used from out of the scene like in Erza vs. Erza where EL Erza switches armours and weapons in mid-flip, but most of the time we are forced to watch several seconds of he very same animation piece, which is doubly ironic because apart from lazyness it also goes against the story, what with Erza being regularely praised for the speed of her requipping.

Same goes for Gray casting the shield against Lullaby. "Oh Make-Magic so quick?" after him slowly do the stance over five seconds it just... yeah... in the time the animation ran Lullaby should have roasted the whole bunch three times over.

Then there's also Happy sometimes showing a magic circle when activating his wings and sometimes not... or rather the inconsistancies with magic circles in general. Sometimes Erza's weapons are stationary and the circle moves along the weapon, sometimes the circle is stationary and Erza pulle the weapon out of it and sometimes there is no magic circle.

And of course the switching between still-shots and actually animated scenes, of which the old anime had at least as many as the new, so no advantage on this field for either.