User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Episode 179: Gray vs. Rufus, Review./@comment-74.61.219.92-20140428020949

Not really feeling the new animation simply because it looks boring although the characters do look good. As far as the episode goes I found the Juvia moments to be extremely annoying and the bad thing about that is she should have been in a fight with Chelia while Gray was fighting Rufus. Never found Juvia that interesting ever so maybe that's why. The Lucy, Mirajane, Natsu, Yukino, and co moments weren't funny and felt like useless filler.

As far as the fight went it was extremely dumb. Gray in the Manga tanked the wind attack but in the Manga he fell to the ground. None of Rufus spells in the Manga had any effect on Gray for real. They were trying to show so much off from Rufus by adding stuff they didn't add anything for Gray. They added 3 spells Rufus never performed in the Manga into the Anime and made Gray do the exact same stuff he did in the Manga. Also they made it seem like Gray had a high difficulty battle against Rufus when at best in the Manga it was a Mid difficulty battle. The fight could have been so much better if they would have stuck with the Manga and stopped trying to add things. You have Molder mage vs Molder mage yet Gray barely used any molding magic all he was doing was freezing the ground.