User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 243: Tartaros arc: Wendy vs. Ezel, Review/@comment-7418318-20150725170327

I really liked how Natsu shot his roar not out of some standard pose, but right in the middle of being pushed back. It's such things I really appretiate about the new animation studio. Much better than the pre-composed copy/paste castings the old team did over and over again.

I don't mind Sayla blocking Mira's strike and I absolutely love her expression when she did it. :)

Still not a fan of the book-throwing, but it comes across a bit more threatening and thus better than in the manga. Because here we see the books not being the sole "weapons" but being used in way other than frontal assaults. Just throwing them at Mira's face in a staight line should never have worked in the manga, but did... :( It's still stupid in the anime too, but a little less so.

I too was disappointed with the Wendy-goes-Dragon-Force scene. One moment she's normal Wenyd, then the camera moves away and when it moves back she's in DF. Why not show her grow those wings, like we saw Natsu's scales slowly appear when he went into DF. Hard to believe, but in this rare case the old team had it better.

They also somehow failed to capture the drama and thrill I felt in the manga, when Ezel was about to eat Carla. I can't really tell why, but something is just missing.

Overall it could have been better, but it's still a good, solid epiosde that I enjoyed watching.