User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 255: Tartaros arc: Steel, Review/@comment-5894890-20151017162911

Contrary to some of the opinions here I actually liked the episode. I'll divide it into two, Gajeel's fight and Laxus' fight. First off Gajeel's fight. Most of it was animated quite nicely, the flashback was nice, soundtracks played with the scene was also nice. Levy's solid script also looked cool too. The first point when Gajeel overwhelmed Torafusa, I think, he was starting to change and charge up... although not animated. As for the water turning into sparkles part, meh, I didn't mind it. My programming prof: "It doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense, as long as it looks good". Now for Laxus', first off, thank god it wasn't some bullshit reason he was there. While I have to say, it was animated quite nicely (expecting it to be terrible since it's filler), the fight just didn't seem good enough. There's lots of fighting, but for once (and can't believe I'm saying this), I would have preferred if they talked a bit more... it was just like 'fight, fight, fight' all the way; without Laxus saying much, besides, "You hurt my guilds and comrades", yet all he does is push him back and forth. (Of course I know what happens in the end), so... I feel like Laxus should have just stopped Tempester momentarily and that would have been good. Also... Ncduru? last week was just talking about how Gajeel never/rarely calls people by their names, anime team's dialogue? : "Laxus!, Laxus!"... twice in one episode ._.