User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Episode 177: The Eclipse Plan, Review./@comment-5840892-20140412035511

Maybe JUST maybe, they devote most of their budget to the fights, so a bridge episode/set up episode like this might be a bit derpy for the quality to be good where it counts. If I were a tight budget, that's what I would do. But yeah it only really seems to be when the characters are far away, up close it always well done. To me anyway. Hell they could even be doing it as type of meta joke/refernece to mock the old studio, as the animation for the PV looks fantastic.