User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 237: Tartaros arc Prologue: Natsu vs. Jackal, Review/@comment-7418318-20150613184724

In the manga it looked like Happy caught the explosion point blank. Here there's enough time between Happy going out of sight and the explosion that we can imagine that he threw Jackal away and then bolted in the other direciton, only getting caught at the edge of the explosion.

Needless to say that the anime version is thus less infuriating than the manga version.