User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 255: Tartaros arc: Steel, Review/@comment-1153699-20151018083703

That second half doe.. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I had a feeling Laxus was gonna have a rematch with Tempesta way back after his first fight against him in the Manga to avenge the Raijinshuu. So I'm glad it was supposed to happen and is happening right now.

And that animation! Damn. So much movement!! I wonder how Porlyusica reacted when Laxus got up though. We definitely need the backstory here. I hope the Raijinshuu jump in to help as well. Freed especially. Everyone seem to think he's a weakling now because he was paralyzed in his Base form due to Tempesta's surprise attack, but I still believe in him. Well, in his Demon Form at least. :P

In the manga, I didn't really like *ehem* one-shotting Tempesta like he did because we didn't get to see how strong EF Tempesta really was. And now that we see how strong he is I have to say, I'm surprised. He could be stronger than Torafusa tbh. I know Laxus is handicapped due to the MBP but still, it seems like he's gonna give Laxus a hard time next week.

Only things I disliked were:
 * The flashback time waste. But it's nothing that would ruin the episode for me.
 * It would have been better imo if Torafusa at least somewhat resisted Steel Gajeel instead of getting one-shotted with a basic af move but that doesn't bother me too much as well.
 * A fast paced OST (even an old one) would have been better too.

The good things definitely outweigh the bad ones though so solid episode overall. I'm satisfied.