User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 255: Tartaros arc: Steel, Review/@comment-27087644-20151017153116/@comment-7418318-20151017154933

For once I think the editors made the right choice. If he wanted Laxus in this fight, he shouldn't have messed his body up so badly at the beginning of the arc.

Or put otherwise, if they planned to include him here, the anime team should have made changes even back then, so it wouldn't be so bullshitty now.

This just seems so half-assed.