User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 215: The Snake Charmer Ophiuchus, Review/@comment-4829046-20150110121038/@comment-4829046-20150110133406

Good to hear. And you are entitled to your taste. Appreciation of music and art differs from person to person after all.

I myself have various reasons for hating it besides my taste. The fact that they used some lame-ass, pathetically drawn scenes that were apparently just copypaste of the actual scenes of the anime irks me to no end. FT OPs were known for art and animation quality and being uniquely different from the main anime, but here it was just laziness.

Sure it was emotional and really gets you, but the feels were as I put it, 'all over the place'.

Many people complained about Rock City Boy, but I actually liked that one and it is greatly superior to Strike Back. To get a different opinion from usual wiki discussion, I even consulted my best friend, that didn't follow the series but knew what FT was. He agreed that the impression was greater with Rock City Boy and wouldn't mind downloading the song on itunes but not Strike Back.

Again, a matter of taste, but I am one that downloaded all the OPs and EDs of the previous anime and have listened to them countless times and the fact that there are OPs that I can't even look at anymore, doesn't sit right with me. I was a die-hard fanboy of the series for quite a long time until the criticism really started and was really attached to all the OPs regardless of most factors.