User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/FT0 4 - Dances with Blades, Review./@comment-24102956-20141023013456/@comment-4829046-20141023131512

I thought they were pretty too even if they were tedious initially. However, the anime had set the trend, so they couldn't do anything about it other than reduce the rate of magic circles. With the new anime, the trend was changed a bit. They still have nods towards the first anime(except the well-animated flashbacks of the prior... >_>) but anime-only magic circle use was discontinued so that they can focus on other things presumably, one such thing being the background art and the structural elements.