User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/FT0 4 - Dances with Blades, Review./@comment-24102956-20141023013456/@comment-4829046-20141023130046

The part that is even odder(?) is that the original Magic Circle sequences were mostly catering to the younger audiences. Much like those repeatedly used things in kids shows where you have the same animation to showcase some transformation or activation of some technique, with explosions, shouting, posing and the like which may or may not stop 20 episodes into the season. Totally(?) lacking in series aimed for older audiences I might add. So in that way, the fact that they stopped overusing those was cause they found it unfeasible given the circumstances especially since they have to keep putting so much effort into them when the manga was doing fine without them. It worked back when Mashima's art was still developing, but this far in, it is a challenge to keep up with Mashima even without magic circles.