User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 367: Jellal vs. Oración Seis, Predictions./@comment-2214433-20140112121627/@comment-7418318-20140112132133

I didn't expect that to be animated so soon. At the moment only 17 chapters are out and until May that'd go up to chapter 32. By the usual formula that's just material for 16 episodes.

If they go for 25 episodes per season (if there's even going to be more than one) like with Magi itself that's cutting it quite close.

Regarding the opening, I think it's less of a problem than the Fighting Festival arc in FT (I can't say which FT opening is the worst in this regard, but this one is fresh on my mind from recently buying the DVDs and immediately watching them). As I said in my previous comment that opening showed every majory fight and thus left little to no surprise.

In the 2nd S2 Opening of Magi you see the people participating in the fight, but grouped by faction, so we don't know who will fight who. And on top of, apart from the full-body equips and showing that Marga doesn't die yet, the opening didn't show anything that wasn't already revealed in the teaser at the season start.

I agree that showing off the Djinn fullbody equips, particularly Alibaba's, was a mistake, but it's not as bad as you make it sound in my opinion.

For me this was a really sad episode. Watching Titus all happy about the little stuff and knowing where the story is going was just so sad. It's like re-watching Elfen Lied and seeing Lucy and Kouta happily playing after visting the zoo, but already knowing what she'll do on the train. *snif*