User blog comment:Miskos3/Episode 277: Message of Fire, Review & Series Review/@comment-4933386-20160327004318

One of the perfect episode yet! Love the flow of this episode, turning Gildarts and Happy into just a flashback was perfect despite removing a few shots and the first gildarts chapter.

I really cannot wait for it to come back. The end credit (with collage of previous arcs), that was amazing... I loved looking at every one of them, including the anime-only ones. The only part I am disappointed with this was that they didn't have the Sun Village arc or a shot with Raven Tail... but that's the only complain I have.

Aaaaas for the FT 2009 > FT 2014 thing... the first anime team did have it a verrrrrry long time. We all know the more episodes there is the animations gradually gets worse... probably due to budget cuts or something... But I am not disagreeing with you that FT 2014 is indeed much better in terms of animation, art and flow.