User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 247: Tartaros arc: Alegria, Review/@comment-203.111.234.105-20150822164923/@comment-7418318-20150823061143

I think it's the anime director that likes Laki and not Mashima.

In the Fighting Festival it Laki along with 3 others was beaten by Miki Chickentiger in the manga. In the anime Miki was cut out and Laki defeated the other 3 girls. In the Phantom arc she got two short scenes with just her alone and then her role in the KotSS arc, where she acompanied Gildats... all things that didn't happen in the manga.