User blog comment:Miskos3/Episode 277: Message of Fire, Review & Series Review/@comment-108.210.0.108-20160328035408/@comment-1776824-20160329002821

Honestly, Acnologia is about one of the only few who looks the same between adaptations. And they can't use animation from the first series in the new one, because that was an old studio. The new studio has to use its own stuff, thus forcing re-animation. There is also no known date. We'll probably hear about it sometime towards the end of the year if a 2017 Fairy Tail is going to launch.