User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Episode 191: Natsu vs. Rogue, Review./@comment-7418318-20140719074025

Overall the episode was good, but they made a lot of mistakes, both in animation and design decisions.

Why would they put Yukino and Mirajane OUTSIDE the palace? The whole point of the fights with the soldiers and Garou Knights was to get outside the palace, in no small part to fire a signal.

And these two just walz out of the palace without any apparent effort and Mirajane does NOT fire a signal?

WTF?

I also think it was a big mistake for Hisui to open the Eclipse with a wave of her hand. What the hell is the pedestal good for anyway, if she can control the freaking gate by waving her hands? Why would waving her hands open the gate, but not close it? Or was that all just for show and while she was waveing around, some unnamed soldier operated that pedastel, so that Hisui could have her "I am so awesome" moment in front of the troops?

Wow... Wendy sure has grown in this episode. When she stands before Hisui she's almost as tall as the princess and Lucy. Also she was very quick to forget that she just saw future Lucy murdered before her eyes and go all happy about seeing the princess, only to go back to crying a bit later. Talk about mood-swings.

Ultear's flash-forward also looked rather awkward, not to mention that her orb was really massive. How's that thing supposed to fit into it's slot Ultear's fore-arm armour?

And Meredy preparing to pull the medkit out of her cleavage? Seriously? WTF animation team!

I was hoping that upon standing before the opening Eclipse either Lucy or Carla would have a vision of F-Lucy's timeline so we could get to see an episode or more about that, but doesn't look like that's going to happen. :'(

Now with the bad out of the way let's talk about the good.

Jellal is still resisting pink-eyetitis and wasn't messed up in the animation.

Even though the place where the Yukino and Mira scene took place was really... out of place, the scene itself was done very nicely with good voice acting. I love Mirajane's soothing tone of voice when she's giving encouraging speeches like that. I bet she'd be great at reading good-night stories to children.

The pacing was also good. Not perfect, but a lot better than some of the earlier episodes of the new series.

Good to see that Lahar is still the same block-headed idiot. He's confronted with an end of the world scenario and all he thinks are paragraphs, laws and rules. I bet if a Dragon stood before him, he's start quoting the lawbook about how many laws the Dragon would violate if he were to eat a Human. ^^

When Natsu and Rogue fought in Dual Elemental Mode the soundtrack sounded a lot like the old "White Dragon and Shadow Dragon" except for going into a loop of one part instead of moving on to the good parts of the song. Did they really finally re-use an old OST piece or was it just VERY similar?