User blog comment:Wrath022/Episode 267: Fairy Tail Zerø: The Adventure Begins, Review/@comment-4829046-20160116143210

The way they ended the episode with a nice shift into the ending, was a nice touch. Almost a mirror effect.

Some parts were dodgy, but they nailed the art and animation during core scenes(especially Yuri's closeup expressions XD) so I am pretty pleased.

Since Zero seems to be getting its own treatment, what with the new OSTs, title cards, eye-catches etc. the filler doesn't really feel like filler to me. The original is painfully short as it is, so having extensions just makes stops the good stuff from ending too soon really. Length and impact might've been gained with the inclusion of the Mavis after-story in the main manga(like Misk suggests), but that can't happen and would've been too depressing since this whole thing is to highlight the formation of FT within a certain time-span of a few months and not just skip forward many years to major events in the timeline.