User blog comment:Nerdyanimegirl225/1st Blog!!!/@comment-7418318-20140508071038

Currently the new animation is... dubious I guess.

Some things are great, some are horrible, but it would seem like they are improving slowly. If they can keep the quality up to what 176 and 180 were, I certainly prefer the new animation.

And I watch FT original with subs. While the english dubbing is quite good, it still feels inferiour to the original. Some characters (particularly Natsu) sound like they are trying too hard to sound the right way, while the japanese VAs just sound natural. And while it's true that Happy's VA, credited as the "queen of cute" by her peers in the first audio commentary, has the cute parts down very well, she fails to deliver Happy's dead-pan voice momemnts. Also losing the "punishment time" and the rolling r in the "X liiiikes Y" (duikuterrrrrrrrrru or something... no idea about the spelling, but that's roughly how it sounds) hurts.