User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Episode 176: The Dragon King, Review./@comment-4829046-20140405112207/@comment-7418318-20140405123338

I liked how they did the intermissions in Macross Frontier.

There they had unique intermissions (with their own short music pieces/sound effects) for each episode. While that migth be a bit overkill, this allowed them to fit them to the mood.

Happy scenes got funny and cute intermissions and the more serious stuff got pictures of the machines or characters that didn't convey much emotion of any kind and thus didn't disrupt the emotion of the episode.

Maybe they'll do something similar for FT now and pull the chibis only out on the funny episodes, while the serious ones get just the logo.

But if they don't, I prefer an "emotional neutral" intermission like the one we just saw over everytime chibis.