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I might as well post my own opinion here. I'm going to compare each season side by side and then do an overall comparions.

Footbal Frontier vs Holy Road: This isn't all that difficult actually. GO's first season wins this. One of the biggest reasons why, is the character developement. Many of the first Raimon members (Handa, Shishido, Shourin for example) didn't get that much (or any) character developement and overall, I don't care much about them. I think GO gave characters more developement. Then again this might be because of the larger amount of episodes

Another thing is the matches. While there are matches I really like in the first season of the Original (Zeus Match being one of my favorites matches period), I'm not a big fan of one-part matches which the original first season also had a lot. GO had lot more multi-part matches and I really liked that. As a sidenote, I though Keshins were an interesting additions and I don't mind them at all.

Overall, the first season of the original isn't bad by any means, but I think it lacks in certain departments.

Aliea Gakuen vs Chrono Stone: This is...another victory to GO series, though it's lot closer this time. Chrono Stone is easily my second favorite season and while Aliea Gakuen is close behind, it still doesn't quite manage to get second place. This is mostly because I think Chrono Stone had the best villains yet (both El Dorado and Second Stage Children) in the series. Don't get me wrong. I love many of the Aliea guys, but...Alpha and Rei Rukh are both better than them.

Both seasons also had a...rather weird premise, both of which piqued my interest. I mean, if you tried to explain their premises to someone, they probably wouldn't believe you. However, time traveling appeals to me little bit more than aliens. Both also had good character developement with Fubuki being one of my favorite characters and Kinako managing to become from a really disliked character to a really liked character.

Lastly, I didn't mind Miximaxing nor Keshin Armed. I'm glad that Level-5 can keep the series fresh with new elements. However, I do feel that they took too much attention away from Hissatsu Techiniques. I mean, they could've showed more Hissatsu Techiniques. Unfortunately Aliea Gakuen kinda suffered from the same problem as the season didn't show that many of Aliea Gakuen's hissatsu techiniques outside of shoots and blocks.

Overall, I think both seasons are great. Chrono Stone is only a little better and that's mostly because of better villains.

FFI vs Galaxy: Of course I can't do this yet. I wil say that the third season of the original is easily my favorite season so Galaxy is going to have tough time competing. The first match (by that I mean the Fire Dragon match) of Galaxy could've been lot better though, so I hope the  season picks up by the next match.

IE vs IE GO: By preferring both GO seasons, you probably think I think GO is better...no, that is not the case. This is mostly because, as stated above, FFI Arc is my favorite and Galaxy has just started. At this point, I can't say which one is better...and I'm quite sure I'll have trouble saying which one is better even after Galaxy is over. To me, Inazuma Eleven will always be amazing, no matter if we're talking about Original or Go.

I think that sums up my thoughts nicely. To be honest, I could go on longer, but this post is already long enough as it is.