User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 173: Battle of Dragon Slayers, Review/@comment-1454981-20130316165247/@comment-1454981-20130316203201

If you want to know the general way to know if an anime has good animation or bad animation, its the hair. The way the hair moves and is set up or drawn is how you can tell. For example, look when carla and wending were in lucys room at the beginning of the ep. it looked like her hair was made of plastic. Sorry but FT animation has been on a down slope ever since edolas. FT has its moments once in a while in every episode but overall its VERY sub par. Especially the animators chosen way to anime the choreographed fights. Like Natsu and Gajeel vs. Sting and Rogue. It was so bad that i cant even conceive it. You know ur animation is bad when the manga fights are better than the anime fights.