User blog comment:Hujaifa15/Fairy Tail's Bad animation/@comment-65.18.35.32-20141110154832/@comment-7418318-20141110172115

I certainly am very fond of their closer adherence to the source material. I really hated what the old team did with Era and Mercurius to give just two "highlights".

As for the animation quality... I like parts of the new animation. They have scenes that are great and but they also have scenes that are just atrocious.

The same goes for pacing. Some scenes are just flawlessly done with pacing, music, actions and stuff and then there are long swathes that feel overly drawn out, places where dramatic scenes are ruined by misplaced comedy and entire episodes that feel like a patchwork of single independant scenes rather than a coherent story-flow.