User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 265: Tartaros arc: That Is the Power of Life, Review/@comment-24367018-20151226172808/@comment-4829046-20151226175633

I am supportive of your view, especially going by the rants I have done since 2014 not pretty XP but I doubt taking another year off would have been wise in their eyes. In the action shounen anime industry, all that would generally mean is waiting for more budget or source material. A good comparison is HunterxHunter(2011) since due to the nature of the manga(being on hiatus most of the time), they had no reason to worry about how the future episode patterns may change and were able to keep consistent and excellent quality throughout the 148 episodes. In FT's case, it was striking while the iron was hot even if budget could have been a bit better. After the end of the original anime, they were able to rethink things and shuffle about the production, but knew that they had to deliver an anime while the manga was at a period of immense reception and before everyone forgot about the GMG story-line. With that in mind, they handled the budget a lot better than the latter half of the original anime. Not perfect of course, but we did get some great bits and detail that would have been absent if the studio teams remained unchanged.

I would have donated quite a bit however(if means were available), if they had waited another year though, because I know the quality an action shounen can pull off if they had better time management and budget. Those concepts are treated with contempt however, by series like Naruto shippuden which just drag on a tired story-line practically forever just because they can.