User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Fairy Tail Episode 213: Erza vs. Sagittarius: Horseback Showdown!, Review./@comment-112.198.83.240-20141220075438/@comment-4829046-20141221074609

I respect your opinion but I in a way.... it did stay that way. They simply got rid of the excessive Yellow. Compare the big spell and movement animations. Almost identical ones can be found in GMG Part 1. But to be fair, they made too many blunders in GMG to give a proper comparison.

Imo the anime peaked at the end of the Edolas Arc(I would round it off to episode 100, a perfect place don't you think?). Not only did they add proper filler in that arc(which was appreciated by Mashima I might add) but also keep everything else mostly reminiscent of the manga(gripe would be replacing Mystogun's bird with a white legion out of laziness). In Tenrou they lost the consistency and you got so many problems and I felt the manga was better most of the time(except the Ultear flashback, that was pure amazing) and trust me, I've reread the Tenrou Island Arc volumes I own multiple times. The OPs were the only consistent things and even they had slight art problems despite being so good.