User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 254: Tartaros arc: Air, Review/@comment-5894890-20151010222813/@comment-2214433-20151013214034

Lol yea, the water was rather... badly drawn.

And I do think that the animation during the two vs. two fight wasn't good either, but I guess it was more a combination of derpy/not detailed art with not much movement shown.