User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 263: Tartaros arc: Soaring in Ishgar, Review/@comment-25111584-20151212105834/@comment-7405046-20151212140106

I'd like to point out that unlike ninjas from Naruto, where running or tree-jumping across dozens of kilometers is expected from any 12-year-old kid, mages in Fairy Tail usually require some form of transportation to travel long distances.