User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 173: Battle of Dragon Slayers, Review/@comment-1776824-20130316201514

I did enjoy the fast-paced animation, but the transition from slow to fast really threw me off. The first fight went reeeeally slow...and then, before I knew it, the real fight began, and then the episode ended. I kind of knew that Rogue's Shadow Drive wasn't going to be shadowy, I mean, we got a taste of his Dragon Force in the opening, so you almost knew what it was going to be like. But, they could have made the shadows darker, or thicker. It's not so much how they look, it's how much is there and where they're placed.

Lyon's Snow Magic...Gah. >___<" Why? Why did you do that, A-1? Did you give Lyon the Sharingan and have him copy Eve? What was the point of that, other than to make us scratch our heads?

Aside from that, the animation was just a little off, but nothing's perfect. It was, all in all, about what I expected out of this episode, except for the length of Lamia vs. Mermaid. That was a little ridiculous, even if it was funny halfway through.