User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episde 225: The Lightning Man, Review/@comment-24277053-20150322213936/@comment-24277053-20150322223407

I looked it up, in the manga in our time it was 4 months (3/13 - 7/13) in between Sabertooth's defeat at the GMG which was her last appearance before her disappearance and her return as a new member of Succubus Eye. In the anime it will probably be 9 months (6/14-4/14) so for anime only viewers their reaction would be different from my reaction when I was reading the manga. 4 months and 9 months is a big difference. Not to mention there was more content that happened in the anime.