User blog comment:ILuvAnime/Fairy Tail continue after episode 175/@comment-217.164.11.22-20130621134532/@comment-4829046-20130625090107

Be careful though, the first few arcs of the manga are very low quality since Mashima hadn't gained his skill at that time, so you will see a lot of weirdly shaped characters and blurry panels but at the same time you will see the massive differences which are very evident especially in the first few arcs. One of the things the anime removed was Rainbow fire T^T

But you have to know that the original anime was made to go up till episode 48 and then stop for good. The good reception made it go even further but you will notice that its closer to the manga(other than the censoring) than it was in the beginning. A vast part of the mid portion of the anime is extremely well done and excel the manga, sadly the anime team's quality started dropping when they reached 100 and steadily continued to drop. They did a good job overall but we manga readers couldn't help but face palm.