User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 173: Battle of Dragon Slayers, Review/@comment-1454981-20130316165247/@comment-2214433-20130316195638

Yeah, I remember that. Naruto's quality is quite jumpy, though the overall quality is much better than FT's.

I can see why it gets annoying to read weekly dose of 'HURR HURR THE ANIMATION IS SHITTY' but let's face it, even when FT started in 2009 (I got the correct year, right?) its overall quality was low compared to the standard at that time. Now, we have 2013 and it has gotten - worse. Yes, worse. It looks pathetic when there are shows such as Fate/Zero. Although that's probably not comparable since it has 25 episodes and they had to take a break of few months after the first 12 episodes so they could keep up the animation quality...

Either way, you get the point. Considering the usual animation quality in various shows these days, FT is really down.