User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 251: Tartaros arc: A Young Boy's Story, Review/@comment-180.191.134.131-20150919165935/@comment-2214433-20150919190935

It was just a low budget episode. And it's fine as long as they can make major fights look like this

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/miskos3/gulzligz_zpsf41w2ing.gif

Old anime would rarely pull such stuff, if at all.