User blog comment:Hujaifa15/Fairy Tail's Bad animation/@comment-5426822-20141110120945/@comment-4829046-20141110162351

Fate/Zero is a whole different level. Same with F/SN;UBW. Lots of series couldn't reach that level of animation though these days studios put in a lot more sophistication than back then. Still extremely difficult with long-running series. The only recent case where the anime was good for quite a margin was HunterXHunter. Naruto Shippuden, Toriko and One Piece, all had serious drops in anime quality. I have to hand it to Bleach to keeping it up much better even with the annoying fillers. Bleach is something I am hesistant to rewatch, partly cause the manga is very different in the initial arcs, but overall, it had consistency and developed along with Kubo's own art and unlike Naruto or One Piece, didn't forsake the previous artwork and replace it with some weird looking updated artwork version for flashbacks. I mean seriously, the amount of times they did multiple animation takes on Luffy first being saved by Shanks and Naruto Vs. Sasuke was ridiculous. Maybe this is just nitpicking, but that is my experience with the big longrunning series.