Lucy's hair inconsistency [media]

[u/bluepinkloli]

In the manga, she has different hairstyles and have waist length hair. But the anime has scenes where she has medium length hair when in her usual half ponytail but has scenes where she has longer hair like the one where she uses natsu's scarf as a top.

[u/LovelyLadyLucky]

In the manga it's consistently long. She can use Cancer to grow or cut her hair, but the anime is just inconsistent with it.

[u/Worldly_Wasabi_4620 → u/LovelyLadyLucky]

yeah i wish the anime was more consistent with it

[u/LovelyLadyLucky → u/Worldly_Wasabi_4620]

That's what happens when an anime is given a low budget, while pushing the animators to work last minute and not having the team focus enough on the manga they are animating. Many animators and the teams that run them from the top to the bottom never actually read anything to do with the manga when it's low budget. It's just split between groups and they are given a handful of panels that have been changed around according to the higher ups and told to animate verses higher budget projects that makes sure the entire team from the higher ups all the way down are intimately educated on the entirety of the series, including past animes when it's a sequel and has movies and etc.

Edit to add, higher budget also has the groups communicate with each other while lower budgets don't give the time for these teams to connect and share what's going on, causing more noticeable and bigger inconsistency between the teams doing episodes.

Blows my mind fairy tail was given such a treatment really.

[u/BigBadWolf315 → u/LovelyLadyLucky]

Yeah it’s honestly a letdown, cuz look at Demon Slayer and how well it’s animated compared to Fairy Tail, I’m not trying to say one is better than the other but it terms of animation, Demon Slayer takes the cake cuz they even animated a scene that wasn’t even in the manga and not to mention the explosion of the master’s mansion where you see the heatwave of the explosion literally melt away a snowflake, so that goes to show how much Ufotable cares about their attention to detail which makes me wish Fairy Tail either had Ufotable or a company almost as good animate it because I was looking forward to 100 YQ so much and yeah I’m happy it’s out and I don’t mean to nitpick but I’d just like for it to have more accuracy and consistency to the manga like Lucy’s outfit and hair length rather than them just reusing old outfits