As someone that startend watching it right after the Naruto manga. I would say watch the anime. It had great music, good quality for fights even tho the quality of fights is something else... Many asspulls and plotshield for Natsu. Also there aren't many fillers in fairy tail and this is the first time that I know there is going to be a filler arc where I am now episode 217+. The only disappointing thing for me is that there is almost no gore the only one that showed 2 times blood through the anime was gray. No one else. When someone gets a nose bleed it is white. You know that kinda stuff but that kinda is changing in fairy tail 2014 so good luck.i hear the manga is really good atm, but the anime is going on atm, should i read or watch it?