Quote Originally Posted by shadowfox View Post
They could make HSotD ongoing, but then we're going to run into a Naruto/Bleach/"every other show that starts while the manga is ongoing" where we have fillers that annoy the crap out of everybody.
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It's a catch 22 situation. To have a great anime you have to have a great but finished base to start from.

There's are ways around this which I'm hoping that Eiichiro Oda (creator of One Piece) will utilize. One Piece is currently on a four week break. Basically the characters will be training, separately, for two years before continuing their voyage into the "New World". The manga will continue the story when they meet up again, but what I'm hoping to see is that the anime will actually show this training phase of the story. Showing what each individual character goes through.

Technically speaking this be classified as "fillers", but it could be (dare I say it).... good fillers. This will give the manga time to get ahead enough for the anime not to have too many fillers later on.