User blog comment:WillofOP/Fillers: 2 Years Later?/@comment-4493594-20111010103113

There will be fillers, no doubt about that. The problem is the timing. They can't just make an entire filler arc to kill time as they did before because it doesn't fit in. Even a 2-3 episode filler story wouldn't make sense.

So it all comes down to (unnecessarily) lengthen certain events. I can tell the fights against the fishmen will take forever. And, oh, the character background story flashbacks!