User blog comment:Staw-Hat Luffy/Punk Hazard's Animation/@comment-5962458-20130517113709

the thing about the anime is that its come too close to the manga chapter-wise. In my opinion they should just give us an awsome filler ark (like G8 for example) so that they can later resume the story and follow the pace of the manga.Instead they have chosen to just extend trivial scenes from the story itself and give irrelevant characters (G5, centaurs) lines so that they can fill the episodes up and still keep a slow pace and stay safely behind the manga.However, that leads to dull and boring episodes which drives manga-readers away from the anime.