User blog comment:ILuvAnime/Fairy Tail continue after episode 175/@comment-62.140.137.102-20131127095509/@comment-2125188-20131128143840

to be fair the grand magic games arc was 83 chapters. much longer then regular story arcs, not just in fairy tail but in long running most series.

i mean they did try putting a 25 episode filler arc (which is also longer the regular filler arcs), but at the time i don't think they could've predicted the grand magic games would've gone on for that long.

at least they didn't pull a bleach filler in the middle of the arc instead. Or get any fillers after key of the starry sky arc and end up with like another 30 filler episodes (like naruto). Or stretch it out like one piece.

I think in the circumstances they handled it quite well. At least they tell us it's coming back unlike bleach and attack on titan