User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 180: Garou Knights, Review/@comment-178.148.168.171-20140503121051/@comment-4829046-20140503125839

They want to keep extending it as much as they can so that they don't have to go on hiatus again soon so makes sense really, you start extending now, you can go for longer. Also nice profit as well if they make a filler arc when it DOES get close to the manga. It is all win-win for them cash-wise if they play their cards right. And I don't think they plan to abruptly end it this time, especially since we don't know of Mashima's plans. Would be nice if they stopped before Mashima reaches the final arc with Zeref and wait till it ends, that way we won't have the arc being spoiled by filler or have another mothertrucking Toriko anime ending. I would be the considerably satsified if Mashima ends it in a way that the new anime(or with total of the 3rd anime if there is) will at max have 175 episodes. Even less is much better but I don't want to ask too much. Other big anime have done similar approach so it can be done. That way you have two main parts.