User blog comment:LegerPrime/To Be Continued...?/@comment-27992916-20160518223014/@comment-1359322-20160519003153

For one, by the time the anime continues, this arc will most probably be finish in the manga already.

2nd, regardless of how bad this war is, it's still a war. You can't expect FT to tell Alvarez "timeout, lets go soak in the hot spring together", just to get an intermission in the arc.