Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-2140588-20150611110723/@comment-26466163-20150616154244

Ablite wrote: I'm not sure but are the fillers actually based off of what happened in the manga or is it something completely separate?

It also could be so the anime wouldn't catch up with the manga, not to get out of context with this discussion, but apparantley, another anime, Fairy Tail had to stop it's anime because it was catching up to the manga, and it had gone on hiatus for a year, and Fairy Tail doesn't have as much fillers as Naruto, plus, it also gives more personality to the characters