User blog comment:Rejuvenation/Anime episode 250/@comment-1432572-20091219204326

@IbnBankai Well in Japan in the time of the Samurai, the person with the stronger/wealthier clan kept their last name, in this case, Kouga lost his

@BrotherBankai, n the purpose of a filler arc is to buy time for the manga to reach a considerable distance so that the canon story may continue. Have you ever heard ANYONE mention Jin Kariya or Koga (bount) or Shuusuke Amagai outside of their respective arc? Nope, they're forgotten. I like fillers (surprisingly, fans don't usually say that), and I WISH the things that happened in fillers became part of the canon manga (like with DBZ), but that's very rare to non-existent.