User blog comment:Godisme/Deicide 7/@comment-1405841-20100530005019

I fully agree about placement with these filler arcs. To me, the Bount Arc seems to be the only one that made sense where they stuck it (Ichigo and everybody had already returned to the Human World, so it wasn't just out of nowhere that "They took a break to tell another tale"). The rest of them just feel so out of place, like trying to stick an anime movie somewhere into the timeline of the actual show (where they most likely will NOT fit). To me your idea of them actually taking a break sounds about 100 times better than simply creating a new filler arc (then again, this is about money for them...if they hault for even 2 months they're losing quite a bit..and then they'd have to choose a place to halt at, like they do with the dubs here in America...and they can't take the risky move in just constantly creating episodes to where it catches up with the Manga BUT then that would screw up their pacing because an 8 month break would only give them about 32 chapters to condense into maybe the same or less amount of episodes. Thus the pacing is screwed).

The Filler Arcs have a divided appeal amongst the fans, some like it and some don't...but every anime is going to have them if they're as large as Bleach, Naruto, Dragon Ball...it's just to what extent on how many they create...and whether or not they're making money if they didn't hold off.