Made me lol, but still
WolfWoods said:
People just don't understand what filler is supposed to mean.They think battle shounen are supposed to have battles on every single chapters,or else it's called dragging or even a filler like now.Battles are important,but we just got a bunch of fights on this arc,now we need a brake to develop characters and rest a bit.
Normally we only get these kind of brakes right between arcs.And we do seem to be between arcs now too,but since the new arc will probably come right away,there won't be much time for these things.Even so,Mashima gave us these nice brake stories here,so nobody will miss it.There's nothing much different from how FT always worked here,so there's no need to complain.
No one actually complains about the side stories being bad thing, in fact I actually like them, but the timing can't be worse. This is not some "nice brake stories", it's just Mashima stalling for chapter 300 to make that "awesome revelation" or something.