http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...postcount=1143

Well If that post is True it makes the filler at least have a bit of purpose...
to leave more manga for the second season.

The Fillers are aggravating tho, seems to be the new reigning trend in anime....

I wish they would just pause the series when it gets too close to the manga. Why so many anime with filler lately? The only real reason I can think of is just how different Japanese TV is from US TV in its scheduling. Japanese TV has no re-runs, or fixed seasons (at least fixed seasons that I can find), so in order to keep their time slots, production houses just have to keep churning out sub par crap.

US TV has a standard structure: Fall new shows...holiday episodes, Sweeps weeks in February, May, July and November. Nielson Ratings sweeps define our television seasons.... which is good (gives shows a projected Break point) and bad (Big money corps' causing even the local and national news shows to sensationalize in order to compete). Maybe Japanese TV just needs some sort of justified break from a mechanic like Sweeps....but who knows. One thing is certain tho, Naruto, Bleach , D.Gray-man, and many others , would have been a lot better without the random 'cram it in' fillers.

Hopefully December (which is when D.Gray-man's second season is SUPPOSEDLY beginning) is a long enough time to let the manga get to the point that every episode could come from it; or in the very least they could at least follow it a bit closer without catching up before the season is done.