it was predicted in the open forums that the current rate, the anime would catch up to the manga as early as the fall of 2005 (im pretty sure it was 2005 anyway)

this in itself is a concern for us, because if they catch up, then thats when we'll likely see the storylines break away into different tangents...most likely resulting in the anime storyline becoming crappy...it HAS happened to other anime series before.

now, if they started releasing the anime episodes twice as fast...then i would TRULY be concerned about the future of this series