Aye, One Piece is dangerously close to catching up to the manga. I've been wondering what will happen then for a while now.

The great thing about One Piece is that due to the nature of the storytelling filler is very easy to do. "Oh yeah we took a detour to this island." I'm not saying their filler is good, no filler is really all that great but with shows like Bleach or Naruto which have very static locations and very long arcs, the transition from filler back to the story back to filler again was always super awkward.

This is the reason why it's hard for me to watch anime that's more then 100 episodes long unless it comes on TV or somethin.

While that's ordinarily the case, this current arc is so long (it's not even over in the manga) that they can't really do that. So when filler finally happens it'll probably be the typical random awkward affair other shounen series suffer from.

yea well there has been some of the EDo Filler for one piece that i wish the bring back that they use mid way in arc so it breaks up.

The only filler of One Piece that I will say is good is the Navaronne stuff. Like the current arc that came out on DVD with the Winter Family is so bad I haven't even been able to finish it.

Glad I skipped all fillers after I hated the arc where the straw hat forgett who they were

I generally don't mind filler, as long as there's not too much of it. Dragon Ball had a lot of filler, but it all either enhanced the story a little bit or it provided a short break from the longer arcs. If only the filler in Dragon Ball Z was as good as in Dragon Ball :\

Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Noa Arc filler was not bad and we got some good background on Kaiba that was discussed in the manga. However, DOMA completely jacks up the characters for half of the cast while the Kaiba Grand Prix is just boring.

So I checked out the first episode of Heartcatch Precure. All in all, not so bad.

The opening fight between Dark Precure (LOVE YOU DARK PRECURE! :D) and Cure Moonlight was amazing and set up the series nicely. As for the two main characters... Erika is a little annoying and Tsubomi seems like she's trying way to hard to be cute. They seem like they'll get better as the series goes on so I'll just count it as a nitpick for now.

All in all, not half bad. Heartcatch seems like an enjoyable show and I'm looking forward to seeing what it has to offer. :)