Talk:Anime/Fugitive Arc/@comment-43942913-20190927035453/@comment-2125188-20190927060307

Dude, relax. It's filler, so of course it's unecessary from an in-universe point of view. But at the time this filler arc was airing, the anime was really close to the manga, right before Ashihara started taking frequent breaks. The series was doing very well (especially in manga sales) at a time where a lot of the big WSJ series were ending, so it made sense that they wanted to continue it. And in order to continue it, they needed filler, due to how small the gap was between the anime and the manga. They don't just do filler cause they feel like it (trust me when I say, Toei themselves would've likely preferred to have no filler, but this was the only option at the time to keep the series going).