One Piece Episode 405

[Archangel]

I can't expect anyone to spend hours fansubbing an episode that I wouldn't spend 24 minutes to watch. Its quite an inopportune time to start fillers, imo.

Oda left some room in the manga to expand on a lot of content, but they have to get at least a little into the canon stuff first, cause obviously you have to know what happens to the strawhats.

I'm not sure if i want the anime messing with that part of the manga

Anyway the opening would seem to indicate that they won't use the cover stories

[Assertn]

Oda didn't even really start those stories until after the intro, though. I think if the anime covered most of the stuff hinted at in the intro, then the manga should have enough content to allow for some decent filler stories.