@Kaba:
You guys should look at the news story again. Look where I bolded:
So what does that all tell you? The entire second year will deal with the Nirvana story arc. They are slowing down now.
Which means that Edolas can become an arc for the series' third year.
I don't see it that way
@Crossword:
Hey, at least Ichiya played comic relief and got buff to punch out a crystal, and Hibiki stuck with the others for a while and had that neat magic Internet power. The other two contributed absolutely nothing at all to the story.
While the Nirvana arc is one of the longer arcs, I don't know if it can be properly pulled out to a full broadcast year though, especially considering Mashima's brisk pacing. Well, the least they could do is tie the Oracion Seis into Tower of Paradise like Mashima did retroactively outside of the actual story. I just hope Wendy doesn't have one of those high-pitched helium voices that make me want to reach into the screen and smack the character in question.
They could add some filler into it, like for example: actually show the groups fighting against the dark guilds instead of having it all be off screen, stretch out some of the fights even the shorter ones, show the struggles against nightmare that happened off screen, Do alot more with the nirvana magic and thus make more people switch sides but at the end keep Hot eye as is.
@MikeyDPirate:
Well maybe Satellite can do a better job. That is why I suggested that what they may do. Satellite did that with Shugo Chara (Doki) where they created a whole filler arc but sprinkle in some canon every so often. Then again Shugo Chara and Fairy Tail are placed in different settings so I am guessing this is more possible in a school/town. Then again I don't know anything about the Nirvana arc much less it setting.
You should read it, it's the best arc in Fairy Tail twitch