LogFAQs > #936056641

https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1241651784126468096

So that's interesting... apparently the author of Black Clover's manga built in a failsafe for when the anime started catching up to the manga.

In the manga, there was a six-month timeskip where the cast basically all went off on their own and trained, getting a bunch of new skills in the process, and none of that was ever shown. The next main arc just immediately started and didn't show any of what happened during that training. But the anime is going to show all of it in a big training arc, and despite it obviously being a way to stall for time and keep the manga ahead of the anime story-wise, technically it's anime-original content that's still canon to the manga because it's being done under the supervision of the author.

I would rather the anime have just taken a year off to give the staff some time to rest, but if the show absolutely must continue without stopping, then this is honestly the best option. They could have gone with really meaningless filler like Naruto Shippuden, or they could have cobbled together an anime-original early ending that might have ended up being terrible like Soul Eater. But this? This could work.
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