User blog comment:Thejluninja/Next seasons/@comment-5188724-20120616010424

Please, please not another time skip for the next seasons. Starting in Japan and now coming to America, time skips have become so terribly cliche. Now it seems like whenever an action anime director gets bored with their characters, they just shove the story down 3+ years so that they can add in new ideas and power up their characters without having to do any build-up or detailed work.

I was actually surprised by YJ since it is one of the few examples where a time skip is done decently and has an interesting impact on the characters.