Filler episodes

snouman88 · Post by **snouman88** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:56 pm

Because anime episodes are quicker to produce than manga, the manga based anime series will eventually catch the original manga. To prevent animators and anime fans from getting bored, filler episodes are made. Filler episodes don't influence the main story in any way and they can be skipped without missing anything important.

The sad fact is that quite often the filler episodes aren't as well made as normal episodes. A long filler episode chain can contain many small "side storys", which are 1-3 episodes long. All the new characters which appear in filler episodes are newer shown again. By putting it short: the mini storys are usually not as fun and addictive than the main story.

So to the question. Do you like watching filler episodes? Do you think them as a refreshing brakes between the parts of main story? Or do you think that filler episodes are pure crap? All opinions are welcome

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:06 pm

I hate filler. Period.

amvwizard · Post by **amvwizard** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:18 pm

Cornwiggle wrote:I hate filler. Period.

X2 Rurouni Kenshin was full of them ..

MovieMarc · Post by **MovieMarc** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:28 pm

I dont really see a point for this thread. no one likes fillers there annoying, and the main reasons why shows like naruto suck so much.

NekoArts · Post by **NekoArts** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:38 pm

MovieMarc wrote:I dont really see a point for this thread. no one likes fillers there annoying, and the main reasons why shows like naruto suck so much.

Naruto...had like...22 or 24 filler eps didnt they? Are they still running? Should I bother watching them? eheh...

MovieMarc · Post by **MovieMarc** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:43 pm

dont bother at all with the naruto anime.

the manga is like a jiazillion times greater.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:10 pm

If the series can support filler there's nothing wrong with it. Now, by "support", I refer to the general pacing and tone of the series. If non-plot intensive, fancy-free (fanservice or otherwise) episodes are already present in the series on a frequent enough basis, and the causal viewer wouldn't know anything is up then there's absolutely no problem with it. If filler detracts from the mood significantly, however, it realy hurts the series.

Now, of course, the example of Naruto shows how little the people in charged followed this little design structure. Naruto has an insanely large audience and a stranglehold on them and can therefore get away with stuff like this. Then there's always the fact that the audience they're marketing to is 10 YEARS OLD!!! I don't care what country you're in, a 10 year old isn't any proper judge of taste in terms of entertainment. Throw popular crap at them and they'll eat it up; especially if it was good at some point.

Just because something isn't in the manga it was based off of, doesn't mean it's crap though. Wasn't most of FMA filler? Last I heard, that was doing rather well for itself. The only thing that Filler automatically tells you is that important charcters are definately not going to die or become diferent in any way, but hell, look at a lot of anime that has the random beach or hotspring adventure episodes in their plot to begin with. Does that fact really make them any better?

I think the big problem with most filler is that the writers the animation teams have can't write (supprise!) and when they don't have the manga to go from, they really can't come up with good plot to save their asses. I imagine it's intentionally like that though. I'd wager the manga production team has their hand in making sure noone on the animation team will upstage them in terms of writing good plot. If they did, who would need the manga team? They'd be out of a job.

MovieMarc · Post by **MovieMarc** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:15 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:Just because something isn't in the manga it was based off of, doesn't mean it's crap though.

thats not why i think naruto was crap, im not gonna get into detail here cause this isnt the place for it, but when an 25 minute (give or take) anime gives you 20 minutes of flash backs and 4 minutes of new story on an every other episode basis, that ranks as a bad anime, that and the insane amount of photoshop techniques.

Joe88 · Post by **Joe88** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:33 pm

I can mostly think of cowboy bebop and trigun.

older_gohan · Post by **older_gohan** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:51 pm

Well cowboy Bebop was different. It wasn't meant to be like any other anime. It was supposed to be like a 'Real World' of anime shows. Honestly if you took your own life how much of it would be considered filler to people?