Have Fillers Ruined Anime?

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A filler is anything in an anime series that was not in the manga

90's anime had filler, but this is getting crazy... now fillers are lasting for years

take bleach for instance, which announced it was gonna do 52 weeks of filler
 
Ruin may be too strong a word. But I'd say that depenRAB on the filler. An entire episode of DBZ where Goku is powering up, I'd say is unexciting. An episode where Goku and Piccolo are trying to get a driver's liscense on the other hand is comedy gold.
 
..? I think ruined is a bit of a tough word to say. And would you rather the anime end instead? At least it's getting to air it's canon moments, personally I like filler because we can get chances to learn more about the characters who never really mattered much in the manga.
 
Fillers have to stay that long so the manga can get farther away from the anime, if the anime gets to close it gets canned. And your issue is still fillers since it has to do with the length either way.
 
Japan can't do repeats, they always have to air a new episode every week due to schedules and dozens of new anime airing.They are not like America where repeats are so simple.
 
So it's about competion than about anything else,

what's the ratio of people in Japan only tuning in to manga themed episodes V.S people who watch fillers


i'm sure they're rating go down during fillers
 
I used to not mind fillers, but nowdays I can't stand them since most of them are mostly comedy so I tend to just skip them, but the downfall to me doing that is I end up losing interest in the series itself when I actually do try to get back into it.

Ruined by fillers? Not by a long shot. For me, what ruins an anime falls upon characters, animation and fights... "coughs" (yes, I'm very typical lol)
 
Excessive amounts of filler most grievously effect anime based on long-running shonen series, usually Shonen Jump properties.

While widely popular, these sorts of titles represent a minority of the total anime output any given year. As such, filler has not ruined anime. Whether it has ruined this or that particular show is a matter of opinion, but it can't have ruined anime as a whole when there are so many great shows out there not directly based on manga and which, ergo, by definition have no filler in the sense defined in the original post.
 
Has it enjoyed most the animes that have come to the US? I think the word is DEFIANTLY.

Too many good series have been the victim of horrible, horrible filler that affects the quality of the series as a whole.

It's kind of sad when you have to sit back and say "I really like X chunk of the series but the rest is garbage".

Sometimes, I really don't understand the thinking in Japan when it comes to animation. If they are already going to be taking a hit in ratings from showing filler, why is it so important to waste the money out that output? It means you have less money to add to the budget when good episodes are ready to be produced.

I think Bandai had the most eloquent solution with Gundam 00 and Code Geass. They ran Season 1 of Gundam 00, then season 1 of Code Geass in the same time slot. Then they repeated the process for season 2.

It gave both series no filler or frivolous episodes (not that either were based on manga) and kept the quality of each series very high.

This was a good practice I think need to be replicated much, much more.
 
Considering that the filler problem is mostly limited to adaptations of shonen jump manga, I'd say that the problem is far more prominent than it is widespread.

Is it a detriment? Of course. Taking an unreasonably long time to get through things is vexing, that was the huge problem with Bleach's Bount arc. Doing material not found in the manga, on the other hand, is A-OK with me. It's just too bad that a better job isn't done with that more often. Some Naruto filler actually was all right, but some of it was also durab.
 
DepenRAB on the series, sometimes fillers are fun to watch, sometimes they bring a series down, has it ruined anime in general though..NO, just ruined the quality of a few series.
 
For some reason, I actually like some anime fillers out there, but mostly for One Piece. Just as long as it doesn't lose steam, I don't care as long as the series doesn't pull a Kenshin and get canceled.
 
No. People in anime talkbacks who spoil entire arcs by revealing that nobody dies and none of the newly introduced characters stay in the series have ruined anime (For me). It's an anime talkback, with a 32 pt font warning not to spoil anything in the OP. Why should spoiling anime-only material be okay but manga-adapted material not be? (Oh wait, people love to "subtly" do that too.)
 
Actually, in some cases, ratings go up when fillers air, because the viewers that are familiar with the manga have new stories to tune in for. While the western fanbases start forming riots whenever filler happens, the corresponding Japanese fanbase actually erabraces it.

Normally, they don't start to hate on it unless it lasts beyond 26 episodes.
 
Filler (as in, stuff exclusive to the show) is only bad if they treat it as filler (pointless padding). Shows should use those episodes to develop the characters more, maybe the side ones that the original author never did, or tell an interesting story. Yu-Gi-Oh's Doma and Noa's storylines are some nice examples of that. If it counts, as does the second half of FMA since it went its own route compared to the comic (and now that part of the comic is being animated, so you can pick which one you like better) and other similar shows (like Trigun)

However, when it's like Naruto's and just pointless uninteresting stuff to waste time,then yes, it's bad. But ruined? I doubt it, since the shows still remain to be popular and people just skip over that stuff anyway usually and pretend it doesn't exist.
 
I don't think that fillers have ruined anime at all. In the cases where a series is based off of a manga, filler episodes would be necessary so that they wouldn't get too close to the manga. In the few series that I've watched, I've enjoy most of the fillers. I think that it all depenRAB on the quality of the filler episodes and of the series itself. As Marinite mentioned, the Noa and DOMA sagas in Yu-Gi-Oh! were quite enjoyable since they provided more backstory for the characters, especially Kaiba in Noa's arc, as well as create a new storyline that worked pretty well.

In the cases where the fillers drag on too long or they don't provide an interesting storyline, then I could see those episodes being a problem for people to watch through.
 
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