| Aeolus451 said: I wasn't basing any of the anime off of the manga. I measure anime by itself since I honestly don't read any manga. Bleach had random side arcs that interrupted the main story that had nothing to do with what was going at the moment. It was really annoying honestly and the storyline itself got boring. Naruto shippuden would just dive too deeply into backstory or events in the past but they were related to main story at the time. |
I don't read manga either, but it's impossible to divorce the source material from the anime when determining why filler exists, or why an ending may have sucked. For example, with Yu Yu Hakusho, the ending was kind of blah. That directly correlates to the manga though, as they adapted the material fine. It was the manga that messed it up because the author I guess has his share of issues.
To me, I don't care how nice some of the Naruto filler is. They still just shove five to 20 episodes whereever they want to, disrupting whatever is happening, for backstory that manga readers never needed to create a comprehensive and complete story. It is the exact same problem as Bleach. All because you like some of the filler more doesn't mean it is any less disruptive and harmful to the flow of the story. After a certain point, it becomes nothing more than a reason to bleed consumers dry who want to invest in a physical collection, and your filler better be god damn light years beyond the regular story if it's going to be used as an excuse to charge people more money.
The long and short of it is that Shippuden is still worse for abusing filler when the show should have ended already. Filler should be used exclusively to create a buffer when necessary because the show is getting too close to the manga. That's it though. Anything past that is just annoying and relatively anti-consumer.
