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Best Filler Management? - Statistics Speak


Nero D. Ace

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Because of a surprisingly large amount of free time I had, i decided to go over every episode released of Naruto(Shippuden), Bleach and One Piece and see which of them had the most amount of "story" in it. For Naruto, I combined the episodes in the original as well as Shippuden and the 100 filler-episode marathon at then end of Naruto and Bount arc of Bleach really dragged their scores down.

Here are the statistics :-

As of March 28 ...

Bleach

Total - 315

Filler - 136

Canon - 179

"Filler" %age - 43.17%

Naruto

Total - 425

Filler - 165

Canon - 260

"Filler" %age - 38.82%

One Piece

Total - 490

Filler - 70

Canon - 420

"Filler" %age - 14.29%


Well, i always knew One Piece had superb filler management but FOURTEEN PERCENT!!! that came as a shock even to me and i even double-checked it to make sure.


As of August 8 ...

Bleach

Total - 334

Filler - 155

Canon - 179

"Filler" %age - 46.4%

Naruto

Total - 443

Filler - 165

Canon - 278

"Filler" %age - 37.2%

One Piece

Total - 509

Filler - 74

Canon - 435

"Filler" %age - 14.5 %

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Nice idea and topic Iki, but your count is a little off. In Bleach as of episode 314 I counted 136 'full' filler episodes in Bleach. Although a big majority of canon episodes are majorly drawn out and filler infested too.

033 *Karakura Heroes Omake

050 *Karakura Heroes Omake

064-108

128-137

147-149

168-189

204-205

213-214 *Karakura Riser Omake

227-265

266

287 *Magic Lamp Gaiden. Based off a manga spread

298 *Hell Chapter Movie Promotion

299 *Hell Chapter Movie Prologue

303-305

311-Unknown

I didn't check the accuracy of the other two series yet. =P

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Nice idea and topic Iki, but your count is a little off. In Bleach as of episode 314 I counted 136 'full' filler episodes in Bleach. Although a big majority of canon episodes are majorly drawn out and filler infested too.

033 *Karakura Heroes Omake

050 *Karakura Heroes Omake

064-108

128-137

147-149

168-189

204-205

213-214 *Karakura Riser Omake

227-265

266

287 *Magic Lamp Gaiden. Based off a manga spread

298 *Hell Chapter Movie Promotion

299 *Hell Chapter Movie Prologue

303-305

311-Unknown

I didn't check the accuracy of the other two series yet. =P

ah yes, i thought my count would be off on bleach, what with all the in and out of fillers it keeps getting itself into.

i double checked the values for One Piece as i couldn't believe it had such low filler %age at first.

Naruto was easy as well, considering the last 95 episodes of the original were filler and every other season in Shippuden was filler as well.

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I do hate fillers, but I only watched a few anime so far and have to say that between bleach and naruto the fillers in naruto is way better and do not just start in the middle of a fight like bleach. That is why I do not watch bleach often as the fillers keep on just popping up

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Yeah, I never realized how annoying filler was until i watched Rurouni Kenshin and it pissed me off until no end that the last season was utterly pointless. lol Same with Dragon Ball Z. When i was younger and watched the series on Cartoon Network I didnt notice filler at all, But when i recently rewatched the series it just got to a point where I wanted the fight to end cuz the spent twenty minutes talking and five fighting each episode or they will just send in some flashbacks and recap everything every other episode. Granted those episodes were actually cannon, Its still just annoying. lol

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^^^You can't hate on DBZ's fillers, but it does have the highest filler to canon ratio, after the Raditz fight it went into filler, then it went into filler after the Nappa & Vegeta fight, then a filler after the Namek saga, then it went into filler right after Trunks warned Goku about the Androids, then it did a filler just before the Cell Games, everything after the Cell Games was filler, because the manga serialization stopped. DBGT on the other hand was never a manga so it was neither filler nor canon.

The reason you can't hate on the fillers in DBZ is because, the placing was perfect, it never had the characters acting out of their norm, it never felt like it was a filler, and the fillers always immersed you deeper and deeper into the world of Dragon Ball.

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