Which Anime DON'T Have Filler?

[savedbythebell]

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[KarlOlson]

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Well, it doesn't particular add anything more than the manga, the manga added a lot of stuff that wasn't in the original novel, and the anime drastically reduced the amount of drug use as compared to the manga, let alone the anime.

 

[wonderfly]

From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"Anime Filler Is Officially Dead, As One Piece Ends The Practice"​

"The filler arc has been the bane of anime fans since nearly the beginning. It was standard for a long time for a popular anime series to appear every single week, with a new episode, without fail…and since the majority of them were adaptions of manga, there was the problem of the author not being able to pump out chapters that quickly.

So the TV writers would have to stall. This usually meant one of two things: dragging out the current storyline to a glacial pace (Dragon Ball Z is the most famous example) or whipping up new, barely canon stories on their own to pad things out. These stories were rarely as good as the manga adaptions, and anyone binging a series would feel compelled to skip them over. Unless they were all caught up, in which case…gulp…they would have to settle for ’em.

Once anime entered the 2010s, though, it started becoming less common for a series based on a mega-popular manga to run perpetually. Perhaps Attack On Titan started the shift; its elongated breaks felt like a new thing. Whoever initiated the trend, it caught on, and lately the only anime still playing the filler game are the old warhorses like Naruto, Bleach and One Piece.

But even that is changing. The latest Bleach series is a limited one, and today the final holdout, One Piece, announced its first (intentional) extended break. Toei Animation posted this morning that the show “will go on a three-month break starting this January, returning in April 2026 with the start of the Elbaph Arc!”"

Read the full article here.

 

[wonderfly]

Debated putting this news article in the "One Piece News and Discussion" thread, but Peter brought up "the End of Filler" as a whole, so I looked for a relevant thread....and found this one in the archives of the forums.

So in answer to the question "Which anime don't have filler?", it would appear the answer now is: All of them.

 

[Tohya]

You might’ve debated harder, lmao. What a time capsule of a thread, but yeah, a lot has changed in the last 18 years especially since under the current production model, fillers are already basically extinct.

How much of the modern seasonal release pattern was normalized because ‘80s babies grew up watching horrendous amounts of filler (like say, circa 2007?) is actually a fun question worth debating, lol. This, on the other hand, just feels like a legacy show finally catching up to the standard.

Also also, Boruto technically still exists, even if it’s on hiatus, so not all anime... yet.

Ironically, the folks in this thread 18 years ago just needed to wait a few more years, given the industry’s need for filler started changing, i'd say, what, a generation ago?