Naruto is similar to fillerbut it also shows why filling is not a bad thing. The anime first aired in 2002, long before seasonal releases became a successful shōnen tradition. The weekly release format was first popularized by Dragon Balland ruled for decades. Another favorite series One piece (with surprisingly little filler) still uses it. The weekly anime ends up sticking to the source material, too filler prevents the resulting gaps in airtime to keep fans satisfied and willing to return. In the early days of network broadcasting, this was very important.
Naruto again Naruto Shippuden 40.9% and 40.6% filler, respectively. Fans often make the mistake of thinking that because a filler doesn't complement the source, it's not worth watching without a convincing argument. Naruto it's really interesting because it shows how a filler can make adaptations temporarily invisible, but also give depth to the source material that comes in. At best, filler can undermine and change the very concept of “canon”.
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Filler Can Bring Unexpected Dimensions to Its Source
NarutoThe most interesting filler arc is simple Shippuden's ANBU arc (episodes #349-361). Fans often forget how the manga format itself can limit stories. The manga and anime industries are different. Magangas are under pressure to keep the stories focused and maintain dramatic tension, keeping readers connected to important characters.
There is also a lot of pressure to rank the audience in every chapter. Readers must like the chapter; the answer and level of individual chapters guides the manga's story telling. There is no divine name of the author that determines the “canon” before any influence.
Filler provides the freedom to adapt to take up the slack of the manga.
The manga format means that the author's original intentions are sometimes corrupted—for example, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure that's why Hirohiko Araki is banned from “anointing” women. Filler provides the freedom to adapt to take up the slack of the manga. No longer pressured by the need to faithfully change the source, characters or places that have not been prioritized can be given time.
Because Narutothe ANBU arc gives a deeper insight into Kakashi and Itachi. Because they what is needed to be clear, and because the filler is remarkably well done, it doesn't feel like filler at all. For Itachi, it gives depth and strengthens the viewer's emotional investment in him. This makes it so that when Obito (literally) reveals Itachi's true past and motives to Sasuke, every interaction between Sasuke and Itachi gains even greater knowledge. Their relationship feels less like Itachi's description by using Sasuke and more like Itachi again Sasuke.
Naruto it has problematic world-building, as it is driven by the characters. Focusing on the main characters and focusing on the vision of Konoha, combined with the aforementioned issues of the manga, leading to the underdevelopment of the world and its inhabitants outside of Konoha. This is especially problematic if ShippudenThe plot is based around an alien jinchuriki directed by Akatsuki.
NarutoThe filler shows that this world outside of Konoha's poor development in the source of things does not mean that they are not in their world. Actually, it shows that they can be considered. For example, the Three-Tail jinchuriki arc does Naruto Shippuden a good service, establishing the material and emotional effect of Akatsuki's presence and opposition early on.
Currently, Naruto Shippuden's “Paradise on the Ship” (episodes 223-242) accomplishes this in a different way, giving characters like Guy and Yamato some much-needed light. The filler, like the characters themselves, deals with the difficult path of sailing away from Konoha and its comforts.
In contrast, NarutoThe Land of Tea and Land of Rice Fields arcs show how filler can make such journeys more believable. While Naruto set mostly within Konoha, Naruto Shippudenglobal drama; these early attempts at world building resulted in a transition that was as soft as it was broad Naruto erupting beyond Konoha's borders.
Naruto's Filler Can Be Terrible
Filler Can Easily Distract And Capture The Mind
Source and filler material alike remain narratively vulnerable. However, manga is immune to that danger because of its limitations. Just as the filler can increase the material of the source, it also gains the ability to be annoyingly disruptive. Without being bound by a fixed script, the filler can get away with a lot. Inevitably, this means that many of them are not helpful in conveying a transformed narrative.
Naruto ShippudenInfinite Tsukuyomi filler (episodes #427-450) blends seamlessly with the original dream sequence of the source material. Unfortunately, it does not show the same restraint. In all 23 episodes, only four characters' dreams are tested. Although the dreams of Tenten, Tsunade, and Killer Bee have some lovely bright spots, they are amazing. Tsunade's dream also takes too long, past her welcome to wander through Jiraiya's book. Karin's dream, by contrast, is a wonderful interpretation of an underappreciated character.
ShippudenBoring flashback arcs aren't popular, either. Still, good flashback fillers can be spoiled the filling by being under the availability of the source material. Set the time to skip in between Naruto again Naruto Shippuden, the Chunin Exam filler is a great watch on its own. However, it is not such a good watch during the climax of the Fourth Great Ninja War.
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Naruto Tears Split The Idea That The Filler Works
The canon/filler binary is harmless and unstable. Filler arcs actually continue with the source material, including their additions to the “canon”. NarutoAnime adaptations have in part created an identity through the likability (and angst) of its filler. The viral tweet below shows how different aspects of adaptation, such as the soundtrack, are closely related Naruto as a franchise, Naruto as characterand the presence of filler—for better or for worse.
Filling in isn't just a way to kill time until the “real” story comes back. In fact, establishes a secondary source comprising the canon again filler. The story is not just Mangaka's anymore. It expands to include the voices and contributions of countless others: writers, animators, directors, and so on. Filler is not an unfortunate, timely foil for canonical authenticity. It is nothing more or less than the addition of a story to a story, as the obstacles of one path wander into the others. Adaptation is acceptance.
Canon arcs can suffer from the same problems as filler cans. They can be boring, dull, and interesting.
The difference between NarutoManga and anime—whether in medium, narrative, intent, or presentation—are what make it possible to differentiate and, in turn, speaking in plural Naruto franchise. Sometimes the story the familiarity adds is amazing; sometimes, not so much. Canon arcs can suffer from the same problems as filler cans. They can be boring, dull, and interesting. The big question is not about biblical and non-canonical storytelling. It's about telling good and bad stories.
Although it is rare to say that it is filler should not you were skipped because goodit is is something It is rare to say that the source is the property it should you were skipped because it's bad. That doesn't mean one it should skip the source property. It's just to make the point that filler is dynamically (and arbitrarily) discarded.
One of the best things Narutofiller of that one gets to build his own The canon. Think about it with a detailed redditor Naruto Shippuden filling list. It just doesn't specify which fillers to skip and watch. It is actually better to qualify the cases one might want to watch. Deidara fans get the “Aesthetics of an Artist” filler; for mecha fans, “Mecha Naruto”. Besides “skip” and “observation”, some filters (like “White Zetsu's Trap”) just get a vague “OK”, leaving room for the viewer to decide.
Adaptation with filler offers something that strict adaptation cannot, by its very nature. Naruto it shows how the filler, once created, is inseparable from the canonical franchise identity as the source material. At a time when the seasonality of individual arcs dominates and strong adaptations are automatically considered better, Naruto shows that religious adherence to the source material is not the only way—or the best or “true” way—to change the work.