Anime adaptation filler comes in a different flavor than what others are calling bottle or recap episodes.
The entire Bount story arc, episodes 64 to 109, of Bleach is filler. It didn’t happen in the source material. It didn’t move the plot forward. All character progression over that sequence of episodes were the result of temporary regressions that were reverted by the end of the arc. It was 45 episodes that, even if we allow for things like “cute character moments”, was just spinning a wheel between the planned story beats of the original material. To make it worse, all of the stuff within the arc is normally considered non-canon. I couldn’t tell you for certain if anything original to that episode run is relevant or mentioned in the recent Thousand Year Blood War, but at the time it was content added to fill the space during the time it took for more chapters of the source material to come out.
It’s why I don’t really mind episodes in a run that don’t push a plot forward. But if I can skip FOURTYFIVE episodes and miss nothing? That’s the filler I don’t want.
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Anime adaptation filler comes in a different flavor than what others are calling bottle or recap episodes.
The entire Bount story arc, episodes 64 to 109, of Bleach is filler. It didn’t happen in the source material. It didn’t move the plot forward. All character progression over that sequence of episodes were the result of temporary regressions that were reverted by the end of the arc. It was 45 episodes that, even if we allow for things like “cute character moments”, was just spinning a wheel between the planned story beats of the original material. To make it worse, all of the stuff within the arc is normally considered non-canon. I couldn’t tell you for certain if anything original to that episode run is relevant or mentioned in the recent Thousand Year Blood War, but at the time it was content added to fill the space during the time it took for more chapters of the source material to come out.
It’s why I don’t really mind episodes in a run that don’t push a plot forward. But if I can skip FOURTYFIVE episodes and miss nothing? That’s the filler I don’t want.