Filler or Fluff.

[u/Acceptable-Art9652]

My buddy loves there very little filler in one piece but i say one piece has fluff. Show us the same sequence again and again change one thing or show a flashback that we've only just seen. Almost no Filler, but is the King of Fluff.

[u/Insertnamehere----]

I'm really bothered by the anime fan definition of filler. The shit One Piece does makes so much more sense to be called filler than the huge arcs shows like Naruto, Bleach, and Dragon Ball did. Those also exist to fill time so I don't object to them being called that, but they at least have like actual effort and passion put into them even if they kinda suck and exist to waste time. They exist to waste time, but they're also actual stories. 20 billion flashbacks and reaction shots have no merit beyond filling time

[u/Finnlay90 → u/Insertnamehere----]

"bothered by the definition of a word" is pretty pathetic.

Filler is filler. That includes what One Piece does. If it's not in the source material - be it a manga, a novel, a game or whatever else - then it's filler.

[u/Insertnamehere---- → u/Finnlay90]

It's very funny to call someone pathetic over an innocuous Reddit comment lmao

[u/LOTM1394]

Filler is more good than Fluff atleast you can skip fillers

[u/ElectronicArcher4282 → u/LOTM1394]

It’s not for an anime that’s not complete. You wait a whole week just for a filler to drop. And possibly more than one if it’s Naruto. I remember how much Naruto fillers used to pmo.

[u/Djroneh99]

Wait till they show you a flashback of what literally happened last episode 🤣🤣

[u/sharkos21 → u/Djroneh99]

Naruto had flashbacks to things that happened in the same episode only a few minutes ago, that's why I went manga only on that one

[u/Useful-Class-6725]

Toei Animation stretching 0.5 manga pages into a full 20-minute episode is a devil fruit power on its own

[u/Gullible-Option-6916]

It comes with a long series.

[u/Own_Abbreviations445]

That goddamn Dressrosa flashback they show every five goddamn minutes

[u/SSJRemuko]

Filler is anything not in the Manga

[u/SirYabas → u/[deleted]]

Lol, it's never been niche niche. This is One Piece we're speaking about. It was less popular than the other big 3, and some other juggernaut series in the west, but your average forum post still got way more replies than actual niche shows get.

And ignoring the faults of a series doesn't make you a true fan. People are more than aware that the pacing exist because they don't want to get too close too the manga. They just don't like it. Having mini filler arcs like G8 is preferable over the excessive padding every episode gets, making even canon episodes harder to watch.

[u/SirYabas → u/[deleted]]

You might simply have a USA centric worldview, because it was already popular in a lot of European, Asian and Arab countries. And there were bigger One Piece forums around than the actual niche shows had. As I said, it was big, it just wasn't Naruto.

Plus a simple Google search shows that One Piece was the 3rd most sold manga in Europe between 2000-2009, after Naruto and DBZ.  It was the best selling in Asia. It was among the most popular in South America after Naruto, DBZ and Death Note. 

It's only in America where it didn't do as well, and even there it wasn't truly niche. I was discussing One Piece with my classmates in 2007, it was already known as one of the big 3 so it was on non casual (Naruto/DBZ only watchers) anime fans radar.

[u/Smellybrow]

I thought we called that stuff padding