The dreaded filler. That which keeps us from that which we want to see. Typically, filler is avoided, but One Piece sometimes has some pretty good filler, such as the G-8 arc, and I, personally, liked the Rainbow Mist arc.
I haven't watched the anime in a while, so I'm curious if the ice hunter arc is good or if I should just avoid it.
Also, what filler arcs were your favorite/least favorite? What were your favorite moments.
As for me, the Gomu Gomu no Dame Da still cracks me up. ^_^
Well, Icehunter starts out well, the middle is kind of so-so, but the final fight between Luffy and the Don is pretty good and more than makes up for the lackluster middle, and Blend and Capuccino's magnetism is fun to watch. Basically, if you can put up with Jiro, the most annoying filler kid yet, you'll do fine.
As for my favorite fillers…well G8 is the undisputed king, and Ocean's Dream had some interesting stuff to it, but it could've done a bit more with the memory loss concept. Loved the bit of foreshadowing of Robin wondering if she could be happy if her memories were erased at the very end though.
The Spa Island one was alright too. Short, well-animated, entertaining, filler kids not being annoying, fanservice, and Ryuusei Nakao. Can't go wrong.
If you liked Rainbow Mist, i think you'll enjoy the Icehunter arc. Personally, i can't stand Rainbow Mist. It's easily the worst portion of the anime imo.
I've never really considered the filler in One Piece to be bad. It helps that it tends to be short as well. And some filler could even be good. G8 is often totted as the best of One Piece filler, for good reasons (how I wished this was in the manga and the Davy Back Fight was the filler… although that arc had a lot of filler in it). The Ice Hunters arc is alright, and it touches on an interesting aspect of pirate life that isn't really touched on much in the series. And Don Achino was fairly cool with a really cool power. All in all, One Piece is one of those series that is blessed with decent filler material, to the point where it doesn't end up in brutally satrical fanart and on "how to screw up perfectly good anime" lists.
I heard there is coming filler arc again, somekind of slave-market thing. Internetz says you should not whatch that arc. You have been warned.
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I hated the Warship island filler it just sucked.There was the Zenny pirates and Rainbow mist fillers but i skiped em so i haven't really seen any good fillers of OP
I heard there is coming filler arc again, somekind of slave-market thing. Internetz says you should not whatch that arc. You have been warned.
That's sounds like the Sabaody Archipelgo arc. Which is very much not filler. There's probably going to be some filler intertwined with it, some lengthening of some parts, but it's not a filler arc. Despite what some people on YouTube think.
I heard there is coming filler arc again, somekind of slave-market thing. Internetz says you should not whatch that arc. You have been warned.
Gotta love Chinese whisper on the Youtube comments xD
A: There's a slave market arc coming up and it rocks!
B: There's a slave market arc coming up and it rocks. But there will probably be filler in it.
There's a slave market arc coming up and there will probably be filler in it.
There's a slave market arc coming up and there will be filler in it.
E: There's a slave market arc coming up and it will be filler.
F: There's a slave market arc coming up and it will be filler. Don't watch it, it sucks!
And so people miss one of the best (if not the best) Arcs of the entire story. =P
On topic: Apart from G8 no filler arc would really do it to me. Though most single episode fillers where nice. Lougetown being the best in that area.
G8 was great, Foxy filler is fun, Ocean's dream was pretty good, Ussop's goggles was okay, but everything else sucked, imo. Apis and Zenny most noticeably so.
In my opinion, G-8 hails as the best One Piece filler arc, with Ice Hunter right behind it.
The only one to me that was mind-numbingly horrible was Goat Island.
Hmmm… I had forgotten about the Zenny filler. Maybe because I was only able to watch half of it before I just skipped it.
I still think, fillers suck…
But if they appear, I like them to be specials of just one or two episodes that don't seem to be part of the story.
But from all the filler arcs so far, Admiral Nelson and the dragon-shit was worst, Icehunter quite ok and G8 the best.
Still, fillers suck...
I hust wait for a manga that skips one or two weeks releases just to keep in time with tha manga and not using fillers... But I guess the need to broadcast every week is just too strong to avoid the crap... Fillers just do suck...
G8 is the best filler so far , the worst filler in my mind is when they went to dragon island and helped that little girl to help the old dragon that arc sucked so much , foxy and ice hunter fillers were good.
The fillers aren't as good as they used to be if you ask me.
But, you might enjoy the recent filler with brook. I hadn't seen the anime in a long time either and when I saw it I was refilled with One piece joy. It was kinda magical too since I had been kinda depressed with recent turns of my life but after watching that episode I became extremely happy.
But they did kill the brook jokes by spamming 'em. And that's a big no no.
I personally like the G-8 arc and I also like some of the fillers where they added into the Davy Back Fight Arc. The one i hate the most is Rainbow Mist, all the kids and character in there look retarded and the story really doesn't make much sense, like why the hell the marine never go to this island.
Never thought I'd actually consider a filler good but I have to admit that episode 384 really is awesome. It gives us a insight on the daily routine of the Strawhats when they are not involved in any big adventures. And the most important part is that nothing strikes as out of character here. Good episode which watched several times already.
Other than that, every and I mean EVERY other filler can go to hell.
Okay, I was about to reply properly to this thread but now I am confused.. Is the whole Davy Back arc filler or NOT filler? Because some say it is and others don't, and I haven't read that far back into the manga to know otherwise (started at Enis Lobby). Because my comment was going to be that Davy Back trumps ALL the other filler –-EXCEPT the Oyabun specials, those rock. I almost died laughing the first time I saw those because it was just too awesome, and I cracked up every time I saw a new one because of the characters they add each time (the pandaman one was kinda weak, though..). The last one with Foxy is my favorite, I watch it every time I'm in a funk. That and CHOPPERMAN. MUST have some more Chopperman episodes, that was made of adorable omake win.
But yeah, is Davy Back filler or not filler? I must know please. Thank you ^^
EDIT: Also the 'memory' filler can die painfully.. they could have done SO much more with that one but it was terribly weak. XP And the only reason I really hate the Rainbow Mist arc was because (after I had already seen it subbed) my friend decided that was a good episode for her to watch in 4Crap, because she had never heard the voices. I had to mute it after 2 minutes (it had to be 2 because she wanted to hear ALL the voices) and I never liked that arc again, sadly. Hell, I'm surprised I liked filler after that. Yay for Funimation is all I can say.
The concept of the Davey Back Fight by itself is not a filler because it happened in the manga. What might appear confusing to you is that people say that even in the manga it came across as filler arc because plot wise it followed a different path then all the previous arcs. This statement however is crap since One Piece is an adventure manga and adventure does not equal epic fight arcs. Epic fights can be one adventure but a sports tournament arc can be an adventure too. Some people are too ignorant to realize that and think that their One Piece just has to be Luffy kicking the ass of some villain who's terrorizing locals somewhere. So in short, the Davey Back Fight as it is in the manga is canon as anything else is.
The anime on the other hand has stretched the Davey Back Fight ridiculously by including additional (filler) games and totally butchering the development of which crewmates get taken. In the manga there's only the Doughnut Race (in which only Nami, Usopp and Robin are involved), the Groggy Ring and the Fight between Luffy and Foxy. The entire crap with the roller skates, dodge ball or the red light green light crap is filler crap.
Of course that means that in the manga first Chopper got taken by Foxy after the first game, then Luffy took him back after the second game and after the final game Luffy just took the Flag of the Foxy Pirates. The entire bullcrack with losing Chopper, taking Cherrie then first and Chopper second and then losing Chopper again, afterwards Robin only to reclaim them with almost 500 other crewmembers of the Foxy Pirates is filler crap. Hope that helps.
Ah. That makes SO much more sense to me now… I thought it seemed kinda lame that they kept stretching out trading Chopper and Robin and all that. Plus it explains why that "Daruma-San Ga Koronda" felt really out of place (red light, green light). But I'm glad that Afro Luffy wasn't part of the filler, that was completely WIN.
And funny as I write this 'Kokoro no Chizu' plays on my itunes. Great, now I have to go watch freakin' Davy back. sigh I wish I had the Donut Race part, I only have the fight starting with Groggy Ring (thank goodness, that was my favorite next to the Foxy Fight). But yeah, thanks for clearing that up for me. ^^ Gotta watch Sanji with a ball on his head now.
I suggest reading the Donut Race since that's something totally butchered in the anime. In the manga it is only Nami, Usopp and Robin that enter the race while in the anime everyone joins with their own "boats". The Groggy Ring and the final duel however are mostly true to the manga so you can stick with the anime there. The Donut Race starts as this chapter if you're interested in reading it. 
Best Fillers: G8, Rainbow Mist, The ones in which they lose memories and the Brook one.
Worst Fillers: Zenny and Apis, Zenny because the concept sucked, and Apis because it was just too damn long with the concept it had.
Everything else is "Meh"
Personally, I didn't mind to watch OP fillers. It's watchable!! not like a certain anime's filler which is so totally out of place and tiring <_<
I always think that it's just like any other SH's adventure that's not made in the manga. Though, I must admit, there's some that I like, and some that I don't
fillers that I like: G8, Memory filler (a little weak at the end though), Bounty Hunter/ Ice or whatever it's named XD (a little weak at the middle), a Robin/Chopper filler after Alabasta, Zoro do babysitting filler in W7 revisiting arc (soo cute!! <3)
fillers that I don't like: the DBF filler, oh why they have to ruined it?? >_< (exept the skating part though, that's kinda cool XD), the Foxy one (felt really pushed)
other fillers are okay for me. I didn't watch Apis though, and judging from others opinion, I won't even bother to watch it XD
With the exception of G8, the longer a filler arc seems to go the worse it gets.
Icehunters kind of breaks this trend too though.
So the two longest filler arcs contradict what you're saying?
G8, the Robin/Chopper one after Alabasta, and the Brook one are the best.
So the two longest filler arcs contradict what you're saying?
Well… yes.
Post Alabasta episodes were individual episodes and were decent.
Goat Island was three episodes and sucked.
Rainbow Mist was four episodes and sucked.
Apis was seven episodes and sucked.
G8 was 11 episodes and rocked.
IceHunters was nine episodes and rocked slightly less.
Maybe there's a peak of episode length before quality starts coming back.
"And _One Piece is a great title. We feel we needed to do the
more authentic dub that's exactly like the Japanese version."_
Well… yes.
Post Alabasta episodes were individual episodes and were decent.
Goat Island was three episodes and sucked.
Rainbow Mist was four episodes and sucked.
Apis was seven episodes and sucked.G8 was 11 episodes and rocked.
IceHunters was nine episodes and rocked slightly less.Maybe there's a peak of episode length before quality starts coming back.
So 11 episodes of goat-fucker would have rocked?
I think the quality of fillers is more determined by:
1. Does it fit into the anime or does it interrupt it?
2. Who is in the center of the filler? Strawhats or filler kids?
3. Is the comedy up to Odas standards or not?
4. Does it screw the rule of Odaverse or not?
Apis: 1. Hell no 2. Kiddo 3. No way 4. Yes
→ Damn it!
Goatfucker: 1. fits 2. Filler gramp 3. Nope 4. No
→ Kinda bad
Rainbow Mist: 1. fits 2. whole bunch of 'em 3. No 4. time travel and different dimensions?
→ Next to worst
Foxy Round 2: 1. i was happy it is over and than it started again 
2. Strawhats 3. Yes 4. No, or yes? Two Zoros?
→ Good
G8: 1. fits, 2. Sh, 3. Up to, 4. No
→ Awesome
Oceans dream: 1. No (W7 belongs directly after Aokiji) 2. Sh 3. Not really 4. A bit
→ So-So
Icehunter: 1. fits 2. 50-50 (fights without them) 3. No 4. No
→ Mediocre
Spa Island: 1.fits 2.kids. 3. comedy? 4. no
→ So-So again
Ps: OpenOffice spelling proposal for Odaverse: Oversexed 
@ m00n:
Actually almost all fillers screw up the Odaverse. You see, in the Oda-verse every several Grand Line island was somehow special. Special in design and in terms of events. And this fits actually the hype the GL received back then at East Blue. However the goat, rainbow mist or memory thief arcs all have shown totally generic islands with nothing unique that lives up to Oda's portrayal of the Grand Line.
An exception would be the G8 base on the island of Navarone. It's not far fatched to expect that the Marine has several bases scattered over the Grand Line. Heck, in Ace's cover story there was even such a base called G2 so the concept of G8 definitely doesn't mess around with it. And of course the Brook filler (ep 384) doesn't screw around since it's just a day at sea. The recration resort that took place right before this episode however does screw around with the Oda-verse again, since we already have a Vacation Island and because having such a resort close to Sabaody is kinda redundant.
Good: G8
Decent: Ice Hunter
Bad: everything else
Actually almost all fillers screw up the Odaverse….
Okay I never though a second about the islands. For me screwing with Odaverse is something that was stated otherwise in the manga or is totally out of place in One Piece in general. Like the time travel thing @ Rainbowmyst. I guess I didn't notice because there where normal islands in the East Blue. It's the first time I hear someone complaining about the filler islands btw. You are right of course, but most ppl. don't seem to notice, like me.
I also think the G8 fillers are the best out of all the fillers.. Spa Island was ok too.
Worst? I stopped watching One Piece for about 6 months because of episodes 318 "The Mother is Strong! Zoro's Slapstick Housework Help" and 319 "Sanji Crashes! The Mysterious Old Man and Intense Cooking" in the Post Enies Lobby Arc.
I can usually stand the One Piece fillers (I watched Apis and survived), I watched these two episodes and it took me an entire night to finish them (I kept stopping in between and I nearly fell asleep).
I hope they don't EVER torment me like that again.
I have a confession.
I think I enjoyed Goat Island.
YOU HEARD ME
And when this manga closes out, and Luffy's arm stretches back to deliver that last punch, I wanna feel the crunch of the dream coming true.
@dirt:
I have a confession.
I think I enjoyed Goat Island.
YOU HEARD ME
Le Gasp
16/4 gears
Actually, I agree with AoKiji, every island needed to be special, if they are just usual islands, and not dangerous, what's the point in having Grand Line "Oh, so dangerous"?
I don't stand fillers a lot, they're just… there, I don't consider them cannon, and I know they're not part of the story, so who cares?
@dirt:
I have a confession.
I think I enjoyed Goat Island.
YOU HEARD ME
Sticks and stones!
Throw 'em all!
I though the Spa Island sucked…. It started off with good promise too.
Okay I never though a second about the islands. For me screwing with Odaverse is something that was stated otherwise in the manga or is totally out of place in One Piece in general. Like the time travel thing @ Rainbowmyst. I guess I didn't notice because there where normal islands in the East Blue. It's the first time I hear someone complaining about the filler islands btw. You are right of course, but most ppl. don't seem to notice, like me.
Well, can't blame you. Depends on ones personal preferences about One Piece. Too me the designs of the world itself makes much of the OP flair. That's why those filler islands really are tough to swallow for me. I have no problems with the islands in the Apis filler since East Blue doesn't strike with anything but generic islands. That doesn't mean thought that I like the Apis arc.
But the simple truth is that Fillers are going to exist in any anime series adapting from a manga that's still in production.
That being said, G8 and Icehunter arcs, in my opinion, were good. Admittedly, I was on the 4Kids train up until Jaya, so I missed the vast majority of filler as well as Little Garden (which means I have to go back and re-watch Little Garden and the other stuff). But all and all, those were the only genuine arcs I liked. As for Spa Island, the only reason I enjoyed it even slightly was because Brook was in it and that novelty was enough, especially when he was shown in a suit reminiscent of the main protagonist of Kill Bill.
Also, there are also good filler in other anime as well, which I feel should be noted regardless of this being a One Piece discussion. The Bount Arc from Bleach should be mentioned as it is pretty much the G8 Arc of One Piece in terms of quality. It was fleshed out to be a full-fledged arc and it was so similar to canon, I actually thought it was a canon arc until someone pointed out that it wasn't.
Anyway… I'm done. Sorry for making you listen to the ramblings of some random person.
The sad thing about the Bount arc from Bleach
is that it's better than the canon arc that followed it
@Hakuro:
But the simple truth is that Fillers are going to exist in any anime series adapting from a manga that's still in production.
I'm having no problems with the general idea behind fillers. In fact, I'm even a strong supporter of them from that point of view. I mean sure, if there's some out of character moments etc. I'd be a bit wtf? but I'd accept it if it is just fillers.
BUT the thing I really do despise about how fillers are handled is how they often rape canon stuff. I mean the Apis Arc takes place right after Loguetown, which had the classic let's set sail for the Grand Line ending. And out of a sudden it's like "no wait, we still can't go at all". Why not just placing it between Arlong and Loguetown? Or just think how much the DBF got totally changed because of the filler. If fillers can be stand alone complexes like the movies and the specials then I'm all in for fillers. But connecting them with canon just sucks ass. Simple as that.
The sad thing about the Bount arc from Bleach
is that it's better than the canon arc that followed it
Nope, the sad thing about that filler is that those three retarded modsouls appear to be a permanent cast eversince.
I agree about Apis being terrible. I probably won't even buy Funi's Season 2 Voyage 1 because 7 of the 14 episodes are fucking Apis ("boo @ you!!! support Funi" yeah, I have, by buying all the boxes of season 1).
However, I actually liked the extra DBF, and because I saw that in the anime before reading the manga, I didn't actually know it was filler.
:blink:
I'd have to say that the best filler arc I've ever seen was Zoro's flashback to when he first met Jonny and Yosaku.
It allowed us to imagine Zoro's life before joining Luffy, and helped establish the relationship between the Zoro and the two bounty hunters.
I enjoyed the cover story filler arcs (like Buggy's and Coby's) also.
G8 was the only long filler that I liked. The rest were seemed to drag on forever and it was a pain to watch when you already knew the outcome of it anyway.
Ice hunters was definitely my least favourite filler.
For some reason, I really like Episode 131, especially with Chopper being afraid of Robin.
I love all the Foxy filler. I can't get enough of Foxy, Porche, and Hamburg. So fun.
I enjoyed the Loguetown added stuff, and some other fillers here and there. I liked G8 also. Granted, some of the filler has been bland, but overall I'd say One Piece has some of the better anime-only episodes out there.
My favorite was the filler with the bounty hunters. The ones that stole the flags of the pirates they captured. I LOVED when Luffy found out that their flag was taken and how they fixed it to look like nothing happened. Pure comedy. Even zoro and sanji agreed on something for once!
In my case I've read all the manga up to this point then watch it as it comes out and I feel I've already read this so there's nothing to be surprised at. So when it comes to filler I feel I've getting to explore new aspects and just enjoy a bonus. Don't know why everyone else can't share my optimism.
I love OP in its entirety but here are my favorite filler arcs.
Favorite 5 Filler:
I usually enjoy One Piece filler more than most filler, but there are some boring ones.
The three really bad filler episodes in the Post-Enies Lobby arc come to mind. The ones where Luffy helps a kid, Zoro helps an orphanage, and Sanji finds out about some cooking stuff. Plus that was especially rough, since you have to wait until after those three episodes to see what happens with Usopp.
I was wondering though, those three filler episodes had very little Nami and Robin. How come filler doesn't focus on them? I wouldn't complain about a Nami and Robin slumber party filler episode.
@Psycho_Kenshin:
I wouldn't complain about a Nami and Robin slumber party filler episode.
It would just be 20 minutes of Robin reading books and study archeological objects and Nami counting money. Robin would get up to make coffee and Nami would hide her money in a safe place when Robin left the room with nothing else.
That would be the most boring filler episode to date.
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It would just be 20 minutes of Robin reading books and study archeological objects and Nami counting money. Robin would get up to make coffee and Nami would hide her money in a safe place when Robin left the room with nothing else.
That would be the most boring filler episode to date.
True. But imagine if they did all that naked ;D
It would just be 20 minutes of Robin reading books and study archeological objects and Nami counting money. Robin would get up to make coffee and Nami would hide her money in a safe place when Robin left the room with nothing else.
That would be the most boring filler episode to date.
C'mon, you know Nami would start a pillowfight at some point. I demand more Nami and Robin in my filler episodes. 
True. But imagine if they did all that naked ;D
Exactly.
True. But imagine if they did all that naked ;D
Even better, Nami drains the water from the fish tank in the sitting room, pours all her beri in there and swims naked through it like Uncle Scrooge from Ducktales, without the feather, tophat, clothes, and Scotish accent.
