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Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon
This was brought up a bit above, but you might also notice that even 1-cours original series tend to have filler episodes.
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The usual definition of "filler" is episodes that include additional made-for-TV material not in the adapted work. So, by definition, original series cannot have "filler." If, however, you mean extra episodes that do not move the story forward, then some shows fit that characterization like
Suisei no Gargantia with its two fanservice episodes in the middle. In contrast, pretty much every episode of
tsuritama,
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, or even the first season of
AKB0048 develop the plot and characters.
(I'm leaving out slice-of-life shows like
Showa Monogatari or
Hidamari Sketch for obvious reasons.)
On the other hand
Monster has 74 episodes, and none of them are filler by either definition. It just depends on how tightly the show is written. I don't think one can make blanket statements about length.