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Originally Posted by janipani
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Anime filler writers problem is follows. They love status quo and hate character growth, they love certain episode guidelines, hate long-term storytelling and nyances and tips to audience.
They don't take funny series seriously or audience seriously. If they need filling, they make Luffy weak, slow, more dumb and in contrast enemy more durable, more numerous and anything that makes episodes last longer.
They think, that everything is fine as long as certain episode guidelines are met, certain shounen cliches have recycled and routines done.
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However that all just looked made up and ridiculous, we all know what they are doing. This kind of brain farts are written usually for some "pokemon"-type animes, which are nothing more than stories to sell toys, so the script is just a load of s*t.
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Don't blame filler scenarists for the hard job they have to make: write a good arc with limited budget (it's a filler) and no change to any characteristic to any character or plot past and yet to come.
Because, yes, even the mangaka doesn't always know what will happen to his own world in a year or two. Or even in a few weeks...
To prevent any plothole, there's only one way: statu quo. But since you need some novelty: add characters of your own, and be sure they will never show up again (so they won't alter the manga plotline by their sole existence).
That's why fillers are so shitty. It's not the writers' fault, only the constraints of telling a story about a story being told.
The sad part with One Piece is, they could make fillers even better: put aside the main characters, and write about adventures/daily lifes of side-characters. We already get some hintsights of those through the manga covers, and we could easily expand them.
But strangely, it rarely happens.