Some fans feel Naruto and Bleach didn’t age very well as anime.
Both had a ton of filler episodes.
We don’t see fillers in modern anime that often, which makes these two classics even more jarring to watch.
The Big Three refers to the three manga that consistently held the top 3 spots in the popularity polls of Weekly Shounen Jump during most of their publishing time. They are, of course, One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach.
These three are considered iconic in both manga and anime form — although some fans nowadays argue that the adaptations of Bleach and Naruto didn’t stand the test of time.
Naruto and Bleach Had a Lot of Fillers
In a sense, Naruto and Bleach have more in common with each other than with One Piece. For starters, the One Piece manga is still coming out — both Naruto and Bleach have been finished for years (Boruto doesn’t count).
Moreover, they’ve been adapted by the same studio — Pierrot — while One Piece was adapted by Toei Animation. As such, they had the same approach to the adaptation, which differs from that of One Piece.
Specifically, the approach is to add filler episodes whenever the anime gets close to the source material. As the series was a long-runner, it had to keep lagging behind the manga so that there would always be content to adapt.
Roughly 40% of both Naruto and Bleach are filler — the most notorious part being the hundred or so filler episodes at the end of the original Naruto series, before Shippuden.
In comparison, One Piece, at some point, has a lot of recaps and extended openings, which reduces the amount of actual content in the episode. Still, fans believe this is a better approach — you can just skip that part. For fillers, you would usually have to look up online guides to see what to skip.
Fillers Are Rarely a Thing Anymore
In modern anime, especially battle shounen, fillers are practically non-existent. Their use upset fans a lot, and anime studios learned from their mistakes and don’t do that anymore.
Well, Boruto exists, but the anime and manga are closer to parallel stories, with the anime changing a lot of things. That, however, also means that the Naruto and Bleach anime might not be good by today’s standards.
People aren’t really asking for remakes of these two series — they are way too iconic. The current season of Bleach is still airing, too, and has a very favorable reception (partly coming from the lack of ever-present filler episodes).
It’s fine to like them, but if you go into them, don’t expect the modern experience — they might take a lot of your time to get to the actual point.
More specifically, their anime did not.
Summary:
Some fans feel Naruto and Bleach didn’t age very well as anime.
Both had a ton of filler episodes.
We don’t see fillers in modern anime that often, which makes these two classics even more jarring to watch.
The Big Three refers to the three manga that consistently held the top 3 spots in the popularity polls of Weekly Shounen Jump during most of their publishing time. They are, of course, One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach.
These three are considered iconic in both manga and anime form — although some fans nowadays argue that the adaptations of Bleach and Naruto didn’t stand the test of time.
Naruto and Bleach Had a Lot of Fillers
In a sense, Naruto and Bleach have more in common with each other than with One Piece. For starters, the One Piece manga is still coming out — both Naruto and Bleach have been finished for years (Boruto doesn’t count).
Moreover, they’ve been adapted by the same studio — Pierrot — while One Piece was adapted by Toei Animation. As such, they had the same approach to the adaptation, which differs from that of One Piece.
Specifically, the approach is to add filler episodes whenever the anime gets close to the source material. As the series was a long-runner, it had to keep lagging behind the manga so that there would always be content to adapt.
Roughly 40% of both Naruto and Bleach are filler — the most notorious part being the hundred or so filler episodes at the end of the original Naruto series, before Shippuden.
In comparison, One Piece, at some point, has a lot of recaps and extended openings, which reduces the amount of actual content in the episode. Still, fans believe this is a better approach — you can just skip that part. For fillers, you would usually have to look up online guides to see what to skip.
Fillers Are Rarely a Thing Anymore
In modern anime, especially battle shounen, fillers are practically non-existent. Their use upset fans a lot, and anime studios learned from their mistakes and don’t do that anymore.
Well, Boruto exists, but the anime and manga are closer to parallel stories, with the anime changing a lot of things. That, however, also means that the Naruto and Bleach anime might not be good by today’s standards.
People aren’t really asking for remakes of these two series — they are way too iconic. The current season of Bleach is still airing, too, and has a very favorable reception (partly coming from the lack of ever-present filler episodes).
It’s fine to like them, but if you go into them, don’t expect the modern experience — they might take a lot of your time to get to the actual point.
