Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-33545035-20191208124103/@comment-24824859-20191214030328

Seelentau wrote: But the anime is part of the overall plot. There's a glaring difference between the Boruto anime and those shitty fillers from Naruto: The latter were sandwiched in-between adapted source material. That's not the case with the Boruto anime, because there's no space (between two parts of adapted material) to fill in.

You can think of it like a story before the story. The anime is the exact same storyline as the manga, it just started at an earlier point on the timeline. The argument of "Filler is material that doesn't develop the story or characters" doesn't make sense because the anime does develop both story and characters.

Now, if someday the anime begins to adapt the manga and then adds non-manga material, THAT would indeed be filler. But as long as the anime isn't adapting the manga, the anime-story is simply not used to allow for the manga's plot to advance.

Like, I don't know how else to word it. There's no space for the anime to fill in.

But I agree on one thing with that website: The fans have no clue of canon and filler. To most, filler means non-canon. I'm not saying that the anime doesn't have an overall plot, but if certain episodes don't add anything to the overall plot of the anime, then it can be considered filler. Filler doesn't just have to be used to allow the manga to have more material, it can also be used to give the other writers more time to work on more important episodes that don't even have manga material.

David presents a good argument on why some episodes of the anime can be considered filler (not non-canon, mind you).

I understand what you are saying, but there are episodes of the anime that can be said are completely inconsequential to the overall plot that the anime presents. The main argument is if they are relevant to the plot or not, which is an argument I don't feel like having

I no longer feel like talking about this anymore, but really enjoyed discussing with you, Seel [insert cringy smiley emoji]. I apologize if I appeared to be stubborn. Oh yeah, when you're quoting, make sure not to pyramid quote.