Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-33545035-20191208124103/@comment-3279282-20191212211903

UltimaDude wrote: Seelentau wrote: See, but that's the problem: The anime precedes the manga content. It's like two straight lines that are just waiting to be connected (which will take place when the anime starts adapting the manga). So if you'd remove the anime, you'd remove content, in our case. So yes, the anime needs to be adapting something for filler to exist. If an anime starts out with adapting something else than the source material and never changes that, it's not filler. If it starts with adapting the source material and then creates new material so that the source material has more content to adapt, the new material is filler.

https://www.quora.com/What-does-a-filler-mean-in-anime

https://www.animefillerlist.com/

And no, I don't have a link to that tweet at hand. It should be somewhere in the Consensus Track board, I posted it. If the removed content doesn't change anything in the overall plot, then it's filler. The anime seems to be pumping out subpar plot-lines to allow to manga (where it takes the more significant plot-lines from) to have enough material to implement. TV shows use filler to give extra time for the more important episodes to be produced.

https://aminoapps.com/c/anime/page/blog/non-canon-vs-filler/mJtk_uBgNKV4jvBJvgqJw3pRo7kYN

Oh, alright

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.