| Recaps are worse, a waste of time and money. Depending on the filler, filler plotlines can be interesting and / or entertaining in their own right. |
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| recaps probably. Some fillers can end up being enjoyable |
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| filler episodes are shit, personally I much rather a show have a recap over a filler |
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| Recap episodes. Sometimes fillers can be genuinely fun like in beelzebub, but recap episode are boring. |
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| Sometimes they make a mixed episode which is mostly recaps but also contains very important new scene or voice-over information. To discover this decent crumb you must suffer through a lot of pointless repetition. I hate those types of episodes the most, since you don't know in advance should you skip it or not. I mean nowadays those which are full recap episodes are marked with .5 but in the past there wasn't such thing. |
alshuSep 2, 2021 12:58 AM
| Recap episodes are worse. Filler episodes can be great (Gintama excels in this or DBZ Piccolo driving car). Recaps have little to no new scenes. |
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| Definitely recap episodes, filler episodes at least have a chance of being enjoyable. Recap episodes are just boring every time. |
| Recaps.If you love the characters then filler can be enjoyable. |
| Recap episodes can be useful if you've stopped watching an anime or put in on hold for a long time.... filler episodes on the other hand are completely useless waste of time and sometimes you'll see a lot of characters acting out of character because whoever is writing the filler arc isn't the same as the person writing the canon story |
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| Filler episodes. I don't mind watching recap episodes with my smol brain. If I already know what's going on I'd just skip |
| Recap episodes they are worse for me |
| While rare, there are some good filler(G-8). But through all the anime I’ve seen the only good recap was from Kill la Kill, and that’s just cause they crammed half the whole series in a single minute before the opening song. |
| Recaps are an absolute time waste. My memory is pretty decent when it comes to remembering fictional media (though i do tent to forget more "important" life aspects) and at least fillers are trying to tell a new story, as shit as they almost always are. |
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| fillers mess with pace of the show and the character development. so fillers are worse. but if the recaps are lengthy, recaps are terrible too |
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| I like watching Naruto fillers, while I eat ramen or when I want to watch some Naruto but not restart the whole show. But, honestly those fillers could probably have been compiled into a separate OVA series instead of sometimes interrupting the flow of the show. |
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| Can't believe filler isn't winning this. I guess if you're watching an airing show recaps might be worse, but as someone who only watch finished shows recaps are definitely better because I can just skip them without worrying that I might have missed something. |
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| Filler because holy crap they can be a headache to avoid. recaps are still kind of fun and are avoidable |
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| Both sucks. While filler episodes can have a potential to be good and contribute to the story it can also be very bad as it only protect franchises from running out of material to ensure your favorite shows doesn't go on hiatus. And recap episodes, especially for long running shows will begin their recap to refresh memories of the viewers. Nothing bad about it, but lengthy recap that sometimes takes 2 or more episodes are the worst. It's like waiting for 2 or more weeks to watch the next episode of an ongoing show for nothing. |
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| recaps are worse because at least fillers can be entertaining and not every single episode as to be related to the main plot. I like about 80% of fillers I've watched compared to skipping most recap episodes. |
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| Recapitulations are boring. Sometimes they show what happened just on the last part of the previous episode, and they stretch it to 23 minutes. Fillers can be boring, but some can be good. |
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| In my opinion, fillers are much worse. |
| I dunno what most of y'all who voted are smoking, but to me fillers are infinitely worse than recaps. At least recap episodes only pop up once and then you don't have to see another one for a long while; plus they can actually be useful if you've been away from the series for some time and need a quick refresher. Filler episodes, on the other hand, can stretch all the way to entire arcs in the worst cases, like Naruto or Bleach. And most of the time, they're agonizing to sit through since they're never allowed to move the story or the characters forward in any meaningful way or make any permanent changes to the "status quo". I legit can't recall if Bleach even had recap Eps. in the first place, and if it did there must have been only a handful of them at most... but boy am I painfully aware of all the hours of my life I wasted sitting through the 160+ filler Eps. it had. Man seriously, fuck the Bount filler arc; 50 straight episodes of pure torturous garbage. I'd happily sit through like 20 episodes of consecutive recaps before even considering touching that shit again. |
OrororurandoSep 3, 2021 4:33 PM
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