General Anime/Manga/Otaku Thread

[Psychospacecow]

It's the stuff place in the anime to fill up the space the manga does not cover. Exmple: The bount arc in bleach was never apart of the manga and was made so the manga could make more chapters to make into anime episodes. Some animes skip filler and make up the story along the way when they run out of material. Full Metal Alchemist did this before the reboot.

Out of all the words I have seen misused, filler tends to be one that I see on many anime forums.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Filler

If you want to know what a filler is, try out the TVTropes page as it explains it better than me. FMA did not have filler (minus the one Armstrong episode with his sister which was hilarious) because all of the events after the deviation from the original manga still contributed heavily to the plot and the theme that the show itself was trying to set up and get across.

I actually like FMA because it made it's own story so well. Most Animes ether stop to have the story pick up in the manga, or make up really bad stories to have the story continue. I will say that at some points the story does not make since but I would like for you to tell me one series that does not have bad points every once in a wile.
I stopped watching Bleach cause the fillers became stupid, like that princess filler I did not care about. I'm not sure why I stopped watching FMA:B. Need to pick that up. Is it Good? I can't remember.

Oh yeah, I love the the 2003 version and Brotherhood, more so around the same now. As for Brotherhood, the biggest problem with the show lies within the first thirteen episodes (the episodes the original anime showed before deviating from the source material). In those thirteen episodes, there were pacing problems like whoa and they tried to insert comedy in scenes that trully did not need them, which killed some of the tension for a couple of them. After they introduce Ling though, the show becomes really engaging and is MUCH better.

@Ghost Nappa - The only one to become semi popular is High School of the Dead. That being said, I wouldn't really recommend it unless you just want campy fun. If you don't have a problem with stale/cliched characters and an excessive amount of fanservice, then go for it.

and when I mean excessive, it can get reeeeeeallly stupid -

From what I can see, it's basically light hentai.

Don't be mistaken. It is indeed very perverted but it has an excellent story dealing with the struggles of these people as they try to go about their lives, merely trying to survive. The reason you would likely perceive it as such actually is that the artist for the anime and its manga is actually a hentai artist. Oh, by the way kids on the site, don't you dare look up hentai. You're far too young to have your childhood destroyed. Its all you've got!

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I've been playing some zombie games and I've been wondering if there's an anime with a zombie apocalypse. I haven't heard of any and I'm too lazy to search for one.

High School of the Dead is a good boob anime, I mean zombie anime.