One Piece has successfully cultivated a massive worldwide following to the point of influencing everything from new series, to entire counter-cultural movements . But one of its biggest points of contention is how the anime has handled filler, its pacing, and which filler actually stays skippable. Its rivals like Naruto: Shippuden, love or hate its filler, don't have the same problem.

While it'd be hasty to trade One Piece's situation with the infamously frustrating Naruto filler approach, jamming in worthless interludes like a Mecha Luffy arc, it's worth appraising both series for what they do well in addition to what they do wrong. Naruto: Shippuden was a product of Pierrot's old era, and its bulky filler was a reasonable pacing solution.

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