Naruto Filler Crap

Alright, is anyone else enjoying the translated, but not quite dubbed, versions of the Japanese anime, Naruto, really really disappointed? It seems like the anime is seeing a hard time on both Japanese and American shores. As I've voiced here before, the American dub is horribly acted. It's either crappy voice talent or crappy producing. I mean, Naruto sounds like some 13 year old lesbian. Please!

What's really pissing off loyal Naruto fans is that the manga is so damn good. It's risen to be the number one manga on American shores withOUT any advertising whatsoever. That's no small feat, ichiban.

For those of you unfamiliar with a filler episode, let me fill you in. Once the anime catches up with the manga, they begin to produce 'filler' episodes to give the manga time to move ahead. This is why you'll notice that a lot of anime episodes stretch out forever that which took one or two issues in the manga to cover. The stories end up getting butchered, and new, crappy as hell, characters emerge and are killed off in one or two episodes. That way there is no impact on the main storyline. Lame as Hell!

The theory behind the filler episodes is that people will lose interest if the show goes off the air for 6 weeks while new content is being developed, and never get picked back up. I think they should just do a two hour special that sticks strictly to the manga once a year. Put a lot of production into it. Make it look great, instead of crapping out on the animation and reusing all sorts of shit from earlier episodes. I was watching one where 15 seconds of animation was lifted directly from the main series.