Rant: the guy at the Columbus anime club meetup in 2019 ruined filler arcs for me in the best way
I was complaining about a 40 episode filler stretch in a long shonen at the meetup on High Street, and this guy Marcus just asked me why I was watching something I clearly hated. He pulled up a fan edit guide on his phone and showed me exactly which episodes to skip, and it cut the show down to 12 hours. Now I check episode guides before I start any long series, and I've saved probably 30 hours since. Does anyone else have a friend who is weirdly good at knowing which episodes are skippable, or is that just a Marcus thing?
Wait, people actually watch filler arcs on purpose? I thought we all just suffered through them because we didn't know any better. My own method is to just google "does this episode matter" every single time and then spend 20 minutes reading spoiler filled threads before I even press play, so I've probably wasted more time than the filler itself. Marcus sounds like a hero though, send that guy to every anime club in the country.