[Sutibaru]

The beginning of Fist of the North Star anime series had a lot of filler episodes which were used in order to help create more budget for the series. If you watched the full thing through like me, you would notice some drastic differences in animation from episode to episode. If the episode was important, they would have a more expensive studio work on it. After that first hill of the series though which was dragged out with fillers (most of which could be skipped altogether), they followed the story with the manga nearly perfectly. It was a long series, but one of the few anime which had story and characters that I cared for.