User blog comment:Ninja-Sensei/Episode 187: Change, review and commentary/@comment-173.66.184.250-20140624010337/@comment-4829046-20140625105452

Nah anime in general aren't faithful to the source 100%, otherwise it would be the same product. Some anime are great and amazing even if they don't follow the original source material to the letter but FT isn't one of those. What matters is whether the anime sucks by itself. And some of the useless and pathetic fillers were evidence of it. I didn't even read about 300+ chapters of Bleach before I caught up to the anime back when it was still airing but that didn't stop me from severely hating on the randomly placed fillers. Same with Naruto Shippuden. I know those that don't touch the manga but still find the anime to be a pile of crap at every filler.

And OS plotholes? Forget that, the fact that Legion and the giant clock fish even existed was a problem.

While it is true that anime don't HAVE to be faithful, there are REASONS why the original even got an anime in the first place. It doesn't work if you take away those reasons that made the original so good and popular. Now granted, some things are more important than others, but that doesn't mean the others are unimportant. I was eagerly anticipating many scenes and events in anime adaptations but they never freaking happened. I was so betrayed. I understand they have issues putting it all, but damn that was still important to fill up plotholes. In SnK's(Attack on Titan) case, they literally ended with a giant hole left unexplained and unchecked.