Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31524712-20181013103752/@comment-37117761-20181019215441

Nipasu wrote: Filler episodes may not help the plot, but they do aid in fleshing out the characters; adding development and even expanding on their home life. (Which, to me at least, is a nice thing to see.)

Also there's one edit you forgot from the Smile dub: The girls' school trip to Kyoto and Osaka was switched to an 'Asian Pacific Expo', with all the things they see and visit viewed as 'reconstructions'. You're right about it sucking that filler was removed. Smile isn't a very plot-heavy show, anyway; its strength is in its filler. Also, I didn't consider the Asia-Pacific Expo to be a plot change. Sure, it was a big edit, but everything that happened there was the same as the original.

I'm not saying these edits are good; I'm just saying they aren't plot related.