Filler is a necessary evil to keep your favorite anime on the air long enough to tell the full story from its source manga. Masashi Kishimoto, artist and creator of the " Naruto " manga, worked insane hours to churn out compelling comics regularly. Still, given the low cost and efficient process for making anime, at some point a given series will probably get ahead of its source material. This is why long-running shows like "Naruto" and "Naruto Shippuden" create episodes that aren't canon and add little to nothing to the storyline.
Some are actually fun bits of entertainment, detailing epic battles. Some have bits that tie into the plot or add extra background to the main story. And some Luckily, there are some geniuses on Reddit to help you decide. Before we say anything else, the canon episodes of "Naruto Shippuden" are , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and These episodes are taken directly from the manga, centered on Naruto's progression toward achieving his destiny alongside his colleagues from Konoha and the other hidden villages, as well as his longstanding alliance with his original teammates Sakura and Sasuke.
This is the bildungsroman of Naruto as completed in "Naruto Shippuden. At the beginning, Naruto is a hated troublemaker; by the end, he's the world's savior.
If you want to watch the bare minimum of episodes, these are absolutely not to be missed. These are the filler episodes you can skip without losing any of the storyline: 28, , , , , , , , , , and Many of these episodes are standalones or mini-arcs with no relevance to the storyline, some flashbacks to young Naruto and his friends going on some silly, pointless adventure.
There's a drawn-out arc of Naruto and Yamato being seasick at some point, Naruto's clones turn on him as they head to Naruto's training with Killer B. One, Episode , only exists as a sort of advertisement for "Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie," and it should be added that none of the movies are canon, though they can be fun. These filler episodes add nothing to the story and, in general, aren't worth watching.
In fact, as some of these drag, on you'll often find yourself just wanting to jump forward to watching the canon episodes. These "Naruto Shippuden" episodes have good stories and introduce some cool new abilities. We see a Land of Fire monastery full of formidable fighters, and any ninja story with legendary fighting monks is always awesome. Just watch the old Shaw Brothers kung fu movies. Several Akatsuki members show their power in wiping out some extremely powerful monks to collect bounties on them, including one monk with a jutsu, the Welcoming Approach: Thousand-Armed Murder, that looks like later jutsu involving manifesting powerful larger beings.
Plus, these episodes present the idea that a warrior can possess some tailed-beast chakra and still get the benefits. The fact that part of a tailed beast's chakra can reside inside somebody and turn them into a partial jinchuriki, even giving that person a tailed-beast cloak, will come in to play later. Of course, everyone but Naruto can see through the act and Tsunade, want to teach the two a lesson. From fighting off blood-sucking leeches to caring for Tsunade's giant slug, the fake ninjas are pushed to their absolute limit while Naruto gleefully tackles every task as training, all the while blind to the obvious.
Seeing these two one-off characters being put through hell at every turn is funny enough to make viewing this one worth it. Robots aren't exactly the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions the Naruto franchise, but this two-part episode embraces it with reckless abandon.
Orochimaru creates a robotic replica of Naruto in order to steal the Nine-tails' chakra. Action and hilarity ensue. While the words "Mech-Naruto" sound absolutely ridiculous, these episodes combine comedy and insane action for an entertaining one-two punch. If you can believe it, there's even a Mecha-Kurama towards the end and a reference to Iron Man of all things. Shino has always been known as one of Naruto's stoic characters, almost losing his composure and perpetually being quiet and standoffish.
However, the episode "Laughing Shino" put him in an unfamiliar situation. While on yet another mission, Naruto and Shino have to stand in for a man during a funeral to make sure he doesn't laugh during it, losing his inheritance. However, Shino is poisoned by the client's greedy sister which sends him into a big laughing fit and forces Naruto to go it alone. This episode has a heavy focus on comedy, especially during the funeral scene where the guests make many attempts to get Naruto to laugh and each attempt getting more ridiculous than the last.
It also puts Shino outside of his comfort zone, who's forced to swallow his pride towards the end to save the day. While there is a lot of comedy focused fillers in Naruto's vast episode count, there are filler arcs that can be just as meaningful as the main story. In this batch of episodes, Naruto is haunted by nightmares of when he went berserk with the Nine-Tail's power and undergoes training to use a wind-style chakra technique.
Naruto and Team 8 go on a hunt for this special beetle. We also discover that Hinata was trying to learn a new defensive technique on her own and was getting close to mastering it.
There are some sweet Naruto and Hinata moments in the episode for those who like their relationship. The main reason to watch this fun episode of Naruto is because of the great Tsunade and Jiraiya scenes in addition to a lot of great moments for Shizune.
Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Naruto take a detour to help Tsunade go pay off some of her debts that could put her Hokage title at risk. The episode is humorous and for people who are big fans of Tsunade and Shizune, you'll get some great scenes between the two of them as Shizune goes to great lengths to protect Tsunade. In this episode, Jiraiya takes Sakura and Naruto on a new mission to help distract them from Sasuke's absence, although he does say that their mission will eventually bring them closer to the stray shinobi.
If you are a fan of Jiraiya, especially scenes with Naruto and Jiraiya, then you won't want to miss out on this arc. It's fun and has a lot of great moments between all three characters, including Jiraiya getting drunk with some of his old friends. When Naruto and Jiraiya first met, it was easy to see how much of a pervert Jiraiya was.
This episode stayed true to his character from the very beginning as Naruto stumbles upon Jiraiya flirting with two beautiful women. This filler had it all: a fast-paced chase scene taking place on land and on the water, a group of postmen versus Naruto's Harem Jutsu, and most importantly, a light-hearted episode of bonding between master and student.
This episode gave fans a taste of what those two years Naruto and Jiraiya spent training probably looked like. At least in Naruto, Shino never truly got a chance to show what he was capable of. That wasn't helped by the fact that he lacked emotional depth. That did however, make him the perfect stand-in for a funeral in which he would not be allowed to laugh.
After he falls victim to a laughing poison, Naruto takes his place, but it is revealed that the funeral was a farce, organized to teach a money-hungry family a lesson about enjoying the things that money can't buy.
Shino orders Naruto not to tell anyone about a song and dance he performed towards the end of this episode, but little does he know, it was all filler, and talking about it would clash with the manga a little too much. Sure, Naruto might be the only person in the Hidden Leaf with an anime named after him, but he wasn't always so deserving. They want to know what's under the covering.
As the episode unfolds, the kids come up with elaborate ways to uncover Kakashi's face as well as speculate about just what's covered up. Kakashi eventually takes pity on them and uncovers his face to reveal another mask underneath, much to his own amusement. It's one of the most amusing amongst the best of Naruto filler episodes. One filler arc after Sasuke defects from Konoha involves Naruto teaming up with Hinata, Shino, and Kiba to find a rare beetle that can detect Sasuke's scent. This particular episode lands in the middle of the arc and finally gives Hinata Hyuga her due.
Hinata is one of the shyest anime characters to ever exist. Her own anxieties tend to get the better of her despite how much training she puts in.
Here, Hinata perfects her very own new technique with the aid of her Byakugan and uses it to save Naruto, Kiba, and Shino. It's one of the few times she gets to show just how strong she really is. Which episode is worthwhile depends on just which character the audience member is most interested in.
That's because this arc is set during the time skip between the two Naruto series. The exams, however, are a joint effort by Suna and Konoha to lure out the Akatsuki. It allows all of Naruto's former classmates a chance to shine, brings back the Sand Siblings, and explores new dynamics as Sakura Haruno has to take her exams with Ino and Choji since they're down a teammate and she's down two.
This episode is set in the middle of a filler arc focusing on Kurenai Yuhi. The sensei of Team 8, Kurenai is mostly a background character - even when it's eventually revealed that she's pregnant with Asuma's child at the time of his death. This arc fleshes her out a bit, but she's still not a huge player in it.
Instead, this episode messes with the heads of Naruto and his friends as well as the viewer. When Naruto, Sakura, and Team 8 arrive in Konoha, they find their village destroyed. As it turns out, they're actually caught up in a massive genjutsu that envelopes the entire village. They have to find a way out to get to Kurenai. It's the first time the audience sees a genjutsu of this magnitude and it really sets the stage for the Infinite Tsukuyomi's effect in the final season.
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