Anime Filler,
Visualized.
We added up every episode in our database — 5,414 of them, across 16 shows — to show exactly how much of your watch list is canon, and how much is fluff.
The Site, in One Donut
If you pressed play on every episode in our database, just 24.7% of your screen time would be filler. That's 575h you could skip — about 24 days of TV nobody asked for.
- Canon 3,546
- Mixed 277
- Anime Canon 253
- Filler 1,338
The Filler Leaderboard
Every show on the site, ranked by how much of its run is anime-original padding. Click any row to see the full filler list.
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Detective Conan47%1,201 ep 565 filler 1 anime canon - 2
Bleach45%366 ep 163 filler 41 mixed - 3
Naruto41%220 ep 90 filler 56 mixed - 4
Naruto Shippuden41%500 ep 204 filler 64 mixed - 5
Fairy Tail19%328 ep 61 filler 11 mixed 2 anime canon - 6
Inuyasha18%193 ep 35 filler 17 mixed - 7
Dragon Ball14%153 ep 21 filler 3 mixed - 8
Dragon Ball Z13%291 ep 38 filler 9 mixed - 9
Dragon Ball Super11%131 ep 14 filler 3 mixed 15 anime canon - 10
Black Clover11%170 ep 18 filler 7 mixed 21 anime canon - 11
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations10%293 ep 28 filler 12 mixed 179 anime canon - 12
One Piece8%1,162 ep 94 filler 43 mixed 21 anime canon - 13
My Hero Academia2%170 ep 4 filler 5 mixed 1 anime canon - 14
Soul Eater2%51 ep 1 filler 1 mixed 13 anime canon - 15
Hunter × Hunter1%148 ep 2 filler 1 mixed - 16
Death Note0%37 ep 0 filler 4 mixed
Bar length is each show's filler% relative to the highest filler% in the chart.
Hours You'd Save
Each bar is the runtime of every filler episode in that show, added up. Skip them all and you keep 575 hours of your life.
Is Filler Actually Worse?
Average IMDb rating of canon episodes vs filler episodes, for the 12 shows with rated filler. 10 out of 12 confirm what fans already suspect — filler is the dip.
Filler-Free Royalty
5% filler or less. These shows respect your time — every episode pulls its weight.
Mind-Bending Math
A few stats that change the way you look at your watchlist.
Detective Conan alone has 15.3× more filler episodes than every single episode of Death Note combined.
Just the filler in Detective Conan (270 h) would take you roughly as long as binging Naruto Shippuden from start to finish (190 h).
Death Note, Hunter × Hunter, Soul Eater combine for just 3 filler episodes. Some shows respect your time.
Across 12 shows with rated filler, canon episodes outscore filler ones by 1.15 IMDb points. 10 of 12 shows back this up.
Filler Fingerprints
Each row paints every episode of a show end-to-end. Dark green = canon. Bright green = filler. The pattern is the personality.
Now go pick your show.
We've labelled every episode of every show. Find the canon route, skip the dip, and reclaim the hours.
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