Anime watch ordersand filler lists
Prequels air after their sequels. Hundreds of episodes never happened in the manga. These are the lists that sort it out — the order to watch, and the episodes to skip.
Some franchises are genuinely hard to start. Gundam has run for over forty years across dozens of unconnected timelines; Fate opens with a prequel; Monogatari is famously broadcast out of sequence. Long-running shonen series pad the gaps with episodes that never appeared in the manga at all. Every franchise here is laid out entry by entry — series, films, OVAs and specials — with the filler marked so you know what to skip.
- 46 franchises
- 795 entries
- 12,324 episodes checked
- 1,767 flagged filler
Watch orders
All 46 franchisesEvery entry in a franchise — series, films, OVAs and specials — in the order to watch them.
Filler lists
All 206 seriesWhich episodes adapt the manga and which the studio invented. Each bar is the whole series end to end — green is canon, red is filler.
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52.9% filler Fullmetal Alchemist -
45.5% filler Detective Conan -
44.3% filler Bleach -
42.3% filler Boruto: Naruto Next Generations -
40.5% filler Naruto -
40.2% filler Naruto: Shippuden -
39.3% filler Yu-Gi-Oh! -
28.6% filler Pokémon -
22.8% filler InuYasha -
21.7% filler Yu-Gi-Oh! GX -
21.1% filler Fairy Tail -
19.1% filler Pokémon the Series: XYZ
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