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Bleach

The 2004 series is 45 per cent filler, and the sequel restarts its episode numbers, so nobody agrees how many episodes there are.

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Where to start with Bleach

Bleach is the clearest case on this site for using a filler list. Four anime-original arcs account for about 130 of the first 366 episodes, and three of them sit in the middle of the story where they are easiest to mistake for the plot.

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    Bleach, episodes 1 to 63 Bleach

    Agent of the Shinigami straight through the Soul Society rescue. Sixty-three episodes with no filler in them, and the arc most people mean when they say Bleach is good.

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    Bleach, episodes 110 to 167 Bleach

    The Arrancar arc. Skip 64 to 109 entirely, which is the Bount, an anime-original detour that the manga never contains and the series never refers to again.

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    Bleach, episodes 190 to 229 Bleach

    Back to the manga after another anime-original arc at 168 to 189. This block includes The Past, which is flashback material and genuinely part of the story.

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    Bleach, episodes 266 to 316 and 343 to 366 Bleach

    The end of the Arrancar war and then the Lost Substitute arc, which is where the first series stops. Skip 230 to 265 and 317 to 342, both anime original.

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    Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War

    The return, ten years later, adapting the final arc the 2004 series stopped short of. No filler in it at all, and it starts immediately after episode 366.

Then what? Thousand-Year Blood War is being released in parts. Three are complete and the fourth began on 25 July 2026. The four films and the two OVAs are outside the story and can be watched at any point or not at all; none of them is referred to by anything else.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below — tick anything off in either place.

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