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Naruto

Three series and 1,013 episodes, roughly a third of which is filler, and the whole question is which third.

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Where to start with Naruto

Nobody watches all 1,013 episodes and nobody should pretend otherwise. The path below is the spine of the story, and the note under each step says where that series stops being worth watching in full.

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    Naruto, episodes 1 to 135 Naruto

    The part adapted from the manga. Everything the later series assume you know happens here, and it ends cleanly with Sasuke gone and Naruto leaving to train. The remaining 85 episodes are one unbroken anime-original run and cost you nothing to skip.

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    Naruto Shippuden, 500 episodes Naruto Shippuden

    Picks up two and a half years later and carries the story to its end. Two fifths of it is filler and the filler is scattered rather than stacked, so this is the one where a skip list actually earns its keep.

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    The Last: Naruto the Movie The Last: Naruto the Movie

    The only film that is part of the story rather than beside it. It sits between the war and the epilogue, and it explains a marriage that the epilogue otherwise simply presents as already done.

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    Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

    The next generation, 293 episodes of it, and a genuinely different show for its first fifty. Episodes 51 to 66 retell the Boruto film, so watch the film or those episodes and not both.

Then what? Boruto Part I stopped at episode 293 in March 2023. Part II, Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, has been announced and confirmed as a seasonal release rather than a year-round weekly one, but has no date, no episode count and no trailer, so nothing is listed for it. The nine non-canon films can be watched at any time or never; none of them changes anything.

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

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