Three series and 1,013 episodes, roughly a third of which is filler, and the whole question is which third.
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.
Seen some of these already? Tap the circles to tick them off. The full list below fills in as you go.
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.
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.
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.
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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The code holds only this franchise. The link opens the tracker with your progress already filled in, good for showing someone where you're at. The image is a picture you can keep anywhere: scan the code on it with a phone, or drag the file back in below.
Every franchise you have touched, in one code.
Scan it with another device's camera, or paste the code in below. It never leaves your browser.
This reads the progress stored inside the picture, so nothing has to be retyped. If the image has been through a messaging app it may have been re-encoded and lost that: scan the code on it instead, or copy the code printed along the bottom.
Takes either kind of code. A single franchise code replaces that franchise, on any device. An everything code merges by default, so nothing you have ticked on this device is lost. Putting a whole list onto a device that has nothing on it yet is the part an account pays for.
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