Skip fillers. Watch them later if you feel like watching some additional side stories.

Skip the filler, go back to it later. I read all of the manga first, then watched all of the anime. Trust me, the canon story is what's important.

Just watch at your own pace. I have watched each and every episode and all the films over the period of 1 year or more. I highly recommend it.

I watched all the episodes, also the filler ones, when I was 18 and 19 years old.

I grew up watching og naruto so definitely watched some fillers but largely skipped most of em once I could tell it's fillerm.

I know there's some good ones but for the most part the series is already incredibly long, if you want you can look up the best fillers and include them during your watches.

Read the manga. Has no intros, outros, and no fillers

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I've been rewatching it through Naruto Kai. It's a little janky at parts and most of the openings are cut out which is a little bit of a bummer but over all the best way to watch the series.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Naruto/comments/91wdjv/naruto_kai_ultimate_subbed_edition/

Watch fillers when ur done watching them without

Watching them ruins the suspense

Don't watch them, trust me i thought the same thing, like would i be missing out on anything, trust me dont, just save yourself from all that pain, dont listen to anyone else, listen to me and trust me, do not watch it

Some fillers are pretty good, dont watch all of them though

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Honestly, if you just want to see only what applies to the core story as adapted from the manga?

Yeah, probably best.

If you just like content that displays characters on unique and sometimes weird journeys?

Honestly, I don't think most of the filler is nearly as bad as most make it out to be.

Regardless, I personally would say watch it all, but maybe go back for the filler after the rest, if you'd prefer.

It’s really just the war arc that you gotta skip a lot of on, the rest maybe just every once in awhile 1-3 episodes you’ll have to skip

It’s really just the war arc that you gotta skip a lot of on, the rest maybe just every once in awhile 1-3 episodes you’ll have to skip

Only fillers I watched tbh were the early naruto ones, and the backstory fillers of clans or characters like kakashi obito or itachi ans shisui. Other ones were dragging it imo I might’ve missed a couple nice fillers

Look up NarutoKai. Ita free to download and its basically someone who has edited all of Naruto anime so it only follows the canon story. It's actually really good.

I mean, you don’t really have to worry about fillers for Part 1. You just watch episodes 1-135 and then watch the second half of episode 220. Or you can watch that last filler arc, episodes 216 to 220, because it transitions nicely into the Gaara Retrieval Arc in Shippuden and gives some screen-time to a background character in that canon story arc.

When you get to Shippuden, you have to decide whether or not to skip canon’ish fillers, like the 3 Tails filler that basically fills in the gaps left by the manga. It’s a little tricky to skip that arc because it mixes in some canon scenes.

You really only need a filler guide for Shippuden. This one here seems fine https://www.animefillerlist.com/shows/naruto-shippuden

Just watch the filllers. It's good Fer ya.

Go to animefillerlist.com. You'll see all the filler episodes and canon episodes there.

I would say no, and they actually contradict things in the manga and give you the wrong impression. They are best to be skipped in my opinion.

Kakashi anbu arc is pretty good .

HELL TO THE NO.

Sometimes they're boring

Nah

There’s enough canon on its own. If you are finding you like it enough to watch all of it, then you can start thinking about fillers too 

If it’s your first watch, you should watch the fillers. It’s long and annoying sometimes, but some fillers are great.

A lot of the people who complain about certain characters not getting enough screen time are some of the same who skip fillers. Regardless of whether it’s canon or not.

fillers are great. my fav is the one in og when they're trying to figure out what's under kakashis mask

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Nah, they break the pacing of the story. It comes to a point when something big is going to happen, and a single line starts a filler saga of an unrelated past event for over +10 episodes, then they go back canon for 2 episodes, and then another +10 episodes filler saga of flashbacks starts. All of these in the middle of what is supposed to be a single fight.

Just watch Naruto episode 101, it's so funny.

90% of the filler is straight up dookie, but some of it is genuinely amusing and interesting to watch.

It’s only funny if you acknowledge how dumb most of it is, like the Mecha Naruto one or the fake Naruto as well.

Only a few, especially the kakashi anbu arc

No

There’s a few I found pretty good, but for the most part a lot aren’t. I love that filler episode where the team tries to find out what’s under Kakashi’s mask lol.

Its definitely worth it and you can skip the filler as it will not impact development of characters or plot. As top post mentioned the back stories of kakashi and itachi are worth it.

Another thing to note: Naruto is notorious for flashbacks and replaying the SAME ones to remind you of certain things during some present scene (it'll be like several minutes of flashback not a quick montage) and you can fast forward after you've seen the flashback before if you want.

I’m currently watching it, and haven’t skipped any filler. And to be honest, I think the filler is entirely worth watching if you have the time. If you really like the show, the filler is just more of it, and has some pretty interesting characters and battles. Of course, if you just want the story, then you can skip it without missing any vital information.

Yes its definatly worth it! Story and character development is amazing. And the characters are so cool and interesting. I suggest skip the fillers. But would reccomend Kakashi and Itachi backstory arcs in Shippuden.

100% skip the filler. It will not feel fast paced lmao there are 700 episodes, about 500 of them being canon and some episodes drag. Pretty sure one specific fight is like 5-9 episodes even skipping filler

Some of the fillers are pretty fun to watch. Like “gotta see gotta know, kakashi’s true face” is a really good one. I’d say just watch a little bit of the fillers and if you don’t like it skip em.