#i Will be watching all of the backstory stuff and prooobably most of the filler? i'll have to see how important it actually feels.

[orcelito]

ok so today i watched episode 393 of shippuden. and i find it SO FUNNY how they're doing this. left off with a Massive cliffhanger (oh no!!! theyre both gonna die!!!!) in order to do a fucking Twenty Episode Long filler arc. which actually im excited to watch it so i can see more of Fu, but it's still SO FUNNY to do it like that. like these episodes came out one per week. can u imagine what it mustve been like for anime-only fans who had to wait like Five Months before they saw more???? it'd be Agonizing!!!!!!! lmfao.

also tho, in rambling about this to the group chat, i also went looking thru all the episodes to the end of shippuden & noted whether they were filler/backstory or main plot episodes based on what it looked like on crunchyroll previews, and. results under the cut.

394-413 is filler arc

414 and 415 are main arc

416 and 417 are backstory

418 main arc

419 backstory

420 and 421 are main arc

422 and 423 are backstory

424-426 is main arc

And then *427-458* is circumstantial filler (as in it's technically caused by the main arc, but has no actual relevance to it besides that) and/or more backstory.

459 is main plot

460-463 is backstory

463 is main plot

464-469 is backstory

470 is main plot

471-473 is backstory

474-479 is main plot

And that's the end of the main story.

480-483 is backstory

484-488 is sasuke side story

488-493 is shikamaru side story

And then 494-500 is side story for Naruto and Hinata getting together

WHICH IS TO SAY--

of the last 107 episodes of naruto, only 17 are actually directly focused on the main plot. which really makes the inflated episode count make sense lmao. like i do love the added character context that filler and especially backstory episodes have, but also. *wow* it gets to be a Lot of lore dumping in these last episodes, it seems.

AND ALSO!!!! (major spoilers for the end ahead)(also copy-pasted from the server lol)

in 459 they introduce this alien princess who was ACTUALLY at fault for all of this (just trust me bro). 460-462 is backstory for her?? I guess?? 463 they're fighting her 470 they're prepping to seal her 474 they manage to seal her. Everything in between those is backstory and/or filler. WHICH IS TO SAY. This ~Secret Big Boss~ who is ACTUALLY at fault for everything (just trust me bro) is only actually around for 7 episodes, 3 of which were backstory?????

naruto sure is a fuckin show.