Good anime without filler episodes?

One of the most highly regarded animes (i think) is one piece and dragon ball, but it feels like 80% of the episodes are just filler. like situations where the characters are just talking about stuff and theres no real plot. Anything that has little to no filler episodes that's good?

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chum-guzzling-shark2026-01-18 04:40

Most well liked modern stuff since it's so few episodes. Orb, chainsaw man, and dandadan were first things that came to mind

exiledexiled2026-01-18 04:40

you should watch summertime rendering 😉😉

SliderGamer552026-01-18 04:40

Madoka Magica, Odd Taxi, Death Note

Dreaming_Dreams2026-01-18 04:42

gurren lagaan, only like 30 episodes

Zado1912026-01-18 04:46

As much as we used to complain about it, filler isnt even really that common.

Uma-apreciator2026-01-18 04:49

Uma Musume Cinderella Gray

Virtual_Shop10342026-01-18 04:51

Frierin

Lower-Tour-18542026-01-18 04:53

Jojo's Bizzare Adventure

itsmadfury2026-01-18 04:53

Naruto, zero fillers I swear

Turbulent-Region33232026-01-18 05:59

Yeah. I second this.

n080dy1232026-01-18 05:00

Pretty much anything that isn't hundreds of episodes long will be free of filler.

Filler is, at this point, kind of a relic of the time when long running shounen battle anime aired for months or years at a time and needed cheap oirignal content to space out production or pad time before the anime caught up with the manga. It's pretty much only still done for One Piece, afaik, because that's one of the only anime that still runs on that kind of production timeline.

ParticularSimple8892026-01-18 05:50

do people even know what filler mean anymore

99% anime DO NOT have fillers

Turbulent-Region33232026-01-18 05:57

There is almost no filler in modern anime.

Moreover only 8-10% of one piece is filler. The biggest culprit of filler is naruto.

Also, i would like to know what filler is according to you. I am a suspiscion that u might be confusing Slice of Life or iyashikei anime with filler.

Edit: Note that just talking is not filler if its canon. Filler is anything that is non canon.

katsucats2026-01-18 06:14

This is why Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was such a masterpiece for a shounen. It was succinct, wasn't 90% fillers like One Piece, despite what its fans want to say otherwise. People think fillers are just where anime deviates from the manga, but that is just one kind of filler. There are plenty of other techniques that are used to buy time, such as letting the camera sit a bit longer after a shot, breaking the narrative up into multiple threads just to show repeated material for review, showing an extra long recap and a pointless Gold Rogers intro, repeated frames in a fight scene, and so on. All these things are quite literally filler material that extends a show without adding anything to the plot.

myrmidon_mamori2026-01-18 07:09

I feel like most anime don't really have filler, it's just the big, popular, long-running ones (mostly shounen) that do. And even then, you don't really see filler in more recent shows, since nowadays anime just have multiple seasons instead of running continuously.

dfiekslafjks2026-01-18 09:37

I feel like what you are describing is just part of the shounen genre. You could easily watch any show like MHA and point to episodes where the plot doesn't advance.

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Leiothrix2026-01-18 12:06

I don't think you understand what the word "filler" means in this context.