Fairy Tail Filler Episodes You Can Skip

If there’s one thing every 2000s hit shōnen anime has in common, it’s having 500+ episodes. Without them, it seems the studios couldn’t bear to live anymore, but fortunately, we otakus don’t second guess ourselves when skipping the unnecessary bits. Fairy Tail has got a considerable number of filler episodes, and the anime series is already long enough, so leaving the unimportant content will save you at least dozens of hours.

However, not all of them come right after one another, and without a Fairy Tail filler list guide, you may have difficulty discerning between the non-canon and canon parts. If you’re keen on saving yourself some time and wouldn’t mind cutting out the fluff, then look below for a quick and easy guide on what’s worth a watch and what’s not.

 

Fairy Tail Filler List

Throughout its decade-long run from October 2009 to September 2019, Fairy Tail has amassed 61 filler episodes. That brings the anime’s total fluff content to 19% which may be surprising at first glance, but when you realize other anime in the same genre like Naruto have nearly 41% filler content, that’s a really low number. Be that as it may, 61 Fairy Tail filler episodes are no joke. Accumulated, they are worth about 21 hours of watch time which many of us would rather spend on binging the best comedy anime out now. Here’s the complete list of which episodes are filler.

• • Eisenwald Arc (Episode 9)
  • Sub-Zero Emperor Lyon Arc (Episode 19)
  • The Battle Of Fairy Tail Arc (Episode 50)

• Daphne Arc (Episodes 70–75)
• Key Of The Starry Sky Arc (Episodes 125–150)
• Grand Magic Games Arc (Episodes 202–203)
• Eclipse Celestial Spirits Arc (Episodes 204–226)
• Zero Arc (Episode 268)

It actually doesn’t stop there. If you’d like to further trim down the backlog, then Fairy Tail also has plenty of mixed canon-filler episodes which you can look up. Although, if you were to ask anyone who watched the entire anime from start to finish, they’d have to say don’t make the mistake of missing out on them.

 

Why Should You Skip These Fairy Tail Filler Episodes?

Well, the answer to this question is in the name itself: because they’re filler. But does that make them unwatchable or boring? Not at all. Most of the Fairy Tail filler episodes are a joy to watch, such as episode 9 where Natsu and Happy fight mushroom monsters after trying to eat them not knowing that they were in fact monsters, or episode 125 where Natsu learns to dance but fails miserably.

In contrast, others like Daphne’s Arc are too boring to sit through, but opinions may differ. They aren’t straight-up gibberish like the Boruto fillers, but neither are they spectacular for that matter. You should only give the Fairy Tail fillers a try if you’re a big fan of the anime, otherwise, they don’t add anything to the plot, and skipping them has negligible impact on the overarching storyline.

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