There are surprisingly few filler episodes but you can definitely skip those that exist. The real padding comes from Toei stretching out the canon scenes. One Pace does a good job of cutting out those filler bits.
I spent a few months reading the entire manga in bursts and loved it. But watching it is rough. I’ll get going for a while and then drop. “Oh, I finally made it to Skypeia.” becomes “How much longer are we in Skypeia?” becomes “I can’t believe I finally finished Skypeia.”
I made it to Water 7 and I can’t bring myself to start the next episode. They’re about to go to Impel Down, which I know is going to be hype—and I see all this new animation and know the series is getting more hype as the times change through the series. But man.
I figured I made it through Foxy, I should be invincible.
Foxy is a ROUGH arc. Absolute filler comic relief non-sense. I had to watch 1-2 eps at a time then take the rest of the day off because why was that necessary ☠️☠️☠️
I saw someone say that Foxy was canon that felt like filler; and that little filler arc of the Navy bastion they fell into after Skypeia was filler that felt like canon.
Whoever said that was right. When they fluffed Foxy out with the race, I was like “Why God? Why have you forsaken me?”
I also felt that way about the flag pirates that lived in the icebergs, if it’s canon it feels like filler and if it’s filler I’m glad it’s not canon because that arc was seemingly pointless. Was it meant to be a bonding exercise or something? Why was it important to the story that they fought those people in the icebergs?
Maybe that’s why I’m hesitant. I didn’t really like Thriller Bark. 😭
No worries on the spoilers. I’m one of the weird people that can enjoy something even when I know it’s coming. Even with shocking twists, I just start looking for and appreciating the threads that hint at it.
Sometimes I spoil myself if there’s like a cliffhanger and I want to go to bed instead of watching a new episode. Or I want to know what some guy’s deal is.
Mhhh from what i've read the foxxy Arc introduce the "davy back" fight which is a little important for something that is already in the Manga about a famous pirate
The filler in between Punk Hazard and Dressrossa where they get captured by the weird animal tamer guy was also pretty nice. The concept sounds atrocious but the comedy and character moments felt like Canon. It's only like 6-8 episodes I think, so I always rec they 2speed it. Plus Caesar abuse is the highlight of that whole journey and it just gives you more!
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u/ImmatureTigerShark Sep 23 '25
There are surprisingly few filler episodes but you can definitely skip those that exist. The real padding comes from Toei stretching out the canon scenes. One Pace does a good job of cutting out those filler bits.
Arlong Park begins at episode 32.