I Am Trying To Watch Naruto, And This Show Has An Egregious Amount Of Filler. Now, I Am Still Watching

I am trying to watch Naruto, and this show has an egregious amount of filler. Now, I am still watching the original Naruto series that spaces it out terribly, but still, the ratio of cannon to filler is insane.

I want numbers to back up my complaining, so I did some math.

So, the original Naruto series has 220 episodes, 90 of which are filler.

Episodes 1-142 contain 13 filler episodes. 2 of them are standalone, while the other 11 make up 2 separate arcs. Episodes 143-219 are all filler. They contain 15 whole filler arcs.

This means that 40,9% of the original Naruto series is made up of filler episodes. (90/220≈0,409*100=40,9%)

Now, the Naruto: Shippuden series has 500 episodes, and 203 of them are filler.

I have to acknowledge, though, that they are better spread out.

This means that 40,6% of the Naruto: Shippuden series is filler episodes. (203/500=0,406*100=40,6%)

Episodes 1-100 contain 25 filler episodes, all of which are parts of arcs. Episodes 101-200 have 43 filler episodes, and 2 of them are standalone episodes. Episodes 201-300 contain 40 filler episodes, and 5 are not a part of arcs. Episodes 301-400 have 45 filler episodes, including 5 standalone episodes. Episodes 401-500 have 50 filler episodes, and just 2 of them stand alone.

If we put all those number together, we get that all of the animated Naruto content comes out to 720 episodes and that 293 of them are filler.

So 40,69% out of all the animated Naruto content is filler. (293/720≈0,4069*100=40,69%)

And just for good measure, we can compare it to both the other "Big 3" members.

One piece as of today has 1118 episodes, out of which only 96 are filler. So only 8,5% of it is filler episodes. (96/1118≈0,085*100=8,5%)

Bleach today stands at 366 episodes, and 165 of them are filler episodes. So a staggering 45% of Bleach is filler. (165/366≈0,450*100=45%)

Gege had no fucking right to do chosoyuki so dirty.

Yuki grew up pretty okay as far as we know.

But Choso carried his entire world, his brothers. He felt responsible as the oldest to protect them in this wicked world they ended up in. And he saw them get fucking murdered. So, as anyone would, he tried to avenge them. And then found out that the man who killed them is actually his brother as well. Because Gege Kenjaku is a sick man with sick thoughts (kendrick ate).

As if the initial shock was not enough, he now has a new brother who almost died by his hand. And on top of that he is assigned a new mission in which he must protect Tengen from his sick fucking father. But that is when he meets Yuki.

And that is where the story should have ended, but no. Kenjacku kills Yuki and curse!Choso dies as well. And there comes the limbo.

The dead meet in a bar. Yuki seems satisfied with the life she lived and regret free. And then there's Choso. Feeling like he betrayed his brothers since he could not protect or unite them.

And then life gives him a second chance, and now we have human!Choso. Who also fucking dies. And he could not protect his only brother once again. I'm not even gonna talk about his conversation with Yuji.

The only positive thing that came from this tragedy is that Chosoyuki now lives in their heavenly house in my mind.

I need a gay show that hits the same as the queer-baiting ones.

Recs are welcome 🙏🏻

The way the relationship between Gojo and Geto has developed and ultimately fallen apart has been living my head a lot longer than it should.

Two ridiculously powerful for their age sorcerers brought up together. Both fully aware of their power since adults had made them shoulder the weight of their world from a young age. The key, though, was them being together.

We are the strongest.

But Suguru had his world view shattered. The fall out began when Satoru was "awakened" , that's obvious. But the realization that they were no longer the strongest together was one he could not bear. He was basically left behind and now the power he had taken for granted for so long was no longer enough. So he begun contemplating the very concept of "power".

Through his looking inward, he concluded that the issue with the power system is the weak at the very bottom of the food chain. Because they were the ones needing protection from the stronger by the strongest. They were the ones putting all of the pressure on them both. So he wanted to rid the world, his world, of what in his eyes was destroying it. And even though he still was powerful, he knew the only one powerful enough to wipe out all the people he deemed worth dying was Gojo.

He was also painfully aware that he ,unfortunately, would never possess such power. The "we" in "We are the strongest" had become "he". So, having made peace with him self, he questioned Satoru about his respective person.

Are you Gojo Satoru because you are the strongest, or are you the strongest because you're Gojo Satoru?

In other words, he asked the man who he had deemed his best friend for years, if the immense power that he possessed now defined him. Or if it was himself that had managed to harness the power passed down to him and make it his own, but really his own.

That was the last stroke for Gojo. He could not handle the fact that he and his best friend had grown so far apart due the power imbalance that he was unable to answer that on his own, and that he just turned his back and walk away right after such a question regarding his character.

His initial reaction was to strike him with his newfound power , purple, which is ironic considering that Suguru's physical death would have been caused by the same thing as his emotional one. But thankfully, he did not.

When Satoru returned to Jujutsu high after coming face to face with Suguru he was introduced to his future. Instead of being treated like a sixteen year old who just lost his best friend, he was seen as a man who just let a criminal roam free.

From then on, he would shoulder the expectations of the world on his own. Forever. And the first thought he had was whether he was strong enough to manage that.

The first person he looked for to reassure him was his teacher, who did. But no reassurance would be enough now, since he was the strongest. That's when he was met with the loneliness that comes with power like his.

But all that was the endstage of Gojos breakdown. It begun way earlier, the first ever time he was defeated. He was a cocky sixteen year old who did know what losing was. He, after all, was a special grade sorcerer. But in one of the many missions assigned to him and Suguru, things went south.

He faced a terrorist group and a huge religious organization with no issue. And the he came face to face with a non sorcerer, who beat him to the verge of death. Even though that was his path to unlock his full potential, it was not an ideal situation, because it led to Suguru also getting siriusly injured but also them failing the mission.

When he went to retrieve the body of the person he was supposed to have protected, he was met with a room of people clapping at his failure. Him not being enough was something worth clapping for for some. That's the moment he realized firsthand that the world would be against him for the rest of his life. But what he didn't know was that everything would get even worst.

Years passed after their separation before they came face to face again. Both now mature adults with virtually children of their own. But sadly, Gojo was forced to put an end to his ex best friend's life on December 24th, 2018.

His physical body, though, was taken over by Kenjaku. Who having teamed up with Sukuna manged to end Gojos life on a day he picked himself.

Reading the last jujutsu kaisen chapter, I came to a mildly horrifying realization.

If Yuta wins in Gojos body, then Gojo is Gojo Satoru because he is the strongest.

But if he loses, then he is the strongest because he's Gojo Satoru.

Are you the strongest because you're Gojo Satoru, or are you Gojo Satoru because you are the strongest?

~In the wise words of Geto Suguru~

Truthfully, Yuta winning is the best option here. It will probably prevent more unnecessary deaths that don't do anything to deepen the plot anymore, for one.

But beyond that, this outcome will also make Gojo's characters come full circle. It will furthen the narrative that he is a monster and a weapon carefully carved out by the jujutsu society. It will also solidify the fact that the only one who saw beyond that was Suguru.

Plus, it will make a bomb ass story for Yuta to tell to literally anyone.

Honestly, though, him losing would have to end up in everyone, but Sukuna dying (sorry Yuji*) and the modern dark ages of sorcery beginning.

Truly, there would be no point in ending the manga like that, in my opinion.

*Now about Yuji, that boy has been though he'll and back, and of course, I don't want him to die, and yes, I have seen how much he has developed in the manga. But him beating Sukuna while Yuta, the generation's protégé in the body of the strongest sorcerer of the modern era, loses to me kinda looks like an ass-pull that will be excused because the boy has not had an ounce of plot armor throughout the entire series.

And that holds true only and only if Yuta loses to Sukuna. If literally anything else happens, I will probably not believe this either.

The Satosugu and Itafushi parallels are getting a little too good.

First, Satosugu's bodies are being used as weapon after their death, not allowing them to just rest.

And now Itafushi's bodies are being used by Sukuna to do terrible things.

Second, Geto suddenly fought back against Kenjaku when Gojo asked him if he was okay getting used.

And now Yuji says to Megumi that he would be alone without him, and Megumi ,even after the soul bath, deploys his shadow technique to fight Sukuna.

What makes me hope they will have a happy ending is an "anti parallel"

Gojo always said that he can only save the people who want to be saved.

On the other hand, Yuji is constantly saying he will save Megumi (no matter what).

Satosugu did not communicate, so Itafushi will.

Please don't let the anits win Gege.