Not looking forward to watching Bleach Filler? The Bleach Anime is very good, but the filler arcs are some of the most atrocious in anime history. There is a very notable exception though which you might not want to miss out on. There’s also a canon arc intermixed inside another canon arc (Turn Back the Pendulum), which can be confusing and a lot of fans thought this was a filler. Other online lists are more ambiguous about this. To help you out, we’ve compiled the following Bleach Anime Filler List. Now you can skip those seasons which do not add anything to the story. Great if you’re rewatching or if this is your first time and you don’t want to waste time before the new Thousand Year Blood War arc is aired in October 2022.
Season | Title | Year | Canon/Filler |
1 | Substitute Shinigami Arc | 2004 – 2005 | Canon |
2 | Soul Society Arc: The Sneaky Entry | 2005 – 2006 | Canon |
3 | Soul Society Arc: The Rescue | 2006 | Canon |
4 | The Bounts Arc | 2006 | Filler |
5 | The Bounts Arc: The Bounts’ Attack on Soul Society | 2006 – 2007 | Filler |
6 | Arrancar Arc: The Appearance | 2007 | Canon |
7 | Arrancar Arc: Hueco Mundo | 2007 | Canon |
8 | Arrancar Arc: The Fierce Fight | 2008 | Canon |
9 | New Captain Shūsuke Amagai Arc | 2008 | Filler |
10 | Arrancar Arc: Arrancar vs Soul Reaper | 2008 – 2009 | Canon |
11 | Turn Back the Pendulum Arc | 2009 | Canon |
12 | Arrancar Arc: Battle for Karakura Town | 2009 | Canon |
13 | Zanpakutō Unknown Tales Arc | 2009 – 2010 | Filler |
14 | Arrancar Arc: Fall of the Espada | 2010 – 2011 | Canon |
15 | Gotei 13 Invading Army | 2011 | Filler |
16 | The Lost Agent Arc | 2011 – 2012 | Canon |
17 | Thousand-Year Blood War | October 2022 | Canon |
Bleach Anime Filler List: Which Bleach Filler is Good?
Season 15, the Gotei 13 Invading Army Arc is the only filler on our Bleach Anime Filler List worth watching. The reason is simple: it’s full of action and features fights we were teased with in the canon but which never came to fruition. This arc basically sees a lot of matchups and explores what those fights would have looked like earlier in the canon story.