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That time a friend told me to skip the Filler in Naruto

Back in 2018, a buddy of mine said I should just skip all the filler arcs in Naruto Shippuden. I was like nah, I want the full experience, you know? I spent like 40 episodes watching those filler ninja ostrich races and alternative dimension stuff. Finally got to the actual canon Kaguya stuff and realized I wasted a good 15 hours of my life. Shoulda listened to him from the start. Anyone else ever ignore advice like that and regret it?
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felix147
felix1471mo agoTop Commenter
Man that's just life though, isn't it... you get told something simple and think you know better, then end up learning the hard way. I swear I do that with everything from recipes to directions.
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murray.spencer
Used to be one of those "it's all part of the journey" people myself. Then I watched that whole like 20 episode stretch of Naruto just riding a boat to the next island and I was like nope, never again. My buddy was right the whole time and I just wouldn't listen.
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johnson.daniel
Stayed up til like 3am one time watching those ostrich race filler episodes thinking "surely this has to matter somehow." It did not. I mean, I still tell myself I needed to see all that alternate dimension stuff to really appreciate the canon but let's be real, I could have just read a summary in like two minutes. My buddy still brings it up every time we talk about Naruto. It's honestly a little embarrassing how stubborn I was about it. Guess some lessons you just gotta learn by wasting fifteen hours of your life.
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