My Hero Academia Filler List: The Complete Guide to Every Episode You Can Skip

My Hero Academia wrapped its eight-season run in December 2025, dropped a bonus epilogue episode in May 2026, and left behind 170 numbered episodes with one of the lowest filler counts in shonen anime history. The My Hero Academia filler list clocks in at just four pure filler episodes, which puts the series at roughly 2-3% filler across its entire run, and for a show that aired over nearly a decade, that number is borderline absurd.

The catch is that "four" isn't the whole picture. Depending on how you define filler (pure anime-original content, recap episodes, or mixed canon/filler hybrids), you could count anywhere from four to nine episodes with non-canon material. The breakdown below covers all of them so you can decide what to skip, what to keep, and which episodes the fandom has been sleeping on.

My Hero Academia Filler: Quick Stats

For comparison, Naruto sits at roughly 41% filler and Bleach at around 45%. MHA earned its low count largely through seasonal production: air a season, go on break, let Horikoshi build a manga lead. The anime never had to stall because it never caught up.

MHA Filler Episodes: The Quick-Skip List

Here's every episode on the My Hero Academia filler list in one clean block, every episode you can skip without losing a single plot thread:

Episodes 39, 58, 64, 104

Four episodes out of 170, and even within that short list, two of them are movie prologues that become required viewing if you plan to watch the films. Episode 58 ("Save the World With Love!") sets up the first MHA movie, Two Heroes, and episode 104 ("Long Time No See, Selkie") feeds directly into the third movie, World Heroes' Mission. Episode 32, which constantly gets mislabeled as filler, is actually anime-original canon that gives Froppy her single best character moment in the series, and you can read more about why below.

You might also see episode 13.5 ("Hero Notebook") counted as a filler episode. It's a Season 1 recap numbered as a half-episode, and most streaming platforms don't even include it in their count. If you're binging from episode 1, you already know everything it covers.

Every My Hero Academia Filler Episode, Explained

Not every filler episode is created equal, and MHA's short list includes everything from harmless breathers to movie tie-ins that quietly become essential depending on how much of the franchise you want to experience. Here's the full breakdown.

The mixed canon/filler episodes (54, 55, 89, 105, and 127) blend manga material with anime-original scenes, and you should watch all of them since the canon portions contain setup that pays off later.

Seasons 1, 6, 7, and 8 contain zero filler of any kind. Season 1 adapted the manga nearly panel-for-panel, and Seasons 6 through 8 were locked into the Paranormal Liberation War and Final War arcs with no room for detours.

The MHA Filler Episodes That Are Actually Worth Your Time

Four skippable episodes across 170 means you could watch every single one of them in under 90 minutes and lose nothing from your afternoon, but three entries on the list deserve a closer look before you press skip.

Episode 32: The One Everyone Gets Wrong

"Everyone's Internships" gets written off as filler constantly, but it's actually anime-original canon, a category that means Studio Bones created the episode specifically to expand the story rather than pad runtime. The episode follows Tsuyu Asui during her internship with the pro hero Selkie, and her mission against the villain Innsmouth gives Froppy one of the most capable and independent hero moments she gets in the entire series. MHA frequently struggled to give its female cast sustained spotlight outside of group battles, and this episode quietly did what the main arcs often didn't make time for. Skipping it means missing one of Tsuyu's defining scenes, and that's a loss that hits harder than you'd expect from a "filler" episode.

Episode 58: The Movie Prologue That's Better Than It Needs to Be

As a standalone My Hero Academia filler episode, "Save the World With Love!" is a well-animated resort-island training exercise with fun Class 1-A dynamics. As a movie prologue, it's the connective tissue between Season 3 and the first MHA film. The investigation subplot feeds directly into the opening act of Two Heroes, and skipping it means the movie's first scene will feel like you walked in late. Even outside the movie context, the animation quality makes this one of the more enjoyable MHA filler episodes.

Episode 39: Canon Hiding Inside Filler

The pool day episode is pure breather content with no stakes and no plot advancement, except for the first two minutes. The episode opens with Tomura Shigaraki sitting in the League of Villains hideout, watching an All Might broadcast, and articulating exactly why All Might, Deku, and Stain all infuriate him. That monologue crystallizes his motivation heading into the Forest Training Camp attack and sets the emotional tone for Season 3's villain escalation. The full episode is labeled filler, but those opening minutes aren't, and they're worth seeing even if you skip the pool shenanigans that follow.

The Real Filler Problem Nobody Talks About

Here's what the My Hero Academia filler list conversation always misses: the actual filler episodes were never this show's real pacing problem.

Ask any fan which stretch of MHA felt the most like filler and the answer comes back almost unanimously: the Joint Training arc in Season 5, roughly episodes 89 through 101. Every fight, every Quirk showcase, every flashback in that stretch is straight from the manga, one hundred percent canon, and the community still treats it like a ten-episode endurance test. Forums are packed with fans calling it a dragged-out filler arc despite the fact that every frame of it has a corresponding manga panel.

The frustration had nothing to do with anime-original content. It came from pacing stretched thin with repeated flashbacks (Endeavor's abuse backstory showed up at least four times that season), an arc reorder that killed dramatic tension by pushing My Villain Academia to the back half, and animation quality dipping while Studio Bones split resources with movie production. The one actual filler episode in Season 5 (episode 104, the Selkie movie tie-in) played a role in that reorder too, because the season needed room for the movie prologue, and carving out that space contributed to rearranging canon arcs in a way that drained everything around them.

Meanwhile, episode 64 (the journalist filler episode) aired right before the Overhaul arc and almost nobody resents it. It landed at exactly the right moment as a lighthearted palate cleanser, and it did what good filler should do: give you a breath before the story hits hard again.

The label tells you surprisingly little about whether an episode is worth your time. Some canon episodes will test your patience more than any filler ever could, and some filler episodes earn their spot in the watch order more than they get credit for.

Plus Ultra: The Complete MHA Filler Verdict

My Hero Academia wrapped up 170 episodes and left behind fewer skippable MHA filler episodes than most shows produce in a single season. The complete My Hero Academia filler list fits on a Post-it note, and whether you skip the four pure filler episodes or watch them all (it's under 90 minutes of content), the difference in your viewing experience is genuinely negligible.

The bigger favor you can do yourself: watch episode 32 even though it keeps getting written off, catch episodes 58 and 104 if you're planning to watch the movies, and brace yourself for the Joint Training arc regardless of how clean the show's filler record looks.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many filler episodes does My Hero Academia have?

There are 4 pure filler episodes (39, 58, 64, and 104), but the count rises to 5 if you include the recap episode 13.5, and to 6 if you add episode 32, which is more accurately classified as anime-original canon rather than traditional filler. The mixed canon/filler episodes (54, 55, 89, 105, 127) contain plot-relevant material and should be watched.

Is there a time skip in My Hero Academia?

Yes. The series finale features an eight-year time skip, and the bonus "More" episode (May 2, 2026) adapts Chapter 431 of the manga, showing the adult lives of Class 1-A working as pro heroes. The "More" special is fully canon.

Does MHA Season 8 have any filler?

No. The 11-episode final season adapted the Final War and Epilogue arcs with zero filler. Horikoshi was heavily involved in production and personally supervised anime-original scenes that were added to expand the finale beyond what the manga covered.

Which MHA filler episodes are worth watching?

Episode 32 ("Everyone's Internships") is the standout for Froppy's character development, and episodes 58 and 104 are worth watching if you plan to see the MHA movies since they serve as direct prologues to Two Heroes and World Heroes' Mission.

What is MHA's filler percentage compared to Naruto and Bleach?

MHA sits at roughly 2-3% filler across 170 episodes, compared to Naruto at approximately 41% and Bleach at around 45%. MHA's seasonal production model (air a season, take a break, let the manga build a comfortable lead) is the structural reason it never needed to pad its episode count with original arcs.