What did you think of this episode?
5Loved it!
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4Liked it!
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3It was OK
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2Disliked it
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1Hated it
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Average 3.9
196 votes
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| Better than last episode, but still rather slow. Next ep sounds like it's going to be dialogue driven, too. Though I did guess right when Shippuuden started, take ~50 eps for them to get to Sasuke. We'll probably see him (properly) next episode, or in 51. |
| As expected, another episode with little action, but it was better than the last. I like the direction Sai is going in - hopefully he fights in the next episode or two and we really get to see what he can do. Admittedly he wouldn't hold a candle to either Sasuke or Orochimaru, but nonetheless I want to see it. The ending was awesome considering they couldn't put any action into this episode. Watching it left me psyched for the next episode, which is about as much as you could ask of it. |
| Good animation? Check. A fight scene that was action-packed (albeit short)? Check. Good pacing? Check. Overuse of flashbacks?.....Check. A solid episode, nonetheless. I'm looking forward to next week's episode. Oh, and I really missed plain old Rasengan, I'm glad it showed up again. |
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| ...I didn't like last week's episode the first time. Watching it a second time through flashbacks only reminded me how badly I disliked it XD. And the last half of the episode was basically the producers saying: "Ahh, crap. We're ahead of schedule...lets fill up the last 10 minutes with a loop animation of them opening doors." It was...exciting for the first minute. They would have done much better cutting that pointless animation in half. But as far as the last several episodes are concerned, this was a 'better' Naruto episode. Although I do get a feeling next week is going to suck. It'll be about them explaining Sai's book, and it'll probably have ten more minutes of Sakura and Naruto explaining to us what Sai's charished book means through flashbacks. As if we really care...the only thing that's keeping their audience at bay is the possibility of seeing Sasuke. And sadly, they're milking that for all it's worth by delaying it 10 episodes more than it needed to be delayed. I really wish they would quit worring about catching up to the Manga. And when they do, they should try taking a break with -no- episodes. That means: No 10 month filler. No 10 episodes that could be made into 1. Just take a break from producing Naruto for a couple months. Then start once again at a better pace... |
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| Wasn't as boring as the last episode, but it was still kind of slow. The flashback parts were so annoying, they should have just left them out, imo. Also, if I have a problem of bees or other insects, I'm going to call Kabuto xD |
| Okay. I think I must put a screenshot here showing what really Naruto Shippuuden is. Can someone put a screenshot of the lizard eating the bee? That is Naruto Shippuuden! lol! and what the heck is making a flash back recently from the last episode? oh come on! |
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| I remember being sorely disappointed with the first episode of Shippuuden. In the manga they built the anticipation of seeing Sasuke again, but the anime blew its load immediately, and for what purpose? Its taken us over 50 episodes to reach that scene they first showed us, its just completely stupid how they've gone about this. You can get away with showing a scene and flashing back to the beginning to see how it all happened in a feature length film for example, but 50 episodes!? Stupid. Anyway, another mediorce episode that makes you wonder what it would have been like in another studio's hands. I did get a bit 'natsukashiii' when they showed the flashbacks though. Ahh, back when Naruto entertained... |
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| I liked this episode, the fight was decent and even though there were still some very obvious stall scenes, I didn't get bored halfway through the ep this week. I didn't really get the lizard though, were they trying to foreshadow Naruto's attempt as a failure ..? Seemed like a strange waste of time, and well, I kinda liked the repeated door opening =p. |
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| I felt this episode was rather quick.. in a bad way. Considering the amount of events on it, I thought I was at half of the episode, and suddenly... it finishes. =/ How do they do it? I liked how the lizard was drawn, though. =p Asako said: Since the next episode is obviously going to be full with flashbacks about Sai, my guess is 51 or 52. If we actually get to see Sasuke on episode 50, it will be a last 10 seconds scene.Better than last episode, but still rather slow. Next ep sounds like it's going to be dialogue driven, too. Though I did guess right when Shippuuden started, take ~50 eps for them to get to Sasuke. We'll probably see him (properly) next episode, or in 51. hybridkiller said: What? And no money? Blasphemy!! =pI really wish they would quit worring about catching up to the Manga. And when they do, they should try taking a break with -no- episodes. That means: No 10 month filler. No 10 episodes that could be made into 1. Just take a break from producing Naruto for a couple months. Then start once again at a better pace... |
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| The episode was sloooow... The flashbacks was unnecessary... The fight with Kabuto lool- the bees caused him more trouble than Rasengan- and after two years of training Naruto still cant form it without a clone...that is reassuring... next thing- Do you honelstly believe that Kabuto didnt know about Sasuke room location ? and I dont get why they didnt kill Kabuto- it is obvious he will free himself from this wood ropes...he is too dangerous to be left like that... and Naruto shouting Sasuke name...I thougth that they dont want to alarm Orochimaru I would prefer they would air an episode once a month- but a meaningful one-one that contributes to the plot... I will wait 2 months and then watch a couple of episodes in one go- maybe in ep. 56 we will actually see Sasuke... |
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| I'll probably start reading the manga. I usually find the manga better than the anime for most series, like with Bleach. |
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| they should have condensed this epp with the next one. we probably wont get to see him till the epp after the next one. they are taking their sweet time. |
| To be honest, they could condense the last 10 episode into 1 if they really wanted to... but you know them fillers gotta be thrown around somewhere :) The beginning fight scene was interesting. I thought Kabuto was a bit too trusting in Sai and indeed bit him in the butt 5 secs later. Next episode looks like it'll have potential fighting action and probably won't get to Sasuke until 51+. We probably won't see any really good fights again for quite some time in my opinion. |
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| this episode was amazing! |
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| this was an ok ep...finally some decent scenes in the series but still nothing that matches close to what the first 130 episodes of Naruto put out... If the sasuke meeting isnt spectacular I'm going to stop watching this show. Logically they must have had the entire series planned and put out as Shippuden started with what we are just about to come to in 1 or 2 eps. So if this isn't dynamite I'll stick with the manga. |
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| Finally, something new!.. However, that music playing while they talk pisses me off!!! |
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| The episode started with the weirdest choice of music too, even the music supervisors of this production are completely incompetent. |
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| Nothing really special again..meh |
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| Too many flashbacks. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN THE PREVIOUS EPISODES FOR FUCKS SAKE. I hate what the decent/good Naruto anime has become; complete and utter garbage. |
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| First half was pretty good, but of course they had to just ruin it. I honestly thought we would see Sasuke next episode, especially by the way Naruto screamed at the end, but I suppose not. Too bad that no matter how bad this show gets, I'll still watch. |
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| Ah, those flashbacks reminded me how good Naruto anime was oh-so long ago. But pretty good episode, compared to the rest of the series. |
Zelos said: yeah i dont remember the bees either...for a second I was just sitting and wondering when Sakura learned a summoning jutsui dont remember the bees or the fight going that way... it was either filler or i just have a bad memory for that part of the manga :| sgsiu9hruihrjhr9jh i hate flashbacks to the past 3 episodes and flashbacks to earlier in the same episode Dx it just drags it out too much... |
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manasteel88 said: Zelos said: yeah i dont remember the bees either...for a second I was just sitting and wondering when Sakura learned a summoning jutsui dont remember the bees or the fight going that way... it was either filler or i just have a bad memory for that part of the manga :| sgsiu9hruihrjhr9jh i hate flashbacks to the past 3 episodes and flashbacks to earlier in the same episode Dx it just drags it out too much... I think Sakura magically punched a hole in a rock that conveniently had bees in it. And it appears that Kabuto is conveniently allergic to bees. Thusly, Sakura conveniently found Kabuto’s potentially deadly weakness. But nobody stopped to consider it. In fact, nobody seemed to think it was strange that a little bee sting caused Kabuto so much panic and stress. I'd assume a near-invincible ninja wouldn’t care about a couple stings unless those ‘couple strings’ would cause him massive damage…IE: him being allergic. You'd think such a piece of information would be highly useful to a ninja. You know? What ever happened to watching your opponent and looking for weaknesses? But then again, thinking would make these fights too easy (and shorter). We couldn’t have that! |
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| this time I even liked it, ofcourse the flashbacks couldn'tbe more annoying,but still there were fight scenes ^^ Then, the Sasusaku flashaback made me almoust cry.. And ofcourse the Talk Show with Yamato sensei,omg hillarious ^^ |
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| You know what...those bees were pretty freakin' random! I cant be bothered to check if that was in the manga, but damn... |
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| The only good part was of Kabuto cutting down the bees. Everything was lame especially the 10 minute hallway running. |
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| What's with the lizard eating that bee? That was so weird. Everything else was actually pretty good. I liked the flashbacks. ^^ |
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| Bees....lol. |
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| Seems like nothing has happened since i dropped the series months ago :S |
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| BEES IN A BARBERSHOP! LIZARDS ON A LOCOMOTIVE! starring samuel l jackson as kabuto. Yeah go ahead and laugh. It'd still be better than this shit. |
| I was worried that those bees would swarm Kabuto and make him run or something. That would be so filler tacky. The filler Kabuto vs. YNS fight wasn't too bad though. |
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| I finally watched this episode and it was actually decent, good fight in the first half, and not horrible in the second half, maybe I might pick this back up yet, just not now. |
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| The fight animation seemed to stream far better in comparison to earlier episodes....even bettor than most series. It appears that the animator stepped up his game lol. The episode was pretty good overall. I enjoyed it. Also, I agree with the bees. It just seemed really odd to animate about 10 seconds of Kabuto freaking out about the random bees that appeared and him slicing them down. It must mean that he is allergic...although does it matter since he is a medical specialty ninja? Wouldn't he have a jutsu to remove simple bee-sting poison? Such a simple deduction must mean that I am wrong and the bees serve a greater purpose. We shall see lol. |
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CCZilla said: Good animation? Check. A fight scene that was action-packed (albeit short)? Check. Good pacing? Check. Overuse of flashbacks?.....Check. A solid episode, nonetheless. I'm looking forward to next week's episode. Oh, and I really missed plain old Rasengan, I'm glad it showed up again. Sums it up :) |
| I liked it. I'm really excited about whats going to happen in the next few episodes. |
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| Not a very good episode. :( I didn't mind the flashbacks that much [especially compared to what others thought about them] but Kabuto is one of the boring characters of the whole series in my opinion. Every episode that has him in it nearly puts me to sleep. >___< Yay! It looks like there is hope for Sai becoming good! At first I couldn't stand Sai, but now I am really beginning to like him. I hope he stays around for a long time. Finally Naruto is fixing to reunite with Sasuke after three long years. It felt like such a long time ago because of the 100 filler episodes in a row. 2/5 for me...Kabuto made it a snooze fest [my opinion], but Sai saving the day gave it an extra point. ^^ |
| I thought there was more action when Kabuto was fighting the bees. xD |
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| Sai seems way cooler now that he has joined the leaf team now |
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| Good stuff. Pretty good tension going at the end. Was hoping they'd actually meet Sasuke at the end, though. It would have been a perfect way to end the episode imo. |
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| it got better, still kinda meh tho. at least im hearing some promising news about the next arc being good, y im forcing myself thru this now XD |
| FInally the scene from the first episode. yes i really hate those flashbacks, they take up too much time, and yes of course most of us have seen them. if they haven't well that's their fault, no need to waste OUR time. |
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| Yep, it was better than the last one. I like the last scene. :) |
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