Naruto Shippuuden Episode 82

It makes me sad to see something like this, because now I know what Naruto could have been like.... and I don't want to use the word "wasted" but why did they use such quality for a single episode were nothing really happened (action wise).

It would be soooo wonderfull if all naruto-episodes would be like this.
Kakashi looked so great.
I liked the scenes where the screen went black very much, for example when Shikamaru was equipping himself with weapons n stuff.. reminded me of some intro scenes from different games (for example like area 52) xD

really a *great* episode. This would have been a lot less sad and awesome with the normal naruto animation.

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Who's Naruto's new captain, anyway? Maybe they pushed that troublemaker to Kurenai.

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I'm pretty sure he means Captain Yamato? With a new technique, and the danger of going 4-tails, I'm sure they don't want Yamato too far from him at any time...

especially with Akatsuki and Naruto's raging, Sasuke-induced emotions. If they even mention his name, those tails are coming out. Yamato needs to be close by at all times.

I agree with most here, a lovely episode, start to finish. I haven't felt emotion like this in a long, long time. I really did not expect to see InoShikaCho paired up with Kakashi...but I think the dynamic would be fun and effective. Can't wait!


I do have a side question; I've been having trouble with the video playback since they started this new format; I got the VLC player, and it ends up choppy, often freezing for several seconds when there's lots of movement or action on the screen. The audio keeps playing, and I end up missing all the action scenes. (or most of them)

I also have the classic media player, which works a BIT better, but I'm noticing some slowdown and some audio troubles once and a while. What am I doing wrong? Is there some new, special codec I need to make these things play like the old ones did?

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Originally Posted by Kagari

I'm pretty sure he means Captain Yamato? With a new technique, and the danger of going 4-tails, I'm sure they don't want Yamato too far from him at any time...

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Yes, indeed. Now that you mentioned it, it's pretty obvious. It's just that since Naruto has been with Yamato already for quite a long time, I thought Kakashi's words meant some real change, but naturally for Ino-Shika-Cho it probably is news.

This episode made me tear up, especially when Shikamaru was speaking with his father, and when Shikamaru visits Asuma's grave.

I think everyone was a bit scared when they saw Chouji's mom for the first time :p
I didn't always liked the drawings, especially Chouji looked weird...

Chouji always looks weird when he isn't wearing something on his head.

Actually, I think its that, he's always wearing something stupid on his head, and on the rare occasions that he isn't he looks normal, and we think that's werid.

Now this is what i'm talking about, possibly the best episode in naruto shippuden so far, and it was almost purely filler.

The animation was so fucking fantastic, i wish they would keep it like that permanently or at least use it on all major episodes

Overall: 10/10

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Originally Posted by Kagari

I'm pretty sure he means Captain Yamato? With a new technique, and the danger of going 4-tails, I'm sure they don't want Yamato too far from him at any time...

especially with Akatsuki and Naruto's raging, Sasuke-induced emotions. If they even mention his name, those tails are coming out. Yamato needs to be close by at all times.

I agree with most here, a lovely episode, start to finish. I haven't felt emotion like this in a long, long time. I really did not expect to see InoShikaCho paired up with Kakashi...but I think the dynamic would be fun and effective. Can't wait!


I do have a side question; I've been having trouble with the video playback since they started this new format; I got the VLC player, and it ends up choppy, often freezing for several seconds when there's lots of movement or action on the screen. The audio keeps playing, and I end up missing all the action scenes. (or most of them)

I also have the classic media player, which works a BIT better, but I'm noticing some slowdown and some audio troubles once and a while. What am I doing wrong? Is there some new, special codec I need to make these things play like the old ones did?

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Try something like this...

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multime...-Decoder.shtml

I just had to format my pc and I think that this was the one that I got. The last one that I had didnt format it right. so it was all scretched. This one seems to work well...


As for the ep, have to agree. Very good. Probably one of the best I have seen in a long time. Seems like anything with Shika is going to be good. He is one of the best characters hands down...

I swear they must've had a different director just for this episode.

Episode carried a haunting air all throughout, very nice.

You know what, every time there is an episode like this you guys are quick to get on the band wagon and then as soon as the action starts the quality drops way down again. Its almost like they make a trade off action for quality, you can't have both in the same episode.

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Originally Posted by The Archangel

Now this is what i'm talking about, possibly the best episode in naruto shippuden so far

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How many times have you used this line?

I just hope that this time around, we don't see a huge drop in quality as soon as the action starts. The preview doesn't look too promising:(

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Originally Posted by Abdula

How many times have you used this line? I'm not trying to be an idiot or anything I just want an estimate.

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You've gotten so good at it you dont't even have to try anymore do you? Check the posts if you want to, i haven't had many positive things to say about naruto in a long time.

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Originally Posted by animus

I swear they must've had a different director just for this episode.

Episode carried a haunting air all throughout, very nice.

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I know.

Isn't there somewhere we can write to ask them to keep using this animation style? It's worth a shot...

I didn't mean animation wise. It's obvious they spent a lot more time on this episode, and it shows. And not the usual stick figure fighting and rigid animation.

Atmosphere-wise, they had a lot of freedom and they used it well, which leads me to question if it's really the same director.

Yeah when I said quality, I didn't mean just the animation.

I didn't mean the episode was only good because of the animation, just that it was a big part of it.

I'm amazed at how they managed to make such an awesome episode using just 1 chapter, they even made the lack of cigarettes a little better by adding that night seen with the lighter illuminating their faces.

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Try something like this...

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multime...-Decoder.shtml

I just had to format my pc and I think that this was the one that I got. The last one that I had didnt format it right. so it was all scretched. This one seems to work well...

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I love you! Big improvement! I owe you 1,000,000 cookies. Thanks!

awman, I loved this episode. This is probably one of my favorite naruto episodes ever. The visuals and camera angles were amazing. not just that, but really everything about it was great. when it started I didn't expect much, and I thought this was gonna be a super boring waste of an ep, but man, when it got to where he flipped the board, that was so amazing. then when he was figuring out the strategy, and then when he was equipping himself.. I really hope that they keep doing the episodes like this.. that would be so awesome.

Before this epsisode, in like, the build up ones to Asuma's death, whenever they'd have scenes where it seemed like the only point was to show off their animation quality and the amount of money they're able to spend on an episode, I really hated seeing it. I hated seeing the high quality visuals go to waste. but man, this episode was amazing. it didn't feel like a Naruto episode at all.

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Originally Posted by animus

I swear they must've had a different director just for this episode.

Episode carried a haunting air all throughout, very nice.

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I decided to look around after this episode for some info because I was curious who did it too.

Supposedly the guy who directed this episode is the main character designer for the show, but he rarely shows up to direct episodes because he usually works on the openings. His only past episodes were 17, 19, 48, and 151 from Part 1.. This was his first episode in Shippuuden, since he didn't work on the current opening. He is also confirmed to be doing ep 85

I wish I hadn't read that last part, I've never wanted to see an episode as bad as I want to see 85 now :P

Haha, now you've made me want to dig out all the bad ones, and find the guy responsible for those.

What episodes were 17, 19, 48 and 151? The two first sound about Haku-arc-ish?

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Aha! Thought so.

17 "White Past: Hidden Ambition"

19 "The Demon in the Snow" (Last Zabuza episode which was fucking epic)

48 "Gaara vs. Rock Lee: The Power of Youth Explodes!" (epic)

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151 "Blaze Away, Byakugan! This is My Ninja Way!" (Hinata Bug hunt filler? wtf?)

OK, I love that guy. 17 and 19 were indeed the end of the Haku-arc, and 48 Lee vs Gaara. Not sure about 151 but I think it was the "find the bug" filler arc.

This episode was amazing. It did feel like an OVA, as someone said.