With all of this filler crap I can't help but wonder who the hell the naruto anime is supposed to be targeting in japan. All of the filler crap seems like it's aimed at eight-year-olds. I know that this is a shounen anime but still I had always thought that naruto bore a mass appeal similar to how in the states pixar movies cross all kinds of age barriors appealing to a very large audience. Am I wrong? Is this shit supposed to appeal to the lowest-common denomenator infantile japanese children. Because that's who the fillers seem to be targeting. Was a mistaken, was all the characer driven stuff false. Was it all just a dream. Then again when I show the old naruto episodes to new people I faith in the series is reaffirmed but still I can't help but wonder who is being targeted by the fricking retarded fillers as well as the ridiculously dumb movies.