throughout the 'recue gaara' arc of the shippuuden anime, there were many complaints about the amount of filler material that was used in between the bits of actual story. now that the 'rescue gaara' arc is over, i had the idea of going back and editing out all of the filler material, so that all of the episodes would (more) closely follow the manga. i'm doing this, since i'll be burning these 'new' episodes on a dvd for myself. so far, i've re-watched the first 10 episodes(which work a lot better when you watch them straight through IMO) and have jotted down what i would like to see removed. hopefully, when i'm all done, i can upload it or something so you guys can see that shippuuden isn't all that bad- it's just unnecessarily cluttered with stupid shit at times. and ALL of the episodes will have the konoha re-introduction bits at the end of the episodes removed.


ok, so far i've tinkered around with the shippuuden 01/02. there are that many changes to this episode, since it's pretty good as is, but let me know what you think.
- removed the everything in the beginning regarding sasuke, since it'll be in the anime later on, so the 'retooled' version starts at the intro. song

- removed konohamaru and co. retrieving the cat

- removed the password/character re-introductions that are sprinkled throughout this episode

- removed all the repeated stuff that replays after commerical breaks

- removed some of the unnecessary(at least to me) flashbacks

i can't wait to re-edit the kakashi/naruto vs deidara fight episode, which was the main reason i started this project, since that episode should have been badass, but ended up as a disappointment...