Naruto Shippuuden Episode 88

[Abdula]

It's a delicate situation: Fillers surely don't promote the series or increase the audience but on the other hand approaching the source limit should be the worst nightmare for the studio. In that sense it would be wise for them to have short fillers, or preferably semi-fillers, here and there rather than quickly burn through all the manga story and then be left licking their fingers.

I guess you don't realize that they've been doing that since Shippuuden began. What do you think the clone fights were or that ridiculous scene where Kabuto attempted to fight Yamato, Naruto and Sakura by himself. That was so unlike Kabuto, I still don't get what was with the giant wasps. Its usually easy to tell when you're watching filler material, like when they showed us all those ninjas searching randomly for Akatsuki. When the studio decides to do something original, the outcome is seldom good.

[lilphatboi88]

why should that be the worst nightmare for the studio? they could just release naruto in seasons (with a few month / years pause between them) :/

like the other 90% who are doing anime adaptions.

if they did that in the first place, naruto would have been so much better
but that's wishfull thinking right here.

I agree. Seasons would be best. I wouldn't to watch fillers anymore, but the uncertainty of when they will end or whether I am missing anything bugs me a lot.If they held a break, I could just forget and look forward, instead, I am confused and frustrated.

[Kraco]

I guess you don't realize that they've been doing that since Shippuuden began. What do you think the clone fights were or that ridiculous scene where Kabuto attempted to fight Yamato, Naruto and Sakura by himself. That was so unlike Kabuto, I still don't get what was with the giant wasps. Its usually easy to tell when you're watching filler material, like when they showed us all those ninjas searching randomly for Akatsuki. When the studio decides to do something original, the outcome is seldom good.

Umm... Yeah. That's why I wrote what I did. It's not like I thought I invented that idea...

[DarthEnderX]

See, I liked the Sora arc right up until we found out what Sora's deal was(pseudo-kyuubi wtf?).

I originally thought he was a jincuuriki and the anime was making an arc out of one of the jinchuuriki that the manga skipped over(Akatsuki has alot of bijuu that they never bothered to show them capturing).

It's like if they'd taken the 2-tails, and instead of just showing those brief scenes, made an entire arc with that character beforehand.


Anyway, so...we're having a filler Kurenai arc right before a manga Kuranai arc? Hmm, that's the same thing they just did with Asuma, and look how that turned out for him.

I agree. Seasons would be best. I wouldn't to watch fillers anymore, but the uncertainty of when they will end or whether I am missing anything bugs me a lot.If they held a break, I could just forget and look forward, instead, I am confused and frustrated.

See, for me the ideal situation would be if, say, Naruto and Bleach shared a timeslot, and alternated weeks. You got a Naruto one week, and a Bleach the next week. Then you'd never have to watch another filler and both shows would still air all year round. Plus, they'd get twice as much time to work on each episode. That's gonna translate into better quality.

[Azonalanthious]

See, for me the ideal situation would be if, say, Naruto and Bleach shared a timeslot, and alternated weeks. You got a Naruto one week, and a Bleach the next week. Then you'd never have to watch another filler and both shows would still air all year round. Plus, they'd get twice as much time to work on each episode. That's gonna translate into better quality.

I imagine it all boils down to the all mighty dollar (or yen or euro, etc). To the best of my understanding, ad sales during a show's time slot generate a large portion of the income for the show, and new episodes attract more viewers (and so more valuable ad slots) then reruns. So a new episode every week is the most valuable from the production company's stand point - alternating with bleach (which I agree, would be nice to see) or going to seasons would cut into their overall profit, so they turn out fillers instead. As long as their viewship doesn't drop to much from poor fillers, they're gonna come out ahead, so I imagine we'll keep getting the filler treatment for some time to come...

And honestly... I have to say I haven't really minded the fillers all that much. I won't go so far as to say that I liked most of them, but I didn't actually dislike most of them either - most filler episodes were kinda "eh, watch and move on" for me - nothing to get excited about one way or another.

[ASSpirine]

There is a difference in Naruto fillers and Naruto Shippuuden fillers
The filler with Sora was quite OK
The others just sucked

[Archangel]

And honestly... I have to say I haven't really minded the fillers all that much. I won't go so far as to say that I liked most of them, but I didn't actually dislike most of them either - most filler episodes were kinda "eh, watch and move on" for me - nothing to get excited about one way or another.

.... were you into naruto when the filler hell first began?

[Assertn]

I guess you don't realize that they've been doing that since Shippuuden began. What do you think the clone fights were or that ridiculous scene where Kabuto attempted to fight Yamato, Naruto and Sakura by himself. That was so unlike Kabuto, I still don't get what was with the giant wasps. Its usually easy to tell when you're watching filler material, like when they showed us all those ninjas searching randomly for Akatsuki. When the studio decides to do something original, the outcome is seldom good.

http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/304/03/
lol?

[Abdula]

Whats funny?
He knows better than to try and fight them by himself so he immediately releases Sai.

He doesn't throw the shitload of Kunai, land right next to Sai, then instead of releasing him gives some long ass speech, only to get attacked by Naruto which he of course avoids, then gets attacked by a bunch of Naruto's clones which he of course defeats then gets attacked by Yamato but avoids that attack toowhile carrying Sai, only to then be attacked by Sakura which he also avoids while carrying Sai. Only to then be attacked by giant hornets which he initially runs from then he suddenly remembers he is a ninja and proceeds to use his chakra blades to expertly dispose of the hornets which takes him a full twenty seconds but Yamato, Naruto and Sakura do not attack him during that time because they are all standing motionless. Then he thinks to himself that perhaps fighting three on one will be disadvantageous, and being attacked by hornets is a sure sign that luck is on their side. Then he suddenly remembers Sai who he was carrying the entire time.

Wordy explanation was necessary but for you visual types

Manga, read to page 7
Anime

[Azonalanthious]

.... were you into naruto when the filler hell first began?

Oh, aye. I started watching just before the Chunin exam. Though... thinking back on it, part of it may have been my downloading habits - I was stuck on a dial-up connection at the time, so I would generally wait for 10 episodes to come out, then download them all on a friend's computer and burn 'em to a CD. They may well have bugged me more if I was watching them one episode at a time..

[DarthEnderX]

He Rasenganed the fucking noodles!!

[KrayZ33]

Fillers like that were at least funny....

I loved the "curry of life arc" or whatever it's called, even though all you guys hate it ^^
The scene with Neji regaining consciousness slowly and losing it again with a loud "uuugh" when that guy made him eat the curry again to "heal" him was just to good.

[DarthEnderX]

Yeah, that was funny, but it's like a 3 second joke in a 5-6 episode filler arc.

Although, Curry of Life arc was probably my second least hated of the filler arcs right after the County of Greenery arc.

[ASSpirine]

I was planning to watch the fillers one dat, I have them all downloaded. But after what I've heared, it's not supposed to be good. I can only thank Aone they were so slow to sub the fillers

[Buffalobiian]

[Nipponsei] NARUTO Shippuuden OP04 Single - CLOSER [Inoue Joe].zip

One of the better Naruto Openings. Full song release.

[lilphatboi88]

I hope it's not a virus. I recently had a nasty encounter with the win32.netsky.q worm/virus from either downloading this song or Reservoir dogs.

Thanks Bill, for a while now, all I've had was the minute-something song. Now I have the full version

[Buffalobiian]

lol, no, it's not a virus. Have I ever done that to you

Anyway, listening to Gravity and the other tracks on the torrent, this guy's got the best English I've heard from any Japanese.