http://yhbt.mine.nu/t/n220.torrent

The last episode of Naruto part one. It's still partly filler but it's also the first canon episode in a very long time. Starting next week, Naruto Shippuden (=Hurricane Chronicles) will start airing with a double episode. Here's the preview for the first Naruto Shippuden episode (no subs):

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The fillers lasted for 85 episodes but finally the wait is over.

My life can start again!

I haven't been following Naruto for over a year and a half, finally I have a reason to start watching it again.

I was expecting a thread like this. I'm very excited, but the animation could be better.

I know that much, just wondering why it took them that many before deciding, yeah lets go to the manga, i mean bleach didn't take that long, plus it was a better filler (worth watching once, no more) still in the end, thank god its over.

They weren't deciding if they are going with the manga or not, I'm sure they were always going to go with the manga. They just wanted to create a considerable gap between the manga and the anime. It's pretty close to the amount of chapters which were out when Naruto initially started, over 100. Considering how they have paced things before (using flashbacks, prolonging battles and so on), I'd say that this is pretty accurate:

Naruto can go on for ~75 episodes without fillers.
Bleach can go on for ~25 episodes without fillers.

I'm pretty sure Bleach will have fillers after the current arc finishes. Naruto should have at least 3 arcs before having fillers again. Unless they do what I hope they will and have one or two short filler arcs after every major arc so that there won't be second time with nearly 100 consecutive fillers.

I'm going to laugh hard when the fillers start again.
Also, the animation doesn't look too good. : /

Naruto's animation has only been top-notch in a few episodes. The animation looks pretty much what Naruto's standard canon has always looked like and I'm fine with it.

And Shikamaru has a big role in one of the arcs.

Problem was that they only did that before Sasuke's arc. It might have been better if they'd done some fillers earlier.

But didn't they do that before when Sasuke was in the team? Then there was like 20 episodes afterwards and then the 85 fillers.

Yeah, there was one filler arc like that. I just hope they'll do that after every arc and maybe have two arcs sometimes. That way having some fillers wouldn't feel that bad. Especially if they put effort in them like in some of the latest filler arcs.

the code of samurai lives on............ in the heart of a young man.......

Perfection in industry is making as much money as possible with the least investment. As far as that goes, filler arcs are pretty darned perfect.