NARUTO: Hmm how will I defeat this boulder?

FLASHBACK
Jiriyama: Naruto I will teach you this NINJA BOULDRE BREAKING TECHNIQUE
Naruto: Damn, I am ATTACKING NINJA not BOULDER NINJA, teach me something useful
Jiriyama: but this will be VITAL
Naruto: I am generic male anime lead so I don't need your advice
Jiriyama: Ughgh

Sakura: Naruto don't you have a BOULDER REMOVAL TECHNIQUE?
Naruto: Damn
Kakeshi: My Eye thingy won't work on something without eyes
Gai: THIS BOULDER ABSORBS CHAKRA
Naruto: Damn

Oh my lord they actually did waste the whole episode on breaking down a rock.

Fuck this.

anything said about 18 is a waste of your precious time

wait

oh sh

18 = piece of shit

and seeing the preview of 19, it seems like the fight won't even really start, just more talk.

I thought the same.
Which would be really dodgy writing as NARUTO SEES HIS KINDRED SPIRIT'S CORPSE ON THE GROUND AND HE CHARGES AT THEM WITH PURE ANGER TO RIP THEIR FUCKING HEADS OFF AND DRINK THERoh wait we see an old lady float some knives.

yeah fight episode next, more like:

u kild gara i wil rip ure heads of but before that lets reminisce how we first met and put on some gay anime philosophies about loneliness. Ok flashback is over it is time to use "that", but for now lets look at the preview of next weeks episode where i have flashbacks of flashbacks.

*credits roll*

Maybe i do...


Anyhows I'm pretty sure the next ep is disappointing but maybe after 3 weeks something good starts. I guess we'll know tomorrow.

Maybe i do...


Anyhows I'm pretty sure the next ep is disappointing but maybe after 3 weeks something good starts. I guess we'll know tomorrow.

Actually we'll know in... eight days.

Yeah another two-week long gap between two one-hour specials that have about two minutes of content each.


I mean fuck if this part had the tempo of the first Naruto episode, this weeks episode would have been like five seconds long.

Well I guess something happened in ep 19 but it just made me feel like they were recycling the same battle animations for like 3 times over.

idk, the fights are almost more boring than the flashbacks.

we're gunna start fighting anytim
WAIT
let's talk some more

20 was pretty medicore. Offcourse, medicore is a whole lot better than what the previous eps have been.

There was some stupid stuff and the animation sucked for the most part (because they recycled those fucking doging animations like 4 times in a row and there was maybe 3 animations for that so gj).

It was pretty funny how Naruto kept coming out from the cliff and repeating the same bullshit everytime. Apparently he likes to dive into them? Haven't seen the preview for 21 but I kinda have hopes for that episode.

Ep 20 was great.
Let's stand around talking for 15 minutes infront of our opponent, detailing out what we could of said in two minutes and then when he atacks us, notice he is shooting in a straight line, so we must walk directly into the straight line and dance for a few minutes allowing the animators to save money by repeating the same animation over and over again, and allowing the youg five year old watcher to think "heh that's like teh matix", regardless of how retarded the idea is.
Let's intermix this with the odd flashback and conversations about what was already talked about last episode (our viewers have the attention spans of a biro pen so they cannot remember as far as two weeks ago)

So the pacing is still fucking retarded? I have not watched since episode 15 or so because I just got tired of how slow it is progessing - and I don't even read the manga. If someone who only watches the anime thinks the pacing is terrible, then yeah... major problem.