I actually quite like this one. The Hinata fight was well animated towards the end when she sent that Jyuuken move into Rui. And he actually died! At last a Jounin bad guy dies (I do hope they don't suddenly say he was captured alive). I suppose he wasn't that good of a Jounin if he was beaten by Hinata but I guess she is a pretty quick thinker.

Other part I liked was when Haruna was yelling at Naruto. Pretty dramatic, even if it wasn't a tear-jerker. And Naruto just stood there taking it like a man. The writers could have done the obvious and have Naruto yell back at her saying she wasn't the only one who suffered lonliness, but they didn't. Which begs the question, are they using different writers?

The next episode looks....OK. The animation in the preview didn't look like the quality in this one, but I've been proven wrong before. The guys jutsu looks like he can manipulate air particles into lenses and forcefields. Which explains why he was able to hit Chouji so easily. Should be very interesting if Naruto can defeat him without using Rasengan.

We shall see....