Naruto 202-204

[Sapphire]

This episode was... meh. I miss the intensity of Naruto and everyone's eyes. Now all the characters are just hollow shells of.. meh.

The good vibes I got from the opening theme got me through the first 20 minutes or so good natured, but they overused old ideas that used to be cool (Like how Kurenai blended into the air when she used her genjutsu) too much.

In retrospect, I probably only watched this episode because I had a small blind half hope that it would be as cool as it's opening theme. o_O

[DarthEnderX]

Bio caught the same thing I did that makes me extremely hopeful as well.


As for the episode itself, it was mediocre. The plot isn't that bad. But the action blows. Apparently in the entire realm of illusion based ninja magic, the only two illusions that exist are invisibility and trees.

Filler writers once again showing their complete inability to flex their creative muscles.

[Kraco]

Yeah. That was the main thing that bothered me as well when watching this. The action would have been far better otherwise. Even Kurenai's sakura petal jutsu wasn't so different that it would have saved it. And naturally they repeated that as well.

Actually the painting genjutsu by the girl was the only bright spot technique wise in this special. The very beginning with painting the storm and the lightning bolt wasn't bad at all.

[kimbap629]

im very hopeful for the fillers ending soon...

and this 90 min filler seems to be less filler-ish in that it actually involved konoha village and the konoha shinobi instead of like ramen ninjas, tony the tiger mizuki, water sea monsters, etc..that the fillers have been showing us for over a year now~

so with that, it seems like they're actually thinking about stopping filler. too bad next week there's no naruto (but i guess this is a good sign because 1 less filler epi we need to suffere thru at the cost of no naruto at all during a week...)

[BioAlien]

too bad next week there's no naruto (but i guess this is a good sign because 1 less filler epi we need to suffere thru at the cost of no naruto at all during a week...)

to make a longer episode they need to cut somewhere, that why like 2-3 week ago there was no naruto and the week after was just a normal episode, and next week, no episode. it mean they took the 60min from each week to mix it to the 30min of this week naruto filler. so it just make sence that next week = no episode

[Conders]

Not half bad in my oppinion acctually... And I believe that this do show the stop of fillers is in sight, not just because of the ending, but also because they showed a bit of Kurenai's past... It was only the part related to the episode, but I don't belive the filler creators can make up people's past when it's a non-filller character?

Sorry if there are som typeoes but I'm pretty tired : p

[dellthx]

before i d/l this special i wanted to know if the arc was only these three eps or not, ? rather watch the whole arc all at the same time.

[Assertn]

Not half bad in my oppinion acctually... And I believe that this do show the stop of fillers is in sight, not just because of the ending, but also because they showed a bit of Kurenai's past... It was only the part related to the episode, but I don't belive the filler creators can make up people's past when it's a non-filller character?

Sorry if there are som typeoes but I'm pretty tired : p

Not necessarily.....
A person's past covers a time span much longer than you'd ever actually see from any manga/movie/tv show.....until there's something like a real live "Truman Show" at least.