Quote Originally Posted by Sapphire
I don't know about the arc with Anko, but the makers of Naruto are screwing themselves bigtime if they're going to make an arc of every single jounin in the series. Even Sasuke himself didn't even get more than two or three episodes, and that was just a majority of them. Things were happening in the backrgound. Sooner or later Kishimoto is going to say something like, "What! I wanted Anko to really be a blah-blah-blah! But you guys blah-blah-blah!" Or something like that.
It's also entirely possible that he'd also go, "Anko? I used her in like 3 episodes. 2 years ago. You want to go into her past? Go nuts. I wasn't gonna bother. I still have a half a dozen gennins I still have to write traumatic flashbacks for."