This episode seemed different in several ways. The tree jumping was much more like crazy monkeys jumping through trees and trying to score style points as opposed to the standard flying with the occasional step routine. Also, the way Garaa looked and moved didn't seem to mesh with the way he was in the Chase arc. Neji and Hinata on the same two-man team seems unnesecary, but Neji and Shino can probably protect Hinata and Sakura best so maybe that's the reason.

I don't hold much promise for this arc, but since it's going to be like 13 vs 4 i'm sure some crazy nonsense will occur, maybe Naruto and Garaa will go deamon tag team or something, that might be fun to see.