Naruto 218

[BioAlien]

It is out.
http://yhbt.mine.nu/t/n218.torrent

[ShinobiNiNaritai]

Yeah!! been waiting to download since yesterday.

[JaySee]

How disappointing. No real thought put into this episode. The 3 bad guys all died pretty pathetically. Not to mention the huge plot hole in Kankuro's puppet magically being repaired. At least they put some spotlight on Ino's uselessness. Now what about the other girl?

I loved the WTF looks on Neji and Hinata.

[DarthEnderX]

See, I thought this episode rocked. This is the kind of filler I can get behind. A full half hour of fighting.

And I thought at least 2 of the fights ended well.

The only real downside I had with this episode was how crappy Lee was. Both in effectiveness, and animation. Lee and Naruto should have been able to beat that guy without Gaara's help.

I think what I liked best was it had what I really like to see in this show, but hardly ever do, and that's tag team attacks.

Having the same characters using the same moves in 1-on-1 battles over and over gets really boring. I always think it's cool when two people use their powers together in interesting ways. I think the last time we got to see something like that was way back when Naruto and Sasuke fought Zabuza.

[Danad_corps]

I'd say this was a typical filler-quality episode (in other words it sucked). Somehow BOTH puppets were restored from being totally obliterated and Rock was extremely ineffective and somehow got injured badly in the fight even though he trains with Gai-sensee and gets the shit beat out of him practically everyday from it (you would think he has worked up some tolerance to pain and that his insane speed would have helped him to dodge the dudes slow-ass attacks).

The only part I liked was that they actually did a sneak attack (when naruto kicked the dude in the back of the head) which was actually ninja-like compared to their extremely blatant taunts that occur during the beginning of each and every fight.

Although seeing the tag team attacks like DE said was cool, it was also pretty damn pathetic. Naruto and Lee were pretty damn useless in beating that dude (i mean all they had to do was find sharp stick and throw it at him as Garaa showed towards the end), Ino was ultimately useless as hell being blown away after charging straight-on numerous times in a row (one would think to change his/her battle plan after the second foiled attempt), and Choji's team had absolutely no teamwork until the end where they miraculously all worked together flawlessly (talk about your flukes). Furthermore, when the hell will you ever find time in a fight to stop and talk to your teammates about your battle strategy? What person, after deciding that they are gonna kill someone, would just stand by and pass up multiple opportunities to slaughter his/her enemy?! Ahhh...the more i think about it the more it pisses me off. I'm just happy that its gonna end real soon. That and that i was right about the whole bugs telling Sakura who is injured.

Anyone else think that Neji and Hinata were kinda useless? Shino could have pretty much covered their responsibilities.

BTW, Where is Garaa gonna get a new gourd from (i'm sure that a crack-patterned gourd isn't exactly fashionable and/or exactly replicable)

[Yukimura]

@Danad: I think he makes the gourd out of his sand, if you remember back to the chunin prelims he shattered it to break his fall when Lee did that 4th gate Lotus attack thing.

This was an odd episode indeed, people were blatantly and almost graphically killed, which I don't think we've seen for quite a while. There was blood, there was penetration, it was nice to see those aspects again after so long. It's been so long actually that I was shocked when they showed the armor guy get impaled and I nearly shit myself when the Hydra sword guy got puppet massacred with blood streaming down the puppet parts. Good times. Otherwise it was decent I guess. Garaa pwnage though that giant dragon thing seemed unnecessary. If all it took to beat Garaa was to get him wet why not just push him into a river or something...or use a basic water jutsu? The triangle of doom was just too over the top for my tastes.