Naruto Shippuuden Episode 88

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It's a delicate situation: Fillers surely don't promote the series or increase the audience but on the other hand approaching the source limit should be the worst nightmare for the studio. In that sense it would be wise for them to have short fillers, or preferably semi-fillers, here and there rather than quickly burn through all the manga story and then be left licking their fingers.

I guess you don't realize that they've been doing that since Shippuuden began. What do you think the clone fights were or that ridiculous scene where Kabuto attempted to fight Yamato, Naruto and Sakura by himself. That was so unlike Kabuto, I still don't get what was with the giant wasps. Its usually easy to tell when you're watching filler material, like when they showed us all those ninjas searching randomly for Akatsuki. When the studio decides to do something original, the outcome is seldom good.