I looked it up, and he was in the Pain arc.
But yeah, he's totally not that big in that scene, and that only happened like a month ago, so it's totally dumb that he's as big as he is now. I thought it was an anime-induced plot hole. But it's just regular bad writing. There's no reason they couldn't have just used Gamabunta here.
Yeah, they did a whole thing where Gamatatsu and Naruto combined their water and wind powers for a super combo attack.
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