Well, I was very surprised at how they ended the epsiode. It was pretty cool seeing the genin, including Sasuke, attend Tsunade's ceremony. I also found it cool how they explained Tsunade's study of the body for Rock Lee's surgery in both this and the last episode.
Anyways, now begins the speculation on how this next arc will be. I hope they do somehow attempt to show Kakashi's face or past in any way. This will definately be cool and give me more incentive to watch the anime since I'm pretty caught up in the manga. I'm just happy that they're doing missions until they catch up to the following arc in the manga (i'm sure a couple manga readers are disappointed, LOL). Maybe Sakura will learn some pretty useful tai, nin, or genjutsus along the way and become somewhat of a better shinobi than she is now! Well, if anything, this is the best time to do it in the series, so here's hoping that Studio Pierrot makes me happy!
Didn't anyone else think Shizune was freaking cute in this episode?