Wow. Wow. The anime team never ceases to amaze me. Pre-timeskip, every episode covered about 2 manga chapters... This was a one hour special and it covered one chapter of material. I would not have thought it possible if I hadn't seen it myself just now. This is obviously the formula they're going with for Shippuden - they take a trivial amount of manga material, slow the animation down to half the speed it should be and then fill the rest of the episode was pointless and boring filler. I thought the endless filler season was so they wouldn't have to do crap like this.
I really recommend anybody that isn't reading the manga now start. I'm being completely serious when I say that watching it animated like this makes it much worse than reading it in black and white manga.
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