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Originally Posted by hmongstang
i will give this one a chance since they have garaaaaa in there  |
Word of advice, keep your expectations down, and you'll enjoy it more.
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Originally Posted by Razz
Dang, when did you move to Japan Shika? /jealous
Is this filler arc worth watching? Or should I just wait til February 15th?
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Just before new years, studying Japanese for a year.
Appearantly the last episode was good, but I didn't like this one one bit (see my post above). Did give it a three, but I reserve my 1s and 2s for when they mess up the manga arcs.
If I were you I'd wait. Maybe watch the last part on the 8th, since it's bound to be manga material.
Spoiler for A few more in-depth thoughts:
It's pretty clear from the get-go that this episode was going to be a homage to the save Sasuke-arc and the help Sunagakure provided. I didn't see the last episode (except for the very last few minutes) but I take it from this episode a sand ninja (seems to be a student of sorts of Gaara's?!) was taken by these four hoodlums (lets call them the Brick 4) and being Sunagakure's only qualified ninjas, Gaara, Kankurou and Temari are going after them. Am I close?
Naruto and co. even mentions that they're going to repay the favour from last time, and we're provided with a lengthy flashback to that episode. As mentioned above, Temari takes on the first of the four, Kankurou the second and Gaara the third. The Kankurou/Kiba and Temari/Shika situations are basically completely reversed in this episode with the exception that these fights are absolutely ridiculous.
In fact it's really brave of the anime to make such a copycat episode, because it makes it mainstakingly clear, how inferior the anime writers are at writing characters, action and plot compared to Kishimoto. Even if you have to protect continuity, you should be able to get more out of the source material than this. Gaara's fight has only just begun but I'm afraid it's all too clear that he's going to need help defeating that nerd, which just feels ridiculous.
The anime team's problem is that the filler arcs are simply too short to tell an interesting story. If I watch Naruto next week, it's only because it requires no more effort than pushing a button.