Retsgip’s Anime Blog

These awesome filler episodes never seem to end in this series. I heard somewhere (probably on forums.animesuki.com) that these filler episodes will continue for at least another month. So like, /wrists anyone? I don’t even know why I kept watching afterthemanga arc finished and they started doing fillers. I understand that the Manga needs to progress and finish its current arc before they should start animating it, but in all honesty, they should have just ended it and made a second season. Then I wouldn’t feel compelled to watch all the episodes, and we could get straight to the juicy stuff!

This episode started up exactly where the last one ended (go figure), with Naruto and Princess Haruna being surprised by the last living brother who attacked the Greenery Country (lol, seriously? “Greenery Country”? Maybe the English translation is a little off). Watch out Naruto! He appears to be strong, dattebayo. Well, the key word here is “appears” to be strong.

Naruto being Naruto, rushes him at the start and does his only move, Kage-bushin

and manages to throw some kunai at the enemy before he gets Kamehameha-ed by water.

Is Naruto really that useless? He seriously needs to learn how to fight because 10 Naruto’s that can’t fight is just as useless as one Naruto that can’t fight. Well at least he figured out that this guy can manipulate water to do various things like make a shield or a magnifying glass.

(above: kunai bouncing off his shield, below: overpowered magnifying glass)

Well, in typical Naruto fashion, he gets chased around and beat up pretty badly (because he…you know, sucks without his kyubi powers). You see a nice little flashback on how Princess Haruna’s dad gets killed by Naruto’s enemy and Naruto gets beat up some more (sigh). I can’t stand when he gets beat so bad he doesn’t even fight back, its depressing. Well like an answered prayer bestowed upon me from Heaven, Naruto decides to do something “smart” for once. Yes, I said smart.

Naruto jumps up towards the photon-sun-cannon-of-extreme-melting and uses his forehead protector to reflect the sunlight at his enemy. It was all so anti-climactic I almost cried. Perhaps if he said: “Mi-Mi-Mi-Mikuru BEAM!” it would have been more entertaining, but then again, he would have had to Sexy no Jutsu real fast and throw on a Combat Waitress uniform. Oh well. But wait….*puts on monocle* wouldn’t the beam become less effective the closer he got to it? So shouldn’t that mean the light was pretty much useless at that height? And what the hell, his protector isn’t a mirror, how’d it reflect the light so well. Well enough infact to burn a hole through his enemy. SIGH!!!! So unrealistic. sigh.

Naruto saved the day once again, and Princess Haruna suddenly (never saw this coming) thinks highly of Naruto because he saved her. Oh hey! Everyone showed up at the end to rescue Naruto ‘n company and everyone lives happily ever after…

Honestly, the best part of the whole episode was Chouji munching on food at the end.

Seriously, this anime is going downhill. Sorry anyone who still enjoys it, but I couldn’t even pay attention enough to find out the moral of this mission. Can’t win ‘em all.