[MKYOO]

ahhhhhhhhhhhh omg i cant wait ne longer!!!!! i've been refreshing yhbt.mine for like the whole dayyyyyyyy!!!! not exactly but from 6. haha

[TrainDriver]

finally its coming, after nearly 2 years rejoice naruto fans

[dudeman]

so if hurricane chronicles is a new series, doesn't this mean it was basically pointless to watch naruto after the naruto/sasuke fight? they could have just ended the damn thing and then started the 2nd series now. (btw, what episode was that fight? i quit before i got around to it but i heard it was good)

Unfortunately, by the time Naruto got past the Naruto/Sasuke fight, the anime had already caught up to the manga (actually the manga was only slightly ahead, but even slightly is NOT GOOD AT ALL). I don't think they even started animating the 2nd series after Naruto's and Sasuke's fight, and even if they did, it didn't change the fact that the anime was already caught up to the manga, and if the anime ever went past the manga, then the animators would have done the unthinkable and made up nonsense of their own and continued with that nonsense for the remainder of Naruto, much like how they did with FMA and Kenshin (although FMA's and Kenshin's weren't bad at all, esp. FMA's). Plus, the manga is like source material for the anime; if the anime exceeded the manga, it wouldn't have a source material anymore, so it would inevitably have to make up permanent nonsense. So, in order to make sure that the manga is well ahead for the anime to continue, they pulled off what would eventually turn out to be a smart move, and made up all these useless filler stories just to kill time. REMEMBER: The time the Naruto anime started was 2002, which was two years after the manga started. The time that Naruto part 2 happened in the manga was also approximately 2 years from when Naruto Shippuuden started. As a result of that large time difference between the anime and the manga, the anime managed to go for a whopping 135 episodes before it finally caught up to the manga. I would therefore expect Naruto Shippuuden to also go for another 135 episodes just like Naruto did before it too catches up to the manga. Of course, by the time the anime caught up with the manga, the year was 2005...3 years after the anime premiered. I would also therefore expect Naruto Shippuuden to go for 3 years before it catches up to the manga.

In very short terms...the fillers were seriously retarded, but in the long run they turned out to be beneficial, because we can expect at least 3 solid years of Naruto Shippuuden that actually adheres to the story. And even if we DO get fillers again, I'm actually sort of looking forward to them, because since the show's in a different time period now, and the characters might have slightly changed in personality (if not their looks, lol), so their changes might put more of a dynamic into the show, regardless of whether it's filler or not.

In even FEWER words...we have absolutely nothing to worry about for now .

Cheers.

[TrainDriver]

did any1 notice that during the fillers, that time gap we were waiting, naruto grew up as well ahahaha

[Nuguya?]

Dattebayo has Naruto Shippuuden 001-002 up for download

[cabe474]

Dattebayo has Naruto Shippuuden 001-002 up for download

yay

[Take Five]

Unfortunately, by the time Naruto got past the Naruto/Sasuke fight, the anime had already caught up to the manga (actually the manga was only slightly ahead, but even slightly is NOT GOOD AT ALL). I don't think they even started animating the 2nd series after Naruto's and Sasuke's fight, and even if they did, it didn't change the fact that the anime was already caught up to the manga, and if the anime ever went past the manga, then the animators would have done the unthinkable and made up nonsense of their own and continued with that nonsense for the remainder of Naruto, much like how they did with FMA and Kenshin (although FMA's and Kenshin's weren't bad at all, esp. FMA's). Plus, the manga is like source material for the anime; if the anime exceeded the manga, it wouldn't have a source material anymore, so it would inevitably have to make up permanent nonsense. So, in order to make sure that the manga is well ahead for the anime to continue, they pulled off what would eventually turn out to be a smart move, and made up all these useless filler stories just to kill time. REMEMBER: The time the Naruto anime started was 2002, which was two years after the manga started. The time that Naruto part 2 happened in the manga was also approximately 2 years from when Naruto Shippuuden started. As a result of that large time difference between the anime and the manga, the anime managed to go for a whopping 135 episodes before it finally caught up to the manga. I would therefore expect Naruto Shippuuden to also go for another 135 episodes just like Naruto did before it too catches up to the manga. Of course, by the time the anime caught up with the manga, the year was 2005...3 years after the anime premiered. I would also therefore expect Naruto Shippuuden to go for 3 years before it catches up to the manga.

In very short terms...the fillers were seriously retarded, but in the long run they turned out to be beneficial, because we can expect at least 3 solid years of Naruto Shippuuden that actually adheres to the story. And even if we DO get fillers again, I'm actually sort of looking forward to them, because since the show's in a different time period now, and the characters might have slightly changed in personality (if not their looks, lol), so their changes might put more of a dynamic into the show, regardless of whether it's filler or not.

In even FEWER words...we have absolutely nothing to worry about for now .

Cheers.

i guess my post was kind of confusing. i know they couldn't start shippuden right after the fight but if they were gonna make everything after that fight filler and then just start a "new" series, they should have just discontinued it at the time. but of course, i guess they had to try to keep the naruto craze alive(although i think it probably hurt the franchise more than they helped it). apparently it's some kind of sin to stop a long-running popular shonen jump series until they catch up to the manga ending(well, for the most part anyway).

[dudeman]

The fillers also served another function...they showed some of the growth that the characters will exhibit in part 2. I get the feeling a lot of people considered Sakura's super strength in part 2 to be unrealistic, so to show Sakura's progress in the fillers served to make it a little more convincing. Ino's motive for learning some medical jutsu is also shown well in the fillers too (whether it's canon or not), as she does indeed know some later on. Basically some stuff in the fillers, however minute and possibly insignificant they may be, are good setups to what may come in shippuuden.

Although, they should have curbed the retardedness on the fillers a bit...honestly the last filler arc was the only one worth watching...and I'm not saying that just because it really was the last arc, or because Naruto finally left the village, but that there were stuff in that arc worth watching...such as Gaara and Kakashi, for one, and I really liked how they paralleled it to the Rescue Sasuke arc, where Tenten is now the one who felt left out instead of Shino, and Jiraiya comes to visit Naruto in the hospital again (and this time they actually GO). But yeah, the other ones? Pshh.

But enough dwelling on the past; Naruto Shippuuden's rocking the party!

[h2obubbli]

Ryuzaki: i think they did skip the kakashi gaiden.. sadly!.. he had a great story too.maybe they'll save it for another filler season..

i heard its going to change into a OAV

[atel]

i don't get how DB does it so fast. wonder if some people live in Japan's time zone... lol. anyways... impressed how fast they are. opening song was pretty good.

[darkboy]

YAY!!! the fillers are finally over, im so happy i hope the kakashi gaiden comes out soon lol.

[losborrachos]

tell me you didn't see the kurenai thing coming! it's been predicted for the past... 3 months or so... and the revelation of the "king" is no big surprise as well, and it's a bit cheesy if you ask me... i mean "future generations" is all they talk about... i say stop sending your women to the battlefield then... i mean, where do you think those "unborn leaders" come from? anyways, lolololol @ emo sasuke sitting on a bunch of almost-corpses...

[MKYOO]

omggggg what is everyone talking about? is it from the anime?

Spoiler

kurenai is pregnant

? what??? who's asuma???? sasuke comes out again? omgg i wanna seeee ittttt so badly

[sHiNHaWk]

I'm liking the music for the new episodes; sounds more ninja-ish compared to the previous tracks I heard before. The music reminds me of Tenchu.

[DanTat]

!!!!!, i almost forgot what good animation in Naruto looked like!!

[ryisakooguy]

dang the new anime is dope.

has the same old skool feel of naruto but now they look much better. the fillers looked like crap compared to now. the art style is much more cleaner.

cant wait to see what happens the next episode. havent read the manga at these parts soo im clueless to what happens next.

also luving the new songs. tryin to find the ending song...i dont think that single is even out yet. its a good song tho.

[cmank]

shippuuden 1-2

DB's shippuuden 001-002 on direct download by me
enjoy

[dudeman]

tell me you didn't see the kurenai thing coming! it's been predicted for the past... 3 months or so... and the revelation of the "king" is no big surprise as well, and it's a bit cheesy if you ask me... i mean "future generations" is all they talk about... i say stop sending your women to the battlefield then... i mean, where do you think those "unborn leaders" come from? anyways, lolololol @ emo sasuke sitting on a bunch of almost-corpses...

Even if people managed to predict Kurenai as pregnant, there hasn't been any sufficient evidence to back that up other than the fact that Kurenai and Asuma were together. But just because a couple is together doesn't always result in them with a child. At best, that whole "prediction" thing is nothing more than a guess.

As for the future generation thing...I don't know if it occurred to you yet, but that's kinda one of the important themes of the show...it would be especially ludicrous if they left that out, because it was also an important element of Asuma, who finally realized just what his father lived, fought, and died for, and he wanted to make sure Shikamaru especially remembered that before...you know.

[madeinktown]

^ guys, again, watch the spoilers for the manga. not everyone reads it and they shouldn't have it spoiled for them. please be a little more considerate when you post.

as for shippuuden...they took too long to progess the story. they threw in the sasuke part even though they're in the akatsuki arc and...it just took too long. there goes three seasons of waiting...

[dudeman]

^ I purposely neglected it...because it was already revealed in the thread a couples posts ago, so however much I wanted to black it out, it's not like it would have served a purpose anyway. Don't judge me, I've been keeping anything spoiler-related blacked out for a while...well, anything that wasn't accidentally revealed in the previous posts anyway...

On another note, there is a small mistranslation in the DB sub. When Diedara's talking about they're "only going to take out a shrimp", he actually said, "the One-tail", instead of "shrimp". There are also other mistranslations like that in the ep, but they're nothing worth fussing over, really.