Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3323136-20150210160311/@comment-12509038-20150210211911

Shakhmoot wrote: We don't know exactly when the current filler arc will end. At least it'll end on April based on the new opening that will aired in this month. Also, Date claims in a previous interview that the anime won't stop even the storyline ends after adapting all the remaining events in the manga. About the animation for the upcoming events, since we'll have a film on August, I don't think that we'll see very well done episodes before that because most of talented animators in Studio Pierrot are working in the movie in this period. Let's see how the anime will handle those events and I don't think the anime will end in this year, maybe in the next year... Well, is it possible that the best animators are working on the movie right now, and so then when it's back to canon (some time after April), then they can actually animate the canon content? That's why I assumed we had a filler- so the animators could work on the film now and then animate the manga content after they're finished with the movie, which may be around the same time this filler ends.

I swear, if Naruto vs. Sasuke (as well as some of the other fights, like Naruto, Sasuke, and Guy vs. Madara & Team 7 vs. Kaguya) isn't animated with the best quality possible, there's gonna be hell to pay. I can understand if some of the filler content isn't animated the best (that's to be expected), but at least animate the canon content with the best animation- especially #697.