Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20160317115111/@comment-28869806-20160317221050

Thekillman wrote: Bob1200 wrote: Its Supposed To Go By The Books Derp, Its Based ON The Books. But Unfortunately They Probably Had To Heavily Shorten It Otherwise The Fans Would've Raged About Canon Some More. It's an idiom. The entire filler isn't interesting, it's everything we already know about itachi. Smart, capable, early Acadamy finisher, contemplating the village etc. It's paint by numbers.

It's clear that Pierrot doesn't give a fuck about length (or canon). Why would they now.

and the cat thing. oh god why the cat thing. as silly a concept as ninja cats are they are actually canon, Sasuke, Suigetsu, Jugo and Karin stop off at this building to get supplies from the ninja cats that live there, sasuke even gives them catnip as payment.