Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20150507113846/@comment-1251315-20150508205321

Shakhmoot wrote: Yeah, this arc will be ended earlier than expected, so Neji's rescue to Gaara made him promoted to be jonin and the other Konoha ninja are promoted to be chunin. And the arc will end like this... Seems it's been rushed badly indeed. The rushed ending is probably because of poor ratings. If they got good ratings, it probably wouldn't be a rushed ending, so I suspect that the ratings aren't good so they're simply getting off the filler and back to canon stuff so they don't kill the anime off and resulting in people not watching it anymore.