Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1018594-20161020111149/@comment-3261234-20161020125133

The manga ended with the 700th chapter. The content of the 699th chapter was adapted in the 699th episode of the anime. Yet they did not finish the original content with the 700th episode. SP....................just what the hell.

About the episode itself....

Nothing against background filler in general. Original content to give a character a more defined backstory = I'm set. However.....seeing 3 - 4 years old Naruto having to collect food on his own so he won't starve and then Hiruzen eating half his food despite knowing he's an orphan with nobody to support him is just....I can't even put it into words. Naruto's leap from the statue to his (normally) certain death is also....just no. Hinata then trips multiple times and the episode ends. Village folks at the beginning looked creepy as hell. Most of the Hyuga time, there was no music for whatever reason. In the end, there was hardly anything shown we didn't knew already. Yes, little Naruto was hated by the idiotic townsfolk for no reason, yes, Hinata hated being the Hyuga successor. We know that. Why didn't they use the basis we already knew and put something completely new on top of it, like with the Kakashi Anbu Arc? Heck, the only thing that was completely new was Hizashi's funeral, and that was done fine. Why not more?

In the end, 1/5 from me, just for said funeral. The rest, while being a nice idea, was so weird, random, forgettable and bland, I honestly have no idea what they were trying to convey with it in the first place. Next week, Haruno shenanigans and Uchiha brothers before things went to shit. Yay.