Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20160804112505/@comment-4646462-20160805032034

I like how the first shot of Naruto disintegrating stops right at the manga panel equivalent.

My only assumption is that they're still very under-budget (they've got better series to animate), they have whatever good animators they can pick up working on Naruto vs Sasuke, and they don't have any more filler ideas (at least, not yet).

Even then, why do the cheap animation studios seem so insistent on using purely drawn animation? Computers can be used as a great assistant in stringing together keyframes. Leave the drawn animation to the high-quality animators.