Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20170913103410/@comment-32576142-20170913235023

Was expecting this to be a throw-away episode (kind of like the one with Denki and Iwabe) but it was really enjoyable. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that Inojin seems to relying more on sai's techniques than Ino's in the new Ino-shika-Cho combination. I was honestly quite annoyed in the beginning when i found out the formation would be used again but with this new technique used in this formation, i'm interested in how they will use it to advance the combination.

That said, while reading the new chapter this week, I took the time to look at the students drawn in the manga (to see if Iwabe and Denki would be included) but only found that the illustrator drew that one girl in the anime that wears the hood (that fights with the creepy doll).

Finally, I wish people would stop comparing Naruto's Pace with Next Generations. I rather them flesh out this series and make the episodes canon (as in like show us things we didn't see before the events of the movie) so that there can be less filler later on and for that to happen, I feel like the manga should be much farther ahead of the anime than it is now, otherwise i think it will have the same issue with fillers if it were to speed up the pace to get to the chuunin exams.

As i've said before, i want to know how long they want to drag the manga for and by extension the anime.