Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20161013111826/@comment-3261234-20161014120913

Gemnist 2.0 wrote: Obviously, this episode covers Ch. 699 of the manga. And by combining the 220 episodes of the original anime with the 479 of this series, we can say that this is the 699th episode of Naruto. Coincidence? This theory was circulating in the internet for a while already, and I would've forgiven SP every (seemingly) useless/badly timed filler when they also wanted to accomplish finishing the original story with episode 700, for which they needed more filler, obviously. So I was reeeeeeaaally hyped when this episode ended just where chapter 699 ended and thought "they are actually doing it, the absolute madmen", BUT THEN the epilogue narration at the end of chapter 700 was shown and the preview happened, so as it seems, we won't get the end of the series (timeskip with everybody being grown-up) in the next series, but instead flashbacks of Naruto and Hinata's childhood. I hope they somehow do it so that maybe the last 10 minutes show the conclusion of their two stories, namely becoming married with children when they are grown up and then show chapter 700. From then on, they can release every filler they want as far as I care.

For today's episode, all I can say is that I enjoyed every second, sans the placement of the afromentioned epilogue narration, but it was done nevertheless splendidly. The feels were real.