Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1018594-20150604121840/@comment-1251315-20150604184822

Omnibender wrote: I don't get it. The manga is already over. They don't need to stretch out the anime with fillers so as not to catch up with the manga. This is a very terrible way to milk money out a franchise. Either that, or someone at Pierrot has a very questionable filler fetish. While I agree that they don't need to be inserting unnecessary fillers, sometimes flashback fillers like this can be useful for expanding things that are not explained in good detail in the manga. However, from the comments (I haven't seen the episode yet), it appears to be a flashback that explains things everyone already knows about.

Don't forget that the anime is at chapter 665: there's only 35 chapters left and an anime episode can cover 2-3 chapters in a single episode. If they focused only on the chapter content, the anime would reach the end very quickly and Kishi's plotholes would probably be left and never expanded properly.

For example, the several episodes where Hashirama was telling the story to answer Sasuke's question is a good example of decent filler, since it expanded something the manga didn't bother to elaborate upon.

I would prefer having a few pointless flashbacks, if it means that they can make decent filler for all the plot holes Kishi created by rushing the manga to completion.