Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1512913-20181014115623/@comment-27797856-20181014174951

Vladosaurus wrote: I didn't say it was new.I just said it's irritating. I was arguing against this statement in particular:

"Then yet again, they pretty much threw the "it requires a large amount of chakra to summon a large animal" thingy out the window ever since shippuden"

No they didn't. It was something made up for Naruto's training and it literally never came up again, so chances are it was retconned.