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Earth 2 Superman wrote: ??? TL;DR the animation sucked ass.

To be fair though, I can't blame Studio Pierrot entirely. An anime with this kind of budget generally has a lot more talking/non-action scenes than fighting (which basically was what this used to be). Then Kishimoto went ahead and made 150 chapters of straight fighting. So in order to keep up, SP had to pull out the tricks they usually used when they caught up with the manga (filler, flashback usage, unnecessarily dragged-out scenes, ect ect), but when they can't do those kinds of things, episodes like this happen.