Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20160804112505/@comment-734582-20160811140823

Starscream1998 wrote: It's also the actual story the creator had in mind free of filler contamination. Filler doesn't *have* to be bad. Things like Kakashi washing his hands while still seeing the blood on it, there being an actual battle for the Three Tails, greater expansion on the Konoha 12, and Kakashi v Obito are all great examples of stuff that the Anime team realized was needed. They're cases where the Anime team made better judgments than Kishimoto himself.

It's just that, these things are often executed on a shoestring budget (apparently) which is why it never really satisfies.