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Sep 13, 2007 4:44 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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I was cringing throughout the episode. The animation on the fights weren't too fluid (they seem to have gotten worse/slower in the time skip), there was yet again more tree jumping but that was okay the thing that annoyed me is...

...It took them that long and an 'exciting revelation' from Neji and Gai to realise they were getting exhausted.

Then the whole repetetive streak of 'stronger than yesterday' is not something that should be giving so much time given it was so lame to hear.

If they did all that 'renewed fighting' before they became exhausted they would have most likely defeated them, gone and helped killed Sasori without Chiyo being fatally poisoned then with the excess time attempted to catch up with Naruto and Kakashi.

And i'm not too fond of Naruto Buzz's new font either.


Sep 13, 2007 5:49 PM
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hmm..yeah, so the only thing that made the difference was Lee's inspirational words? wow I thought they were going to like power up and go full force on them or something ~_~.

Lee: I know how to defeat them.
Gai: What?
Lee: All you have to do is become stronger.
Gai: Stronger? That's right! I can't believe it didn't occur to me.
Gai: *Konoha Daisenka!*
*Fight Over*

Wow they seem so weak:(

Damn! Neji what have the creators done to you?!

Sep 13, 2007 7:21 PM
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it was a little painful to watch it at one go.. i gave up three times. at least this scurrilous filler excuse is done and over with.. *shakes head*
Sep 13, 2007 7:25 PM
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the episode sucked, now we have to wait for the next one that will air in 2 weeks... and it seems that gaara will be rescue in the next, which is good, cause I dont want to wait. but... it took about 20 episodes to win 1 akatsuki member and the clone-thing, and they will rescue gaara while fighting an akatsuki member in 1 episode... wtf! seriously, what have they done
Sep 13, 2007 11:24 PM
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THAT ep was soo laaaaame
Unbeliavable... Dunoo what to say.. THey r ruinning naruto ffs...
Sep 14, 2007 3:09 AM
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-slams head against desk-
I don't think I can take anymore of these non-canon scenes -cringe- they're slowly destroying the characters one by one >.<

Kakashi and Naruto should have featured in it a lot more, not to mention if the stupid anime hadn't stuck all the non-cabnon stuff in, we'd be about 30 frickin' chapters ahead now! ¬_¬
(Well, maybe thats a slight exadgeration, but the point still stands!)
Sep 14, 2007 8:39 AM
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All the episode proved was that ROCK LEE is a freaking genius to solve how to beat the clones, even though it was filler....
Sep 14, 2007 9:47 AM
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1 of the most stupid turns of a fight i have ever seen... become stronger then yesterday, whole fight toke few episodes and then in less then 5 minutes they beat the clones..
i wanted to see Kakashi's jutsu.
Sep 14, 2007 2:01 PM
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The worst episode in Shippuden! Stupid team Gai... ekch..
Sep 14, 2007 2:12 PM

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The episode was boring and funny in a bad way. OMG Lee you're a genius and surpassed Neji with your mastermindness.

I guess they made this episode crappy to save back the money they spent on 27 that was IMO the best episode on Shippuuden so far.
Sep 14, 2007 2:19 PM

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Well the next episode is an hour long and I'll keep my thoughts to myself on the next episode, I don't want to ruin it for anyone.
Sep 14, 2007 2:59 PM

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*Yawn*

Why couldn't they simply to that from the beginning? Sheesh.
Sep 14, 2007 3:26 PM

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LovelongSought said:
Well the next episode is an hour long and I'll keep my thoughts to myself on the next episode, I don't want to ruin it for anyone.


Hour long orly?



Sep 14, 2007 3:40 PM

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Geez. Fortunatelly, next episode airs after 2 weeks.. I have enought of Filludden for now. That was terrible 20 mins. And what is worst, I watched if AFTER nice Bleach episode.. now gonna be humorless through the rest of night.. -.-'

No, I still don't believe that Kakashi's and Naruto's fight didn't start. That must be some kind of bad dream.. O.O
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Sep 14, 2007 5:44 PM

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stupidest thing I've ever seen? Yeah, that's it!
Sep 14, 2007 6:36 PM

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god was that a lame episode took 28 episodes passed and they were in ONE SINGLE PLACE! in the old naruto, they would have moved onto 4-5 places by that time...><. I thought the perfect solution to the clone thing was to just switch whose fighting who....i mean the "be stronger than yesterday" thing was lame... :(
not even looking forward to naruto anymore >_>".

1st episode was pretty awesome even though i still have no idea why they showed sasuke there


P.S. is it just me or did they do a lot of "freeze frame+pan and zoom" a lot? to make it look like the scene is moving but it really isnt. seriosuly the animators are lazy and the characters dont blink -_-".

edit: awesome 123 posts xD
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Sep 15, 2007 5:02 PM

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zomg. as if that wasnt obvious. duh' you cant defeat them if your weaker than them, so duh' you can only defeat them if your stronger ~_~...

Shippuden Sucks!!!
I seriously do not understand how this can have a score of 7.98.
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Sep 15, 2007 8:36 PM

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I support Naruto firmly, and will defend it always, HOWEVER..this episode was so stupid. Lee being like "The only way to beat them....IS TO BEAT THEM!!!"..was just lame, and it was like a huge revelation to everyone.

Tenten's filler jutsu was pretty dope though.
Sep 16, 2007 9:30 PM
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Yeah thats why reading manga is best for some time , you know when the animator is just wasting some seconds in the scene just to fly some time so that the manga can go ahead them...... but duh u cant get stronger than yesterday at the moment u need them and also it was not yesterday that they switch the trapso it must be stronger than this past F!@!@ hour!! what did they do in the anime.....
Sep 17, 2007 12:25 AM
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i dont remember this part in the manga... but now that i know it was filler, that makes sense...

they really didnt have to do that
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Sep 18, 2007 8:06 AM

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Sep 19, 2007 6:12 PM

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*Bangs head on keyboard over and over and over....*
Sep 20, 2007 8:37 PM

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I liked the episode I guess I'm the only one that did. I liked where they were able to become strong enough to beat there Copies. Im glad they didnt help Sakura. She was able to do something on her own without Naruto or Lee jumping in to save her. ( with chiyo basan, but sakura did alot of it)
Dec 11, 2007 12:38 AM
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anyone know the music that was played when team gai fight there clones??? been looking everywhere for it!!
Dec 11, 2007 12:43 AM

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Shippuuden OST will be out December 19, it'll probably be on that.
Dec 14, 2007 1:25 AM
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nvm, hmmmmm i realy like that music and need name of it! :S
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Oct 13, 2008 12:22 PM

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Boursk said:
This ep makes me want to cry...... ; ;
Faust721 said:
*Bangs head on keyboard over and over and over....*

What more is there to do?



Amazing sig set thanks to -DraGonZ-
Sep 12, 2009 8:52 AM

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The whole become stronger than yesterday thing was really cheesy but I still liked this episode and we get the good stuff now.

Dec 4, 2009 9:38 AM

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When Lee said the "become stronger than yesterday" thing I don't understand why everyone was so suprised?
Also I wanted Lee to do the drunken fist to defeat the clone :*
Jun 2, 2010 5:13 AM

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:<
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.~
Aug 29, 2011 12:25 AM

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Yeah.....that was crap.
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Sep 17, 2011 6:07 AM

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Well, that was even worse than Bleach. In Bleach, they need to become stronger so they release some hidden power or learn a new technique. Here, they just decide to become stronger and thus they are. I should try that too. Bet it works.
At least, the fighting animation, while still bad, was better than last time.
And I agree with whoever that was on the first page. NEJI, WHAT HAPPENED?
At least he was one of the two clever enough to realize they were getting tired.
Tenten should just have drowned. She already gave up, lying in the river and then came back and continued fighting when he said he knew a way to defeat them. Stupid girl. Give up or fight on - whats with your attitude?
I really expected her to kill him when his only plan was just to be stronger but wow, she didn't say anything but just got stronger. If you still can do that, don't give up in the first place!!!

EDIT: It still bothers me so I edit my post to complain:
If the herbs growing in Sunagakure were just enough to make three antidotes and if Sakura made and used three antidotes, then how on earth does she plan to make another antidote when she returns to Sunagakure now??? Do they re-grow that fast in the Naruto-world?
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Feb 24, 2013 7:05 PM

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Yes, this episode was pure bullshit. Even the power of friendship seems like a good excuse to power up now that I've seen this shit. abysmal right to the bottom. What hurts me even more is the fact that after stuffing the canon episode with this much bullshit they STILL DID FILLER EPISODES AFTER THIS!!!

Naruto shippuden is shit, I'm just gonna pretend that it never happened and naruto finished at the end of part 1.
Apr 4, 2014 6:19 PM

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.........really??
Aug 19, 2014 7:25 AM
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Awesome episode
Sep 13, 2014 5:16 AM
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Hey, I really love Naruto, but that doesn't mean that I will ignore the shits of Naruto. This episode is just bad. Team Guy/Gai's fight scenes are all so fucking lame, and the conclusion was lame, too. Their final blow is just like what they have been doing from the very beginning =_=
Neji was supposed to be a genius and good at analyzing shits. They look pathetic and weak because of this stupid fight.
Well, special episode is next. Time for me to hit the gym and become stronger than yesterday. The only thing I like in this episode was that speech. Nice, Lee!!
Jun 24, 2015 9:57 AM

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I have mixed feelings about this honestly. I thought the fights were animated well and it was interesting to watch. Their "discoveries" about the battles however, were cringeworthy.
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Jul 15, 2016 5:43 AM

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It was better the fight was getting boring and boring
Jul 6, 2017 5:50 PM

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tbh it wasn't even that they somehow got stronger than before, it was more that they all used moves they hadn't used yet in the fight lmao
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May 14, 2018 8:37 PM
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So they didn't meet up and use their supposedly superior teamwork to defeat their clones, but instead they just got stronger.
May 26, 2019 7:44 AM

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So bad... Jesus Christ!
Aug 16, 2019 9:54 AM

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Yay Guy Team!! I always like these guys
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Nov 6, 2019 8:56 AM

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Well... At least Tenten finally managed to get featured in the ED?

The animation was fine, but really??! Are Lee's inspirational words that effective??!
Nov 6, 2019 8:58 AM

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animehobbit said:
Well, that was even worse than Bleach. In Bleach, they need to become stronger so they release some hidden power or learn a new technique. Here, they just decide to become stronger and thus they are. I should try that too. Bet it works.
At least, the fighting animation, while still bad, was better than last time.
And I agree with whoever that was on the first page. NEJI, WHAT HAPPENED?
At least he was one of the two clever enough to realize they were getting tired.
Tenten should just have drowned. She already gave up, lying in the river and then came back and continued fighting when he said he knew a way to defeat them. Stupid girl. Give up or fight on - whats with your attitude?
I really expected her to kill him when his only plan was just to be stronger but wow, she didn't say anything but just got stronger. If you still can do that, don't give up in the first place!!!

EDIT: It still bothers me so I edit my post to complain:
If the herbs growing in Sunagakure were just enough to make three antidotes and if Sakura made and used three antidotes, then how on earth does she plan to make another antidote when she returns to Sunagakure now??? Do they re-grow that fast in the Naruto-world?


She'll probably ask for a special delivery from the Leaf
Jan 9, 2020 7:00 AM

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God damn Lee,you're outdoing yourself everytime.I didn't know you had to get stronger to beat your old self.I mean that's so mind-blowing,I almost fainted.That thing was so lame,it actually lost its excitement.
Come on man,where is that Noragami season 3 masterpiece.We want it, Bones!

Sep 18, 2020 5:47 AM
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wE hAve tO beCoMe sTrOnGer!!!! Like no dip. That's how you defeat people?
Dec 3, 2020 7:43 PM
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That was nonsense and trash. Probably the dumbest Naruto episode of them all.
Mar 1, 2021 5:13 PM

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after the sharingan-cliffhanger we get...
hmm
i'm actually confuse if it's the writers to blame, or guy team that are too slow to act and do everything.

well now that's finally over.
Jun 27, 2021 9:58 AM

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So fricking slow and cringe! Finally it's over!
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Feb 9, 2023 8:39 AM
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This is the worst Episode Naruto Ever..
Why Pierrot?? :'(
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