So I’ve gotten around to adding a few more episodes to the summaries. Since we are in filler mode again, I’m certainly not going to create any summaries for them. Rather, I will wait until the atrocities are over and then take the spare weeks to get caught up on the non-filler episodes.

So… Let’s hunker down, and wait it out. Until then, expect more summaries.

Yes, it’s that time of the season again. It looks like there is a new series of fillers coming our way next week. For those of you who solely watch the Anime, that means we will have to wait for answers to many of our questions, such as the true nature of Pain, and Madara Uchiha. While these fillers are running, I will not be posting reviews. Actually, I will, but I will mostly catching up from the last few months of shear inactivity up to these filler episodes. It will help me to re-watch all the episodes, to remind myself of how good this show actually is while I we all have to suffer through the lower quality and frustrating pace of the fillers.

Yeah, I know this site is backed up and behind big time. Life have been insanely busy for me and keeping up with Naruto has been tough. As it is, I’m actually 3 episodes behind now with today’s releases. I haven’t forgotten about writing here, and I still want to expand this site to be a comprehensive episode guide. My hope is to spend some more time on this site and get it back up to par within the month.

Bear with me!

It’s rather interesting how this episode plays out. For some reason, I figured it would have been done better. I’m not disappointed, but it’s a huge part of the story and I was left wanting. If there was a moment to spend a bit more time on the animation, I thought this was it.

In the first half of the episode, we see Kabuto and Orochimaru talking about their plans and strategy. This acts as a review of a large part of the series story, going all the way back to the Chuunin exams, probably almost 2 years ago now. They review how Orochimaru tested, watched, and tested again Sasuke’s skills to see if he was worthy of being inhabited by Orochimaru. Meanwhile, Sasuke sits in meditation in his room. As Kabuto leaves, commenting on how Orochimaru’s body is wearing down and won’t last much longer, Sasuke get’s up. While Orochimaru sits in his bed, pondering on how he would take over Sasuke’s body, a blade flies through the door at Orochimaru. Barely blocking it by letting it stab him in his arms, the door then gives way to Sasuke, holding the blade. Sasuke tells Orochimaru how his drive for revenge would have let him do anything, even giving up his body. However, Sasuke didn’t like how Orochimaru did things, nor did he thing Orochimaru was strong enough. Sasuke approaches Orochimaru, and just before giving the final blow, something flies out of Orochimaru’s mouth. Now we see his true form. After so many experiments and tests and manipulations to his own body, Orochimaru had turned into a great white snake, with a human-like head. With snakes coming off his body, Orochimaru surrounds Sasuke. Using the seal on his neck, Sasuke transforms freeing himself.
And with that, the episode ends. We are left wait for the final part of the battle for next week. It’s going to be great!

In case you just can’t die without know what in the world happened the past 20 episodes or so, let me fill you in: Nothing. At least nothing that is really going to make a difference in the show. Allow me to explain:

The filler arc started with a lone ninja sending off word that he may have found Orochimaru’s hideout. Of course, Konoha sends off our familiar ninjas to investigate. Meanwhile, Kabuto enlists the help of a women named Guren whom he expects to fulfill a certain mission in return for him taking over her body. She has a unique ability to create crystal out of anything. She grabs a posse of bad guys and they head out. Their mission, as it turns out, is to protect a boy who has a mysterious ability. We find out later that he has the ability to control one of the tailed beasts, the three tails (also called “sanbi”).
While Konoha is on it’s way to investigate Orochimaru, and while Guren on the way to the lake where the Sanbi is found, the groups naturally clash. Afterward, Naruto runs into the boy (called Yuukimaru) who controls the beast. Naruto makes a statement that will haunt if you watch these episodes. He says as long as someone is thinking of you, you have a place to return to. I think it was said an average of about FIVE times each episode following that. It was the most redundant statement I’ve seen in a series.
I’m getting frustrated writing this thing. Let me finish quick. Both parties end up at the lake with the Sanbi. Konoha tries to permanently seal the tailed beast, while Guren and gang try to stop them. While all of this is happening, Guren starts to care for Yuukimaru, and eventually turns sides and decides to protect him. Her gang members are manipulated and killed off by Kabuto, and in a final desperate attack, Guren takes out Kabuto with herself.
Now it gets lame. After many a battle with the tailed beast, and trying to control the creature, (everyone actually gives up by now and just leaves) Akatsuki come in, knock the thing out and drag it away in five minutes. Rediculous.
While they’re doing that, Guren Miraculously survives, and goes back to take care of Yuukimaru, while Kabuto reports to orochimaru and Konoha returns and prepares for other things.

Honestly, there were a few moments where the animation was pretty cool, but for the most part the story was redundant, predictable, and just obnoxious. There are only a couple moments of cannon within the whole story, but for the most part, it just deviates and doesn’t do anything for the overall story.

It was a rather long haul, with hardly any story actually happening in the process, but we are now going to be moving on once again with the real story. As such, expect a review of the past few episodes and for reviews and new videos to be posted shortly.

They got a lot of interested people watching their every move now after they posted the subtitled the ending and opening songs for Naruto. Very interesting of them to do it. Especially their “tagline” at the end of the opening.
Does this mean they might come back? I don’t think so. I think that they want to subtitle Naruto again, but they already started a new project and have tried to move. They aren’t going to be trying anything weird like picking up an old project.

Just so you know.

Also, this site is rather out of date. If you are looking for review of the most recent Naruto episodes, rest assured that you are not missing anything. We are pretty heavily into fillers right now, and there is another 4 confirmed episodes before we possibly get away from them. Once they are done, I will put up a brief review of all the episodes up to the fillers, and then finish it off with a summary of this horrendous filler story arc.

So, as time passes, more and more Naruto episodes are available to watch for free. But where to watch? Crunchy Roll is the only site to show the episodes the day of Airing. Unfortunately, the quality sucks. I paid for a membership to test it out and see how good it was, and I was dismally disappointed. If you are willing to wait a week, sites such as Hulu (love their superbowl commercial, by the way) and Joost will broadcast them for free, and in much better quality. The final source, however, is the best, but also very illegal. A couple of groups have stepped up and taken the place of Dattebayo, as soon as they stopped supplying fansubs. One such group is Horrible-Subs. A google search won’t help you much, though, as they only have a placeholder site. If look up their name and torrents however… *wink* *wink*
Another group has been Taka, but I wasn’t very impressed with their quality. I had a hard time understanding their subtitled releases.
Keep in mind, downloading these videos from Fansub groups is technically illegal.
The best place to see your options is a site called Tokyo Tosho. Good luck, and Enjoy Naruto!

Whatever you do, do NOT pay to watch Naruto episodes online. The quality is absolutely unacceptable. There is stuttering, poor resolution, the dumb player won’t load the whole video (forcing you to be streaming and downloading while watching) and the worst part was when I got a “connection lost” error three times. I was not happy having to reload the page and find where I was again multiple times.
Perhaps five years ago this would have been an amazing technology, and a huge move on the part of the Anime industry. As it stands, this service is an embarrassment. It’s like walking into a computer store and all they had were computers with Windows 2000 on it. The technology for quality, high resolution streaming is out there, and we get shafted with the older model.

With all of that said, I’ve searched diligently for better source of subtitled episodes. I want to be clear, however, that the only legal way of watching these episodes is through Crunchyroll or similar video sites (a week after release).
Go to Google. Look up “Taka Fansubs”. That should lead you in the right direction. I am in no way affiliated with, or support the group.

Well, strangely enough, despite their ridiculous efforts to state that they are stopping the translation of Naruto after episode 91, sure enough, there is a Naruto Shippuuden episode 92 now available for download. The fact that Dattebayo is playing a prank on us at the moment is absolutely undeniable. It’s just a matter of which part is the prank. I’m currently downloading the torrent that is up for download, and will make a notice here as soon as I know.

UPDATE: The episode for download is indeed a troll. The Naruto intro is in place, but then the show quickly switches to a random anime about talking cars. So, if you are downloading, you can stop. Crunchyroll is still the only place that the episode can currently we watched at.

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