This episode is a pretty busy episode! There are even a couple parts where I was sincerely impressed with the animation quality. Good little episode with a good amount of buildup for next week.

In this episode, we see Yamato trying to train Sora and Naruto. Asuma comes in and tries to give advice, but Yamato tricks him into agreeing to train Naruto and Sora instead. So the three go off to practice their wind blade technique. Yamato notices that Sora, like Naruto has a lot of chakra, and that the two are very similar. Meanwhile, Yamato and Tsunade learn that Sora was involved in an accident many years ago that nearly destroyed the fire temple. It looked like Sora was responsible, and since then everyone has shunned him. We then go back to Asuma who takes sora to a weapons shop where he had his claw blades specially remade with the same material Asuma uses in his blades. We go into a flashback, and we see Sora’s father Kazuma planning on killing the Fuedal Lord to help unify the land. Asuma steps in, and is forced to kill Kazuma. That’s why Asuma feels so sorry for Sora. As Sora walks away, Furido suddenly appears, taunting Sora. He reveals to Sora that Asuma killed his father, and then gives him two pieces from a game called “Shogi”. (I have no idea what the heck the game is, but I don’t think it matters). At the same time, Danzou makes his move and dissapears from the watchful eyes of ANBU. The last scene we see Sora back at the tree practicing his wind techniques, where in his anger he throws a kunai clean through the tree and destroys the rock on the other side. Have to wait til next week for more sadly!

It has aired, and is now available for download. I’m not all that excited about this particular episode, but we’ll see. I’ll have a review up tomorrow.

Yeah, that’s right. I finally found a free couple of hours to finish writing some summaries that I’ve been seriously slacking on. Now that I’m back on track, I hope to keep up the schedule of putting out a review of the most recent episode as soon as I can watch it, usually Friday. Here is the review for the most recent episode:

Asuma’s team returns from a mission realizing that many villages have been attacked by what appears to be another village. Not sure of the purpose, but it looks as though it’s to incite a war. Back in Konoha, Naruto is left to tend after Sora, who is goes his own way looking for trouble. He finds it with some familiar characters, like Chouji and Shiba with Lee joining in later. Asuma and Shikimaru stop it, and they all go for a BBQ. There Asuma tells Sora that he knew his father. His father was apparently involved in a coup d’etat and simply “died for what he believed in”.  Asuma shows Sora his blade trick, and there Naruto and Sora attempt to imitate him, growing their bond.

Really, I am. I still intend on doing some more updates to this site, it’s just that my job’s work load has been much more intense the past couple of weeks and I haven’t had time to invest into this site. I don’t think that anyone is missing anything anyway. We are in filler mode, and it looks like it’s not going to be a quicky set of filler episodes (I’m guessing about 15-20 episodes). My reviews and summaries are going to be significantly shortened because of that. Not that these fillers are bad, they’re actually pretty decent as far as fillers go, but it still doesn’t compare to the main story line. I’ll keep people on this site as updated as possible, when I can make some time for it!