There are far too many flashback references to Sasori’s parents, and his separation from them. It makes the episode extremely ‘drudge-y’ and slow. If the excessive flashbacking are supposed to increase sympathy for the puppet master, it fails pretty badly. At least they portray Sakura and Chiyo with little or no remorse. Sasori’s end is pretty anti-climatic. The trouble with shounen series is, a seemingly impossibly powerful character will appear to be merciless and overwhelming in the beginning, but go down stupidly, as there would be no other possible way for the protagonists to defeat him. Sasori’s demise makes him almost seem weak.

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Heh, I’ve only recently realised that Naruto Shippuuden has only covered 28 chapters of the manga. And I can’t believe it has already been 26 episodes since the time skip—a WHOLE 26 episodes. In other words, an entire double season has passed with like…nothing happening. Well at least this episode is pretty awesome in my opinion. The fight is animated with utmost quality that this anime has seen since Shippuuden, which is quite a feat. Sakura has certainly proved herself to a great extent, and it’s great to see her finally be of some use now. Of course, Naruto needs to buff up as well, and I have no idea how long that’s gonna take.

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Sakura managed to destroy “The Third Kazekage” puppet on the previous 24th episode, but Sasori’s still has a few tricks up sleeve. And although Sakura’s managed to avoid a deadly blow from the Iron Sand’s poison, she and Chiyo must defeat him in within three minutes before the antidote wears off and they are vulnerable to Sasori’s attacks. Can they defeat him in time?

Karin becomes aware of incoming trouble and Team Hebi decides to avoid a premature encounter. Karin’s ability to detect chakra emanations from large distances is now proven, but nothing much else is known about her.

Thanks to his master, Sasuke seems to have inherited incredible regenerative powers. They decide to make haste in their search for Itachi after Karin sets up a decoy to send the Leaf hounds and Kiba off their trail.

Unable to determine Team Hebi’s real scent, Naruto creates a ton of Kage Bunshin to seek them out. But either pure luck or misfortune, Naruto stumbles upon Itachi himself! Is it really Naruto, or his clone? And why is Itachi apparently alone…?

Being a duo armed with earth-shattering jutsus, they sure are pretty afraid of getting wet. Especially when you think about Kisame being capable of manipulating the water element. Ahh, but back to the point of the story thus far.

Itachi is confident that he isn’t the last of the Uchiha clan. Does he mean Sasuke, or is he really hinting about another? It begs questions that link to the end of this chapter. Meanwhile, in a room somewhere, Sasuke recuperates from his injuries not knowing that Konoha’s shinobi have gathered around the blast site to determine his whereabouts.
And finally, at the village where Pein and the unnamed kunoichi is talking with a mysterious figure, a surprising revelation! The bumbling idiot who had been slaving under Deidara’s thumb; Tobi is actually the mystery person! What the heck?! The shock doesn’t end there, however, when lightning strikes at the background to reveal an eye that looks through the singular spiral hole in the mask. An eye of a Sharingan user!

And here comes a bit of speculation. The only person who I can think of that is a Sharingan user, might have a grudge for being left dead in the battlefield and has only one Sharingan eye left, is Kakashi’s former friend… Obito.

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“The Third Kazekage”
“Sandaime Kazekage” (三代目風影)Sakura and Chiyo continue their battle with Sasori, while Naruto and Kakashi follow Deidara, and Team Guy fights their clones. Sakura remembers her training with Tsunade when she was taught to observe an enemies’ weakness and dodge their attacks. Sasori attacks with an Iron Sand pyramid and prism, but Sakura is able to fend them off, causing a cave in. Sasori then uses an new technique to attack with randomly-growing iron spikes, landing a hit and poisoning Sakura. With a final attack of the Third Kazekage’s puppet, Sasori attempts to kill the weakened Sakura, only to find that she still has the strength to shatter and destroy his puppet.

This is the new trailer of Naruto Shippuuden. The movie has a long clips and a trailer included into this 3 minute video put together. Please enjoy and comment or rate this video. They say that the Subbed version of this movie will be out next year on June(or July.) 2008. Sorry but thats why they say so youll have to wait just about 6-8 months.

How to draw Naruto, you can use a pencil or a marker and follow this step by step drawing tutorial.

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Naruto Shippuuden 23

Man, how long has this fight been going for? And it only gets interesting at the end of episode 23…not to mention Kakashi and Naruto are STILL chasing Deidara, while Gai’s team are STILL meaninglessly fighting their copies. Sasori’s past was well and truly dragged out, making the episode such a bore. I think I’m just going to accept that the pacing is not going to change. These two episodes covers an amazingly low number of chapters…or more specifically, two and a half. What happened to the 3-4 chapters per episode that Naruto once followed? Ah well. Starting from the next episode, I will have completely accepted this horrendous pacing.