> No new episode for 2 weeks > Next episode will be a

>>146960200
Sounds like a masterpiece in the making

>>146960200
At least it means they are putting some effort in it.

>>146960200
That's cool, but I wish it was in color all the same.

The final fight from Naruto was pretty great, hope this one is similarly good.

>>146960200
The staff list for the upcoming three episodes is good. The preview is probably just paying homage to the manga, but the episode will have colour.
EP 476, 477:
Screen play: Yuka Miyata
Storyboard/Episode director/Animation director: Hiroyuki Yamashita

EP 478:
Screen play/Storyboard/Episode director: Toshiyuki Tsuru
Animation director: Toshiyuki Tsuru/Hiroto Tanaka

As far as I know, some really talented people worked on the anime.
I didn't really watched it but It seems the Naruto vs Sauske and the Pain episodes have very interesting directing and animation.
Now that the anime is going to end, can someone list some of those brilliant episdoes (if there are more?).

>>146960200
test

>>146960482
Watch the first Valley of the End fight.

>>146960482
Kakashi vs obito was a good fight. Choreography, music, emotional weight, it's all there

>>146960482
Hiroyuki Yamashita's episodes have been the more recent well-made episodes. He directed ep 322, 345, 375.
Toshiyuki Tsuru directed episodes 82 and 85 and the filler Chikara arc(290-295)
The very best episodes are from Atsushi Wakabayashi. He directed ep 30, 71, and 133 for Naruto and ep 167 for Shippuden.

The next episode will be in black and white? Source, please.

>>146960517
Yeah I know

>>146960576
>>146960646
Thanks.
Just so you know I don't care about Naruto, so I'm really talking about the most astounding episodes.

>>146960725
It's not, only the preview is.

>>146960725
Watch the episode preview

Who directed the gaara vs rock Lee fight during the chunin exams?

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>>146960200

This honestly seems like a neat idea

I hope they try to emulate Kishi's art-style as accurate as they can

>>146960867
Toshiyuki Tsuru

>>146960840
>>146960764
I had seen, but I thought the whole episode would be like that.

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>>146960937
It will be black and white

Well it seems like it, but it's an hour special (two episodes)

Maybe only one of the episodes will be black and white

>>146961045
It's really unlikely to be black and white. The director has never done anything like that before.

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>>146961102
> The director has never done anything like that before

And the director has never shown an episode preview in black/white before.

It's the final fight. Maybe they're prepping something special specifically for this

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>>146961045
I hope not.

>>146961179
It would be a bold and surprising move for sure, but I wouldn't bet my money on that happening.

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>>146960881
Which is kinda ironic, considering Kishimoto's 2nd half simplified artstyle was him taking a liking to the look of some post-timeskip episodes (not realizing that the simplified look only looks good if coupled with nice animation).

>>146960200
Where were Nardo and Sausage when they were fighting Kaguya? Another Planet?

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>>146960200
>entire 1 hour fight is black and white sakuga

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IF the special won't be black/white, why then would they chose the episode preview to be like that?

>Itachi filler got better animation than the Kaguya fight

Even the people responsible for the shittiest fillers in existence acknowledge that was a terrible final boss fight

>>146960200
They're probably just not finished

>>146961434
Maybe they're going for a vague preview while thinking it would be neat to pay tribute to the manga. It's also a good way to get people talking about the upcoming episodes given how strange it is. Hopefully there will be ads for the special when Pokemon airs next week, there could be some new footage if that happens.

>people really thinking the episode is gonna be black and white
are you guys fucking retarded?

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>>146961423
Kaguya was able to summon and manipulate different dimensions

> lava world
> ice world
> world with heavy gravity

Shinobikino

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>>146961482

Not entirely true

>>146961616
Tsuru's episode should be really well-directed.

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This shit is never gonna end right?

>>146961673
Wha? Is he directing it?

>>146961482
Nothing could've saved that trainwreck of a "final boss"

>>146961663
That was the one episode with solid production values, and even then the animation wasn't all that great. it had some good cuts coupled with nice drawings but the show has performed much better before.

>>146961717
See>>146960480
Tsuru's episode might cover chapters 698 and 699, or something around there.

>>146960200
Fuck off narutards.

>>146961785
Oh shit, they're going all out.

>>146961793
You don't have to be a Narutard to get hyped for the sakuga/kino episodes.

>>146961678
Not until TVTokyo can find something else big enough to bring in decent ratings.

>>146961594
She literally teleported to other planets. Namek saga coming soon.

>>146961678
That's just expansion DLC for Storm 4 apparently, with a repackaged release.

>>146961678
Naruto looks like Obito in that top pic

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>>146961729
There were a couple more good ones...

The episode before Obito dies for instance.

>Should they really be experimental during the final fight?

You now remember Naruto vs Pain.

>>146962106
There were some functional episodes, but I wouldn't call them good.

>>146961492
kek

>>146961492
Studio Pierrot is always several episodes ahead.

There's no way they showed an incomplete episode during the preview. Especially since the Naruto team now has the ex-Bleach team working with them.

>>146962171
It was good fun to be honest, and really well made despite the controversial shots.

>>146961678
> posts a pic of UNS4 DLC

???

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>>146962171

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Has anyone else noticed that they've been playing Part 1 soundtracks at least once every episode since Obito's death?

Last episode they did a piano version of one during Sasuke's flashback

I hope they keep this trend

https://youtu.be/3fOdfZWj2eI

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>>146962541
Part 1 is superior in everyway. Maybe they've finally noticed that.

>>146960200
Who want to bet that it won't surpass the game Ultimate Ninja Storm handled this fight? Anyway this might be the only Naruto episode I'll watch in a long time just to check it out.

>>146962871
The top Naruto episodes tend to deliver really well so I'd say it will surpass it. The respective episode directors will be able to assemble a great team of animators.

>>146960200
I'm hype as fuck. I also heard its the last Naruto Shippuden Episode. It will porrobly become the best Anime Shounen fight in history or at leats the best animated

So what's going to happen to the talented animators working on Naruto once it ends?
Does Studio Pierrot have any major projects to shift them to?

>>146963076
The Naruto anime isn't ending anytime soon. It will adapt the side-story light novels after this, starting with Sasuke's which should show his exploits after the final battle with Naruto.

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>>146963076
> I also heard its the last Naruto Shippuden Episode

Nah, they're going to animate the Naruto Hiden novels

(which takes place around the time of The Last Naruto the movie)

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>>146963126
Boruto

Or maybe they can pick up another promising shounen manga (if there are any)

>>146961875
Pottery

>>146963126
A lot of them are freelance, such as Norio Matsumoto and Ken'ichi Fujisawa, so it doesn't matter.
The in-house ones like Hiroyuki Yamashita and Naoki Kobayashi will obviously work on whatever the studio does next, but that won't stop them from being free to work on other studio's projects. Kobayashi did key animation for Kizumonogatari 2 and Kimi no Na Wa. earlier this year.

>>146963126
TG: re adaptation?

>>146963191
>>146963149
Yeah but those will be like Ova's or something like that. This episode will probably be the anime Shippuden last episode or at least i hope

>>146963328
No, it's airing on TV.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-08-02/naruto-epilogue-novels-get-tv-anime-this-winter/.104956

>>146963328
Nah it's going to be part of Shippuden

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>>146963328
They already animated the two Itachi Hiden novels sometime during the Infinite Tsukuyomi filler sequence

Which weren't done with OVAs

>>146963126
Return with Bleach.

>>146963537
Nah. Enjoy your live-action.

>>146963534
Its a shame they were a bit shitty. I mean they were decent i guess but Pierrot didin't followed the Novel 100% right. Hope they do it right this time

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>>146963149
It'll be probably go like this:
> Naruto vs Sasuke
> Chapter 699
> Naruto Hiden novels
> Chapter 700

>>146963618
I'm hoping that the novels that take place during "The Last" era will be more interesting.

We've already seen enough of Itachi's story, so I wasn't too interested in Itachi Hiden

>>146960482
Rock lee vs gaara

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>>146960482

Part 1:
- Sasuke vs Orochimaru
- Rock Lee vs Gaara
- Sarutobi vs Orochimaru
- Naruto vs Sasuke

Shippuden:
- Sakura vs Sasori
- 4-tails vs Orochimaru
- Sasuke vs Deidara
- Team 8 + Kakashi vs Hidan and Kakuzu
- Sasuke vs Itachi
- Jiraiya vs Pain
- Naruto vs Pain
- Sasuke vs Killer Bee
- Madara's resurrection (vs Ninja Alliance)
- Kakashi vs Obito

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Now that Shippuden is ending, post your fav OP

https://youtu.be/cXeb9cb6k0I

>>146960200
>I approve this
t. Hideki Anno