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im not 13 posted...

If you think the chunnin exam arc is bad then you might as well stop watching now

Those episodes are the pinnacle of the show

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You're at pretty much the high point of the entire series. The show probably just isn't for you.
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Atralis posted...

You have to realize these guys have to make an episode a week for years and in Japan these anime literally run all year around without stops like a soap opera.

They've recently started having actual seasons with breaks, though I don't know how common a practice it currently is.
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Jiek_Fafn posted...

im not 13 posted...

If you think the chunnin exam arc is bad then you might as well stop watching now

Those episodes are the pinnacle of the show

This
You're at pretty much the high point of the entire series. The show probably just isn't for you.

Meh

Personally I think the best 3 fights of part 1 are the last 3

Kimmimaro vs Rock Lee
Kimmimaro vs Gaara
Naruto vs Sasuke

Everything after Rock Lee vs Gaara is meh until then. Except maybe 3rd Hokage fight
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The manga up to the end of Part 1 is worth a read.
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I liked all of the Sasuke retrieval arc.
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BLAKUboy posted...

Atralis posted...

You have to realize these guys have to make an episode a week for years and in Japan these anime literally run all year around without stops like a soap opera.

They've recently started having actual seasons with breaks, though I don't know how common a practice it currently is.

I know for the original Naruto it was every week. That is why for certain episodes, particularly some with heavy duty action scenes the animation changes dramatically. They basically are hiring another team just to produce those episodes because the main team can't animate all that stuff given the time constraints.

LordFarquad1312 posted...

StopPosting posted...

It never gets better? Even the second part?

There's an episode of Sippuden in which the first half is pretty much filled with flashbacks to previous episodes, and the second half is a flashback of the first half.

Holy shit, what.
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Atralis posted...

I have basically sworn off all these anime with hundreds of episodes for this reason. You have to realize these guys have to make an episode a week for years and in Japan these anime literally run all year around without stops like a soap opera.

Actually, from what I understand, they're starting to embrace the concept of seasons now.
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The vast majority of anime has always been one or two thirteen-ish episode seasons. The only consistent exceptions are popular kids programming. Gundam for a long time typically ran a series for about a year (but even that's changed in the current production committee template for anime creation). As for popular Shonen Jump-esque shows that last for 100s of episodes, the ones you've heard of are about the only ones that actually exist. They were made during a window of time where it was more economically feasible to keep a series on the air than it was to take it off for a period of time. But ever since the switch to the production committee model in the mid-2000s, those sorts of series just aren't feasible anymore. They take a much more careful approach of adapting a season's worth of content and renewing it only if there are enough returns on that initial investment.