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Tenten, Ino, even Sakura (not that she really needed any more developing by this point) get plenty of screen time, as well as the one-tail Jinchuriki (someone with a tailed-beast sealed inside them) and leader of the Sand Village, Gaara. What little praise I can muster for the arc is that it does put focus on a few characters that have been thrown to the wayside over the years, and gives them either a bit of further development or explains how they overcame a shortcoming they had in the original series that was gone by the time-skip into Shippuden. Though this time the setting is the Hidden Sand village and they throw in a subplot involving the shadowy Akatsuki trying to gather tailed beasts, as they have done throughout the entire series, the pay-off of which we would be seeing right now if we weren’t stuck in filler episodes, but hey-ho! It’s set in between the original Naruto series and Shippuden, and tells the story of how all of Naruto’s friends got promoted to the rank of Chunin, using the same several-phase survival game set-up the original series did way back when. Naruto Shippuden Box Set 32 contains Episodes 402 – 415, a slightly more generous episode count than the regular 13, possibly so this set isn’t entirely filler, who knows? I wouldn’t want to speculate.Īs mentioned in the opening blurb, Episodes 402 to 413 are all entirely filler, finishing off the “New Chunin Exams arc”, or the “In Naruto’s Footsteps – His Friends’ Tracks” story, to give it its official Japanese name.
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