Kita ze Inbou! - キタぜ陰謀!

[ Episode 26: 10 Puppets VS 100 Puppets ]

What? I’m doing a Naruto: Shippuuden entry? Yup. That’s right. Actually it only took me this long because my mind finally decided to go ahead with it and post my thoughts after such an amazing episode.

I think it goes without saying that this episode was KICKASS awesome. The entire fight scene with Sakura and Chiyo versus Sasori was just so well-done that I had to rewatch those parts of the episode more than twice. Starting from the part where Sakura punched Sasori literally into pieces and then onto the ridiculously fast-paced Sakura, Chiyo+10 puppets versus. Sasori+100 puppets. Like with the manga when I first saw these scenes I felt so proud of Sakura and how much she had changed over the three-year time-skip that she instantly went up an insane amount of points in my book (granted she wasn’t ever that low). Her fighting was topnotch and easily beats the majority we’ve seen in Shippuuden so far.

The very last scene was so well done with the slow motion sequence and the atmosphere-matching background music that all I could have said the first time I was it was “AWEsome”. This episode right here is a huge reward for such a long and drawn out fight. I still find it amazing that Sakura was able to throw herself in front of that poisonous blade without so much as a second thought though. She really has matured when it comes to being in-battle.

Oh yeah, and is it a coincidence that all of the screens are of Sakura? Yes and no. Either way, it doesn’t really matter because she deserves it anyways.