Kita ze Inbou! - キタぜ陰謀!

[ Episode 76-77: The Next Step & The Climbing Silver ]

Door no Jutsu!

So after Kakashi shows off his “newly” acquired Rasengan, he tells Naruto the fourth’s goal was to implement elements into the Rasengan in order to make it stronger, and it’s up to Naruto to fuse his wind chakra with it, so you guessed it, 50 more episodes of Naruto training, yipee.

Other than that, it turns out that the meeting place for the bounty office in none other than an abandoned bathroom. Nothing like discussing millions of money in a place where people a crapping. It’s even more hilarious that Team Asuma are actually going to fight Hidan and Kakuzo next to the crapper.

Here’s another thing I don’t get, so I understand they didn’t wanted to kill Hidan right off the bat, but why didn’t Hidan kill Izumo and Kotetsu when they stabbed him? Considering how much destruction they have caused, I don’t thing it’s easy to “capture” an Akatsuki. Sasori dies mainly because he fought against the strongest ninja in the Sand village and even Sakura helped, this time there are two of them, and I don’t think Asuma is nearly as strong as Chiyo.

Even so, both episodes were fun to watch, albeit a little overdrawn, but at least the next two episodes will compensate.
76: 7/10
77: 8/10

I don’t really have much to say here though I’m sure Blade does.

Anyway, I really liked the way they chose to animate the fight between Team Asuma and the Hidan-Kakazu team. The movements are fluid and the tension is real. The sense that our heroes have very little chance of winning is subtle yet obvious. Oh, and it’s been a while since I was granted Ino-hotness. She needs more screen time dammit.