Naruto Achieves Legendary Quality

Yeah i saw it and cringed the whole episode. they totally started to make content up because they are closing in too fast to the manga. and although the animation was done on purpose, it is not an art style that i pretty much care for.

I kinda like the chaotic style used.

Well just leave your animation jobs to gooks and shit like this happen.

Coming from an animator's point of view it seems as though they had their C or D list animator's at work. The quality is quite terrible compare to previous episodes...and from the animations here it looks like Tex avery did pain's animation running on water...o_o; that's totally not what I had expected. That last gif of pain where he has his hands up and then goes down to punch through the ground doesn't even have any in-betweens...there's no key poses at all...most of this is straight ahead animation, which you would usually use if you were animating growing vines, roots, worms, etc... Overall, the animation is terrible and not what I enjoy about the series...granted some episodes previously have small quirks but this one takes the cake in Fail for animation.

-Tofurobomax

Because of this terrible animation, I've dropped the Naruto anime for good. I will, however, still read the manga, because it at least won't get so fucked up.

lol what happened to his hair? did he dyed it or something?

I loved the style on this one. I noticed the skewed animation, but it added more character to it - and was most probably done on purpose.

You should watch this episode just for the flow in the story. Usually I skip ahead on most Narutard episodes, but this one was very entertaining.

Now we can only hope that any Sonic anime looked this good...

The underpaid artists responsible for drawing this crap anime frame by frame have gone AWOL to protest. They were replaced by Otaku Schoolkids willing to draw for free. And a classic episode was born.

naruto, i am dissapoint :(

that's what you deserve for watching a shit show like naruto.

"3870th episode"

Awesome...

It was kinda like lookin through Naruto's eyes during the battle.

Drugs are bad for you

Pierrot studio is going down.. all they have are the bad quality anime(s)

hahahhaaahaha looney tones and billy and Mandy have better graphics to naruto XD

I think it was alright.. think of it.. if your going to fight an 6-8 tailed kyubi,won't your face react the same way..

that's the same animation style when sasuke and naruto fought back each other back then, i also seen that animation style on yuyu hakusho

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It's clear that everyone is just posting without reading even one comment, it's been stated before that this kind of art is a different animation style, often used in other animes like TTGL.

Oh god, a director doing his own thing for an episode, everything is ruined forever :V

That Naruto switches in different animation and storyboard directors for fight scenes is hardly news. The episode before this one shared staff with the fight between Sasuke and Diedara, as well as Rock Lee and Gara. And as has been pointed out already, this one shares a director/storyboarder/etc. with the fight between Naruto and Sasuke which also prompted lots of misdirected rage. As should be blindingly obvious to anyone who bothered to watch it or is capable of a modicum of critical thinking, this guy likes to emphasize motion and violence through distortion, which is hardly a mark of QUALITY any more than it would make sense to complain that Kaiba's art is terrible just because it looks weird.

TL;DR: It looks like what it's supposed to look like, and Sankaku is hard up for anything worthwhile to post as usual.

it looks like a bad flash on youtube <:O please tell me this isn't real...

I actually found this episode to be the best out of the past, oh, 100 or so. Sure it's silly, and lacks *perfect* animation quality, but considering some of you and your 2chan friends go batshit insane over minor details (See: angel beats) your expectations of anime quality for tv are stupidly high.

Its like how some of the flashback fighting scenes in birdy decode season 2 were very simple for the TV version but got a massive overhaul for the dvd version.

Same deal here. what, you'd prefer Shaft's way of doing things and having blank screens with words on them to replace the animations? sometimes taking up 1/3 of the entire show minus op/ed?

you guys are gafs who swear they can do better.
i don't care about DBZ. this episode was awesome.
planetary destruction rawr.

We can excellent Hinata episode then they give us this bull?

This is obviously intentional; rather than crappy animators it's a bizarre style of animation. It's rather amusing, nonetheless.

Excellent article.

Sidenote: It seems that the number of porn adds is increasing.

LOL

What happened to the preview animation style? Previews always lie!

This is deranged animation on par to Bobobob.

Just imagine the guys in the animating room. "DEADLINE IN FIVE MINUTES!!!" "OH SHIT, WE'VE GOTTA FINISH THESE FRAMES!!!"

I can think of no other explanation.

I'd like to see you guys put together an episode with that much action in a week.. Fuckin losers

Loved the episode. Haters be damned.

meh, i thought it was pretty good, i think they were trying to show how the nine tails power could distort reality of those around it(notice no one outside the fighting was affected by the severe change in graphics?,hinata too but probably because she wasnt doing anything)also the animation wasnt bad they were making it that way on purpose for the sake of the scene and whatnot so it cant be fail animation its just a win too harcore for lesser ppl^^.

It's obviously intentional. They distorted Pain's appearance and facial expressions to reflect that he is in fact a monster---i.e., that's a moving corpse, not a person. You really only notice this is you freeze frame. Well, have fun not enjoying yourself, which is what anime fans seem to love more than anything.

Remember when Naruto was about ninjas? Yeah... good times.

This animation technique, i forgot its name, isn't meant to look good on still frames: this technique requires a lot of efforts because it's not based on "key frames and inbetweens" traditional techniques, more like on the fly hand drawn frames and only good studios are able to produce such scenes such as Gainax or Satelight, you can find for example similar scenes in Noein, Birdie the mighty decode or Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

This kind of scenes watched at normal speed (not ridiculously slow gifs or stills) brings fluidity to fast paced scenes.
So on the contraty it is far from beeing proof of bad quality, even if naruto isn't known for its excellent animation, this episode is one of the best naruto episode in term of animation quality.

Naruto didn't age gracefully, did it?

LOL. Glad I stopped watching it when they started filling it with garbage.

Damn that speed runner like sprint is godly lol xD

Road Runner Pain