10 Second Anime - Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 395

Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 395

The chuunin examination teams are finalized. Naruto invokes his beast cloak.

Heh.

Interesting to see that Pain is still hiding the death of Hanzo the Salamander as the kage of the Land of Rain. They're not ready to reveal Akatsuki's and Obito's plan, but sending a bunch of genin to the exam is a good enough ploy to allay any suspicions.

 

Fuu looks like a handful. Being the jinchuuriki allows her a lot of leash from the Waterfall's kage.

When Shippuuden started up and everybody had become chuunin besides Naruto, I had never thought about how Sakura became one. You need 3 man teams, so who was on her team? Ino had quite the elegant solution to move Sakura into Shikamaru's slot.

 

That one genin from the Land of Rain is going to be important to the story, otherwise why keep showing her?

 

I always thought Naruto trying to use beast cloak without befriending the 9-tails was going to be a mistake, because Naruto isn't really an angry guy. But hey, they used it when he was angry at Sasuke when he left the village, so they had to power it up after the time jump.

 

Okay, why does one of Jiraiya's summoned toads have the kanji for "father" (父) on it?

 

Hmm.

We've got lots of separate stories centered around the chuunin exams, but Naruto's training is totally separate. I guess we need to keep referring to him, not only because it's his name on the show but also to gauge his progress against his peers. Seeing Sakura work together with Ino should be a treat and anything with Choji is fun.

 

It's like we've gone back to the beginning, to a much simpler time, back when Naruto's story was much smaller, and we're seeing the moments when it opened up to this multinational story about the Akatsuki. Next time we get to see ninjas having fun with their skills instead of the life and death war we've been seeing for years. It must be nice for the artists to break out a different color pallette then all the grays, dark blues and dark greens too.