10 Second Anime - Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 413



Gaara ends the conspiracy against him. The Chunnin Exams end early but the candidates are sent home with recommendations. Filler arc ends.

Heh.

Sheesh. Looks like Gaara got some master lessons in Talk no Jutsu from Naruto too. Naruto convinced Nagato to give up his life to revive all the casualties of his attack on the Hidden Leaf. Gaara convinced the hardliner that the new generation of shinobi won't be trained by hate and revenge, so seppuku for him. Respect the Talk no Jutsu! It just may end up saving the world some day...

 

OMG! The filler arc only took half the Spring season. Are we going to follow the manga story all the way through the Summer to its conclusion?

 

Aw, right in the feels. Neji got Jounin promotion and Lee said Team Guy would last forever. Neji RIP. You died well.

 

Wow, I totally did not make the connection that the Hidden Rain summoner was going to be one of Nagato's Six Paths of Pain. She looked familiar, but not even her pulling a pissed off panda out of her seal reminded me of what she could do as a dead puppet. Having those same ninjas handle the body recovery that were met by Jiraiya and Kakashi was bringing it all back to the beginning of the Shippuuden tale, as was the scene mimicking the opening chapter when the Two-Tails Jinchuuriki was brought in. It really gives me the feeling that there's no more space for filler in the anime now.

 

Also aw, Fuu was the first Jinchuuriki taken by Akatsuki. Little details like Kakuzu being from the same village and his monster hearts belonging to the village elders was a neat piece of closure.

 

Tenten is resigned, bored and familiar at Lee's antics.

If you introduce a ninja girl with big eyes, you've got to find a way to make them sparkle, amirite?

Yes, indeed. Shira put on the green unitard!

Yome can't believe her friend is talking so openly about her crush on Shira!

We spent a nice chunk of time on this trio, but we never saw them again. Meanwhile, the weapon user and her female teammate were the Gaara fangirls who shoved Naruto out of the way after they retrieved him from Akatsuki, and have been featured several times. I wonder if we'll see Shira and his friends again in the last battle or in the movies and books after Naruto has become Hokage.

 

 

Hmm.

Filler is over. The dude with his name on the story is wearing the same clothes we saw him in after the time jump. Next week we'll see Naruto and Sasuke find a way to save the ninja world. It's been a long time, but we have to put away the bright color palette and go back to dark greens of nighttime warfare. I'm feeling a bit sad and nostalgic that this filler arc reminded me so much of what happened and how things looked at the very beginning of the Hurricane Chronicles.