This week’s episode is an one hour special, I guess to make up for all those missed episodes the last couple of weeks. We’re finally getting to the part of the fight I looked forward to the most: Sakura going all out and fighting Sasori and his puppet hand to hand. In my opinion, this is the only fight in the entire Naruto series (part I and II) where Sakura truly shines and gets to lay the smack down on her enemies. She takes everything Sasori has …

The new Naruto Shippuuden movie, the fourth movie in the franchise, should open today in Japan. Not that any of us on this side of the Pacific can go and see it. Hopefully, it won’t take as long as the previous movies have for movie 4 to reach markets outside of Japan. Below is a scan of the colored movie promo which came with chapter 365.