What scenes did they omit specifically?
I'm really looking forward to watching the episode when i have time and the comments i'm seeing so far is... worrying, to say the least.
The interaction between Sakura and Karin was almostly completey passed over. In the manga, Sakura is shown crying, Karin says she doesn't want to sympathize with her. There is a huge panel with Sakura shown with tears streaming down, causing Karin begins to cry too. Then she goes on to say the Sasuke that Sakura knew was gone. This snaps her out of her melancholy and returns her to her purpose of killing Sasuke. So, there's a clear cause-and-effect in their interaction.
In the anime, Sakura heals Karin. There are no tears, there are no exchanged sympathies. If I remember correctly, you only see Sakura's face in profile, partially blocked by her hair. Karin says he's changed, then Sakura's up and running again, back to killing Sasuke.
In the manga, as she is scaling the ceiling to sneak up on Sasuke, the flashback is framed in terms of what she has to do for Naruto, her speaking to the other rookies and that she can't falter. Then, at the decisive moment, there is a short burst of images about Sasuke. That's all. And it's a wide array of their time together, including a mental picture of Team 7.
But in the anime, her desire to do this for Naruto is reduced to a single sentence, and then it launches into a full scale flashback of the entire scene with Sasuke before he leaves the village. Obviously, the love overtones here are unmistakeable. And then she can't kill him. So the whole way it's presented is horribly misleading when compared to the manga.
@BrokenFigurine: Agree 100 percent. The Hinata stuff was exactly what I was thinking about. They spent so much time making her beautiful. And yet they are cutting development from Sakura. No wonder people have such a bad image of her.
edit: I'm not expecting a reanimation of the ending scene in the next episode. It'd be nice, but if they botched it the first time, then I don't have high hopes for a second time. However, it will be interesting to see if they keep the little closeness between Naruto and Sakura after he sets her down. Or if she immediately drops out of the scene. My expectations are low after this episode, though.
Edited by tricksie, 05 June 2011 - 01:49 AM.