honestly Im torn about this episode.
on the one hand the animation teams budget must have been been eaten up buy the lame last episode making their hime appear soooo special and angelic. that they ended up making this one which should have been an action packed and drama filled episode look like a japanese version of tom and jerry.
well i supremely hope that the anime teams got their Hinata fix out of their systems and can move on with the story proper now.
Yeah! I'm so disappointed about that too
and also angry
It's one thing to do give the 'special treatment' for Hinata and her confession, it's another to completely screw up the animation of the more essential part...and that's the fight between Naruto/KN4-6...9 & Pein. I mean, Naruto is the main character and I'm sorry to say this because I do like Hinata but THIS fight is THE key for what will come after that. The animation at the end, when Naruto doesn't know what to do and want someone to give him the answer, wasn't as bad as the fight itself but it could have been much better.
I sincerely hope that they won't mess up Yondaime's episode and that the remaining episode will, at least, have a normal animation...but I have a nagging feeling that we'll get stuck with mediocrity in the end