Naruto barrels through another big chunk of filler episodes with
this collection and it’s painting one very obvious picture. How in the
world did the series survive this run of filler? Twenty eight episodes
populate this set and we get a couple of longer stories, including one
carried over from the previous set, as well as some standalone tales.
These stories are really mediocre at best and are all entirely
forgettable for the most part outside of the campy factor that’s kicked
up for the standalone episodes that go for the laughs. But did they go
for the laughs intentionally or did they end up degrading the show from
its serious aspects that made up the really good material before the
filler? The first comedy story is admittedly
amusing in a way as it introduces the concept of ninja chefs. These
chefs were originally created in order to provide better sustenance
options for ninjas on missions instead of the tasteless pills that help
them out. What they found out in the past though was that ninjas have no
sense of moderation and would overeat on what they had and become plump
and unable to perform their duties. The desire to cook well is still
there though and the episode introduces one of those chefs whose
daughter has been kidnapped. Naruto and friends have to help him out by
cooking for the bad guy in order to free the young woman. Cook with
ninja skills. It’s pretty bad but there’s a kind of camp factor here
that kept me laughing at times when I knew I shouldn’t.
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