Fillers.

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The ultimate question on the minds of Naruto anime fans-- when are the fillers going to end?

I have too much thinking time on my hands.

Fact no. 1

Of the first 135 episodes, 126 of them are direct (for the most part) adaptations of the manga, chapters 1 to 238.

126 episodes = 238 chapters

Assumption no. 1

126 is a little more than half of 238. Therefore, it can be assumed that a certain number of chapters will result in about half that number of episodes.

# chapters ÷ 2 = # episodes

Fact no. 2

There are currently 71 chapters since the end of part 1.

Assumption no. 2

For the sheer hell of it, let’s pretend that chapters 239 to 309 have been animated, even though that’s far from being even remotely true. I’m only using 70 chapters because I like whole numbers.

Using the little equation I thought up:

70 chapters ÷ 2 = 35 episodes

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Ooooh… ouch. That’s not that many, is it? And considering the amount of time that it takes to animate one episode (the animation process is seriously long and grueling when you think about it), there are probably way less than that number.

So… you might ask; why won’t they just show the episodes they have finished?

Well, if my pseudo-calculations are right, there just aren’t enough to air. And the pacing of the storyline also plays heavily into how much the animators are able to do. Unless Kishimoto-san sends them his story plans/drawings/etc. way before they show up in the manga. However, it’s widely known that he doesn’t oversee the animation process…

…so, I don’t know why they said spring would start the new canon episodes.

If anything, they could do *shudder* timeskip filler… which would be kinda cool, but considering their current track record, it would piss us all off more if anything were screwed up. And there’s no space for filler in the current manga storyline, seeing as we jump straight from saving Gaara to finding Sasuke.

In Conclusion:

We have a long way to go.