Naruto and Sasuke believe that they are dead, and are travelling through what they believe to be the other side. ![]() In this sense, the anime actually surpasses the manga’s way of ending the fight. In a rather surprising turn of events, the episode is extremely philosophical and evocative, and half of it consists of anime-only material. But the praise doesn’t end there, as a good fight needs a good conclusion, and 478 is there to pick up the pieces. The quality of these two episodes stand above all that came before as probably the best-looking fight in the whole series. ![]() You can detect the sheer force of them hitting each other, and the final fist fight with them too tired to even land a good enough hit is especially eye-catching and emotionally driven. Every frame is drawn with just as much detail as a normal Naruto episode, but animated beautifully to really get the blood pumping. These aren’t just colored blobs just floating towards each other at high velocities and flying across the world. We all know the *ahem* beauty of the famous Pain-punching-the-ground motion, but it’s safe to say that the Final Battle looks good at every frame. The entire fight is gorgeously animated and in a way that doesn’t produce some of the strangest looking animation frames. But that’s not all, as this fight is also very well-animated, and not in the sense that other notable Naruto fights are, such as the original Naruto vs. The fact that 476 and 477 were broadcast at the same time as a double-episode feature was a smart move, as I would’ve hated waiting in between this incredible fight. It starts with what the Naruto series does best, a good throw-down with hand-to-hand combat, followed up by their super-ninjutsu forms, and wrapped up with a good ol’ gut-wrenching and blood-spilling fist fight. But after watching the fight, it was almost worth the endless filler arcs that would interrupt the Kaguya fight nonstop, as this fight is hands down, one of the best Naruto fights period. The black-and-white preview for 476 was really odd, and that might be what it meant. It was odd that they would have a 3-week delay between episodes 475 and 476, especially after a rather lengthy filler arc (which adorably ended in a call-back to the greatest Naruto filler, Kakashi’s Mask), but I’m now of the opinion that the episodes weren’t even done yet. Once again, a lengthy discussion precedes the fight, and after they realize they can’t simply convince the other, they finally throw down. Of course, Naruto doesn’t quite like that. The last thing to do before that is kill Naruto and severe his last connection to the world. He wants to shoulder the entire world’s hate and live in the shadows, becoming a hidden force for justice. He wishes to have a much larger scale version of what his brother Itachi accomplished, which is to say cause a smaller area of death and extinguish the flames of war before they even start. Now that the enemy was gone, what’s there to say that the world won’t fall into war again? Sasuke’s plan was to make the whole world his enemy, in an attempt to get them to work together to stop him. Not only did the 5 Kage create this situation because of their lackluster handling of the world itself, but the Shinobi Alliance was only formed because they now had a common enemy, which was Madara Uchiha, and by extension Kaguya. After Naruto and Sasuke travel to the Valley of the End, the arena of their first falling out, it becomes clear what Sasuke is talking about. Only Sasuke wants to assassinate the 5 ninja leaders, the 5 Kage, before releasing them. After the (rather anti-climactic) battle with Kaguya, both Naruto and Sasuke only have the job of releasing everyone from the world-wide genjustu, the Infinite Tsukiyomi. In order to give you guys the full extent of what this fight meant, I’ll probably have to do some explaining. ![]() And what did I think of the whole fight? I thought it was f***ing incredible. As they lay as tired men, Sasuke concedes and everything is finally finished. But it’s still a hard fight, and there’s no shortage of broken bones and feelings felt. Naruto and Sasuke have their bout for the control of the direction for the Shinobi world, and Naruto comes out victorious. The last fists have been thrown, the last hurrahs have been shouted, and the last struggles have been overcome. Well, a longer time coming than what we all would’ve hoped for, but at last the final fight has been fought.
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