My advice: read the Naruto manga, events are moving quite fast at the moment! Chapter 317 was posted the other day. On a side note: a friend told me that Johnny Young-Bosch has been chosen as the voice of Ichigo in Bleach (US dub of course). Best known as Vash/Trigun. Claus/Last Exile, Gram/Mars Daybreak and many more! Also, Green Ranger from the Power Rangers (live action).

BIG NEWS!!! Ok, so far it's just a rumour, but here goes: Naruto Part 2 will start with episode 205; 200-204 will be the long awaited Kakashi Gaiden! (so the rumour goes) Anyway here are the \"rumoured\" episode titles: Kakashi Gaiden will air starting with Episode 200, through to Episode 204, Part 2 of the Naruto series will air with Episode 205. The episode titles for the following are: Konoha's Yellow Flash Appears!, Kakashi Gaiden Starts!!!!!, Kakashi Break Down! The Sharingan Awakens, and finally End of Kakashi Gaiden! 205 Begins the Next Generation! This is according to NarutoFan.com; LeafNinja.com is waiting pending confirmation (from Studio Perriot probably). I kinda thought it would start with episode 200!

Yay! I'm a bit behind in my downloading, so I need to get on it!

GAH!!! This is so frustrating!! I took a year to keep myself from downloading Naruto, only to find out that there are more fillers ahead. I mean, at least Bleach's fillers are more interesting, and not just nonsence storyarchs. But did anyone see one the more recent closing theme? It kinda brings up hope. Anyway, i won't post the picture itself up so as not to give too much information (haha i can't believe i said that... as if that would give out any info), but here's a link to it: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9348/narutojr2.jpg OK so i wasn't the one who took the screenshot. But hey, not like it matters.

In Bleach, the openning with Tonight Tonight Tonight by Beat Crusaders, each episode they have a picture of a different featured character. They have shown Grimmjow, Ulquiorra, and Hirako, three characters from the current story arc in the manga. They are plenty far ahead in the manga now that once they finish up with the Bounto crap they won't have issues. I don't see them taking too much longer with it either, thankfully.

So the Bounto are filler then? If that's so then like Zero0079 said it's much better then Narutard filler. I've finally started moving through the Naruto filler to catch up to the 200 range, and I'm about 15 sodes away now. I can't wait to get there.

Yep, the bounto are pure filler. In the manga, just a few days after Ichigo and friends get back to this world, Aizen already starts his attacks on this world. A slew of new characters show up (like the three I mentioned above), chaos insues, and it's actually extremely interesting. You start finding out a lot of nifty things about certain characters in the series. You have no clue how hard it is having to keep my mouth shut about some of the stuff I know. x.x It's just too OMFG.

I wrote this on another forum, and am copypasting it here as well so if it seems a bit off that's why. Just too lazy to retype it. XD I just thought of something that seriously pisses me off. I'm mean to the point of wanting to write these people and bitching in some ears. Gin, one of the most badass characters in the series, has a Kansai accent. Do you know what they do to the Kansai dialect in dubs? Do you?! THEY GIVE THE CHARACTERS REALLY HORRIBLE SOUTHERN ACCENTS, THAT'S WHAT THEY DO! Gin, the once badass mofo you don't eff with is going to be a HILLBILLY! No wait, a heelbeelah. God no, there's no way I'm going to bother watching this anime dubbed. I haven't been anyway, but rest assured this is the nail in the effin coffin. I'm already positive that Crispin Glover will be playing Renji which is the WORST choice possible but he get's typecasted so he's \"perfect\" for Renji. Ug, I'm so livid now that I realized about Gin. Thank you, dubs, thank you for ruining what actually COULD be good.

I don't watch dubs usually, so most of the times they don't bother me.

I don't mind dubs. But those southern accents do drive me nuts.

That wouldn't bother me much, seeing as A) this is Viz, and not 4kids, so odds are that they'll make things a heck of alot more tolerable. B) Fans rarley watch the dubs, so at least we have an alternative.

So has anyone been reading the latest Jump Scanlation? Well, if you haven't i have some news. Kishimoto (the creator of Naruto) has announced that the fillers will officially end come next February. Which coincides with the release of the Part 2 Merchandise. In addition, the Series will have a new (but not drastically new) name. Naruto: Hurricane Chronicles, will continue where the series left off. Nothing has been said about Kakashi Gaiden, but if you ask me, i'm sure they'll not make that part of the series into an OVA, and include it with the series as a whole.

my daughter is a total naruto FREAKSHOW...Naruto didn't engage me quite like Bleach did......still watchin both though. ;)

I have yet to watch either... and I have every single episode!

I prefer Naruto over Bleach, but the filler for bleach is usually better although these later episodes have me skeptical.