In honor of 500 episodes the Naruto shippuden anime will be entering a special nothing to do with the war small filler arc which is explained above in the video. With this there will be no cannon anime till next year but I must say this looks like a good anime filler which finally makes use of the villains outside of the plot. I say anyone should watch this as it's mention that Hidan will also be in this.
From my understanding, there are 4 filler episodes. That's 4 weeks.
Parts of the last 2 episodes were good. More parts from last Thursday's episode were better. This Thursday's episode will be the cake (hopefully - if not, 2 slaps).
BUT, that's 4 weeks that they will be wasting our time. All now we could have been watching Madara use his rinnegan.
Well the anime is getting close to the manga so they need filler and there is only so much they can do with the war without messing up things.
also bad news on the schedule for this month:
December 6 - Chikara episode 3
December 13 - Chikara episode 4
December 20 - Chikara episode 5
December 27 - No episode
January 3 - No episode
January 10 - Chikara episode Final
I'm slowly disliking Naruto Shippuden every week that passes.
The fights from the filler episodes were good, just wished for 'em to be longer and not separated by the boring parts of the filler.