oh lord, seeing ed sleeping there like that, i'm reminded of how this episode ends...gross.
it's creepy alien life form night, i guess. chimera ant teaser leading into outlaw star alien bug/cactus combo and then..toys in the attic
hnoestly, i'd find shadow clones scarier than the real ninja. they don't have to fear death, so they can take unreasonable risks and sacrifices in battle.
THIS. IS. BULLSHIT.
i don't mind filler in anime if the filler doesn't clumsily retcon in their episodes or introduce plot points that would be useful later but never seen again.
THERE WAS NO TIME FOR THIS MISSION. after the chuunin exam, we went right into the tsunade arc where sasuke was unconscious until just before th retrieval arc. that's the first time they had seen gaara since they fought him.
hnestly, that soccer game episode of Eureka 7 was less pointless than this.