User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Launches 'Shocking' Project Next Spring/@comment-7418318-20131201134851/@comment-7418318-20131201222750

Yes. If you knew the context from the manga already it could have been a somewhat interesting and dramatic scene, but they stretched it out so badly it was just terribly boring and annoying.

I mean was it really necessary to show a full minute or so of running through a bland corridor? Or the staring contests?

And not one bit of context for those who didn't read the manga.

The only things that were of any interest in that situation were Sakura and Naruto looking up a Sasuke and Sasuke drawing his sword to stab Naruto. That could have been done in 30 seconds and still have more impact than this overstretched crap they did.

Now let's look at Magi: The first thing you see is a militaristic looking flag that's standing in a fire, an army of solders and a troop of mages. Oh a war between Soldiers and Mages. White Rukh is flying around both armies, so it's a war of misunderstanding or somesuch, rather than "Good vs. Evil".

And all that in exactly 10 seconds of screentime!

Then we get some short shots of all the important people who are going to meet here later, some incredible magic cast by Aladdin and "Solomon's Wisdom" shining. All that in just 1 minute and 39 seconds.

Meanwhile in Shippuuden? Naruto is either still running down the corridor maybe even already stating dumbly up at the (not yet shown) Sasuke... -_-