User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Sorcerer Magazine, Issue 28: April 2014/@comment-112.198.90.127-20140508151705/@comment-4829046-20140508152558

That has been the case for Naruto Shippuden for a while now. Anyone who says it is great as the opening deserves to be shot. It is general consensus that the ending is better. I myself really liked the previous two.