User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Episode 176: The Dragon King, Review./@comment-24536822-20140406155427/@comment-83.255.207.11-20140406204219

Fine but feels to me like the episodes where Naruto and the others got older after the timeskip could have simply been part of the same Naruto show. And new villains often shows up in these Shounens so does not feel to me like the Akatsuki getting a bigger role in the story should change that.