Naruto Shippuden - Episodes 018-027 Discussion

*First time watcher - somewhat source reader\*

What do you think of Chiyo/Sakura vs. Sasori? As the first Akatsuki member to be defeated, how did Sasori rank as an antagonist? I really liked the overall fight and it played on Sakura's strenghts rather that sidelining her. Sasori, if I'm not mistaken, is the first enemy that we see as truly bad..even if he had a sad backstory, he enjoyed killing and making puppets out of people and it kind of reminds me of Orochimaru by doing experiments on real life subjects. I also think that Sasori was a product of the teachings of Suna village same as Gaara was at the beginning.

What do you think will happen to Deidara? I think he wasted a lot of time and clay trying to separate Naruto and Kakashi so I don't think it will be as long as the Sasori fight but I'm hoping he has something prepared.

What do you think about Sasori's "reward" for defeating him? It might be shady but otherwise why will he be lying.. and I just think he didn't care about anything else but himself.

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