Volume 63 is being worked on

[artondrius]

Hayato Date (the director of the Naruto anime) posted on his Twitter that he has already started working on the

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for Volume 63 (chapters 598-607)

What this means is volume 63 should be around 4-5 months away from starting in the anime. This is based on the fact that he posted the same information about Vol. 60 in March this year, and after that it took around 5 months for Vol. 60 to begin in the anime.

I believe this guarantees there will be no huge filler arcs in the foreseeable future, however there is potentially room for them to sneak in a short filler if they wanted (depending on how fast paced the anime goess with canon).

絵コンテ打ちがついに巻ノ六十三に突入！！さてこの後どうすりゃいいのさ（笑）。もう笑うしか ないか。

Source: Hayato Date's tweet

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[naruhina245]

oooh good to know. thx for this!

 

[hixa kuogame]

Do you mean the selling of vol 63.

 

[artondrius]

Do you mean the selling of vol 63.

No, I'm talking about the volume being adapted into the anime

 

[ObiFan]

Good to know.I'm gonna wait all this time.For five months,it's gonna be in this order:

Cannon,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler;

I'M TIRED OF THESE MOTHAFU###N' FILLERS ON THIS MOTHAFU###N' ANIME!

 

[artondrius]

Good to know.I'm gonna wait all this time.For five months,it's gonna be in this order:

Cannon,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler,filler;

I'M TIRED OF THESE MOTHAFU###N' FILLERS ON THIS MOTHAFU###N' ANIME!

Well this means there shouldn't be any giant filler arcs for a while, there are still 30 chapters to go before they even reach Volume 63 in the anime.

They could sneak in a few filler episodes but it would be short.

 

[PTran5]

Well this means there shouldn't be any giant filler arcs for a while, there are still 30 chapters to go before they even reach Volume 63 in the anime.

They could sneak in a few filler episodes but it would be short.

This is almost-exactly what I stated a few weeks ago:

I personally believe there will never be a long hall of fillers again like the one we witnessed six weeks ago where there were seventeen consecutive fillers. I think they will only add two to three fillers in between canon episodes – nothing more. The reason why I say this is because the war is approaching a stage where things are about to turn more serious (they already are but it will heat up even more). The animators will ruin the pacing of the war if they start introducing another long period of consecutive fillers.

Being more specific...

Spoiler

I believe there will be very few fillers after the Uchiha Brothers vs Kabuto fight (like you will see one every now and then). As you know, Edo Tensei was released after that fight. The fillers of the Shinobi War Arc (specifically the one that lasted seventeen weeks) were mostly about stories of reanimated shinobi and their interactions with the current shinobi world. After the release of Edo Tensei, no more past shinobi can be reanimated and thus the animators cannot make anymore fillers about them. So what other fillers can they make? If you ask me, they seem to have limited options. But whatever it is, it must be relevant to the war because as I have stated before, anymore fillers they add will probably have a detrimental effect on the tone of the war. The animators certainly do not want to remove the tense atomsphere created by the Sasuke & Itachi vs Kabuto fight, Madara vs Five Kages fight, etc... by adding more consecutive fillers. That is a reason why I believe there will less fillers after the Uchiha Brothers vs Kabuto fight - there will probably be more filler parts inserted into episodes that are canon.

I truly believe there will never be a long filler arc again in this current war arc. There will be very short filler arcs and/or canon episodes that will contain more filler materials.