Kinda hard for me to explain my feelings. Yeah, I feel as though Neji shouldn't have died, however, Kishi can't really kill off anymore bad guys (considering the only prominent ones are Madara and Obito) without drastically bringing the end of Naruto closer. Neji was enough of a support/side character who has had enough background and screen time throughout the series to make an impact on the readers without changing the story line too much. The confrontation between Madara and Obito, perfect. I love how Obito isn't just letting Madara make him his bitch, but I also hate how Obito still shows no signs of becoming good.
A few questions that I have are: 1) Kages. Where are they? What secret crack was Tsunade gonna use on them before we cut to the big fight? 2) Sasuke. Last we saw of him, him and Orochimaru ascended to the great writer's-development department in the sky. 3) Who was Neji trying to protect? Naruto or Hinata? Obviously he cared for both of them, but which one was he mainly concerned for?
I'm enjoying the fight, and I hate when Kishi switches between story lines for long periods of time, so I would like to see more of the kages fate and Sasuke's journey, but I don't want him to just switch back to them and completely disregard the big fight.
P.S. ~ That juubi is uglier than Jiraiya in sage mode. Eugghhh! Put some more work into that, please.