Was Naruto at it's height during the Pein Arc?

[Zebulonfox]

I agree. Besides all the cannon we got a lot of pointless fillers. like when they all were flashbacks when they were rebuilding and when they were trying to get to the island where he learned to control Kuruma also they dragged the ending in the manga during the war arc

 

[super yang]

the only god arc in shipppuden was the zombi-combi arc, which isn't saying very much.
the Pen arc was up & down & the story completely fell off the table afterwards

 

[Owl]

War arc imo. The 4 hokage/past ninja and so on was just more of my liking. Part 1 was ok when i was a kid and getting into Naruto, now it just seems eh, not into watching lil kids fight. x-x

Exactly. I shit my pants when I saw the squad return.