Instead of leveling the village with Almighty Push, Pain uses a massive gravity-based Chibaku Tensei (Planetary Devastation) to encase the entire Hidden Leaf village and its inhabitants inside a floating rock sphere.
📉 Fans and critics heavily scrutinized the episode for attempting to squeeze almost the entirety of the epic Pain fight into just a few minutes of screen time. Naruto Shippuden Episode 447
Minato discovers he cannot teleport out of the sphere. To buy time and prevent the village from being crushed, Minato, Hiruzen, Tsunade, and Kushina combine forces to set up a barrier called the Four Red Yang Formation . Instead of leveling the village with Almighty Push,
🔄 Reviewers noted that much of the animation and choreography felt like recycled or downgraded versions of the original canon fight. To buy time and prevent the village from
🛑 This episode aired during a massive wave of consecutive filler arcs late in the life of the Shippuden anime, leading to heavy frustration among viewers who wanted to see the final canon arc adapted.
The episode presents an alternate-reality retelling of the famous Pain's Assault arc. Because it takes place within a dream reading of Jiraiya's novel, the timeline and events are heavily altered:
Naruto returns to the outskirts of the crater to find the village missing. He builds up senjutsu chakra, enters Sage Mode, and confronts the Six Paths of Pain.