I think the real question is, how is CN going to recapture casual viewers it may have lost over the filler arcs? I mean, the hardcore message-board-going otaku like us might know the difference between filler and canon, but that's a tiny minority of Naruto watchers. How are they going to convince Billy Everypreteen, "We promise, the word 'Shippuden' is Japanese for 'it sucks less'!"?
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