Shippuden Episode 447 — Naruto

📉 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.

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. Naruto Shippuden Episode 447

Minato and Kushina are still alive, and the Uchiha massacre never happened. 📉 Fans and critics heavily scrutinized the episode

🛑 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. 🛑 This episode aired during a massive wave

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 .