OAV Guide Three

What is it? This short 11 minute special was shown with Naruto movie one. It features a competition between the Genin of Konoha. The competition merely serves as a backdrop for Naruto to get into humorous situations and should not be taken seriously. It also allows the anime team to include anything and everything, from bit part background characters to long since dead ones.

What's the story? The Meet is held to test the skills of the various Genin teams. The teams take part in various challenges with the eventual winner getting a paid vacation. This merely serves as the backdrop for a diarrhea problem Naruto faces within moments of the competition starting. As he rushes to the bathroom he sees a long line to the men's restroom and is prevented from resolving his problem. He is thus forced to compete in various challenges, all while trying to hold it in. He speeds through the various challenges all in the hopes that in the brief intermission between them he can finally use the restroom. Unfortunately various situations arise preventing him from ever accomplishing this.

My rating? A humor driven piece it can be amusing at times, but the humor's rather base nature makes it a bit derivative even at only 11 minutes. We get it, he can't take a crap and really needs to. Seeing Naruto prevented from using the restroom for so long only serves to annoy rather than amuse. The animation is great but the plot, if it could even be called that, doesn't do much. The humor just isn't enough to make the OAV feel worth watching multiple times. I give it a 3 out of 10.

Continuity problems? This story really has no chance of being in continuity and should just be viewed as a humor piece. It features dead characters (Yondaime Hokage, Haku, etc.) and ninja from other villages who have no reason to be attending such an event. Itachi and Kisame waiting in line for the restroom?... yeah.