I know people dump on the artwork for the Shippuden episode 167 a lot, but Wakabayashi's Naruto vs. Pain fight was so bizarre and full-on Looney Tunes that it was actually delightful.
It was so unlike the endless, static bore that is Naruto.
Finally someone that gets it.
Plus it feels a little bit weird to focus the fault of facial contortions…... when its a fight between a tailed monster that has been split from a giant tree fed off the bodies of local villagers VS a dead corpse being controlled by someone inside a paper tree that was manipulated by a shadow and trained by a frog sage.
I'm just saying that of all the absurdities in that scene....animation is on the bottom of the list lol