well yes and no.
the problem with this show is there's no respectable villain that's evil and ambitions for the sake of just being evil and wanting power. all of them have sob stories or some type of be to try to justify their acts of villainy.
take Aizen from bleach. dude just wanted more power and was ambitious for the sake of wanting more. none of this i liked this chick and... or my powers make me over emotional and i can't control myself garbage.
I've found that that's the case for damn near everybody. All of them have parent issues, cept maybe Sakura but since I caught up on the anime I figure I may as well read the manga now so I might be surprised.
I think they should just give the fukk up on the boy, boy, girl shinobi teams in their world. shyt never ends up well.
I kinda spoiled it for myself a few weeks back when I was googling on the Tobi/Madara front when I was catching up and Tobi went from goofy to running shyt so I've basically been waiting from that. I'm looking forward to that and what Kakashi has to say about it.
And about that fight scene, I just got to it last night and I'm not sure if that's CG or rotoscoped but I think that was one of the best fight openings in a while.
How far ahead is the manga?