Folks. Sometimes there is just no way around it and you have some Scooby-Doo bullshit going on. But is that such a bad thing? After a truly disposable first episode, we head to the Land of Birds for a ghost-based mystery and talk about taking on genre conventions for an arc, speculate in the intersection between everybody having ninja magic and general mystery conventions, and ponder what exactly Neji is capable of seeing.

Covered this week: Naruto Episodes 161-163