Three eps is too short, but the manga chapters were indeed short as well.

The problem I see with it (even though I brought the info from ANN [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]) is that episode 177's title seems like a bad filler ep like ep 174. Where do we fit Jiraiya finally taking Naruto away?

I'm beginning to doubt the ANN info now.


Edit:
Changed 179 to 177. I meant the episode of the postman.

2nd Edit:
Uchessmaster got pwned XD