edit, follow-up: Crunchyroll just never stops, does it??
I really don’t have time to elaborate right now (lol, class in three hours, what?), but I just wanted to say that:
BELIEVE IT!As Japanator says, this isn’t the first time it’s happened, but there’s never been anything of Naruto proportions, and now we’re going to have Naruto himself! I haven’t watched Naruto since around episode 114, so this doesn’t actually affect anything I do, but it’s still great news all around. I was already surprised that they got Code Geass R2 dubbed and ready to air just a month or so after it finished airing in Japan, but now I’m going to be counting the days until we get official subs a week or less aftering airing in Japan for new series. Sure, they’re new episodes of Naruto Shippudan, but Shippudan has been airing for a while now and they’ve got catch-up work to do. I want official subs for new season series’ episodes! I just almost feel it happening. I can imagine the press releases!
This is exciting.
Awesome news! :D It’s nice to see that the official distributors are finally able to match what hobbyists have been doing regularly for like a decade :3