The Targeted Tailed Beast

The targeted tailed beast sharpens the enemy's hunt as the war's true objective — capturing the jinchuriki — presses on the alliance's defenses. The episode advances the canon war, Tobi's forces moving to seize the tailed beasts that power the Eye of the Moon plan while the alliance fights to protect them. The conflict's purpose crystallizes around the beasts. It's the canon arc's tension turn, the war revealed as a hunt, the alliance's whole strategy bent toward keeping the tailed beasts from the enemy who needs them all.