I have to say, I do enjoy this volume a lot. It's a delight to see Naruto working on developing the rasengan while we get more of a look at Tsunade and a segue into the relationships between the three sanin as they are now.  Even with meta knowledge for the series and understanding where things end up going, I really appreciate seeing the way both Orochimaru and Jiraiya interact with and view Tsunade.

And for what it's worth, while I sit in the camp of wishing Kishimoto wrote his women better, I don't think he did horrible with Tsunade. Everything with her starts off pretty strong and I appreciate the balance of showing us her trauma versus her will to keep going at where she is at this point.