What chapter is the anime around atm?
I've decided that it became interesting enough for me to want to catch up reading hte manga.

Not exactly sure, but the jinchuuriki vs jinchuuriki fight starts at 565

I'd start before that if I were you just to be sure. And you will see that mangas are so quick to read, you wont lose much time starting farther behind.

Yeah even the show is getting really good naruto