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Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission
Chapter 281: The Search for Sasuke!!

Previous chapter:
>>282704643 chapter 280
Start: https://desuarchive.org/_/search/boards/a.desu.meta/subject/Daily%20Naruto%20Chapter/filter/text/page/8/

Believe it!
Thanks for joining and reading.
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Volume 32: The Search for Sasuke!!
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>>282727153
My HEROES
and Shikamaru and Naruto…
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Eh might as well ask now

How would you rate the Gaara retrieval arc?
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>>282727169
>Kishimoto was 32 in 2006
>calls himself middle aged
Is this the power of the Japanese work environment?
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>>282727245
Horrendous
About half the panels ought to be cut and needed a fuckton of editing
Also, our protagonist was embarassing, did fuck all and then acted like a retard whining and shouting
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>>282727271
THERE HE IS
THE "ROOT" OF ALL PROBLEMS
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>>282727245
Half of it was set-ups that got concluded off-screen, for no other purpose than to give the anime something to extrapolate filler off of.
And that I assume is going to be a trend that's not going to change for future arcs either.
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>>282727361
A lot of normalfags keep saying that Konoha looks like an older version of Japan
Every time I don't see it
The only Asiatic thing here are the Kanji, nothing about the architecture is close to Japan; hell, the spiral staircase around the column and the circular elvated building with spire-like structures is French more than anything else
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>>282727245
Peak Sakura, she, Chiyo, and Sasori rightfully carry. Enjoyed the art debate Deidara and Sasori had too. Too much flashbacks of panels literally just read and reused over and over, it's as if many said—Kishi was doing storyboarding for SP.
I felt even if they were cool, the pseudo Akatsuki fights didn't have to be there and Team Guy is pure padding.
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>>282727392
>me when I don't find my chocco protein pudding in the fridge
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>>282727245
The story itself is probably the best out of part 2, but Kishi's pacing and paneling was fucking horrendous. Way worse than anything from part 1. I just wonder how the rest of Shippuden will hold up in the manga.
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>>282727153
>Nart behind Shikamaru
Real subtle there Kishi
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>>282727491
Team Guy being there creates way, way more questions and problems down the line, and is also really bad as is
Deidara escaping Guy is as retarded as Sasuke escaping Deidara after, Guy power level in general here is wonky
Neji that for some reason doesn't function properly as he should according to what was established
Lee being there and lacking any kind of narrative contribution in an arc about Gaara after he was personally involved with him in two different arcs
Tenten having zero presence in the only arc where female characters were the focus
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>>282727245
lesser than the sum of its parts, a trend we'll continue to see throughout part 2
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>>282727574
As far as I remember the pacing never gets as bad as this until the war, and even then not immediately, and before that it actually improved quite a lot for some time; the paneling never improves, and unfortunately the lineart gets even worse.
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>>282727245
3/10
Akatsuki fights were cool, but that’s everything that’s good about this arc. Pulling on my string with Gaara’s death didn’t work for me. Naruto was pathetic. Team guy didn’t even need to be there. Fighting fake kisame and itachi was TERRIBLE. Fighting setting breaking perfect mud clones that can stall you for almost an hour is a laughable excuse to not involve team guy into this arc.
Sasori was too good to be wasted this early.
I like Deidara but Kishimoto’s habit of making him so nonchalant about everything that’s happening to him. Limbs crushed, pummeled by foxruto ect. all smug pokerface. Not even sweating or anything. I get he want to make him intimidating and in control but it comes off as unnatural and goofy. Also he had 0 chance of actually escaping the Konoha squad, but I guess Neji suffered temporary blindness.
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>>282727653
>Fighting setting breaking perfect mud clones that can stall you for almost an hour is a laughable excuse to not involve team guy into this arc.
And those were made by Nagato, who apparently can make perfect clones of ninja he never interacted with using a jutsu he doesn't even have to control after the setup, and this never comes up ever again
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>>282727245
Mid, it's really easy to see Kishimoto wanted to have the Sasori fight and therefore had to contrive a way to make everyone else disappear, while also making Deidara survive but without downplaying Gaara too much, so those parts you feel him telling you "don't think about it".
I really liked the Sasori fight, but the arc itself is really contrived.
Team Guy actively damaged the story without having any reason to be there, as usual the byakugan should have trivialized things like the chakra clones, Deidara's bomb and his substitution.
The flashbacks were neat, but they could have been done better, with less melodrama and cheap allucinations but with real bonds.
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>>282727785
I was about to cast summoning jutsu on you op
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Did Root get to OP?
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>>282727785
Chiyo
>REEEEEEEEE I FUCKING HATE THAT SLUG SLUT SHE RUINED ALL MY POISONS AND MADE A FOOL OF ME
Tsunade
>Chiyo? Who?
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>>282727785
>suffered only one casualty, Chiyo
I guess the mind-controlled sleeper agents that got forced to become Itachi and Kisame clones are memoryholed after being killed in action by Konoha ninja
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>>282727880
>Naruto's only canon kill gets memory-holed immediately
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>>282727926
>power to lure in allies
Oda copied this btw.
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>>282727926
Can't you get a wheelchair or something for Kakashi instead of having Guy carry him by the shoulder constantly?
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>>282727888
>>282727926
>acknowledges she sent Naruto because she knew he'd be useful there and presumably believes the mission succeeded because of his presence
Wow surely he'll get a promotion from genin this time.
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>>282727992
I love Sakura this arc, and her sexy legs in general.
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>>282727888
This is an even worse excuse than sending genins after the Sound 4 in SRA. Tsunade is such a shitty hokage.
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>>282728050
>blushing
Is he gay for Gaara?
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Aww
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Sasukek...
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>>282728050
>temari and sakura
I love legs!
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>>282728103
This is gayer than gay sex holy shit
Cute, but damn
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>>282728050
>>282728077
>>282728103
What if Naruto was a girl?
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>>282728002
At the next chunin exams.
You wouldn't want to break the 50-years old tradition, wouldn't you?
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>>282728103
gayest shit i've ever seen
i only know the series by having played all the naruto games
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>>282728077
I appreciate the 2 cm of Temari cleavage we get here.
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>>282727997
You really think Suna could afford a wheelchair, much less give one away?
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>>282727888
Tsunade
Gaara was kidnapped
What the fuck does "understanding each other" have to do with this mission
It wasn't a diplomatic mission, it was a rescue mission
TSUNADE
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>>282727954
>Kishimoto invented the concept of charisma
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GaaNaru > SasuNaru
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>>282728225
How does he even know the name? Did Itachi tell him?
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>>282728103
>>282728168
Naruto needs to get over Sasuke and get with a guy who really appreciates him
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>>282728225
Best. Most kino moment of the arc incoming
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>>282727926
SUNA'S GRAVEYARD IS A ROCK CREVICE WITH HOLES IN THE GROUND IN THE MIDDLE OF NOTHING
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>>282728314
I love it
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>>282727997
Suna has yet to reach the technological level of the wheelchair
While Konoha has microradios they still send messenger hawks LMAO
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>>282727997
>>282728238
A wheelchair through the desert would only make things even harder anyway. Naruto could summon three clones, have one transform into a stretcher, and the other two carry it.
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>>282728314
Leebros, before the timeskip Gai was exhausted before him in trainings.
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>>282728314
My Guy
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>>282728077
>Kishi can't even draw the footstamps in the sand around the characters from the only perspective where it's obligatory to draw them
You have one milion assistants nigga
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>>282728352
>one panel
>sudden
>smart
Actually fucking funny
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Fujo heavy chapter
Kishi was God at this.
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>>282728295
Can't he read the tablet in the Uchiha basement?
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>>282728376
Gaara erased them.
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>>282728225
Who 'members when the official translation was Kaleidoscope Sharingan?
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>>282728103
What the fuck I don't remember the sand persuasion, that is GAY AS FUCK
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>>282728225
>>282728314
>>282728352
Kishi's paneling when it comes to comedy is actually nice!
He should have made a comedy instead of a battle manga
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>>282728422
>But at least you're in one piece
SHONEN JUMP CROSSOVER CONFIRMED?
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>>282728422
Haha our wacky terrorists
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>>282728410
Does he even know of its existance? Also isn't that just Zetsu's psyop about combining chakra to become omnipotent?
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>>282728468
>or perhaps not
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>naruto x gaara
>guy x kakashi
>tobi x deidara (current rebound for his dead art bf)
Kishi pls
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>>282728422
>even the Buddha loses patience eventually
I guess the Enlightened One is really canon in Naruto
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>>282727245
Sasori was pretty cool. But that's about it.
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>>282728482
aw shucks
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...?
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>>282727269
The estimated lifespan for a mangaka is 62, so Kishi actually was middle aged at the time.
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ENTER
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>>282728481
It has levels.
If you have no mangekyou, it shows you that it exists and that it can control Kurama
If you do have the mangekyou, it shows you how to achieve the rinnegan
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>>282727888
This is literally just Kishimoto explaining the readers his excuse to use Naruto in the story
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!!!
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>>282728225
How does using eye magic make you unable to move your legs?
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>>282728242
Naruto barely even did anything to help.
Sakura and Chiyo beat Kakuzu, and Kakashi did the majority of the work against Deidara.
Naruto was just a chakra battery for Chiyo.
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>>282728558
PaintTool SAI
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>>282728496
Deidara has been doing zen buddhist shouts to explode his bombs so him making a buddha reference now isn't that much stranger.
Of course, VIZ turned his explosion trigger sound effect to just AAAAAAGH so all the context of his characterisation prior to this is lost in translation.
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Chapter 281: The Search for Sasuke!!

END
Tomorrow: Team Kakashi Returns
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>>282727997
Is there any evidence that Suna even has wheels?
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>>282728601
Best character of early shippuden is here.
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>>282728576
I remembered there were conditions under wich people could only read parts of it, but didn't remember wich ones.
Still, how would Kakashi know of it.
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>>282728050
>>282728077
>>282728168
>>282728103
Yeah, Gaara, sure, only shake Naruto's hand. It's not like there was someone else putting in many efforts to rescue you.
I can only excuse that with you being gay, but honestly Naruto outgays you here
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>>282728656
Ino...
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>>282728401
I don't get it, where did that arm come from? Shouldn't it be in the Kamui dimension?
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>>282728541
What point of view even is that in the top left panel? Looking up from the ground in the middle of the inside of a tower?
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>>282728617
eye magic uses magic points, without magic points you can't move your magician body
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>>282728601
Most worthless character in the manga.
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>>282728642
Thank you OP.
I like Sai's autism, I will always defend him this arc.
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LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6EPMvIhtyA
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>>282728422
Buddhism is a thing in Naruto?
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>>282728671
Aside from Chiyo (who’s ded) who would you say was the mvp of the arc?
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>>282728550
>fights in WWII
>loses an arm
>becomes the second or third most influential magaka of all times
>dies at 93
Shigeru Mizuki really was build differently eh
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>>282728050
>>282728103
I want a BL from Kishimoto
Sure, all the actual relationship development will be skipped, but at least the individual scenes will be the highest kino
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>>282728558
ENTER ONE OF ONLY TWO PEOPLE ALLOWED TO BE A VILLAIN IN THIS MANGA
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>>282728704
Naruto for talking Chiyo into suicide
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>>282728422
Obito is just letting Deidara leg lock him. Hot!
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>>282728558
ENTER
THE SECOND WORST FUCKING CHARACTER IN THE STORY
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>>282728352
The more accurate translation of what Neji said is "I refuse"
But still that was funny af
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>>282728418
kek
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>>282728558
The way it's written seems like Danzo is implying Naruto's talent with the brush is also genius-level
Which of course we know it's true, he painted the faces of the Hokage in chapter 1 in a very artistic way
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>>282728558
I kneel before the true Kage
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>>282728541
Yamato is a carpenter?
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>>282728422
Remind me again why Obito is pretending to be Tobi?
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>>282728693
Sai isn't as bad as people make him out to be.
Yamato, however...
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>>282728601
>dollar store Sasuke
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>>282728601
Sai, you sai?
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>>282728734
Guess he needed a femboy rebound for the time. They both needed another after their losses.
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Blushing for soft boys Naruto is the cutest
Sasuke really is the abusive toxic bad boy the heroine choses instead of the other nice guy option
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>>282728632
There's a diffrerence between shouting KATSU, which is just a sound that reference a practice that could have arise in any world (meditation is not exclusive to any culture) and NAMING the big guy
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>>282728558
Ooh, the Hokage in the shadows...
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>>282728671
>Sakura saved my brother from death? Ehhh idc I'd rather be gay with Naruto
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>>282728708
Because he always slept 10 hours a night.
Other mangaka take their sleep too lightly, so they die young.
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>>282728704
Either Sakura for making the antidote plot device that really solved the situation or Kakashi for being the one who got Deidara to drop the body and forced him to escape by taking his other arm.
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>>282728710
Naruto is already that.
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>>282728168
The only thing that could make this better if Sakura or Tenten got a nosebleed, from seeing this.
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>>282728693
>>282728768
Nah, he really is a shitty and unnecessary character.
But yes, the other guy is way worse.
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>>282727888
>the only people that truly understand Jinchuriki are other Jinchuriki
>Jiraiya in his years with Naruto didn't take him to visit any of the other Jinchurikis to give him advice on how to control his powers
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>>282728767
A true Stanislavski practitioner
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I HATE SAI
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>>282728485
Funny how Kishimoto's comedy skills and true writing inspiration only comes when he is allowed to dose himself up with fujo stuff
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>>282728780
>Gaara is to Naruto what Lee is to Sakura
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>>282728168
Characters here ranked from strongest to weakest
>Guy
>Gaara
>Kakashi
>Neji
>Temari
>Lee
>Kankuro
>Sakura
>Naruto
>Tenten
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>>282728738
The first is Madara btw.
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>>282728812
>mfw I always had been a light sleeper and never slept more than six hours ever since I was a baby, most of the time five hours per night
I'm gonna die soon aren't I?
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>>282728884
Obito, Madara, Itachi are all terrible and Naruto would have been better without them existing.
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>>282728882
Kakashi is as strong as the plot requires him to be in any given moment, so he's a wild card.
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>>282728422
>Comedy with the villains
We've lost the edge, Narutobros...
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>>282728768
>>282728851
This arc he was good, after it he overstays his welcome, but will always stay ahead of the other.
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>>282728656
Meh, no.
Sure, he talked some necessary shit to Naruto and Sakura for few chapters, but by the end of the arc he is the same blank Naruto slurping drone
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>>282728422
I fucking wish obito wasn't tobi and stayed funny.
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>>282728768
I still think those two should've been merged into one character
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>>282728314
Based Guy
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>>282728920
>[every character in Naruto] is as strong as the plot
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>>282728920
Take away the eye and he’s weaker than Asuma.
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>>282728558
This reminds me that Sai isn't even his real name, but it's eventually treated like it is.
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>ugh we need a new twink to keep the female readers happy until sasuke comes back
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>>282728168
I want to lick Temari's legs and Tenten's ankles
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I never really understood the point of Sai in the story..
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>>282728424
>What the fuck I don't remember the sand persuasion, that is GAY AS FUCK

It wasn't visible in the scanlations provided at the time (20 years ago, holy fuck).
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>>282728882
Tentenbros, surely this list is in opposite order...
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>>282728954
Better yet just scrap them entirely and use some of the other Konoha characters from part 1 for their roles.
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>>282728928
As I said.
Early
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>>282728682
No, Kakashi just broke it with the vortex
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>>282728991
Tenten is a support/utility. Her strengths shine in other ways.
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>>282728295
>How does he even know the name? Did Itachi tell him?

Itachi actually did, but it was implied that Kakashi already had heard of it.
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>>282728979
Based.
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>>282728988
Replacement for Sasuke because the real Sasuke wasn't part of the team anymore. Kishi also tried to lean into the fujo audience which is why Sai looks so gay, but he kinda flopped with them.
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>>282728422
What if Deidara was actually stronger than Obito?
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>>282729036
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>>282728558
>>282728601
I wish Sai was a woman
Pale woman sexo
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>>282728314
>HARDER, KAKASHI! POUND ME HARDER! THAT'S MY ETERNAL RIVAL! <3
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>>282728601
>that Orochimaru-white skin tone
What a trustworthy looking fellow.
Obviously not a thing that would've been apparent in the B&W manga, just an anime/colour print issue
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Umm, how should I put this…shouldn’t Suna people be more…dark skinned, since they live in a desert?
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>>282727153

I've come to relate to sasuke Uchiha recently because a recent video I watched showcased how sasuke, as a child, was feminine. Not womanlike mind you but having traits of femininity. And the examples they used immediately took me back to my own childhood. I've come to realise that I too was a feminine boy. The signs were always there and like sasuke I too suffered for it.
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>>282727888
Tsunade needs to stop drinking when she decides who to send on missions
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>>282727195
Ino's toned tummy...

Remind me, why does a support need to be jacked?
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>>282727195
If I was Kishi, I would have made Ino into a boxer like brawler. Makes perfect sense since her sensei is Asuma who has a similiar fighting style but with blades
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>>282728422
Imagining every Tobi scene but with him unmasked is funny as fuck
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>>282727245
It's pretty bad but I'll say at least it doesn't have Lee finding and catching up with the squad (who ran for an entire day) in an hour straight out of surgery.
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>>282729067
He's not even subtle. When helping him walk he's lamenting because he can't feel the kakacock on his back, and once he got him on his back he shifted his backpack so fast and smiled right away
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>>282728352
at last Lee's inclusion in this arc actually had a point
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Why is Konoha so incompetent with its jinchuriki?
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>>282728601
THE WHITEST CHARACTER IN THE STORY (literally, he’s so fucking pale it’s disturbing)
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>>282727888
This is so fucking bad
I fucking hate Kishimoto
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>>282728422
I fucking love the Deidara-Tobi-dynamic
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>>282729198
incompetence is the rule, competence is the exception
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Kek imagine if at the entrance to his cave Nagato placed a mud trap that created a perfect copy of anyone that enters. Naruto would be in trouble
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>>282729287
What if you made two clones instead of one? What if the clone wins? What happens next?
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>>282728682
Kakashi only kamui'd off deidara's elbow, the remaining arm then fell to the ground.
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>>282729303
so his elbow is just chilling in the Ps2 Dimension?
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>>282728422
Tobi is actually good huh
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>>282729287
Imagine if he did that in Ame when Jiraiya entered. Jiraiya would have been even more fucked
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>>282728972
>>282728558
Kishimoto forgot Sai wasn't his name

Also Danzo did nothing wrong
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>>282729401
Hiruzen forgot that Yamato wasn't Tenzou's real name, even though Hiruzen never heard the code name "Yamato" in the first place.
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>>282729198
Reminder Minato thought Konoha would be stronger with a baby Naruto with Kyubi inside him rather than a living Minato being Hokage

... Why didn't they make Jiraiya Hokage instead of forcing Hiruzen to return again? Did Kishimoto make up Jiraiya in the middle of Konoha crush?
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>>282728671
I can't blame Gaara. They probably gave him a report on what happened, but he subconsciously filters out anything not about Naruto
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>>282729388
Can clone Jiraiya summon frogs?
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>>282729485
>Did Kishimoto make up Jiraiya in the middle of Konoha crush?
You're beginning to realize how Kishi works
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>>282729504
Nobody knows
Kishimoto had the briliant idea of bringing Team Guy for filler fights and then he off-screened the filler, so we only know that they were identical copies made of mud and chakra.
>why didn't Neji Gentle Fist them out of existence
Nobody knows
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>>282728992
Nah, we needed a character link to Danzo and ANBU
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>>282729036
holy shit
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>>282729079
Yes, but normal rules don't apply to Suna people. Look at Sand siblings, all with completely different hair color and faces
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>>282728376
They are ninja, they don't leave footprints
>>282728422
How did Deidara 'know' who tobi is?
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>>282727153
The search for saucegay begins.
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>>282729715
But does he want to be found?
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One thing I'm grateful about this storytime is now I realise how terrible Naruto is.
It has been fun while lasted, see you anons in another storytime.
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>>282729711
This doesn't get enough attention. Seriously, why does Deidara know Tobi?
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>>282727153
Timeskip Ino is so goddamn fine
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>>282728642
what inspired kishi to introduce two characters with fake personalities back-to-back?
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>>282729754
We all hate Naruto because we all love Naruto.
It's an abstract kind of feeling.
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>>282729207
Was it ever explained why he looked like that? Or was it some kind of allegory "white as a paper" or something?
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>>282727574
I definitely would put the Pain arc later above Gaara Retrieval even if I don't like how it ends. Kishimoto was firing on all cylinders during it
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>>282728988
Introducing the darkness of the leaf before it became only a list of danzo's crimes
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>>282728308
All of Naruto's closest friends are better for him than Sasuke and the more I realized this over the course of the manga, the more annoyed I got with it
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>>282728352
Assume the position

>>282728449
When Naruto actually wants to do comedy, I always thought it was the funniest of the big 3. There just isn't a lot of opportunities for it
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>>282728558
I fucking hate this guy
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>>282729859
it's one of the more common complaints of the series. Naruto+Sasuke's relationship is both undercooked and they don't have great on-panel chemistry. Naruto as a character gets way better the further he is from Sasuke and to a lesser extent Sakura. Team 7 as a unit blows despite Naruto and Kakkashi being fine together or even on their own
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>>282729759
He probably did some side jobs for them for fun
>>282729795
Because he is ROOT and they are mostly working in shadows and underground, never showing their faces or getting sun
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>>282729859
I mean, no shit, they spend the majority of the series as enemies
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Kill yourself faggots.
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>>282729906
I still like pre-ts OP in that regard more, but yes, Kishimoto is capable of being funny when he tries, but unfortunately he loves melodrama way more
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>>282729847
Danzo is merely the veteran who believes ninjas went soft and the Third Hokage's bad because he's not murdering people or making decisions. He's just jealous because the Third got picked. It's like how Orochimaru seethes because Naruto's dad became Hokage. I think Naruto would make sense if it was a gangster flick
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>>282730023
I don't think none of the other Roots were as pale as him.
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>>282728628
>Sakura and Chiyo beat Kakuzu
I know that’s a typo, but it makes me wonder : say that the Akatsuki assigned slightly different teams, and Kakuzu was here instead of Sasori. Could Chiyo and Sakura take him down, or would they be defeated?
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>>282727888
So this is the power of female leadership...wow...
>>282728558
Enter Dan "the Man" zo
>>282729906
Comedy is subjective, but I find one of Oda's best strengths is his sense of comedy. Feel like he's similar to Toriyama in that regard. Kishi can be very funny too though.
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>>282728642
This chapter was gay as hell.
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>>282730724
Oda nails gags and running jokes but kishi does character comedy pretty well. That's probably part of why the rock lee anime was so good.
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>>282727888
Tsunade is calling it for what it is, there is no point in having a jinchuriki if said jinchuriki is stuck at home not doing missions. Contextually, saving the vassal state know as the Sand Village is pretty important. She sent two of her best ninja possible, her prodigious disciple that has some of her strength and the skills to cure poison, another jonin, a few chunin and Naruto. That’s as good as it gets for a squad barring herself being present. Other Hokages blow, she is honestly one of the best or the least damaging to her village
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>>282727888
The funny thing is that Naruto didn't do shit.
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>>282728812
>Other mangaka take their sleep too lightly
The modern weekly mangaka is expected to work like a slave for as long as his health allows him to. I'm convinced that part of the reason why Naruto is shit is because Kishi couldn't possibly keep up with the one chapter a week pace for 15 years without getting sloppy over time and fuck up because he didn't think things through.
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>>282727888
>Because the only one that can understand a Jinchuriki are other Jinchuriki's

Do you have a single fact to back that up Tsunade? Even if it were true, it doesn't benefit the mission at all.
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>>282728050
>>282728103
Hinata, you crush on a gay man.
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>>282728693
Sai is better than plenty of the side characters. For the people that dislike him, he has an already finished arc and he doesn’t overstay his welcome. He’s what others would think a ninja would behave like, and he has some amusing qualities to him. Maybe they would like him more if he was an original K11, but his intro is fine to me as it is.
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>>282728103
Sasuke got NTR'd here
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>>282728314
>>282728352
KEK!
The one saving grace of this arc.
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>>282728693
Sai is a good character and a great addition to the upcoming arc. It's a shame he gets sidelined immediately after and becomes a gag character.
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>>282727153
Beautiful Stacyno cover, Choji looks better, especially without the undergarment headband.
>>282728541
Always like the buildings and structures of this manga. Makes you want to actually live their and explore some of the architecture
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>>282728558
ENTER THE SCAPEGOAT
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>>282731328
Kishimoto sacrifices consistency and function for aesthetics but you can't say his designs aren't visually pleasant or engaging. Probably one of the things that carried the show.
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>>282729036
Nice
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>>282728558
>Both stronger than your peers
Unless he's specifically talking about people around Sai's age, this turned out to be false when Danzo's body guards turned out to be far stronger.
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>>282731366
It is pretty impressive how well he can create character designs and a wide, varied cast in a place with interesting structure to it. It’s not hard to see why there’s so much fan fiction of Naruto. The world can be quite immersive, and was pretty awesome to watch as a child
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>>282728103
The dude who hates it when anyone calls Naruto gay sure is quiet about this page.
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>>282728103
OMG hahaha you guys weren't exaggerating. this is gay as fuck
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>>282727245
just okay. it was my first time actually reading the actual end to the Sasori/Deidara fights and as sappy as it was seeing the crowd of sand ninjas greet Gaara waking up was a nice coda.
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>>282728168
Does Suna really not have anybody else? I know kishi overstacked konoha, but i don't see how these other villages can survive when they have 3 ninja at most.
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>>282728401
Should have said "unhand me"
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>Tobi and Danzo were introduced in back-to-back chapters
Imagine telling someone reading these chapters when they were new, these two characters would both do irreparable damage to the series and ruin it.
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>>282731938
Watching the anime as a kid I thought Danzo would be a great character...
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>>282731998
literally how? Everything about him just from a glance and his intro screamed incoming bullshit
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>>282731938
dont forget the "Yep. A new sharingan!" that introduced kamui
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>>282728558
I just noticed that the side of Danzo's face has more ridges like he suffered some kind of injury right there but then that disappears later.
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>>282731938
>Tobi and Danzo were introduced in back-to-back chapters
I believe Kishi was attempting to pull a red herring because conveniently this Danzo guy has the side of his face covered where Tobi's mask hole is visible and both have black, spikyish hair.
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>>282728422
>buddha was a ninja

What would his kekkai genkai be?
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>>282728418
I mean, Kaleidoscope is the literal translation of Mangekyo
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>>282732021
I thought it was interesting that there was a bad guy in the Leaf with some leverage who was technically not doing anything wrong. It added complexity to the story. But I was sick of him by the time we got to Pain's assault.
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And I also thought the ANBU finally would be relevant to the story at some point. I thought they were cool and was excited that the anime seemed to be going in that direction.
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>>282727888
>Sends Naruto as a mouthpiece for Gaara's struggles
>Manipulates that puppet skank into an heroing to save the Kazekage
>Tsunade receives full compensation for rescuing the Kazekage
The REAL puppet master...
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>>282728103
How does Kishi manage to make Naruto so gay
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>>282732982
Homoerotic anon, homoerotic.
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>>282728352
>Neji...?
I laffed
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>>282733100
No... he couldn't possibly be...
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>>282731846
underrated
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>>282728601
ENTER, a fucking pointless addition to the manga
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Why exactly did the 3rd let Danzo live?

Even as an old man the 3rd was the strongest person in Konoha by a huge margin. He would have washed Danzo and all of Root at the same time. If you think otherwise ask yourself do you think they'd be able to fight the statue like he did or outspeed the 2nd Hokage?
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>>282733152
Be more respectful to Ino's husband.
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>>282733331
Probably influence with Daimyo and the other two old farts.
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>>282727245
Sasori and Chiyo were the only nice highlights here. And I guess Sakura too, especially with what's to come in this next arc and onwards
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>>282733331
I'm surprised Minato didn't purge Root the second he became hokage. Not like he had Hiruzen's sentimentality for Danzo
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How many realize during the war arc that Tobi is the Zetsu that takes control of Yamato. Which funny enough means he's been with Obito for decades as his only "friend"
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>>282728601
>Uh sir? That is my name
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>>282727153
…and Choji.
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>>282733331
Danzo and Hiruzen were literally childhood friends.
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>>282727153
What's Naruto trying to do there?
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>>282733408
>The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society...
>Is that a fox?
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>>282733428
The databook called him Tobi and the wiki does so too, so I knew for years.
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>>282730494
Kakazu would probably go toe to toe with Chiyo+Sakura and ultimately win because he doesn't fuck around and can't be talknojutsu'd. Sasuke would be instantly dead to Sasori or Kakazu, no questions asked.
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oh no no no. THIS goofy mf killed the 4th?
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>The Memorial Stone is a monument in Konohagakure listing all the ninja who died in service to the village.
FUCKING HOW?? this stone contains maybe 50 names max
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>>282733778
Konoha has a low death count. The village is just that good.
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>>282733688
say that to my mf face Kakashi
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>>282733688
Technically he didn't because he used that grim reaper summon.
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>>282733858
I didn't watch the Shippuden anime, but I was surprised to find out his voice actor is Wataru Takagi, the guy who voices Okuyasu and Bellamy. Love his voice but I wouldn't have expected it for Obito. Did he do a good job?
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>>282734240
It's fine given the script. I think he did a better job in the games.
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>>282734240
I think so
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>>282733684
I agree except Sasukes plot armor would never let him lose to Kakuzu. Like like with Deidara your fucked as soon as you fight a main character important to the endgame
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>>282733331
Danzo is the only ninja who acts like one with the deception, subterfuge, and assassinations. He's just old fashioned in that he wants to be a feudal lord in contrast to Naruto wanting to be mayor
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>>282733778
It only lists the names of people important to the plot or the village as a whole. If you're some random no-name chunin they gave your body to Orochimaru
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>>282728103
did Kishimoto have a sexual awakening in 2007? why the fuck is Nardo so gay? he used to be sexy jutsu horny wheres that guy
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>>282734619
>he used to be sexy jutsu horny wheres that guy
He left. The guy who makes REVERSE harem jutsu have taken over.
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>>282733540
...'s friend, Shartkamaru.
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>>282734680
>Have
Has. I swear I'm not a jeet.
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>>282728225
even kakashi is pissed by all this gay
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>>282727392
What if naruto was trapped and betrayed?
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Uh, the black and white pages?
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>>282727888
Imagine being a taxpaying leaf village citizen and this is your leaders excuse for sending a fucking Genin out against a bunch of S rank missing nin

I would have very strong words to say in my next podcast (which we inexplicably have the technology for)
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>>282734876
>OP dabbing out in the B&Wfags
Based.
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>>282728891
objectively yes. i sleep like 10 hours and feel physically ill when i get less than 8
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>>282734876
KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU
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>>282734876
Danzo had Sai "take care" of those pages.
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>>282729092
yeah I'm a fag and have BPD so I really can relate to him
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>>282727392
>>282734989
I hate how big Nardo's eyes get from his tailed form. The goofy fangs make it worse.
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>>282734989
Unironically, there should've been an arc where Naruto got too out of control and the village had to take action.
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I really like the concept of this arc. A glowie infiltrating Kakashi's team, Naruto and Sakura having to face the state of team 7, the re ENTER of Sasuke, Kabuto double opping Orochimaru... But the execution was so fucking bad. How?
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I wonder if Kishi keeps some sort of internal notes on how Konoha’s architectural style works, or if he just wings it every time
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>>282735219
too much focus on naruto being unkillable in tailed beast form imo. i like the progression in him losing control and the addition of sai/sasuke seemingly lapping naruto, but the fact that orochimaru, one of the strongest dudes in the world, can body him and still not put a scratch on him makes it feel like jinchurikis just need to let loose and they'll be overpowering is p anticlimactic
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>>282728558
ENTER THE MAN WHO DID NOTHING WRONG
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>>282728558
My HERO
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>>282727392
>me being restrained from attacking every nigga nitpicking each panel daily
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>>282735499
I nitpick out of love <3
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>>282735499
I want to see more debates between nitpickers and Kishi slurpers
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>>282731146
She sent a chunin level Naruto to fight Kage tier threats for no real gain (Suna is still their vassal state) and with all to risk if Naruto fails (a loved one dies, her disciple dies, Akatsuki achieves their goals)

This is BEYOND RETARDED
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>>282733331
I'm confident Danzo destroys old man Hiruzen. He basically defeated MS Sasuke from the 5KS arc and that guy was able to kill Orochimaru.
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>>282735752
At best he'd win because of all his stolen Sharingan and Wood tits.
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>>282735810
It's because of powercreep but yes Danzo was introduced in late game so he gets to do late game shit
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>>282735713
Tsunade is secretly an Akatsuki member.
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>>282736041
From what village were the head of the Akatsuki from again? Who gained the most after defeating them? Which village had a """spy""" already in the Akatsuki? The Leaf is the Akatsuki.
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>>282736085
>From what village were the head of the Akatsuki from again?
Rain(at least officially).
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>>282728891
Occasional short sleep is not equal to deadly. Life happens. Everyone pulls late night sometimes work, games, "one more episode" syndrome. Your body is resilient. Chronic, and years long deprivation = bad. That's when risks for heart disease, metabolic issues, mood problems, and all that other fun stuff start stacking up. Recovery is possible. Sleep debt isn't a death sentence. When you start prioritizing regular rest, your body repairs, hormones rebalance, and your risk curve flattens out. It's like the gym. Uou don't have to be perfect every single day. It's the long-term pattern that matters. If most nights you're around 7ish, even with occasional 5-hour nights, you're fine. Your life expectancy doesn't suddenly nosedive. So try get some good sleep bitch. Don't spend the entire week sleeping like shit.
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>>282736108
>Rain
And who groomed that ninja during war time? And whose leader did that ninja eventually kill? Think anon.
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>>282736206
Based
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>>282727392
>Me trying to contain my horny levels so I don't do the big cummies for the fourth time today
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>>282736248
If I lose my edging streak it will become w problem for the great nations...
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>>282727926
Do Sand ninja have no clans/last names?
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>>282736422
gaara is literally from the 'kazekage clan' lmao
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>>282736225
>And who groomed that ninja during war time?
Obito?
>And whose leader did that ninja eventually kill? Think anon.
Nobody?
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>>282736707
The Puppet clan and the Kazekage clan(which now are the same I guess) and whatever clan Pakura was from, the Cannonfodders?
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>>282733428
It was pretty obvious that Guruguru was the model for Tobi's personality from the start. However, it still was never explained why Obito was posing as Tobi in the first place.
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>>282735713
She thought he learned as much as Sakura, she know how fast he learned rasengan
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>>282736225
Didn't Danzo work with hanzo to assassinate yahiko
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>Jiraiya challenges Naruto to a training match to judge his development
>Naruto immediately activates Harem Jutsu and spends the rest of the battle as a gaggle of nude girls, putting Jiraiya at enough of a handicap he actually has to try
>has to go sage mode against Naruto to stand a chance
there weren't nearly enough comedy battles in the series
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>>282737052
Yeah, in reality Danzo convinced Hanzo Akatsuki were a threat to his regime, in the end Yahiko walked into Nagato's kunai to not make him have to kill himself in exchange of Konan's life. Later Pain killed Hanzo.
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>>282737830
Damn what a shame no one could izanami Hanzo and recruit him as an extraordinarily strong Akatsuki member.
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>>282737873
Izanami (probably) doesn't work like that
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>>282737901
Assuming Hanzo originally had some noble intentions for uniting the hidden rain or whatever for Akatsuki to work with and that he wasn't always just power hungry and paranoid.
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WHO TF IS HANZO!?
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>>282727153
kill yourself narutard
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>>282727880
they're not mindcontrolled, that is, not anymore. They were always evil, just got induced amnesia to roleplay.
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>>282727880
They aren't leaf village ninjas so they don't count.
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>>282728050
>Heh...
>I guess this is where we're supposed to shake hands or something, but...
>Let's kiss instead.
what did Naruto mean by this?
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>>282728103
Is Naruto BI?
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>>282737873
Remember Akatsuki wanted to keep Hanzo's demise in secret and it wasn't really found out until Jiraya sneaked in.
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>>282738128
Well if he wasn't dead there wouldn't be a secret to be found out.
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Anyone else find it weird how Naruto never wanted to fuck Tsunade?
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>>282738229
he knows she's Jiraiya's age
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>>282738229
>why doesn't the homosexual who lusts for sauske and gaara not want to have sexual intercourse with a woman

It truly boggles the mind anon
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>>282737873
Hanzo is part of the reason Akatsuki became villains.
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How popular would Gaara be if he was a girl?
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>>282738229
too busy trying to fuck prime sakura
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Is there any explanation for why Danzo didn't take the hokage title after Hiruzen died?
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>>282738290
>he always simped for the flatty
Bros I think I'm nooticing...
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>>282735127
Probably thousands of erotic fanfics about that.
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>>282738364
Because Minato had done more than him whose only actions at the time were, "scheming in the background like a fag".
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>>282735127
That was Yamato's role for a while.
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>>282738364
Danzo is a badly written character that didn’t exist prior to this chapter. That’s it.
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>>282738113
Just a hormonal teen.
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>>282735219
Because the glowie feels less like an actual glowie and more like a weak-willed extreme autist who abandons his mission because of Naruto's moralfaggotry about "muh friendship".
This has been said before, but part 1 genuinely didn't feel this juvenile and pretentious.
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>>282728642
Thx.
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>>282735219
The re enter of Sasuke was one of the worst things in Shippuden. All it did was shit on Naruto for being trained wrong.
They should have met for the first time much later.
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I miss the "Konoha girls would get killed by this" posting.
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>>282738503
It's also just a massive nothing burger.
Them meeting Sasuke again for the first time in Shippuden is supposed to be a major event, but you could remove the event entirely and everything about the story would stay the same. Literally NOTHING important happens in this arc.
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>>282735127
What would push Naruto to this kind of state where he has to be locked down and restrained?
Hard mode: not someone close to him dying
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>>282738554
Maybe the people from Konoha not wanting to put with his retarded nonsensical boner for Saucegay.
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>>282727245
4/10, I can't even say saved by the anime because expanding the Team Gai clone fights was horrible. It doesn't help that the Sasori fight, the highlight to everyone, is a clipshow in the manga, way worse than I remembered. That's Shippuden for you.
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>>282729711
>>282729759
Maybe he cleaned the floors in the Akazuki hideouts as an internship or something.
The other thing I wonder is why no one of the Akazuki members seem to question why Tobi gets to join when he seems so weak
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>>282738702
They've seen a lot of weak members get weeded out by Kakuzu killing them.
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>>282728642
>>282729786
>Tobi pretending to be retarded with Deidara
>meanwhile Sai pretending to be a regular human guy around Danzo
pottery...
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>>282738713
>Not even one day in, Kakuzu gets annoyed and goes to heart-pull Tobi
>phases right by it
>holy shit... kid, you're in
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>>282728103
This is the first time I notice Gaara is moving Naruto's hand with his sand. Too intimate for a simple friends' handshake kek.
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>>282738702
Probably they don't decide easily how strong someone is,as ninja most of their trump cards can be hidden and it's not like zetsu seems that strong most of the time
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>>282738738
Naruto... touch me... let me help you.
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>>282738738
I guess we know who tops
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>>282728314
Emblematic.
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>>282738734
I mean yeah they seem to know that Tobi has that phasing abillity even if he otherwise comes off as weak. In Deidara vs Sasuke, Deidara isn't concerned or surprised at all when Tobi survived getting slashed through his torso by Sasuke
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How did Naruto get so popular despite how horrendously it's written?
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>>282738799
The first 2 arcs.
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>>282738554
someone close to him dying
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>>282738799
good designs, emotional heavy moments (at least when you're 14) and a great soundtrack
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>>282738229
Naruto is a pervert, but he isn't a mindless one. He knows Tsunade is an old hag using a transformation.
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>>282738503
It just served as a Sauceflex and that Naruto still "isn't there" yet and it carried for a while long. Remember Sauce's psycho laugh at Naruto for claiming he'd defeat if necessary after his battle with Danzo when Naruto had already mastered Sage Mode by then.
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>>282738799
It was pretty fresh for it’s time. And people didn’t really view it under any critical lens like todays readers. It was a different time.
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>>282738841
>He knows Tsunade is an old hag using a transformation.
Why would that stop anyone when she looks like this?
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>>282738799
ninjas cool simple as
also powerlevelfaggotry, shonentardation, etc
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>>282738843
We later learn that there was really nothing stopping Jiraiya from taking a month off to teach Naruto Sage Mode in a few weeks. Even at the end of their teo year training if you want to say Nards chakra control "wasn’t there yet"
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>>282738862
Was there any realistic romantic interest for her in the series?
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>>282738876
Jiraya
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>>282738876
the second you take interest, you're destined to die prematurely
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>>282738799
The first arcs had momentum. The anime went hard, this was a highly dangerous world with great action scenes and an intense soundtrack.
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>>282738799
>How did Naruto get so popular despite how horrendously it's written?
Same way Dragon Ball did
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>>282738229
he sees her like an adoptive mother, and his mamacon desires are reserved for Kushina-chan
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>>282738933
propably my favourite fight in the aime even if it's so short, the music and chooreography are perfect. Also the buildup before the fight where Sasuke decides not being a pussy and giving everything to defend his friends and get stronger to own his brother
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>>282738956
>Also the buildup before the fight where Sasuke decides not being a pussy and giving everything to defend his friends and get stronger to own his brother
Sasuke was completely right for wanting to retreat, Naruto was just being a retard who didn't even see what Sasuke and Sakura saw against Orochimaru
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>>282738554
Jiraiya Tsunade and Iruka betraying him and trying to kill him. Pulling the "we only pretended to care so you would lower your guard, you beast"
he would go full 'burn down the village to feel its warmth', probably push him to at least 4 tails if that happened. Basically end up like Obito.
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>>282738229
Naruto needs to put a baby in his actual, literal grandmother.
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>>282728103
CUTE CUTE CUTE
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>>282738799
because there was nothing like it in america for that generation. it had a ton of elements that resonated with the age group that watched it (it was carried in popularity by the anime)
>outcast kid who doesnt have friends and sucks at school turns out to have tons of potential
>inner demons
>iconic mimicable poses (naruto run, jutsu handsigns)
>the older brother who outclasses you
>a shy girl that just happens to be fascinated with you
>the cool teacher with a mysterious past who always has a trick up his sleeve
>throwing weapons you can buy in the mall
>pervy humor
>tons of intense and varied fighting styles, from fireballs to kung fu
>actual death and blood
it had a lot of similar elements that made kingdom hearts popular as well
>that cool rival you want to best to prove yourself to the girl
>mysterious villain organization wearing black cloaks
>emphasis on bonds and friends
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>>282738843
>Remember Sauce's psycho laugh at Naruto for claiming he'd defeat if necessary after his battle with Danzo when Naruto had already mastered Sage Mode by then
It was kinda funny to see Sasuke tie with base Naruto there

Honestly I liked PSYCHOsuke because he wasn't gloating or flexing like he used to, at that point he was just an angry underdog and he took every opportunity he got. He didn't want to prove his superiority, he just shot killing arrows at people
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>>282738944
Not at all. Naruto was a mix of good timing, great designs, anime carrying the lackluster manga fights, bad writing being obfuscated by future prospects, and luck.

Dragon Ball was kind of the opposite in a few ways. It had good timing and great designs too, but it had good writing (arguably great actually), the fights were great in manga and ruined by the anime. Unlike Kishimoto, Toriyama was a great mangaka, and he succeeded DESPITE the anime being a bad adaptation.

To put it simply, the Naruto manga gave the blueprints for the characters, designs, and iconic stuff, which the anime heavily expended on and went on to create the stuff that people would remember (eg Rock Lee vs Gaara - the anime scenes).
In an almost opposite way the Dragon Ball anime popularized many elements that became iconic and associated with the franchise (sound effects, soundtrack, voices, openings...) but the manga is what delivered the meat in the first place.
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>>282731146
there is no point sending a jinchuiriki if his jinchuriki-abilities get shut down at the first opportunity either
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>>282727153
OK, here's something I've wanted to ask for a while but haven't found the right opportunity to do so:
Why does Ino (and the Hinata sisters) have these "hazy" eyes? Is it something lore-related? Are her eyes magical or something? Or is it just a style thing?
I've never read Naruto and I don't plan to, but I've fapped to a ton of Naruto porn to the point where I know most of the girls by name. But every time I fap to the above-mentioned girls and post-nut clarity hits, I always end up wondering why their eyes look the way they do.
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>>282739607
It’s the thousand cock stare
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>>282739607
For the Hyuga clan, it's because of their byakugan is supposed to be all white because it's part of the name of their eyes. For characters like Ino, it's just style. Gaara doesn't have pupils either.
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>>282739607
Hinata and Hanabi have the byakugan, wich give them white eyes, as the name implies, Ino is just bad drawing/coloring.
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>>282739607
Hinata is a member of the hyuga clan which has magic eyes and hasonly one sister, ino it's simply a stylistic choice
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>>282739689
Thanks, fellas. I dedicate my next Naruto series female character fap to you all. I'll probably do Hinata again.
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Better question is why does Ino have abs when her role is to mind control her opponents?
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>>282735219
I think the arc is overhated for being not the first, but the second slow arc where absolutely nothing happens in part 2. Especially so in the anime. 7 volumes into part 1 we were about to start the Chunin Exam preliminaries, while 7 years into part 2 the Tenchi Bridge arc ends. In the anime it's 53 episodes, which is the time it took for us to get all the way through the preliminaries and see Jiraiya's first appearance at the hot springs. You basically power through the neverending Kazekage Rescue arc only to be greeted with yet another arc of full talking and Naruto looking extremely incompetent. It's nice that we get an introduction to the real extent of Nine Tails' power and the consequences of Naruto getting out of control (even if that doesn't really become a relevant plot point other than serving as an excuse to nerf Naruto until he loses control again against Pain), but it's baffling that until Kakuzu the only real fighting we see Naruto do is his fight against Orochimaru where he's transformed and unconscious.
It also doesn't help that Kishimoto focused more on >bonds than real glowie stuff. And I also agree with >>282738503 and think Naruto shouldn't have met Sasuke this early on. Sasuke's re-ENTER was iconic and honestly pretty good, but I'd bail Naruto out of this humiliation ritual by having him take a resting nap under Yamato's vigilance after the Orochimaru battle while Sakura and a Yamato clone chase Sasuke. Even if Naruto was banned from using the Nine Tails and exhausted from the fight, having the entire Team 7 get humiliated by Sasuke like that wasn't a good look at all and it honestly doesn't contribute to the story in any way other than raising questions over what Naruto was doing with Jiraiya all this time.

But I still like Tenchi Bridge more than most people do.
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>>282739760
>is a medic-nin, the role of which Tsunade defines as someone who can evade attacks so that they don't compromise their team once they are needed to heal
>trained by Tsunade to a lesser degree than Sakura but still would have had to get quite a lot stronger just to survive
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I'm now remembering that the anime baited people when Shippuden started by having Naruto and Sasuke's meeting be the opening to the timeskip. They tried to hook people in with what would be a nothingburger when they actually got to it and making the animation look cheaper too.
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>>282740070
Yikes
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>>282740070
This op was so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6EPMvIhtyA

And this baiting wasn't exclusive to Distance. The next 7 OPs or so (excluding Sign and Toumei Datta Sekai) bank on the anticipation of NARUTO AND SASUKE'S FINAL CONFRONTATION VALLEY OF THE END RECAP ULTIMATE BATTLE that wouldn't happen until much later on.
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>>282732982
true spirit of the samurai
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>>282728103
NO HOMO btw
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>>282735582
>>282728642
Arigatou, OP!
>>282735595
>InoSHILLkaCho
I'M TIRED OF SEEING THEM!
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>>282738799
it's good, it's for kids and it's cool
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>>282740137
The post meant Shippuden started with Naruto and Sakura rushing through Orochimaru's hideout and reaching the standoff with Sasuke. It was like the flashforward Boruto did.
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>>282729022
I want Tenten to 'support' me.
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>>282740471
Can you get in more details? What would you want her to "support" and with "what"?
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love tenten. love life
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>>282740487
I want her to support my genitals with her tongue.
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>>282740468
Yeah I only reread it after I posted and felt a bit stupid
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>>282727245
kino villains, kino ending
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>>282731215
wrong retard, it was naruto words and raging which is why the suna people understand gaar struggles and why chiyo killed herself then
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>>282739760
>the least combat and physical oriented styled kunoichi in her class
>has the best figure and most aesthetic physique among all the younger women
Ino is the best
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>>282740781
Why can't Sakura be at least as /fit/ or more than Ino?
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>>282729000
By far the best character in this early arc. In fact, this is one of the best arcs in the manga.
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>>282740792
She probably likes to snack around like Naruto, considering she is at times just a female version of him. Sakura just doesn’t have the genes to be a Stacy, impressing how far she has gone to achieve it. Of all the K11 kunoichi, Ino is the most /fit/ and already established as a mogger in her academy.
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>>282738976
Orochimaru admitted that he wouldn't let them get away and kill them.
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are the childhood fillers (480 to 483) canon? i mean, the same timeline?? everywhere in google says they're "memories" from the characters, but to me they're just different timelines
neji doesn't hate hinata. itachi has peace of mind, is open and warm, obito doesn't hate kakashi and cheers for him openly, etc
they can't be just "memories" but totally different timelines where everything is at peace, a "slice-of-life timeline"
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>>282739671
neither does Anko.
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>>282739760
all of them go through at least some degree of physical training as part of Ninja 101. Remember, she and Sakura had a real brawl during the Chunin Prelims and Ino could throw hands like she was a pro boxer.
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>>282740856
Forever mogged. Part 1 Ino also looks more /fit/.
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>>282741269
>Sakura was so shit she got bodied by a support nin and had to cheat with Tsunade's super chakra strength
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>>282741190
I consider all the war arc filler to be canon
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canon btw
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>>282741312
>pussy lines
yum
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>>282741190
memories aren't exact recordings of realty, they're more a collage of emotions that we create images to associate with them. We might remember specific key events more or less exactly as they happened, but everything in between we basically invent.
In other words, the characters are remembering what they want to remember.
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>>282741359
ACK!
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>>282741359
I've been playing through the 4 main Storm games all week, coincidentally
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>>282738364
idk if it's in the manga but there's an anime episode where they show the feudal lord conference to elect the new hokage, and he was furiously fighting for his case until the daimyo's stupid ass gets distracted and just says "oooo goody let's get this guy" after his name comes up so it was settled then and there despite the other two oldfag advisors backing Danzo.
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>>282727785
>Granny Chiyo
So was Granny a part of her name or?
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>>282741812
wasn't Tsunade suggested pretty much immediately?
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>>282741862
I was reading it as her title
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>>282740764
Nta but no, Chiyo was already preparing to sacrifice herself, referenced at the end of the sasori fight, and the sand already accepted Gaara as kage beside those boomers.
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>>282741299
>using filler for your [Headcanon]
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>>282729485
Hiruzen was stronger
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>>282742113
>Sakura v Ino fight was filler
what
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>>282735752
>>282735872
Hiruzen Edo was still also an old man and saved the alliance by himself. Danzo would get wrecked with his one chance being that maybe Hiruzen gets mentally nerfed from fighting a friend
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will of fire movie kinda sucked, didn't it
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>>282728225
Was it really necessary to have 4 pages dedicated to the gayest handshake in fiction?
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>>282728334
>>282728654
The absolute state of Suna
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>>282741359
>>282741723
I've heard the Storm games are actually one of the better ways to experience Part 2/Shippuden. Is there anything you really miss if you only play the games without reading the manga or watching the anime?
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>>282729198
Im mad they ditched such great character as Kushina
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>>282742257
That specific scene was in fact filler.
>>282742007
...said no one but Temari and Shikamaru.
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>>282743061
You're basically skipping a lot of the talking and bullshit to get a more streamlined experience. For instance the Sasuke climax of this arc actually gives you a good emotional fight instead of nothing.

It's not perfect but the spectacle is well worth it.
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>>282743061
Better way to experience the fights maybe. Storm games are pretty good at that. Other than that, the Storm games leave a lot of stuff out. Hell Storm 3 even had an alternative ending for Naruto.
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>>282743097
>>282743301
UNS1 skipped the Land of Waves for some reason, so no Haku or Zabuza. They wouldn't get added until 3 I think, with the Edo Tensei versions.
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>>282743079
Created a quasi-reincarnation with Karin only to turn her into yet another Sasuke groupie
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>>282729235
Well-a, facka you too, kuso gaijin
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>>282741359
giwtwm
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>>282728103
No homo
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>>282728314
Kakashibros…we’re getting dragged into gag bs against our will again
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>>282741407
thats bs
>>282741311
thats post-war

but they were kino. visuals feel like studio ghibli, no drama involved, just naruto meets slice-of-life. the scenes are very calmed, little music playing in the background, you can only contemplate the nature, their voices, their breathing, and their silent stares of thinking
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>>282728601
Enter Kishimotos self insert
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>>282728313
Thats every Suna building DESU
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>>282744692
Me on the left
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>>282727245
We introduced Sasori and Chiyo in the same arc and at the end they both die

We get a clue from Sasori for no good reason about Orochimaru, so the gang can go into the next arc with some directions.

The characters largely don’t change and remain the same after this arc, making it almost completely filler.

I hope the next one won’t repeat the same mistakes.
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>>282744850
Wrong character that starts with an S.
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>>282728314
>>282728352
This gag alone gets halfway to redeeming Team Guy's appearance in this arc.
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>>282728422
>Dedaira thigh crush with his feet out
GOD I wish that were me
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>>282738537
he is forced to learn rasenshuriken which is p integral to the narrative. and also to develop the shadow clone training method, which is also integral in him learning sage mode
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>>282745587
This except it's Ino instead of Deidara
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>>282738926
jiraiya took interest at like 12yo. it's when she takes interest in you that you die
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>>282739074
>tl;dr
Its good as story and excellent as product
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I will go read some Naruto/Gaara fanfiction and look for arts.
If you are wondering who pushed me that way, address all your questions to Kishimoto



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