patedecarne
July 25, 2008, 04:09 PM
Yo, People!, here we go again! This week, presenting our newest dee jay, Hachibi! Let’s dance! Serious, this week I won’t be able to do a Bleach review, but next week you can expect a double review!
As for Naruto, the review is finally up!
Let’s rock with 8 tails !
The scanlation used is from Binktopia
Naruto 410 – The Battle of the Thunder-Cloud Gorge
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/BlueBigMac/naruto4101.png
Owwww, you know, don’t do this, kids!
With another great colored panel involving five important people, we can see Sasuke making a plan to capture Hachibi, and this time finally we’ll see the remaining Hawk Members in action. Suigetsu is the first to launch an attack, and we can see a crater as a result. Judging by Hawk’s reactions, they thought that Hachibi was an easy prey, but little they know that 8 Tails was able to block Suigetsu’s attack with bare hands! And not only that, but he was singing in the process. One of the best moments so far: probably Hachibi wasn’t even thinking of Suigetsu as a real fight.
Such overconfidence probably is result of his many years as a warrior, and adds to this his experience. He trusts on his power, and he didn’t even use a single sword to fight. I’m thinking that Kishimoto is trying to portrait a powerful warrior who has mastered both his human and jinchuuriki power. One possibility is that Hachibi will become a regular character from now: Being the other remaining jinchuuriki, he’s the perfect person to teach Naruto how to control the Kyuubi’s powers. Of course that “key” could be related with this control, but training with a person who is exactly like you and is able to suppress his junchuuriki will be a gold opportunity for Naruto.
Despite his lazy behavior, 8 Tails provided us with brilliant moments here: his sarcasm while fighting was great and Suigetsu’s comment about how skilled he is. And I’m looking forward to see his swords’skill, his design reminds of Yoshitora Tokugawa, from Samurai Showdown, who carries 7 swords, using and mixing them in a effective way. The same applies to Hachibi, probably he has a good set of swords moves along with the released form. And Naruto and he would be a hell of pair; I’m seeing already the bashing and sarcasm between them! Not a character to be wasted, definitely.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/BlueBigMac/naruto4102.png
I want you!
And now we’re moving to Naruto’s training again. Like I’ve said last week, dying wasn’t in the literal sense; instead, Naruto must be one with the Nature to fully use the Senjutsu arts. Probably the bunshins will be kind of useless here; after all, this training isn’t an ordinary training where 1, 1000 clones will increase the learning rate, at least on the beginning. It’s something more “mystic” now. First Naruto must learn the Nature’ laws; only when he’d got a solid basis he can use the bunshins. Staying stand still won’t be that effective with clones, such concentration level only can be achieved with a great amount of focus, regardless the bunshins’s numbers. Only the true Naruto will know how to do this.
Well, I must that I was surprised to see Kishimoto focusing on the training again. After the last week, I got the impression that he would focus on Hawk’s fight, thus forgetting a little Naruto’s training. And the training right now is the best development to see. Like I said in last week, it’s important to understand the foundations of such training, and on this aspect, Kishimoto is being flawless: First, he provided us with a brief explanation about Senjutsu, and now we’re seeing a more detailed explanation. When we merge these 2 factors, we have a solid and interesting training that Naruto deserves. Again, this training has the famous “no one was able to fully master it before” script; even Jiraya was unable to do such task. And Naruto will be the one to break this paradigm, like the Fuuton RasenShuriken training. Naruto is supposed to be the protagonist; therefore, he’ll master every kind of training, soon or later. He’s making the steps one by one, with a superb development. From now, Naruto already knows the basics and the foundation of Senjutsu, in the upcoming chapters we’ll see what Naruto effectively can do.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/BlueBigMac/naruto4103.png
You are, sooo beautiful…
Jiraya’s look in the Hermit mode was finally explained: those who cannot fully control the Nature’s powers will eventually become frogs, and Naruto would accept to become anything but a frog! Of course this will be a huge boost to aid him now. Naruto now only has two choices: Control the Nature’s forces or becoming a frog. I don’t think he’ll be an imperfect being after the training, and we cannot forget that Mother Nature is probably the strongest force in the entire world, becoming one with it could be compared to God’s powers, in a manner of speaking.
A great point to be commented here is the art: pictures and panels so well painted, with a large variety of emotions and facial expressions: Hachibi and his sarcasm and his song, humiliating Juugo and Suigetsu, Naruto’s weird faces through the chapter, like the usual “Hum, I’m not understand a thing, hehe”, and even his determination on the last panel and with Fukasaku’s words. Fukasaku’s last panel was perfectly drawn; he’s really motivated to train Naruto. The funny moments were incredible here: Naruto with his frog look and Fukasaku with his stick remind me from those old teachers with sticks to scare the students! A chapter with the best of Naruto and Fukasaku’s on art’s aspect, really.
Regarding the dialogue and plot progression, I’m satisfied with them. A concise and solid dialogue, with strong arguments involving the Senjutsu and the Nature’s powers. Everything fits perfectly now, and I think it’s safe to say that we can understand what kind of training Naruto will do. The progression was great too, even without action involving Naruto’s training, the whole explanation made the chapter. But in the end, someone just stole the spotlight, after half of his team being badly beaten…
With his usual arrogance, he’ s said that he’ll handle the issue…
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/BlueBigMac/naruto4104.png
Oh, hell yeah, c’mon, baby, let’s dance the tails’s dance!
With this chapter, it’s clear now how Kishimoto hadn’t found some purpose on Hawk’s creation; Kishimoto is taking seriously his statement where he said that he didn’t want to make Hawk, former Hebi Team, to fight, but was ordered to do it. Seems Kishi’s intention is just to get rid from them at all costs, and to reach this, he’ll just made one or two panels to show some inexpressive fight. But the problem here is that Hawk Team, more specifically Juugo and Suigetsu(Karin still hasn’t show any fight skill, though I’m not with high hopes about her), are being portrayed as just a bunch of idiots, useless characters. That panel with the huge crater shows us that Suigetsu is strong. Hachibi is too powerful, I’d say that he’s used about only 5, 10% of his full power as a human. His released form sure is too powerful, even for someone like Sasuke. Now I don’t see even the slightest chance of victory to Hawk Team, unless Sasuke pulls out another magical and super convenient skill here.
I’m fearing more Dragon Ball Z analogies here, if Kishimoto is thinking of Hawk Team as the Earth Warriors(Kuririn, Yamcha, Tenshinhan) and Sasuke as Goku, the savior. The Earth warriors became totally useless in the later sagas, and couldn’t do anything without Goku, the one who always had saved the day. I once hated to see such potentially fighters being wasted, and I don’t want to see it again here. This cliché must be avoided on Naruto, but with Sasuke’s final words, I think is almost 100% sure that Sasuke will save the day, it’s the typical scenario where the obsolete guys are being hardly spanked when the leader comes to aid, which is really a shame, on a fight were Kishimoto could’ve explored Hawk’s potential at maximum. They could be working as a true team, not a 1-man team, I was expecting to see all the four cooperating with each other to defeat Hachibi, and I must say, a combined fight would fit perfectly on this context. But I don’t think there’s any hope just now, after being humiliated so badly they won’t be able to stand against an opponent who was just playing with them.
***Key Points***
Hachibi’s sarcasm
Juugo and Suigetsu, useless
Jiraya’s Hermit mode explained
Naruto’s determination to complete the training
Summary
I must confess that I wasn’t expecting a great chapter this week, I was pissed off that Kishimoto would change the training focus to Hawk’s fight, but fortunately, I was wrong. This chapter caught me off guard, but I couldn’t expect better: The art was superb, this training was perfectly explained here, and the funny moments were incredible; Hachibi is a great character to be developed in the future, and his behavior shows how confident he is. One thing that I’d to point is the last panel involving Fukasaku and Naruto, I think that panel exemplifies how will be the training, Unfortunately, Juugo and Suigetsu were the deceptions here: they have the potential to be developed, but unfortunately, seems they’ll be useless from now.
But again, a good chapter to show that even the “chat” chapters is worth in the context!
And Now…
Probably the next chapter will be entirely dedicated to Sasuke vs Hachibi fight, and unless Sasuke is an insanely monster since his fight against Itachi(which I don’t believe), he won’t be able to stand against a warrior who just defeated two people without any effort, and singing! Even if his new eyes are powerful, defeating the released form is beyond his concepts: in the unreleased state, Hachibi didn’t even used a single sword and I don’t think why Sasuke can defeat him; butwell, miracles happen, and we don’t know Kishimoto’s mood when he’s written chapter 311.
And my guess is that Hachibi can win without his released form, after all, speed doesn’t seem a problem to him, and without Kirin, Sasuke is pretty much done…
As for Naruto, the review is finally up!
Let’s rock with 8 tails !
The scanlation used is from Binktopia
Naruto 410 – The Battle of the Thunder-Cloud Gorge
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/BlueBigMac/naruto4101.png
Owwww, you know, don’t do this, kids!
With another great colored panel involving five important people, we can see Sasuke making a plan to capture Hachibi, and this time finally we’ll see the remaining Hawk Members in action. Suigetsu is the first to launch an attack, and we can see a crater as a result. Judging by Hawk’s reactions, they thought that Hachibi was an easy prey, but little they know that 8 Tails was able to block Suigetsu’s attack with bare hands! And not only that, but he was singing in the process. One of the best moments so far: probably Hachibi wasn’t even thinking of Suigetsu as a real fight.
Such overconfidence probably is result of his many years as a warrior, and adds to this his experience. He trusts on his power, and he didn’t even use a single sword to fight. I’m thinking that Kishimoto is trying to portrait a powerful warrior who has mastered both his human and jinchuuriki power. One possibility is that Hachibi will become a regular character from now: Being the other remaining jinchuuriki, he’s the perfect person to teach Naruto how to control the Kyuubi’s powers. Of course that “key” could be related with this control, but training with a person who is exactly like you and is able to suppress his junchuuriki will be a gold opportunity for Naruto.
Despite his lazy behavior, 8 Tails provided us with brilliant moments here: his sarcasm while fighting was great and Suigetsu’s comment about how skilled he is. And I’m looking forward to see his swords’skill, his design reminds of Yoshitora Tokugawa, from Samurai Showdown, who carries 7 swords, using and mixing them in a effective way. The same applies to Hachibi, probably he has a good set of swords moves along with the released form. And Naruto and he would be a hell of pair; I’m seeing already the bashing and sarcasm between them! Not a character to be wasted, definitely.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/BlueBigMac/naruto4102.png
I want you!
And now we’re moving to Naruto’s training again. Like I’ve said last week, dying wasn’t in the literal sense; instead, Naruto must be one with the Nature to fully use the Senjutsu arts. Probably the bunshins will be kind of useless here; after all, this training isn’t an ordinary training where 1, 1000 clones will increase the learning rate, at least on the beginning. It’s something more “mystic” now. First Naruto must learn the Nature’ laws; only when he’d got a solid basis he can use the bunshins. Staying stand still won’t be that effective with clones, such concentration level only can be achieved with a great amount of focus, regardless the bunshins’s numbers. Only the true Naruto will know how to do this.
Well, I must that I was surprised to see Kishimoto focusing on the training again. After the last week, I got the impression that he would focus on Hawk’s fight, thus forgetting a little Naruto’s training. And the training right now is the best development to see. Like I said in last week, it’s important to understand the foundations of such training, and on this aspect, Kishimoto is being flawless: First, he provided us with a brief explanation about Senjutsu, and now we’re seeing a more detailed explanation. When we merge these 2 factors, we have a solid and interesting training that Naruto deserves. Again, this training has the famous “no one was able to fully master it before” script; even Jiraya was unable to do such task. And Naruto will be the one to break this paradigm, like the Fuuton RasenShuriken training. Naruto is supposed to be the protagonist; therefore, he’ll master every kind of training, soon or later. He’s making the steps one by one, with a superb development. From now, Naruto already knows the basics and the foundation of Senjutsu, in the upcoming chapters we’ll see what Naruto effectively can do.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/BlueBigMac/naruto4103.png
You are, sooo beautiful…
Jiraya’s look in the Hermit mode was finally explained: those who cannot fully control the Nature’s powers will eventually become frogs, and Naruto would accept to become anything but a frog! Of course this will be a huge boost to aid him now. Naruto now only has two choices: Control the Nature’s forces or becoming a frog. I don’t think he’ll be an imperfect being after the training, and we cannot forget that Mother Nature is probably the strongest force in the entire world, becoming one with it could be compared to God’s powers, in a manner of speaking.
A great point to be commented here is the art: pictures and panels so well painted, with a large variety of emotions and facial expressions: Hachibi and his sarcasm and his song, humiliating Juugo and Suigetsu, Naruto’s weird faces through the chapter, like the usual “Hum, I’m not understand a thing, hehe”, and even his determination on the last panel and with Fukasaku’s words. Fukasaku’s last panel was perfectly drawn; he’s really motivated to train Naruto. The funny moments were incredible here: Naruto with his frog look and Fukasaku with his stick remind me from those old teachers with sticks to scare the students! A chapter with the best of Naruto and Fukasaku’s on art’s aspect, really.
Regarding the dialogue and plot progression, I’m satisfied with them. A concise and solid dialogue, with strong arguments involving the Senjutsu and the Nature’s powers. Everything fits perfectly now, and I think it’s safe to say that we can understand what kind of training Naruto will do. The progression was great too, even without action involving Naruto’s training, the whole explanation made the chapter. But in the end, someone just stole the spotlight, after half of his team being badly beaten…
With his usual arrogance, he’ s said that he’ll handle the issue…
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/BlueBigMac/naruto4104.png
Oh, hell yeah, c’mon, baby, let’s dance the tails’s dance!
With this chapter, it’s clear now how Kishimoto hadn’t found some purpose on Hawk’s creation; Kishimoto is taking seriously his statement where he said that he didn’t want to make Hawk, former Hebi Team, to fight, but was ordered to do it. Seems Kishi’s intention is just to get rid from them at all costs, and to reach this, he’ll just made one or two panels to show some inexpressive fight. But the problem here is that Hawk Team, more specifically Juugo and Suigetsu(Karin still hasn’t show any fight skill, though I’m not with high hopes about her), are being portrayed as just a bunch of idiots, useless characters. That panel with the huge crater shows us that Suigetsu is strong. Hachibi is too powerful, I’d say that he’s used about only 5, 10% of his full power as a human. His released form sure is too powerful, even for someone like Sasuke. Now I don’t see even the slightest chance of victory to Hawk Team, unless Sasuke pulls out another magical and super convenient skill here.
I’m fearing more Dragon Ball Z analogies here, if Kishimoto is thinking of Hawk Team as the Earth Warriors(Kuririn, Yamcha, Tenshinhan) and Sasuke as Goku, the savior. The Earth warriors became totally useless in the later sagas, and couldn’t do anything without Goku, the one who always had saved the day. I once hated to see such potentially fighters being wasted, and I don’t want to see it again here. This cliché must be avoided on Naruto, but with Sasuke’s final words, I think is almost 100% sure that Sasuke will save the day, it’s the typical scenario where the obsolete guys are being hardly spanked when the leader comes to aid, which is really a shame, on a fight were Kishimoto could’ve explored Hawk’s potential at maximum. They could be working as a true team, not a 1-man team, I was expecting to see all the four cooperating with each other to defeat Hachibi, and I must say, a combined fight would fit perfectly on this context. But I don’t think there’s any hope just now, after being humiliated so badly they won’t be able to stand against an opponent who was just playing with them.
***Key Points***
Hachibi’s sarcasm
Juugo and Suigetsu, useless
Jiraya’s Hermit mode explained
Naruto’s determination to complete the training
Summary
I must confess that I wasn’t expecting a great chapter this week, I was pissed off that Kishimoto would change the training focus to Hawk’s fight, but fortunately, I was wrong. This chapter caught me off guard, but I couldn’t expect better: The art was superb, this training was perfectly explained here, and the funny moments were incredible; Hachibi is a great character to be developed in the future, and his behavior shows how confident he is. One thing that I’d to point is the last panel involving Fukasaku and Naruto, I think that panel exemplifies how will be the training, Unfortunately, Juugo and Suigetsu were the deceptions here: they have the potential to be developed, but unfortunately, seems they’ll be useless from now.
But again, a good chapter to show that even the “chat” chapters is worth in the context!
And Now…
Probably the next chapter will be entirely dedicated to Sasuke vs Hachibi fight, and unless Sasuke is an insanely monster since his fight against Itachi(which I don’t believe), he won’t be able to stand against a warrior who just defeated two people without any effort, and singing! Even if his new eyes are powerful, defeating the released form is beyond his concepts: in the unreleased state, Hachibi didn’t even used a single sword and I don’t think why Sasuke can defeat him; butwell, miracles happen, and we don’t know Kishimoto’s mood when he’s written chapter 311.
And my guess is that Hachibi can win without his released form, after all, speed doesn’t seem a problem to him, and without Kirin, Sasuke is pretty much done…