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Re: Naruto is getting worse/boring/unattractive ... Thread Where have I heard this before... oh, yeah. The last training. The senjutsu training isn't going to change jack unless it comes with some character development. That's what made the learning of Kage Bunshin, the unleashing of...

Re: Naruto is getting worse/boring/unattractive ... Thread It's just something you put up with to enjoy the manga, like the racial cariactures that pop up waaaay too frequently. I'd rather it not be there at all--so when the overall quality declines but the unfortunate implications get worse...

Re: Naruto is getting worse/boring/unattractive ... Thread Thanks for being upfront and honest about the sexism in the manga and the fans. The blatant sexism in the manga has always been bad, but it's reached completely ridiculous levels by now. The most powerful women in the manga are...

Re: Naruto is getting worse/boring/unattractive ... Thread Then Kishimoto should've been upfront about this IMO. It feels like a huge bait and switch to the extreme in my opinion; get a huge fanbase by drawing people in with secondary characters but when eyes are on him--write what you...

Would you stick with the manga if you knew ahead of time there'd be no more focus on Rookie Nine/Jonin? Exactly what the thread title says. Me, if I knew ahead of time that Part I was the last real hurrah of anyone outside of Team Seven except for Shikamaru, I would put away the manga for a...

Re: Naruto 407 Discussions / 408 Predictions I admit I was going overboard, but Jiraiya himself said that: 1) Rinnegan gives all six types of elemental chakra, which according to Jiraiya is unheard of. This strongly implies the ability to master more jutsu than the Sharingan can. 2)...

Re: Naruto 407 Discussions / 408 Predictions WHY?? Yahiko's ideals aren't exactly original, for one. It's a variation on 'destroy the village in order to save it' that's been floating around in fiction since WWII. Secondly, you can adopt someone's ideals while completely...

Re: Naruto 407 Discussions / 408 Predictions Stop... you're getting tripped up over contradictions you think you see, when it turns out there aren't any. Here's a quick and easy progression of events. This took me like 10 minutes to type up. 1) After Jiraiya completes their training...

Re: Naruto 407 Discussions / 408 Predictions One: It would be part of Nagato's fall from grace. Two: Come on, man, don't you remember Zabuza? All acting like he doesn't give a care about Haku and talking about him like a tool and then when pressed on Naruto by it he has a minor breakdown...

Re: Naruto 407 Discussions / 408 Predictions That's what the whole point of the Start of Darkness lecture Kishimoto invariably gives his villains is for. The only major villain that didn't get a proper Start of Darkness is Orochimaru. Anyway, I don't see the part where Pein explicitly...

Re: Naruto 407 Discussions / 408 Predictions Don't get too fixated on the whole 'but these aren't Nagato's ideals! thing. That's silly. Villains change over time; even Orochimaru and Madara wouldn't have recognized themselves before their falls from grace. Can't you see the melodrama...

Re: Do you like Pein? They are, I am just pointing out that Pein's signature jutsu is much more similar to Orochimaru's than the similarity of a Nagato puppeteer body to how Sasori fights. Frankcie complained that a Nagato master body would be stepping on Sasori's schtick too much, I'm...

Re: Do you like Pein? I'm sorry, I should've been more clear. Pein recycles Orochimaru's Edo Tensei with his shapeshifting jutsu; as in, he sacrifices some fodder and has some win ninja take the place of the fodder for the duration. Madara's motivation is to use Sasuke (and possibly...

Re: Do you like Pein? Pein is Kishimoto's first attempt in the manga to give a serious villain any real attempt at subtlety in his evil from the beginning. Zabuza was shown from the beginning as being a heartless murderer. Orochimaru was shown from the very beginning of being obsessed with...

Re: When do you think Team 8 will ACTUALLY get to do something? Naruto only has about 100 chapters left in it. Sakura and Kakashi still need their stories. Team Hebi vs. Kisame at least needs a conclusion. Naruto needs yet another training arc. And Sasuke will have to hit a wall in his...