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YO! Welcome all to the review of Naruto chapter 505. Binktopia also absorbed some mystic energy and with a speed comparable to Minato, they released this chapter for the awe of most of the fans, and for the meh of everyone else.
Without any further introduction, except maybe a thanks for Binktopia and a let’s hope we’ll have fun, let’s get to the review.
The title is something that satisfies us very much, because we all wanted to see a fight where Naruto will demonstrate his newfound abilities. At least that’s the only thing I can think of, because even a little sparring with Bee should draw out the most unlucky shinobi ever: Kisame. Why unlucky? Well he loves to fight, to shave, to kill, but he was forced into a covert mission by Tobi, he was hiding all this time, and now he must fact opponents like Hachibi Jinchuuriki, Kyuubi Jinchuuriki and 3 jounins. There’s no escape from this only if somebody teleports to the island and takes him away.
But as we will see, things to stand exactly this way, and the chapter is not only fight, is a combination of different elements that make a story to be liked by a reader:deeper moments, action, humor. These 3 elements are guiding this chapter, but the first are the deep emotion, because the chapter opens up as a continuation of chapter 504.
This moment takes an amount of 3 pages to tell. Naruto is connecting the things his mother said, with the things he has done correctly until now. This is a good change for Naruto. Some of the childish elements in his life, like eating ramen all the time, or sleeping too much, will probably disappear. These things as little as they seem, they are the key to the actual change of Naruto. We can see that this meeting was something essential for him, but the immediate results are these, little changes that will grow bigger as the problems, responsibilities grow bigger.
This is also the way Kishimoto describes this assessment of life. From ramen and sleeping to friends and one friend in particular, the important things are mentioned. But the most important of all the wish to be Hokage and the way of a true ninja come in last as these transcend all the others. We are talking about way of living now, and everything can be thanked to Jiraiya who even though thought him about the 3 vices of the shinobi, he was the most important factor in Naruto’s development.
I understand from this little recollection that these will be the directions in which Naruto will continue his development. Continuing to be the best Hokage, to be a true shinobi, to be connected, to protect the bond with his friends. Hokage means having important battles and protecting the village at every front, protecting friends means fighting Sasuke in the end, but also maintaining the bond, and in the end living as a true shinobi incorporates both, but with a little addition, to have conviction when he does something and follow his goals until the end with guts and the will to never give up.
Many probably waited for some thoughts about the chosen girl, but that never came, because it’s either a chosen boy, or maybe his intimate relationship doesn’t hold any importance to his character development, but…sorry for butting with something offtopic…Hinata’s assets would offer great character development for him and it would be the first step in the world of men.
But as plot and manga in general goes, there’s another goal which could surpass any other until now.
Minato’s badassery stood in his battle abilities first and foremost. Which meant speed and subtility. He didn’t need to blow up a village or have nuclear jutsus to prove his power. He had one space-time ninjutsu, great reaction speed, and some support sealing jutsu, which could be the result of his engagement to Kushina. Oh yeah and Rasengan, but Naruto already completed that step. I’m not saying that naruto should learn Hiraishin, but Naruto should aim for a level where brute force is not the main feat.
Minato also had a nice outfit. He had a regular jouning outfit, which in Naruto’s case it’s probably not attainable, yet, because he’s a genin, but Minato also had a 4th Hokage cape, so it’s a pity that Naruto lost his sage cape.
A third an very important element was Minato’s facial expressions, which showed his continuous concentration and care for others.
Most of the elements here have been attained, in certain ways, so Naruto is on the right track, but he aims to surpass, so I am looking forward to when that happens.
He also wants to be stronger than her mother. Now this doesn’t mean that he wants to be more like a beast, but Kushina’s strength also stood in her personality. In this department I can say that Naruto already surpassed her mother, because the hardships that he endured until now could’ve wrecked any other person other than Naruto. So I might say that Naruto already attained the level of his mother, but I will say he surpassed her, when will pull out something extraordinary, similar to what Kushina did in the last chapter(giving birth+suffering an extraction+holding down Kyuubi+stab+final words).
Naruto seems like he aims for the whole package. Power and swiftness, being a beast and coolness. It doesn’t take a long time to witness the first steps in this direction.
This is an interesting panel. Naruto is in his plasma mode, together with Bee and Yamato, so it looks like he can access this power whenever he wants and that this power manifests in the real world as well.
Let’s see what’s happening here. Naruto ended his journey in his inner self by screaming dattebayo, and thus he surprised Bee and Yamato in the process. The comic relief is precious, and it looks like the fistbump became a mean of conversation.
My earlier reviews covered the topic of this fistbump in a pretty detailed manner, and I said that it was something that it was specific for Bee’s and Naruto’s personality, then I interepreted it in some scenes as a friendly salute among shinobi, but now the final proof came that it can even be used as communication. This is interesting because it seems like Naruto has become pretty good with this technique, since it looks like from the convo that he somehow replayed the whole thing for Bee. So I think this fistbump is a chakra connection, and since chakra can be used in different ways, this fistbump can be used in checking out someone’s inner world as well. The biggest argument in favor of this theory is Bee’s support at first against Kyuubi, when he managed to insert Hachibi’s chakra into Naruto through his fist. So this isn’t necessarily something that only people who can sense each other, or with great sense of personality can do. It is a simple chakra connection, but of course this must be honed as well. Also I’m not separating ones sense from this chakra connection. The two elements form this incredible ability to even fight through a fist or replay certain events. So if Sasuke’s saying about top class shinobi is true, then Naruto certainly became a shinobi surpassing top class, no wonder if his goal is surpassing his parents.
But it looks like poor Yamato is on the sidelines again. I’m a bit sad for this character, because lately he’s only there for comedic filler, in comparison to the serious teacher like attitude and advice he had in the beginning of part 2. But he adds to the humor that I told you about in the beginning of the chapter, the humor which is one of the supporting pillars of this chapter. Guys also adds to the relax mood, and he wants to go to cheer for Naruto, to fuel Naruto’s fire of youth. But Naruto’s fuel comes from another source and I’m glad my theory was right about this one.
We first saw this ball of chakra, when Kushina’s inner world was shown, but there Kyuubi was held down by its own chakra as we saw it restrained to it. This is one more argument that Konoha wasn’t planning to use Kushina as weapon, more like a failsafe, a sign for the other countries that the most powerful Bijuu was in their control. But this time the seal tha has been done, allowed Naruto to separate the chakra into a different place than where Kyuubi is located.
I believe this is a connection with the Hakke Fuuin Minato used. We know that the seal allowed Kyuubi’s chakra to mix with Naruto’s, thus he became more used to it, and he could use it in battle without any special training, at least for a while. The seal as we know was upgraded, or in my opinion completed and Naruto managed to place all the chakra in one place and created a seal tha would allow him to use that chakra anytime he can. Another argument in favor of this connectio are the 4 gates, which represent the 4 elements seal, each gate standing on two pillars, thus forming the Hakke Fuuin. So that sealing scroll is really more complicated than we thought, it wasn’t designed just for containing Kyuubi, but for helping to separate the chakra ,and as we’ve seen in this last chapter to let Naruto seal it somewhere else.
The result is impressive, as it was shown in the panel before, his plasma form manifests in the real world as well. Surprisingly at first there was no chakra cloak, but the plasma cloak. Of course this doesn’t mean he is all plasma now, but it means that he is an output of so much energy that his body can’t control it properly. So I think there’s room for development. Of course there's the possibility to combine this with Sage Mode, which can improve his control and reinforce the strength of his attacks even more. This cloak could enable him to execute FRS from close range, but I think the thrown one will have an even bigger and more powerful effect.
When we saw Gaara first he was using his own chakra cloak as well. But the number of tails was one, so naturally the chakra directly manifested itself as sand, the ingredient Shukaku is made of. Under the influence of Shukaku, Gaara was insane so the sand manifested itself pretty quickly.
Another Bijuu cloak was Bee’s cloak, which manifested itself like chakra at first, but when Bee wanted so he could create a mini version of his Bijuu(version 2), or transform into the whole beast. This is the training he received and his powers manifest like this, because he uses the beast mind as well not just its chakra. So the chakra itself still contains the Bijuus’s will, the will meaning the force that creates the form of the Bijuu, the tails, the appearance, the strength.
Naruto also displayed a chakra cloak, and the Kyuubi’s will was mixed in with the chakra. In version 2 Kyuubi even took control and as tails were released, the form completed itself. That’s why I think the will shapes the beast, and the chakra is just raw material.
What’s the main difference between a chakra cloak and plasma cloak? The Bijuu’s will, so I think Naruto displays a different form, because of this. Of course things can be more complicated than this, though this little informations are uncharted territory, but with great chance to be true though. First is that the sheer amount of powerful chakra, mixed with the powerful chakra of an Uzumaki helped in the creation of the plasma cloak, and who’s to say that the time in which Kyuubi’s chakra was leaking in Naruto’s body didn’t create some sort of compatibility? So there are a few unchecked informations around this topic, which have little chances to be revealed entirely in my opinion, but the fact most visible to the eye is the absence of the Bijuu’s will.
But let’s complete our information a little bit, to see whether if we can close up to what the this plasma cloak is.
Yamato comments the reaction of his wood element techniques as a reaction to the life energy emanated by Naruto in the new form.
The concept of life energy related to techniques was revealed first when Susano’o was introduced in a more detailed manner, and it is told that it drains to user’s life energy. This is a new concept of energies in Naruto, which it seems like it is manifesting to its fullest right now.
But if we take a look in the earlier chapters of the manga, we can see that two of the most powerful Hokages of Konoha, Shodai Hokage Senju Hashirama and Nidaime Hokage Senju Tobirama were quite good at using this life energy. Shodai Hokage is clearly one of the best users, as his chakra created life itself, and it was named Mokuton since the ability allowed the creation of trees. But he had another ability, which was controlling Bijuu, quite a rare feat even among the best shinobis.
As we said earlier the Bijuus or at least Kyuubi is made of his will, which shapes the huge amount of chakra. We can consider the will as life energy, which can manipulate chakra and hand over some abilities unique to each beast. So by my assumption the powerful life force generated by Mokuton from the body of Shodai Hokage was enough for handling the Bijuus and balancing out the life energies, eventually taking control over them.
It’s the same probably with the Uchiha, or certain Uchiha that attained control over Kyuubi. Consumed by hatred, which in can pump up ones life force to powerful levels, through the sharingan’s ability it could control Kyuubi.
I mentioned Nidaime as well, who could generate water with his own chakra, with no water source nearby, but we saw the same thing with Kisame as well, so I think another prerequisite for having a powerful lifeforce that can manifest in the real life, one needs huge amounts aof chakra. We’ve also seen with Susano’o, which drains lifeforce that one must have great amounts of chakra for that as well.
My point is that Naruto certainly meets all the conditions to have a powerful lifeforce that can even make Mokuton ninjutsu(basically living things) to react to it. Life energy being the combination of huge amount of chakra, a powerful body, and a clear state of mind, Naruto certainly meets all the conditions. Now that he has an even bigger chakra source and with the aformentioned compatibility, Bijuu absence and strong chakra, Naruto has developed a form that is similar to a Bijuu cloak, but it is made of his own life energy, so it is a life energy cloak.
Beside the compatibility mentioned earlier, there is a strong possibility that Naruto inherited the ability to spot malefic presence, or evil intent on a pretty high level. The theory belongs to SenninSage, at least I heard first from him and makes perfect sense, that similar to how Kyuubi managed to detect evil presence and exploit it, Naruto os able to do just that, of course except the last part. The evil intent naruto sensed as it can be seen, belongs to Kisame. Now all the other shinobi that were around, couldn’t spot his presence, and we know that Samehada was carried among top shinobi of Kumogakure as well. That is why this new sensor ability is on a different level, then just sensing killer intent, because only Naruto was able to do it, despite other high level ninjas that were supposed to.
But let’s focus a bit on Kisame now. We know that he was sent to Kumogakure to spy on the gathering forces against Tobi, but he has been spotted now, and he decides that the best option is to run away. What catched my eye was that he said, that two Jinchuurikis and a Mokuton user would be too much, even for him. This makes me believe that he thinks that he could’ve managed with less enemies like only one Jinchuuriki and Yamato, or maybe just two Jinchuurikis. I’m afraid, though this is just pure arrogance, but if not we might be able to see some pretty high level battles, because we know that there are other people on the island as well.
It’s also a very interesting thing, how Kisame managed to change Samehada;s form and turned into an insect form, making it easier to escape. It seems like Samehada and Kisame are really one entity right now, so I’m pretty interested in their past, how did the previous owner of the sword found Kisame and so on.
Oh yeah…sorry for mentioning that Kisame made that he escapes faster, because Yellow Flash 2.0 is on the move.
That’s a pretty awesome panel, very well drawn, detailed, and we can see that Naruto aimed directly for the head. This is the result of the training with Jiraiya, partially. We know that Jiraiya and Naruto went on a training trip for 2 and a half years, so that Jiraiya could teach Naruto the basics of how to be a shinobi. A D rank technique is certainly among the lessons Jiraiya taught, because Shunshin no Jutsu(original translation as Body Flicker, now Teleportation, or so I assume) is a low level, but extremely necessary technique. So the precision of the hit and the usage of the technique itself is the result of that training, but being in this life energy cloak, Naruto attained higher levels of speed and power. As we can see some fragments of energy can’t keep up with Naruto’s speed, and we can notice in the following page that the wall brok in two, because of the force of the hit.
Naruto is as surprised as we are, because he managed to get his leg trapped in the wall, allowing Kisame to continue his run. An interesting thing happened in this scene, more exactly it didn’t happen, at least not to the naked eye. Samehada is an entity, even if a primitive one that absorbs chakra, or so it was said. I think you know where I’m getting at, so I think two scenarios can be possible here.
1.Life energy as said earlier is a much more complex form of energy, I dare say it even surpasses or at least it’s different from Sage Chakra. Basically it’s more complex than chakra and in the manga it steps on the territory of misticism as well, so Samehada is too primitive to absorb that.
2.Life energy and as strong as Naruto’s has it’s source in chakra mainly, so we can also say that Samehada absorbed some of the life energy from Naruto, making it possible for Kisame to actually survive and attack of that magnitude.
But the peak of the chapter passed and now we are heading to a moment that will set up a pretty interesting fight, especially in circumstances that allowed so many high level ninja to be together. Thus until now we had of share of good action, deep thoughts so 2 of the 3 pillars of this chapter have been reviewed.
So here comes the last:comedy. As the cover page tells us Maito Gai is back in action, and ready to burn up his flames of youth.
Hwachaaa! I haven’t been showed up in forever and even then I got seasick! Time to go nuts and make up for lost time.
Knowing Gai, this means dynamic action, some good scenes of comedy as well, so this means he is the salt and pepper needed for this chapter in the end.
But surprisingly, Kishimoto puts him in a situation, where he can show his deeper side, the more serious one. It was inevitable, though as he heard that Naruto completed his waterfall training, that on challenge he would try it out, too. But this means serious business, and his true self is a bit ugly. We are told that Gai in fact pushes himself to the limits of his body, because of his advanced(?) age, and that his is just an act to keep himself cool for Lee.
But Gai in his precious style, challenges his inner self, but it turns out that his inner self is even uglier than we thought.
Though poor Yamato had his own share of comedy, Gai is certainly in his own league. He thinks his inner self is an ugly bug, but the bug is just Kisame. The others try to warn him, but he’s way ahead of everyone and hits the surprised Kisame right in the face with a brand new taijutsu move(at least for us). Only after that he regains his calm and notices that the others said something.
I’m little a surprised with the presence of Motoi there, who said that he needed to go back for to the village. So there goes my backtracking Motoi theory, which would’ve introduced somebody else to the island to help Kisame. Now Kisame is pretty much on his own now, and he will get pretty owned, unless his eariler confidence is backed up by actual strength and ability. But I think plotwise he should survive, since I’m having doubts that the whole spying on Kumo mission was planned, just for Naruto to showcase his abilities, or to continue the fight with Gai.
Quick summary/Opinions
With the last scene, all the important building materials for this chapter have been inspected. Comedy was okay, though for me comedy is not always making fun of people, but the in manga the art definitely makes up for that. The actions was pretty surprising and full of interesting new information, and the serious side of the characters were also refreshing in this whirlpool of action, comedy and fast pace. Naruto concluded his experience, and he begins a new chapter in his life, ability and personality wise, and Gai was told the ugly truth, that his body might brake, so maybe it’s a sign that he won’t be up to the task of defeating Kisame, but he will do his best, opening a few gates.
Overall the chapter was okay 8/10, because it had a complicated development, and the pace was incredible. The character development was not so important in this chapter, so this is one of the elements that lacked now, but we had quite plenty of that in the previous chapters.
The art was outstanding in my opinion, Kisame got a whole new design, which looked great, Naruto returned with his life energy cloak, and the panels were dynamic and well detailed. The use of shades was pretty poor, only with Gai we could notice some pretty emphasized shading, of course to deepen to comedic meaning.
Predictions/Want to happen
The fight can go in many directions, but I think for now Gai will be the one who will face Kisame, until Bee or Naruto takes his place. I expect some heavy resistance from Kisame at first, and some more comedy with Gai, though the memory loss is to be expected, I hope Kishimoto will think of something new. So the predictions is pretty simple. Fast, dynamic pace and awesome actions scenes, seasoned with some comedy, so stay tuned for more next week.
That’s kinda it, if you have anything to add, please don’t hesitate to do so, the chapter was pretty detailed and contained some new information, so I might’ve skipped some parts that could be important. Otherwise I hope I could offer useful info with this review. Enjoy the chapter and the discussion, thanks Binktopia and have a nice weekend.
Mata ne!
Without any further introduction, except maybe a thanks for Binktopia and a let’s hope we’ll have fun, let’s get to the review.
The title is something that satisfies us very much, because we all wanted to see a fight where Naruto will demonstrate his newfound abilities. At least that’s the only thing I can think of, because even a little sparring with Bee should draw out the most unlucky shinobi ever: Kisame. Why unlucky? Well he loves to fight, to shave, to kill, but he was forced into a covert mission by Tobi, he was hiding all this time, and now he must fact opponents like Hachibi Jinchuuriki, Kyuubi Jinchuuriki and 3 jounins. There’s no escape from this only if somebody teleports to the island and takes him away.
But as we will see, things to stand exactly this way, and the chapter is not only fight, is a combination of different elements that make a story to be liked by a reader:deeper moments, action, humor. These 3 elements are guiding this chapter, but the first are the deep emotion, because the chapter opens up as a continuation of chapter 504.
This moment takes an amount of 3 pages to tell. Naruto is connecting the things his mother said, with the things he has done correctly until now. This is a good change for Naruto. Some of the childish elements in his life, like eating ramen all the time, or sleeping too much, will probably disappear. These things as little as they seem, they are the key to the actual change of Naruto. We can see that this meeting was something essential for him, but the immediate results are these, little changes that will grow bigger as the problems, responsibilities grow bigger.
This is also the way Kishimoto describes this assessment of life. From ramen and sleeping to friends and one friend in particular, the important things are mentioned. But the most important of all the wish to be Hokage and the way of a true ninja come in last as these transcend all the others. We are talking about way of living now, and everything can be thanked to Jiraiya who even though thought him about the 3 vices of the shinobi, he was the most important factor in Naruto’s development.
I understand from this little recollection that these will be the directions in which Naruto will continue his development. Continuing to be the best Hokage, to be a true shinobi, to be connected, to protect the bond with his friends. Hokage means having important battles and protecting the village at every front, protecting friends means fighting Sasuke in the end, but also maintaining the bond, and in the end living as a true shinobi incorporates both, but with a little addition, to have conviction when he does something and follow his goals until the end with guts and the will to never give up.
Many probably waited for some thoughts about the chosen girl, but that never came, because it’s either a chosen boy, or maybe his intimate relationship doesn’t hold any importance to his character development, but…sorry for butting with something offtopic…Hinata’s assets would offer great character development for him and it would be the first step in the world of men.
But as plot and manga in general goes, there’s another goal which could surpass any other until now.
Minato’s badassery stood in his battle abilities first and foremost. Which meant speed and subtility. He didn’t need to blow up a village or have nuclear jutsus to prove his power. He had one space-time ninjutsu, great reaction speed, and some support sealing jutsu, which could be the result of his engagement to Kushina. Oh yeah and Rasengan, but Naruto already completed that step. I’m not saying that naruto should learn Hiraishin, but Naruto should aim for a level where brute force is not the main feat.
Minato also had a nice outfit. He had a regular jouning outfit, which in Naruto’s case it’s probably not attainable, yet, because he’s a genin, but Minato also had a 4th Hokage cape, so it’s a pity that Naruto lost his sage cape.
A third an very important element was Minato’s facial expressions, which showed his continuous concentration and care for others.
Most of the elements here have been attained, in certain ways, so Naruto is on the right track, but he aims to surpass, so I am looking forward to when that happens.
He also wants to be stronger than her mother. Now this doesn’t mean that he wants to be more like a beast, but Kushina’s strength also stood in her personality. In this department I can say that Naruto already surpassed her mother, because the hardships that he endured until now could’ve wrecked any other person other than Naruto. So I might say that Naruto already attained the level of his mother, but I will say he surpassed her, when will pull out something extraordinary, similar to what Kushina did in the last chapter(giving birth+suffering an extraction+holding down Kyuubi+stab+final words).
Naruto seems like he aims for the whole package. Power and swiftness, being a beast and coolness. It doesn’t take a long time to witness the first steps in this direction.
This is an interesting panel. Naruto is in his plasma mode, together with Bee and Yamato, so it looks like he can access this power whenever he wants and that this power manifests in the real world as well.
Let’s see what’s happening here. Naruto ended his journey in his inner self by screaming dattebayo, and thus he surprised Bee and Yamato in the process. The comic relief is precious, and it looks like the fistbump became a mean of conversation.
My earlier reviews covered the topic of this fistbump in a pretty detailed manner, and I said that it was something that it was specific for Bee’s and Naruto’s personality, then I interepreted it in some scenes as a friendly salute among shinobi, but now the final proof came that it can even be used as communication. This is interesting because it seems like Naruto has become pretty good with this technique, since it looks like from the convo that he somehow replayed the whole thing for Bee. So I think this fistbump is a chakra connection, and since chakra can be used in different ways, this fistbump can be used in checking out someone’s inner world as well. The biggest argument in favor of this theory is Bee’s support at first against Kyuubi, when he managed to insert Hachibi’s chakra into Naruto through his fist. So this isn’t necessarily something that only people who can sense each other, or with great sense of personality can do. It is a simple chakra connection, but of course this must be honed as well. Also I’m not separating ones sense from this chakra connection. The two elements form this incredible ability to even fight through a fist or replay certain events. So if Sasuke’s saying about top class shinobi is true, then Naruto certainly became a shinobi surpassing top class, no wonder if his goal is surpassing his parents.
But it looks like poor Yamato is on the sidelines again. I’m a bit sad for this character, because lately he’s only there for comedic filler, in comparison to the serious teacher like attitude and advice he had in the beginning of part 2. But he adds to the humor that I told you about in the beginning of the chapter, the humor which is one of the supporting pillars of this chapter. Guys also adds to the relax mood, and he wants to go to cheer for Naruto, to fuel Naruto’s fire of youth. But Naruto’s fuel comes from another source and I’m glad my theory was right about this one.
We first saw this ball of chakra, when Kushina’s inner world was shown, but there Kyuubi was held down by its own chakra as we saw it restrained to it. This is one more argument that Konoha wasn’t planning to use Kushina as weapon, more like a failsafe, a sign for the other countries that the most powerful Bijuu was in their control. But this time the seal tha has been done, allowed Naruto to separate the chakra into a different place than where Kyuubi is located.
I believe this is a connection with the Hakke Fuuin Minato used. We know that the seal allowed Kyuubi’s chakra to mix with Naruto’s, thus he became more used to it, and he could use it in battle without any special training, at least for a while. The seal as we know was upgraded, or in my opinion completed and Naruto managed to place all the chakra in one place and created a seal tha would allow him to use that chakra anytime he can. Another argument in favor of this connectio are the 4 gates, which represent the 4 elements seal, each gate standing on two pillars, thus forming the Hakke Fuuin. So that sealing scroll is really more complicated than we thought, it wasn’t designed just for containing Kyuubi, but for helping to separate the chakra ,and as we’ve seen in this last chapter to let Naruto seal it somewhere else.
The result is impressive, as it was shown in the panel before, his plasma form manifests in the real world as well. Surprisingly at first there was no chakra cloak, but the plasma cloak. Of course this doesn’t mean he is all plasma now, but it means that he is an output of so much energy that his body can’t control it properly. So I think there’s room for development. Of course there's the possibility to combine this with Sage Mode, which can improve his control and reinforce the strength of his attacks even more. This cloak could enable him to execute FRS from close range, but I think the thrown one will have an even bigger and more powerful effect.
When we saw Gaara first he was using his own chakra cloak as well. But the number of tails was one, so naturally the chakra directly manifested itself as sand, the ingredient Shukaku is made of. Under the influence of Shukaku, Gaara was insane so the sand manifested itself pretty quickly.
Another Bijuu cloak was Bee’s cloak, which manifested itself like chakra at first, but when Bee wanted so he could create a mini version of his Bijuu(version 2), or transform into the whole beast. This is the training he received and his powers manifest like this, because he uses the beast mind as well not just its chakra. So the chakra itself still contains the Bijuus’s will, the will meaning the force that creates the form of the Bijuu, the tails, the appearance, the strength.
Naruto also displayed a chakra cloak, and the Kyuubi’s will was mixed in with the chakra. In version 2 Kyuubi even took control and as tails were released, the form completed itself. That’s why I think the will shapes the beast, and the chakra is just raw material.
What’s the main difference between a chakra cloak and plasma cloak? The Bijuu’s will, so I think Naruto displays a different form, because of this. Of course things can be more complicated than this, though this little informations are uncharted territory, but with great chance to be true though. First is that the sheer amount of powerful chakra, mixed with the powerful chakra of an Uzumaki helped in the creation of the plasma cloak, and who’s to say that the time in which Kyuubi’s chakra was leaking in Naruto’s body didn’t create some sort of compatibility? So there are a few unchecked informations around this topic, which have little chances to be revealed entirely in my opinion, but the fact most visible to the eye is the absence of the Bijuu’s will.
But let’s complete our information a little bit, to see whether if we can close up to what the this plasma cloak is.
Yamato comments the reaction of his wood element techniques as a reaction to the life energy emanated by Naruto in the new form.
The concept of life energy related to techniques was revealed first when Susano’o was introduced in a more detailed manner, and it is told that it drains to user’s life energy. This is a new concept of energies in Naruto, which it seems like it is manifesting to its fullest right now.
But if we take a look in the earlier chapters of the manga, we can see that two of the most powerful Hokages of Konoha, Shodai Hokage Senju Hashirama and Nidaime Hokage Senju Tobirama were quite good at using this life energy. Shodai Hokage is clearly one of the best users, as his chakra created life itself, and it was named Mokuton since the ability allowed the creation of trees. But he had another ability, which was controlling Bijuu, quite a rare feat even among the best shinobis.
As we said earlier the Bijuus or at least Kyuubi is made of his will, which shapes the huge amount of chakra. We can consider the will as life energy, which can manipulate chakra and hand over some abilities unique to each beast. So by my assumption the powerful life force generated by Mokuton from the body of Shodai Hokage was enough for handling the Bijuus and balancing out the life energies, eventually taking control over them.
It’s the same probably with the Uchiha, or certain Uchiha that attained control over Kyuubi. Consumed by hatred, which in can pump up ones life force to powerful levels, through the sharingan’s ability it could control Kyuubi.
I mentioned Nidaime as well, who could generate water with his own chakra, with no water source nearby, but we saw the same thing with Kisame as well, so I think another prerequisite for having a powerful lifeforce that can manifest in the real life, one needs huge amounts aof chakra. We’ve also seen with Susano’o, which drains lifeforce that one must have great amounts of chakra for that as well.
My point is that Naruto certainly meets all the conditions to have a powerful lifeforce that can even make Mokuton ninjutsu(basically living things) to react to it. Life energy being the combination of huge amount of chakra, a powerful body, and a clear state of mind, Naruto certainly meets all the conditions. Now that he has an even bigger chakra source and with the aformentioned compatibility, Bijuu absence and strong chakra, Naruto has developed a form that is similar to a Bijuu cloak, but it is made of his own life energy, so it is a life energy cloak.
Beside the compatibility mentioned earlier, there is a strong possibility that Naruto inherited the ability to spot malefic presence, or evil intent on a pretty high level. The theory belongs to SenninSage, at least I heard first from him and makes perfect sense, that similar to how Kyuubi managed to detect evil presence and exploit it, Naruto os able to do just that, of course except the last part. The evil intent naruto sensed as it can be seen, belongs to Kisame. Now all the other shinobi that were around, couldn’t spot his presence, and we know that Samehada was carried among top shinobi of Kumogakure as well. That is why this new sensor ability is on a different level, then just sensing killer intent, because only Naruto was able to do it, despite other high level ninjas that were supposed to.
But let’s focus a bit on Kisame now. We know that he was sent to Kumogakure to spy on the gathering forces against Tobi, but he has been spotted now, and he decides that the best option is to run away. What catched my eye was that he said, that two Jinchuurikis and a Mokuton user would be too much, even for him. This makes me believe that he thinks that he could’ve managed with less enemies like only one Jinchuuriki and Yamato, or maybe just two Jinchuurikis. I’m afraid, though this is just pure arrogance, but if not we might be able to see some pretty high level battles, because we know that there are other people on the island as well.
It’s also a very interesting thing, how Kisame managed to change Samehada;s form and turned into an insect form, making it easier to escape. It seems like Samehada and Kisame are really one entity right now, so I’m pretty interested in their past, how did the previous owner of the sword found Kisame and so on.
Oh yeah…sorry for mentioning that Kisame made that he escapes faster, because Yellow Flash 2.0 is on the move.
That’s a pretty awesome panel, very well drawn, detailed, and we can see that Naruto aimed directly for the head. This is the result of the training with Jiraiya, partially. We know that Jiraiya and Naruto went on a training trip for 2 and a half years, so that Jiraiya could teach Naruto the basics of how to be a shinobi. A D rank technique is certainly among the lessons Jiraiya taught, because Shunshin no Jutsu(original translation as Body Flicker, now Teleportation, or so I assume) is a low level, but extremely necessary technique. So the precision of the hit and the usage of the technique itself is the result of that training, but being in this life energy cloak, Naruto attained higher levels of speed and power. As we can see some fragments of energy can’t keep up with Naruto’s speed, and we can notice in the following page that the wall brok in two, because of the force of the hit.
Naruto is as surprised as we are, because he managed to get his leg trapped in the wall, allowing Kisame to continue his run. An interesting thing happened in this scene, more exactly it didn’t happen, at least not to the naked eye. Samehada is an entity, even if a primitive one that absorbs chakra, or so it was said. I think you know where I’m getting at, so I think two scenarios can be possible here.
1.Life energy as said earlier is a much more complex form of energy, I dare say it even surpasses or at least it’s different from Sage Chakra. Basically it’s more complex than chakra and in the manga it steps on the territory of misticism as well, so Samehada is too primitive to absorb that.
2.Life energy and as strong as Naruto’s has it’s source in chakra mainly, so we can also say that Samehada absorbed some of the life energy from Naruto, making it possible for Kisame to actually survive and attack of that magnitude.
But the peak of the chapter passed and now we are heading to a moment that will set up a pretty interesting fight, especially in circumstances that allowed so many high level ninja to be together. Thus until now we had of share of good action, deep thoughts so 2 of the 3 pillars of this chapter have been reviewed.
So here comes the last:comedy. As the cover page tells us Maito Gai is back in action, and ready to burn up his flames of youth.
Hwachaaa! I haven’t been showed up in forever and even then I got seasick! Time to go nuts and make up for lost time.
Knowing Gai, this means dynamic action, some good scenes of comedy as well, so this means he is the salt and pepper needed for this chapter in the end.
But surprisingly, Kishimoto puts him in a situation, where he can show his deeper side, the more serious one. It was inevitable, though as he heard that Naruto completed his waterfall training, that on challenge he would try it out, too. But this means serious business, and his true self is a bit ugly. We are told that Gai in fact pushes himself to the limits of his body, because of his advanced(?) age, and that his is just an act to keep himself cool for Lee.
But Gai in his precious style, challenges his inner self, but it turns out that his inner self is even uglier than we thought.
Though poor Yamato had his own share of comedy, Gai is certainly in his own league. He thinks his inner self is an ugly bug, but the bug is just Kisame. The others try to warn him, but he’s way ahead of everyone and hits the surprised Kisame right in the face with a brand new taijutsu move(at least for us). Only after that he regains his calm and notices that the others said something.
I’m little a surprised with the presence of Motoi there, who said that he needed to go back for to the village. So there goes my backtracking Motoi theory, which would’ve introduced somebody else to the island to help Kisame. Now Kisame is pretty much on his own now, and he will get pretty owned, unless his eariler confidence is backed up by actual strength and ability. But I think plotwise he should survive, since I’m having doubts that the whole spying on Kumo mission was planned, just for Naruto to showcase his abilities, or to continue the fight with Gai.
Quick summary/Opinions
With the last scene, all the important building materials for this chapter have been inspected. Comedy was okay, though for me comedy is not always making fun of people, but the in manga the art definitely makes up for that. The actions was pretty surprising and full of interesting new information, and the serious side of the characters were also refreshing in this whirlpool of action, comedy and fast pace. Naruto concluded his experience, and he begins a new chapter in his life, ability and personality wise, and Gai was told the ugly truth, that his body might brake, so maybe it’s a sign that he won’t be up to the task of defeating Kisame, but he will do his best, opening a few gates.
Overall the chapter was okay 8/10, because it had a complicated development, and the pace was incredible. The character development was not so important in this chapter, so this is one of the elements that lacked now, but we had quite plenty of that in the previous chapters.
The art was outstanding in my opinion, Kisame got a whole new design, which looked great, Naruto returned with his life energy cloak, and the panels were dynamic and well detailed. The use of shades was pretty poor, only with Gai we could notice some pretty emphasized shading, of course to deepen to comedic meaning.
Predictions/Want to happen
The fight can go in many directions, but I think for now Gai will be the one who will face Kisame, until Bee or Naruto takes his place. I expect some heavy resistance from Kisame at first, and some more comedy with Gai, though the memory loss is to be expected, I hope Kishimoto will think of something new. So the predictions is pretty simple. Fast, dynamic pace and awesome actions scenes, seasoned with some comedy, so stay tuned for more next week.
That’s kinda it, if you have anything to add, please don’t hesitate to do so, the chapter was pretty detailed and contained some new information, so I might’ve skipped some parts that could be important. Otherwise I hope I could offer useful info with this review. Enjoy the chapter and the discussion, thanks Binktopia and have a nice weekend.
Mata ne!
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