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Yo, my dear friends! Here I come with one more Naruto review, after a hiatus from 2 weeks; I wasn’t able to bring it before because things get really hard in my job, but here is the review!
The Edited Manga Used is from Binktopia
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True rivals, true enemies, true ninjas…
And so, the flashback continues; The chapter begins with a closed picture with Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, where we can see a great rivalry between Uchihas and Senjus clans, and we can imply that they were the strongest in their time. Hashirama was a powerful ninja, feared by everyone, and the only one who could match him was Madara. Again, Kishimoto was brilhant to show us how is the world of Naruto: He’s taking perfectly the feeling of strategy, its foundations and motivations, and placing all these things together in the ninja world; When we think about this kind of world, war and strategy probably are the main aspects to analysed, exemplified by the fact that if one country hires Uchiha, a enemy from this country would hire Senju; In the turmoil of the war, the only thing that matters is being the winner, and these clans are the main chess pieces to reach such goal, and so, more power was needed. Unfortunately, that’s how the ninja world works, a single nin is nothing more than a dog or a war tool; in some cases these ninjas doesn’t even have a own life to live, and Kishimoto is being able to show us these things in a great way; One thing that could be a little confusing here is the statement that Tobi didn’t killed his brother to take his eyes, but instead his brother offered his eyes in order to Madara become stronger: From what I could understand, Tobi, seeing Itachi as his enemy, only told convenient things to Itachi, because now, I’m really believing that Tobi is saying only the truth to Sasuke; and one more thing that will support my thoughts is the need for power: I’m sure Madara’s brother was aware from his brother’s powers and also had a great loyalty by the clan, and if by chance the Senju clan came to surpass the Uchiha clan, this would be a huge humiliation to everyone, so, to keep the clan in the top, I’m sure that Madara’s brother would give his eyes to leader, if with this Madara’s powers could get a little stronger. Another thing I really liked here is Tobi being like a true ninja: he doesn’t wanted fame, but all the time he was just trying to protect his clan. Everything he done was just for the Uchiha’s sake, and when a truce was given, I’m sure that Madara thought that all of his actions were for nothing; in a sense, we can say that Madara was betrayed by his clan; Even a leader cannot do much thing if his subordinates doesn’t agree with him.
I cannot believe that everything was settled with only this
Even with the truce, Madara still couldn’t trust in the Senju clan; To Madara, in some time on future, the Senjus would try to destroy the Uchihas, and when one come to think carefully about it, there’s some truth behind such truces: the two more powerful clans cannot share the throne. When we speak about war, truces in the majority of the time are just “excuses” to hide the fear for the others part. One part won’t attack the other part, but still there’s a fear that the other part some day come to try to take to power to itself alone, mainly in ninja world. But for the time being, aside these secret things, an alliance was formed, and then Konoha was created. I’m truly happy that finally the origin was explained: Even if in the past we knew some facts about its creation, now Kishimoto settled all the remains doubts. A village born from the alliance of two powerful clans, certain interesting, and we also could see why Konoha is important to ninja world, given the fact that Konoha became an example to others countries; somehow, this alliance changed the world to a better place. When Kishimoto wrote about Konoha’s origins, he did it in a simple, but yet efficient way: Nothing like complicated plot story, where sometimes the readers get confused, but he gave us a solid and good plot; In the last chapter, the explanation for this was what really worried me, but I’m really glad to see such explanations now! The militarism around the creation is really great, and I, as a fan of these things(militarism, strategy), couldn’t expect nothing better here!And now, at this point in the chapter, I’ll say that I never saw a villain to be developed so deeply well like Tobi; I don’t know exactly what are his objectives, but if someone who never readed Naruto take this chapter as the first chapter, I’m sure this person would say that Tobi isn’t a bad guy; To tell the truth, Tobi is almost convincing me that he isn’t a villain; when he’s speaking about the stories of Uchihas, about the sacrifices in the past, and mainly by his comments where he said that a man cannot hurt a brother and his only objective is to protect Uchihas; And with such desire in the heart, he challenged Hashirama for the Hokage title, even without any support of his clan. And with that, the peace was gone…
There’s no words to explain this masterpiece
What a wonderful picture for two monsters fighting each other, Hashirama and Madara; After seeing this picture, at least to me, there aren’t any more doubts: Hashirama was the greatest ninja in Narutoverse: to fight at the same time against Madara, who has Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and against Kyuubi, and still be the winner, there’s no words to explain his power(Poor Kakuzu, he must be defeated even before he noticed!).
But one thing still isn’t clear to us: How exactly did Madara survived all this time? Of course it wasn’t by natural means, in the present he must have about 100 years old. And I am afraid that Kishimoto won’t explain this little issue to us, because he’s explaining all the past things in these chapters, and I really doubt that he’ll return to past once he reach the present in the explanation, unless his survival has anything to do with a new body or a new host, but in this case, we’ll have to wait for further information.
And again, after this incident, we can see another great use of strategy: to prevent more incidents, a special post was assigned to Uchihas: the police department. By doing this, The Uchihas wouldn’t try anything stupid, given the fact that police members are important peoples in any country or city, at the same time they would be under surveillance. It’s important to notice that Madara’s predictions were right, because the Uchihas were dominated by the Senjus. But and about Sasuke? Some points to add here: Sasuke’s behavior changed drastically since the last chapter: now Sasuke is quietly hearing all the explanations. Yes, Tobi said that Sasuke must listen everything, but I have the feeling that Sasuke is changing his thoughts about Tobi, Maybe in reality, Sasuke is believing in Tobi, given the fact that he didn’t show any explosive reactions to some explanations, and not only that, but seems that he also wants to keep hearing the story. Whether Tobi is lying or not to Sasuke, I think that now, he’s gaining Sasuke’s trust. And returning to the explanation, The incident with Kyuubi 16 years ago was mentioned, but now, from a different perspective...
That’s what I call bad luck…
Tobi then explains to Sasuke that the incident with kyuubi was like a nemesis to his clan, they were framed by something they didn’t, because the appearance of Kyuubi was just a natural disaster! Another confusing part here, because since that Jiraya mentioned that Madara once summoned Kyuubi, so many people started to believe that Madara was responsible for the incident 16 years ago; Like I said before, I don’t think that Tobi is lying to Sasuke, because wouldn’t do any sense such lies in this point; if Madara was really the one who summoned Kyuubi, then he was the indirect responsible for the destiny of Uchihas, and so his plans toward Sasuke would become more difficult to be accomplished. But in the other side, what a great coincidence to be a natural disaster, huh? I really hope that Kishimoto give us some clarifications about it; and such coincidence was the worst thing to Uchihas, because in that day, they were taken as guinea pigs; Konoha blamed them for the Kyuubi’s attack even without solid proofs, and so the Uchihas become something like public enemies inside Konoha; Of course that such dramatic actions would have bad results: the hate would increase among the people inside the clan, and also the fear; We also could see Sarutobi sensei as a good person, because he didn’t discriminated the clan; Sarutobi was really a perfect example to be followed by the others two council and Danzou. Should they followed Sarutobi in this issue, so many conflicts and battles could be avoided. Among the 4 greatest in Konoha, Sarutobi was the only one with different methods and thoughts; From what we saw, clearly the two council are supporting Danzou’s ideas, then if we use logic here, Danzou was the most obvious choice to be a Hokage. Maybe Sarutobi being a Hokage could be a direct result of his relashionship with Shodaime and Nidaime, because his soft ideas seems not to be welcome to some high people in Konoha; Another interesting point here is about the coup d’etat: As stated above, when the hate and anger are used, rebellions are almost certain, and the coup d’etat only didn’t worked due to one person: Uchiha Itachi. I’m sure we’ll know all the details in the next week, but from the last lines on the chapter, seems that Itachi was forced to be a spy; And being a ninja, there’s nothing to do about it…
Just one question: Why my brother?
***Key Points***
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Another great chapter: These flashbacks are really explaining everything until now! Like I said before, Kishimoto is writing solid and reliable explanations about everything and the only thing that still could be a problem is how Madara survived. The plot progression is a little slow, but its really necessary to explain all the past in order to understand the present, and Madara, whether villain or not, is brilliant explaining the past and even his own past and add to this his development; I’m expecting some surprise in the next chapter, but for now, all the explanations are making sense, which is enough right now!
Then, guys, until next week!
The Edited Manga Used is from Binktopia
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Naruto 399
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True rivals, true enemies, true ninjas…
And so, the flashback continues; The chapter begins with a closed picture with Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, where we can see a great rivalry between Uchihas and Senjus clans, and we can imply that they were the strongest in their time. Hashirama was a powerful ninja, feared by everyone, and the only one who could match him was Madara. Again, Kishimoto was brilhant to show us how is the world of Naruto: He’s taking perfectly the feeling of strategy, its foundations and motivations, and placing all these things together in the ninja world; When we think about this kind of world, war and strategy probably are the main aspects to analysed, exemplified by the fact that if one country hires Uchiha, a enemy from this country would hire Senju; In the turmoil of the war, the only thing that matters is being the winner, and these clans are the main chess pieces to reach such goal, and so, more power was needed. Unfortunately, that’s how the ninja world works, a single nin is nothing more than a dog or a war tool; in some cases these ninjas doesn’t even have a own life to live, and Kishimoto is being able to show us these things in a great way; One thing that could be a little confusing here is the statement that Tobi didn’t killed his brother to take his eyes, but instead his brother offered his eyes in order to Madara become stronger: From what I could understand, Tobi, seeing Itachi as his enemy, only told convenient things to Itachi, because now, I’m really believing that Tobi is saying only the truth to Sasuke; and one more thing that will support my thoughts is the need for power: I’m sure Madara’s brother was aware from his brother’s powers and also had a great loyalty by the clan, and if by chance the Senju clan came to surpass the Uchiha clan, this would be a huge humiliation to everyone, so, to keep the clan in the top, I’m sure that Madara’s brother would give his eyes to leader, if with this Madara’s powers could get a little stronger. Another thing I really liked here is Tobi being like a true ninja: he doesn’t wanted fame, but all the time he was just trying to protect his clan. Everything he done was just for the Uchiha’s sake, and when a truce was given, I’m sure that Madara thought that all of his actions were for nothing; in a sense, we can say that Madara was betrayed by his clan; Even a leader cannot do much thing if his subordinates doesn’t agree with him.
I cannot believe that everything was settled with only this
Even with the truce, Madara still couldn’t trust in the Senju clan; To Madara, in some time on future, the Senjus would try to destroy the Uchihas, and when one come to think carefully about it, there’s some truth behind such truces: the two more powerful clans cannot share the throne. When we speak about war, truces in the majority of the time are just “excuses” to hide the fear for the others part. One part won’t attack the other part, but still there’s a fear that the other part some day come to try to take to power to itself alone, mainly in ninja world. But for the time being, aside these secret things, an alliance was formed, and then Konoha was created. I’m truly happy that finally the origin was explained: Even if in the past we knew some facts about its creation, now Kishimoto settled all the remains doubts. A village born from the alliance of two powerful clans, certain interesting, and we also could see why Konoha is important to ninja world, given the fact that Konoha became an example to others countries; somehow, this alliance changed the world to a better place. When Kishimoto wrote about Konoha’s origins, he did it in a simple, but yet efficient way: Nothing like complicated plot story, where sometimes the readers get confused, but he gave us a solid and good plot; In the last chapter, the explanation for this was what really worried me, but I’m really glad to see such explanations now! The militarism around the creation is really great, and I, as a fan of these things(militarism, strategy), couldn’t expect nothing better here!And now, at this point in the chapter, I’ll say that I never saw a villain to be developed so deeply well like Tobi; I don’t know exactly what are his objectives, but if someone who never readed Naruto take this chapter as the first chapter, I’m sure this person would say that Tobi isn’t a bad guy; To tell the truth, Tobi is almost convincing me that he isn’t a villain; when he’s speaking about the stories of Uchihas, about the sacrifices in the past, and mainly by his comments where he said that a man cannot hurt a brother and his only objective is to protect Uchihas; And with such desire in the heart, he challenged Hashirama for the Hokage title, even without any support of his clan. And with that, the peace was gone…
There’s no words to explain this masterpiece
What a wonderful picture for two monsters fighting each other, Hashirama and Madara; After seeing this picture, at least to me, there aren’t any more doubts: Hashirama was the greatest ninja in Narutoverse: to fight at the same time against Madara, who has Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and against Kyuubi, and still be the winner, there’s no words to explain his power(Poor Kakuzu, he must be defeated even before he noticed!).
But one thing still isn’t clear to us: How exactly did Madara survived all this time? Of course it wasn’t by natural means, in the present he must have about 100 years old. And I am afraid that Kishimoto won’t explain this little issue to us, because he’s explaining all the past things in these chapters, and I really doubt that he’ll return to past once he reach the present in the explanation, unless his survival has anything to do with a new body or a new host, but in this case, we’ll have to wait for further information.
And again, after this incident, we can see another great use of strategy: to prevent more incidents, a special post was assigned to Uchihas: the police department. By doing this, The Uchihas wouldn’t try anything stupid, given the fact that police members are important peoples in any country or city, at the same time they would be under surveillance. It’s important to notice that Madara’s predictions were right, because the Uchihas were dominated by the Senjus. But and about Sasuke? Some points to add here: Sasuke’s behavior changed drastically since the last chapter: now Sasuke is quietly hearing all the explanations. Yes, Tobi said that Sasuke must listen everything, but I have the feeling that Sasuke is changing his thoughts about Tobi, Maybe in reality, Sasuke is believing in Tobi, given the fact that he didn’t show any explosive reactions to some explanations, and not only that, but seems that he also wants to keep hearing the story. Whether Tobi is lying or not to Sasuke, I think that now, he’s gaining Sasuke’s trust. And returning to the explanation, The incident with Kyuubi 16 years ago was mentioned, but now, from a different perspective...
That’s what I call bad luck…
Tobi then explains to Sasuke that the incident with kyuubi was like a nemesis to his clan, they were framed by something they didn’t, because the appearance of Kyuubi was just a natural disaster! Another confusing part here, because since that Jiraya mentioned that Madara once summoned Kyuubi, so many people started to believe that Madara was responsible for the incident 16 years ago; Like I said before, I don’t think that Tobi is lying to Sasuke, because wouldn’t do any sense such lies in this point; if Madara was really the one who summoned Kyuubi, then he was the indirect responsible for the destiny of Uchihas, and so his plans toward Sasuke would become more difficult to be accomplished. But in the other side, what a great coincidence to be a natural disaster, huh? I really hope that Kishimoto give us some clarifications about it; and such coincidence was the worst thing to Uchihas, because in that day, they were taken as guinea pigs; Konoha blamed them for the Kyuubi’s attack even without solid proofs, and so the Uchihas become something like public enemies inside Konoha; Of course that such dramatic actions would have bad results: the hate would increase among the people inside the clan, and also the fear; We also could see Sarutobi sensei as a good person, because he didn’t discriminated the clan; Sarutobi was really a perfect example to be followed by the others two council and Danzou. Should they followed Sarutobi in this issue, so many conflicts and battles could be avoided. Among the 4 greatest in Konoha, Sarutobi was the only one with different methods and thoughts; From what we saw, clearly the two council are supporting Danzou’s ideas, then if we use logic here, Danzou was the most obvious choice to be a Hokage. Maybe Sarutobi being a Hokage could be a direct result of his relashionship with Shodaime and Nidaime, because his soft ideas seems not to be welcome to some high people in Konoha; Another interesting point here is about the coup d’etat: As stated above, when the hate and anger are used, rebellions are almost certain, and the coup d’etat only didn’t worked due to one person: Uchiha Itachi. I’m sure we’ll know all the details in the next week, but from the last lines on the chapter, seems that Itachi was forced to be a spy; And being a ninja, there’s nothing to do about it…
Just one question: Why my brother?
***Key Points***
- Madara doesn’t like a villain
- Kyuubi’s attack was just a natural disaster
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Summary
[/size]Another great chapter: These flashbacks are really explaining everything until now! Like I said before, Kishimoto is writing solid and reliable explanations about everything and the only thing that still could be a problem is how Madara survived. The plot progression is a little slow, but its really necessary to explain all the past in order to understand the present, and Madara, whether villain or not, is brilliant explaining the past and even his own past and add to this his development; I’m expecting some surprise in the next chapter, but for now, all the explanations are making sense, which is enough right now!
Then, guys, until next week!
