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Random ranting
Ok a new chapter and a new try to make a review (for those new to my trials this is the third time) I hope this trial will finally introduce a new form of reviews, also for now there will be no pictures added since i don't think it'll suit this type of review but may be i'll add it in coming reviews.
I think i'm very glad about the current war arc it's everything i wanted it to be except for a very minor setbacks coughname calling no jutsucough, but Kishi is doing magnificent work with it and eliminate my doubts with every chapter.
This chapter is in effect one of the very good chapters in this arc , ithas a lot of character development , some action, good dialogue, multiple scenery, and ofcourse it has the "Awe" factor, we got to see Hanzou's feats, unpredictable opponents prepare to clash, we saw th ino shika chou junior and seniors , and even named tertiary characters like izumo and kotetsu made some dynamic entrance. what else do we need? (kakashi and gaara plz
)SO all in all we're in front of a dense chapter full of events so let's not delay it a second and start the review, it's more of thoughts than a review but i hope you'll like it.
Random quotes of the chapter
this chapter have some very good quotes that should be higlighted like....
"Actually we have your "gold" and "silver" too, care to know who they are?"
"I guess If I'm the bishop i should act like one"
"sorry pal i tend to forget about chump change ninja when i'm done with them"
well Kakuzo gave as amazing dialogue this chapter, he basically gets high marks for being such sweet talker, really this is the first time i got the feeling that one of the edos is in control, It gives you the feeling that he is the leader of this division squad, I'd have liked if Kinkaku and Ginkaku did the same since there theme was words but it's done for now , a good conversation actually could give you psychological dominace over your opponent and this is what is it all about, it was like a chess match between shikamaru and kakuzo , actually the shogi reference with right on the spot, basically to explain , silver and gold and bishop are all pieces of the shogi board shikamru used Kin/Gin names to empahsis on their win but kakuzu answers back that they also still have a winning move mainly asuma and Dan since now they're working with them against their will which will have a huge psychological effect on the member of the alliance. Also Kakuzo as i said seems to be the leader and he emphasis he should act like one and go all out , i really like what's Kishi doing here eventhough i don't agree and developing the edos as I believe they should act like killing machine and the development be all directed to the main characters, but again i can't complain because a realy villain acting like a villain should be nice.
but this isnot the only confrontation for kakuzo and surprisingly izumo and kotetsu make a dynamic entry and slash him badly and evey pin his torn hands to the ground and it seems they'll fight him together with darui , so we can expect a background fight between them and much of it will be shown , but i'd like for darui to demonstrate his leadership abilities as we know now his fighting cacpabilities and i'd like kakuzu to demonstrate new moves that will be great. but for now i expect less panel time for this fight.
"You have to stop me...before i use my ghost transformation technique"
Oh well Kishi and his hype, it really amazes me how kishi could hype his characters like that, for a character that was mentioned once in this manga this is as big as it could ever get.
first we notice another flaw in the edo tensei he is telling Chouza how to stop him and it seems that dan requires a special barrier seal for his named but not seen technique otherwise things will be bad. it's strange since this barrier could be used against any of the edos butit seems it needs a lot pf preparation and ebergy so they will use it with special people.
but what is Katou Dan's technique , ghost transformation indicated wither invisibility or intangiblilty or both (not seen yet) but intangibility is not really a big deal since edos already are intouchable as they repair themselves and invisibility will make it anothe muu fight and all it needs is just a good sensor ability , so what is it? i actually think it'll be an offensive ability we haven't seen before at least i hope so , but i'd love if dan beome more troublesome that it'll need Tsunade to intervene this will be tsunade's moment that she needed in part two, so i'm waiting for this fight a lot and i'll be disappointed if didn't happen.
"Akatsuki, Orochimaru whoever revived me is gonna regret it, i'll get 'em by playing dead and embarrass them good"
Good old Chiyo, for some odd reason that was very funny for me...but for a serious discussion here Chiyo's contribution in this chapter was little but important, it shows again that the less control is very dangerous to kabuto's plan , also shows how cruel this techniques together with the old grudges between the old enemies , Chiyo and Hanzou, but nayway Chiyo's presence will bring a lot of questions like how will she fight, sasori didn't hae his puppets what about chiyo wil kabuto need to remove her character to be able to use humans as puppets the same way as sasori or she'll just release a scroll with her puppets? I believe this will be no problem since sasory didn't have his puppet body which have the scrolls but in chiyo's case it's different, anyway i'm waiting to see her opponent and i'm hoping it will be sakura rather than Kankurou.
"I'm the samurai leader Mifune, i wish to face you in battle"
Speaks a lot about Mifune, he seems to like dueling with strong characters , I'm actually glad of this unpredictable fight, didn't expect Mifune to face Hanzou , it's sure interesting to know what will happen in this and to see the true power of a samurai.
Random character discussion
Well basically i won't discuss all the characters in this chapter , just the one i feel that contributed to it and was not discussed in the quote section of the review... that means that i won't discuss Kimimaru since i don't believe he did anything in the chapter rather than than his regular i should do my best for orochimaru mainl I'll focus on..........
The Magnificent Ino/Shika/Chou:
Well Kishimoto did a superb job with them in this chapter and I mean both seniors and juniors which i like a lot.
For the seniors they demonstrate a good balance between their fatherly role, their fighting capabilitiesand their leadership and strong resolution while the juniors show determination and how much they grew up and their resolution starting to form.
We saw Shikaku happy about his son's success in their mission against kinkaku but while he assigns a new mission to them even it's hard emptionally which is confronting their former teacher Asuma and even someone noted that it's tough mission for them he stresses that they are the only one capable of fighting him since they know his techniques well like his exploding ash technique which we saw a glimpse of it in this chapter, he took this decision as a leader not as a father which is a good development for his character.
on the other side we saw Shikamaru taking the decision in no time after remembering his conversation with his father that protecting his friends comes by confronting the danger not by running away fromit, I'm sure that one of the things he wants to protect is his former Sensei memory
which have been tarnished by this dark technique so a good development for shikamaru this chapter and we talked about his conecrsation with kakuzo but it wasnteable how fast did he understand and follows his father order even though he comes next in command after Gaara in division 4
We also got to see Inoichi commending his daughter abilities and her role in the fight sure a father would be proud of what his daughter achieved but till now Inoinchi's abilities surpasses Ino by long distance in their clans technique specially that he is able to send his and shikaku's thoughts to the otherson such a long distance.
As for Ino she really got a lot of development this chapter more than even what Sakura got in the whole manga (just a subjective opinion but plz bear with me), first we got to see her angry at the mere mention of the man that killed her sensei, then she dealt with chouji's lack of confidence by reminding him with Asuma's last words, she also remembered Asuma's last words for her and decided to take the hands of her colleagues to the fight as she decided to keep them in line as her sensei told her she showed much responsibility in this chapter and really Kishimoto did all the developments for Ino/Shika/Chou perfectly this chapter, I can't ask for more.
We got to see Chouza too, again he was proud of his son and all but that didn't prevent him from ordering him to look around him with a protective tone to his son when he saw him hesitating, in fact kishi presented to us three fatherly trends with such ease with inoshikachou seniors , we saw pride , protection, and the desire of seeing there children to grow up even if it meant they would face a tough situation , three conflicting trends that every father or mother usually have towards their children and oftenly causes problem between fathers and sons but this is not all what it is for Chouza, he is facing Dan too trying to stop him before using his strong jutsu he actually while caring about his son is facing a lot of trouble with Dan , in fact he replies to
Dan's advice of putting him into a barrier as fast as posiible that it's a tough job as his oppoent is Dan , basically i expect Chouza to be defeated (may be even die ) and then tsunade's role will come but let's just wait for a good fight from Chouza Vs Dan.
lastly we have Chouji, the chapter is named Chouji's determination and while i hoped it would be named for the trio we have to understand that this is Chouji moment of growing up, first his successful attack against Kinkaku even if he was scared , he even said that cold sweat (fear) made him lose a lot of wait , but Shikamaru just calmed him , he hesitated to fight Asuma but Shikamaru determination and Ino's encouragement pushed a lot of courage and determination , so we should see a different Chouji from now on, He now has a lot of self confidence and determination specially after he is reminded with Asuma's words, this concentartion on CHouji let me feel that this is the time for his father to die even if he almost died before, at least that is my feelin foe now, i really like the character development this chapter and i hope Kishimoto will do the same for Hyuuga's and Ten Ten.
The Ten Ten:
How dare I mention Ten Ten when she only appeared in one Panel(the upper right panel)
because just before it in this page Darui asks about the wereabouts of the banana fan and in Ten Ten's panel it seems like she found it,So it seems this will be Kishimoto's plan to develop Ten Ten , he 'll gie her strong weapon and finally make her duel with a strong opponent (probably Kakuzo if another player didn't appear on the stage) but i hope he will give her also good character development like a back story or something like that. so it had to be mentioned that's why i'm discussing her in this review.
The scary Hanzou:
So for the first time we got to see the real feats of Hanzou while we always got just a glimpse of his powers, first his character seems pretty tough and like a good fight, he orders chiyo to shut up to concentrate on the enemies then he surprisingly do his summoning technique(How can a dead man do summoning? I'm not convinced) and we got to know why he was so scary, his summon can fumigate a large area with poisonous gas , that's a scary technique , strong technique indeed but we yet have to see his other feats, but I have to mention that his technique almost wiped out the whole infiltration squad , but fear not for our dear kankurou because backup is here, and now we have to witness an interesting fight between Mifune and Hanzou, i don't know how that will work but we now know that hanzou puts his nask to filter the poison while fighting , and he uses a scythe and a chain with a ball , he also seems to be using Katoun and Doton techniques from Nagato flashbacks
and for now all that we know that Mifune Can use chakra through his sword , but i think we ganna see a good fight specially that those men became strong without the support of big countries which speaks a lot for them both.
The finale
Well it was an amazing chapter, very well written, and sets up the way for a lot of coming fights and events , Ibelieve next chapter it will focus a lot on Mifune Vs Hanzou if not dedicated totally for it , it seems this is the way Kishimoto writes this war , focus on certain fight , finish it with preparations for another fights , then shifts the scene to another war front and so on, we shall expect Tsunade to move at any time now to fight dan and i guess Inoshikachou fight with ASuma will be generic a little bit but hopefully it will be interesting.
Thanks for reading the review, i hope you enjoyed the chapter as well as the review, i'm waiting for your comments and every opinion is welcomed.
I hope i could do this regularly.
Thank you all.
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