Naruto

[Shuvo]

Pein is boring and generic ._.

[Drex]

I don't think the sasuke fight was a cop-out like most of you are saying.

I wouldn't necessarily call it a cop out, but I know I feel a bit cheated when I see someone overpowered like sasuke finally having a rough time of it and nearly dying, only to have him go "lol jk" and one shot a tailed beast.

[Eaglestrike]

I wouldn't necessarily call it a cop out, but I know I feel a bit cheated when I see someone overpowered like sasuke finally having a rough time of it and nearly dying, only to have him go "lol jk" and one shot a tailed beast.

He at least should have passed out and Juugo would carry him and Karin to safety. While Suigetsu would just float down a river and magically show up passed out at the random cottage they're resting at.

Well, maybe that's about equally lame as how it just happened...

[The_OG_Nelta]

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I think its just like that when he's in sage mode. And yes, that is the first book Jiraiya wrote, and the book that has the character that Naruto was named after.

[SDSD]

Spoiler: show

I'm guessing he was referring to the rasen-shuriken since it takes such a huge toll on him? >_> Frog dude said the more you use sage techniques the more you recover instead of tire out like when using ninja techniques, so on top of fox chakra and sage shit maybe it'll lessen damage of shuriken + make it more powerful

I think he might be referring to "that jutsu" Jiraiya told him not to use just before they left for Sand at the beginning of Shippuden right before Kakashi was given the seal.

[Ivaden]

The Sasuke hating bandwagon is funny

I've said it plenty of times in this thread that I am a fan of Sasuke, but that fight ending was pure bullshit.

[Nax]

the book the sage frog gave to naruto I would think its the story of Naruto father since the title its ``l'histoire d'un courageux ninja`` in english I'm not sure its ``the story of courageous ninja`` I'm maybe wrong but anyway we will know next week lol

[Kiro]

This manga is getting more fail and fail by the chapter. :<

[Xerlic]

The way sasuke won the fight is bullshit.

I bet that the code that Jiriaya put on the frog elder's back has to do with the first book and not with the book they originally thought.

New OP with Hidan and Kakuzu in the anime.

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I like how they added the part where Hidan nicks Asuma's cheek.

[Turambar]

I bet that the code that Jiriaya put on the frog elder's back has to do with the first book and not with the book they originally thought.

I figured that was the case ever since the whole "code" subplot started. It was so obvious.

[aznmajiktaru]

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really? I thought the code kinda made perfect sense with his newest book. There's a couple of translations but it roughly comes out to the real one isn't there; Meaning Pein's real body isn't there or they're being remotely control or something since the ninjas were all people Jiraiya's fought with before.

[Maguspk]

The book will give Naruto insight to knowing that Jiraiya knew his father and subsequently that the 4th was his father. I think.

[Eaglestrike]

The book will confuse Naruto and the sage frog will have to explain to him that Jiraiya knew his father and that his father was the 4th.

Fixed.

[Tokitoki]

I really want him to be able to do the 4th's flash thing... A speeding Rasengan. yummeh

[Maguspk]

Fixed.

i lold, so true.

[Ratatapa]

Something that makes me sad tho is Sakura Character, i kinda liked the shy girl she was when she was young. And her determination to become a medical ninja like tsunade. And when Shippuden started i loved how strong she was (against kakashi and The puppet guy).

But now they seem to push her back in the black (like in the anime where they make her cry like a stupid kid again). I love naruto Training stuff, but i would like them to give more story and action to some side characters like Sakura and Lee.

[Correction]

Naruto has always had a hard time putting more than a few characters into the storyline. It's always kind of arbitrary who gets to take center stage:

SENIOR NINJA: Okay! you, you and.....You, come on this mission!

<story arc go!>

meanwhile...

<The adventures of Sasuke and his three buddies>

It's getting very very hard to tell exactly where the two concurrent storylines are meant to merge. Eventually Sasuke will have to learn that Madara's being at least a little bit treacherous but will that even come close to bringing his storyline back to Pain vs. Naruto's new eyeballs? The writer is playing a game with us as to how long we can put up with having to watch two stories unfold at the same time before the next Naruto vs. Sasuke fight, at which point the story forks yet again. Bothersome hardly begins to describe it.

[Scythiroth]

I thought Sasuke had already mentioned that he was just using Madara or Akatsuki. I can't remember where or when he said it, or if it ever even happened and I am just creating false memories.

[Souj]

yeah, i'm also pretty sure that sasuke said that both he and madara knew that they were both using each other for their own goals.

[Kobb]

Sasuke mentioned it right before they encountered the Hacihibi