Hello everyone and thank you for reading this review for the latest Naruto chapter, I hope you all had a fun Christmas and
new year.
Have you guys checked out the Anime for Naruto lately? it's on the start of the Jyuubi arc where Madara has just arrived on the battlefield to capture Naruto and Bee, honestly it's quite good and readers should
check it out since it's honestly just more fun than the manga.
Last chapter we saw Madara try to extract the Kyuubi
and I didn't think he would to be honest considering how long the
extraction process takes and yet... he did, not only that but he managed
to extract it in less than a minute which really makes you think how
long the story of Naruto has taken, if we assume it's been what 5 years since the start of part 1 for Akatsuki to capture all the tailed beasts and Madara manages to do all that in what, 2 pages?
Infact that's exactly what Madara does, when he notices that Gaara is busy trying to make sure Naruto doesn't fall to his death Madara just goes on and captures Shikaku, two pages, two Bijuu
caught. It's the fastest pace we've ever had I believe considering that
we spent that last 50 chapters crawling through story progress and now
we're having things happen at break-neck speed.
If you thought Madara was done well you're wrong, he still has Gyuuki to go and guess what? he captures him too, in fact we don't even see the extraction process from Kishi, why waste Panels showing us Bee losing his Tailed partner of over 30 years when you can spend 20 chapters on Rin? makes total sense really. Kurama does remind Gaara though that there is a plan going on and then we have two random fodder summarising the last 4 pages " they got sucked up".
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| Inspiring words Madara-san |
Here's
a question, why would anyone work for a bad guy? they're rude, they
kill anyone who fails and they probably pay badly too, it's always a
mystery how bad guys have tons of followers. When Madara asks about how the fight is going "over there" I can't say I'm sure where he means, is it inside the Jyuubi? or does he mean Kakashi and Obito? Zetsu mentions that "the insides are good" which is pretty damn cryptic if you ask me. Any theories guys?
I
do like Tobirama's sneak attack and it reminds me a little of Sasuke in
how pragmatic it is, no big announcement or crap like that, just a good
clean sneak attack from behind, sadly it fails but I admire the guy for
his effort. The battle sequence is a bit confusing but I think Tobirama
manages to teleport to one of his Kunai after Madara blocks the initial
attack, giving Gaara enough time to retreat.
How
many people have the title of fastest Shinobi now? Tobirama, Minato and
Raikage right? Anyways Madara starts monologuing cause that's what
villains do for some reason when they have captured anyone, Tobirama for
his part just lets Madara spew out his feels for a while.
We
get a flashback to Sasuke and Hashirama talking where Hashirama offers a
new technique for him to use and Sasuke just says " well how about I
pull out those rods and YOU do it instead? you know since you're all
dead and I don't wanna get butt raped" which for some reason Hashirama
refuses since the rods are apparently at his pressure points, erm... so
why not just destroy Hashirama and let him reform or something? he's an
Edo Tensei so I dunno what's stopping them from just freeing him even
with the explanation we got.
I'm
surprised Kishi didn't put a panel of Sasuke next to Izune to show how
similar they look but here is one for you readers out there, they do
resemble each other strongly but I'm not sure how that's a good thing,
the last time we saw Izune in the Hokage story he was urging Madara to
never give up the fight against the Senju. Plus Hashirama saying that
Madara can be stopped without force is something I hope never happens, I
know Kishi likes to redeem people and make it so that few characters
(Hidan, Kakuzu) are pure evil, but please let Madara die a villain.
I
love how one page after Hashirama says that Madara was a kind man we
get a panel of him impaling his brother through the head, for revenge
against his brother who gets quite a few references this chapter, I'm
guessing Izune will be brought up a few more times in the future.
Tobirama shows his badassery again by reminding Madara that he's just a
moving corpse, what can Madara do to him?
I
don't get how Madara can ever call Hashirama a failure, I mean you have
his face engraved on your chest dude so you can steal some of his power
and he's the failure? Hashirama became Hokage and defeated Madara in
pretty much all their encounters. How odd that the man with the
strongest eyes in the series is blind to the truth.
Tobirama
plays his part well and lets Madara continue talking, all Uchiha have
this weird Talk-a-lot symptom which I think is unlocked with their
Sharingan, but when Sasuke arrives Tobirama uses his situation to
distract Madara by throwing some projectiles from his mouth, I think
it's water but I'm not quite sure, but this is what it looks like to me.
I'm
not sure exactly what happens but it looks like Sasuke is able to burn
whatever it is that Tobirama shoots so they corner Madara from both
sides, for his part though Madara manages to block Tobirama's attack and
uses Shinra Tensei to hold Sasuke in the mid-air, it's at that point
that it occurs to me how Sasuke has never met Nagato and has no
experience in fighting that technique, information really can make the
difference in the fight and it's nice to see how Sasuke's lack of
knowledge on fighting the Rinnengan have an impact on the story.
For
some reason the above panel doesn't impress me, I wonder if that's how
it is with anyone else. Either way the chapter ends with Madara stabbing
Sasuke, I'd be a bit more worried if people died more in Naruto but
most of the time everyone turns out alright so this ending didn't really
phase me much.
Predictions
1-
Firstly no way in hell Sasuke is going to die from just a minor
sword-to-the-heart wound, we've seen him survive a lot worse and Sasuke
has the technique to bind Madara so he's not dying for a while, the
worst thing he might get is that someone needs to heal him because I
don't believe this is a genjutsu. Or it could be a shadow clone and then Sasuke shows up from underneath him with an amazing uppercut, that would be original right?
2-
How many times have people mentioned that Naruto will get the Dark
Kurama inside Minato? either way I'm sure that is part of the plan that
Gaara has to do, Naruto also won't die because...well whats the title of
this manga again? Tenten?
3-
Izune might have more panel time in the future, he seems to be Madara's
strongest connection in the world, also all these black rods might be
used to control the Edo Tensei Kages and Madara can use them as if they
are his Six paths of pain.
Rating
Hmmm
this was a bit of an odd chapter really because it starts with 3 Bijuus
being sealed right away and then sort of slows down with a lot of one
on one conversations, personally I preferred the talking over the
sealing myself because I enjoy the dialogue between characters,
especially when Tobirama is involved in the conversation, however does
that make this a good chapter?
I
dunno, it seems decent to me I guess but it kind of lacks a kick to it
since we know everything is going to be alright in the end so I'll give
this chapter a
3 out of 5 and hope you guys enjoyed it more than I did.
