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#218890 Chapter 441
Posted by Cali on 27 March 2009 - 08:40 PM in Latest Releases
At least there's still fics, where I can actually protest character fails
#218227 Chapter 440 Discussion
Posted by Cali on 22 March 2009 - 12:25 PM in Latest Releases
This whole arc is a little rushed though
#218058 Chapter 440 Discussion
Posted by Cali on 20 March 2009 - 03:18 PM in Latest Releases
So, yeah, where's the other half of the Kyuubi? and was that a clone or did he really suimmon himself from the shinigami's stomach ( I'm tending towards the latter ).
Some hilarious panels, specially that last one of Naruto looking up like he broke his neck...
#217782 Naruto 439 Discussion
Posted by Cali on 17 March 2009 - 04:45 AM in Latest Releases
#217695 The Great NaruSaku Debate Thread!
Posted by Cali on 16 March 2009 - 04:25 AM in The Museum of NaruSaku
In a fairly cliché melodramatic way, yes, her death moment would/will be a bit of a tearjerker. In a really brutal life-cut-short this-is-hardcore shock, having her actually dead in that chapter would be a *huge* impact.
I said he made her look stupid, not that doing that was stupid none of the others charged in like that, and at least Sakura has gone running in to help him out in the past when her emotions got the better of her. Remember that little flashback when one of the Pains is asking where he is? there's lots of people who love him to some degree or other now. What she did was understandable, but ... sorry, still stupid. I don't think Kishi actually likes Hinata much.
#217694 Naruto 439 Discussion
Posted by Cali on 16 March 2009 - 04:12 AM in Latest Releases
Sasuke's eyes probably aren't doing his health much good either, and Sakura will probably end up with Tsunade's jutsu too; but hey they're ninja, they're not going to die in bed old & grey.
Someone point me to where the effect on his lifetime is explained please? ( and Tsunade's thing too come to think of it ), really can't remember even roughly where that stuff is brought up.
#217637 The Great NaruSaku Debate Thread!
Posted by Cali on 15 March 2009 - 04:23 AM in The Museum of NaruSaku
Buuut, given the assumption Sakura needs some sort of wake-up call to realise what she's in danger of missing repeatedly, I think the final push is going to come from Tsunade's inevitable demise; either that or that point will kill it entirely. Jiraiya & Tsunade had a little chemistry, but they were close teammates who'd known each other for decades, and let's not forget her love interest was given repeatedly, that's not an awesome precedent
Anyway, she's the only female character who's had any real growth at all ( and panel time ), so that would seem to automatically tie her to the main protagonist eventually in some way or other. I don't think anyone with any investment in the pairing is going to be too disappointed at the very end, unless Kishi decides to wreck the series deliberately. What irritates me about the last Hinata chapters was how stupid he made her look in the first one, and how for no good reason he stopped Pain who's after all one of the arch-villains from actually having killed her in the second. Hinata may have some last words moment for Sakura, but really that's just stealing Tsunade's thunder & it'd have been a massively bigger impact if she'd actually died that fast. Still disappointed
#217608 Naruto 439 Discussion
Posted by Cali on 14 March 2009 - 09:33 PM in Latest Releases
Or the fourth had time to add it himself. Come to think of it wasn't there a copy of it with the key toad? must have had some free time to make these copies ( and the one on Naruto too ), unless Jiriya or the toads did it.
I'm a little amused Minato has cheated the Shinigami, if he's managed to summon himself into Naruto's head, I'm sure that's gonna go down well also amused that he seems to have found the immortality Orochimaru was after. Wonder if he can summon other people? Orochimaru could, after all. Poor Naruto's head could end up like a party line at this rate.
#217581 Naruto 439 Discussion
Posted by Cali on 14 March 2009 - 05:43 AM in Latest Releases
#217560 Naruto 439 Discussion
Posted by Cali on 14 March 2009 - 02:30 AM in Latest Releases
Lol, The village hidden in the Pit. Even the Hokage heads are gone, it seems. I also can't wait for Sasuke to turn up & see that... what's he gonna try & kill next?
So, guess Kakashi really is dead, but this is a far more dramatic way of Naruto finding out, is it not?
#216661 Naruto 438
Posted by Cali on 06 March 2009 - 05:19 PM in Latest Releases
I'm still failing to see any blaze of glory in the last chapter, all she did was totally fail to do anything useful, and then get stabbed. Fairly sure she knew it was suicidal, so the lack of consequences to her confession made it easy to say; I don't see any guts in that either. I guess she didn't think it'd matter to Naruto ( given her self esteem that's probably a fair guess ), coz if she did think it'd matter that would be quite amazingly selfish, and not a little spiteful. However I think I'm giving Kishi a bit too much benefit of the doubt & he meant it to be glorious, and I just don't think it was.
Hah, Sakura's inner medic is coming out; every single person I've met who's worked in healthcare has been boringly levelheaded and quite ridiculously bossy and given my family are in healthcare that's quite a few of them. Glad to see one of the female rookies is actually being given some character for once.
The Pain Naruto's chasing isn't Nagato himself, so killing that body isn't going to kill Pain totally, although I think it's probably going to die. I guess the group trying to find Nagato is going to end up being diverted into sorting Naruto out, so he's going to get away. Probably time for Madara to turn up again.
#216611 Naruto 438
Posted by Cali on 06 March 2009 - 07:01 AM in Latest Releases
Killerbee is still around, isn't he? as the one who's sync'd with his bijuu I can see how he'd slot into the plot again at this point. Unfortunately it's probably gonna be Sasuke saving the day again, given he & Madara are the only ones left who can subdue the Kyuubi. And Kishi had accumulated so many coolness points recently....
#215933 Chapter 437 Discussion
Posted by Cali on 01 March 2009 - 08:16 PM in Latest Releases
Taken purely from the point of view of the manga; Hinata's death was a totally unsurprising end to an utterly useless character. The sole productive thing she ever did was make some cream for injuries ( chuunin exams ), other than that... she had the full resources of an entire clan, and wasted the lot. If she didn't want to be a fighter, why the hell didn't she go and do something she was actually good at, like something in medicine? I'm sorry, someone without any conviction at all would not be someone I wanted to rely on to keep me alive in a fight.
Which brings us to 437; there's an entire village turned into rubble, no doubt there's people trapped there, and you've got these magic eyes that let you see chakra, and you've got some ability to treat injuries, so what do you do?
Lets see, do you a) finally confess to the guy you've supposedly loved for years and COMMIT SUICIDE IN FRONT OF HIS FACE IMMEDIATELY without doing any damage whatsoever, or b) help pull people out of the mess & treat them, and stay out of the damn way of people who you know are insanely strong, just like the rest of Naruto's friends ( apart from the ones planning on actually doing something productive that is ). Good job Hinata, now you've made Naruto go out of control 6-tails & quite possibly screwed all sorts of kitten up. If you really love someone you don't go and deliberately cause them pain. Stupid, useless, idiot.
I'm assuming that if he's broken Pain's control by going all Kyuubi now, he could have done it anyway, so she really didn't save him from anything. I'm not sure if I like the chapter for making brave decisions about popular character death, or be utterly disgusted about how lame it really is, either way if she somehow lives through all this I'm another one who's gonna quit reading it. The guy stabbed her, it's pretty damn obvious, doesn't matter what it was with, and he has absolutely no reason not to kill her. Kakashi ran out of chakra, there's kinda room for manoever there, but this should be terminal.
As I cant stand the anime I'm assuming from what I've read about it that she's actually a worthwhile character, which would explain why people like her, but purely manga? bleh. The silly reactions after this hits the anime are going to make some amusing reading, I think.
Edit; should point out that Sakura's also got a history of doing this sort of thing ( for both Sasuke & Naruto so far ), only rather less terminally, and only in a situation where they needed saving from *themselves*. Um, yes, one of those might be coming I guess.
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