Summary Time: It's actually translated before the weekends is done for once. "Hands."
Cover: This is the 'Ao' arc. So this isn't even fighting against Kara they are just fighting against one of its agents. The image is Bolt and cups sparring against Salad...they messed up Salad's uchiha symbol the fan is completely white here. The top is suppose to be red.
They arrive at "The Advance Technology Research Institute." That is an awfully generic name. They could have at least named it after someone, or said that it was Konoha's research institute. They enter and the Clone immediately finds them, and then starts serving the group tea. She now works at the research institute. Then we meet sleazy inventor's assistant... that literally looks like an older Salad, Inuzuka Akita. So she's also one of Kiba's clan member. She get affectionate with the artificial limb, and the sleazy inventor. Where are her clan tattoos/marks?
Turns out that their mission wasn't just to escort him to his lab but to also test some of his equipment. So they spar the same way it happened on the cover. Salad wins by dropping a smoke bomb machine. Sorry a "smoke-flash bomb." It is impractical. Its start out with releasing the smoke then does the flash, but the smoke could lessen the effect of the flash bang. It should be a flash bang first then release the smoke. Also as always, everything she does comes off as sexual or she is doing sexual poses. But we also have the older version of Salad also doing that as well.
Then they go into another room that disrupts off all sound waves so no-one can hear anything. Then another room where they put on boots and gloves that let them crawl like spiderman. Bolt has been complaining the entire time, but eventually the "cooler" devices amaze him. There also a flying ninja kite. Bolt get thrown into a wall so the Clone can heal him with another invention, some spray that accelerates healing. Then he see a dog that has the sleazy inventor artificial limbs in order to walk. This entire chapter been so far to teach Bolt that he should let go of his grudge against sleazy inventor by showing how great he and his invention are...then why was he so desperate to show then off in the chunin exams, and ran into the fight against the effeminate one in order to show them off? He seems to have a lot of invention as well as respect, and I don't see anything saying he is financially strained. So why did he do it? Just to show off his inventions? He came off as to sleazy and manipulative for some as simple as that. Also the clone is next to him while he is being lecture by the older Salad. So who knows maybe they were told to make the pairing a possibility in the manga as well. Well that won't please the SS fans.
Then the sleazy inventor comes in and gives Bolt....god damn it! kitten you! kitten you! Cliche kittens! A Light(ning) Saber. No I'm not joking. It a chakra blade the uses a person chakra to make the blade, and for bolt that is lightning. So bolt officially forgives the sleazy inventor. Wait he made Naruto's hand? I thought that was Tsunade that did that?
Naruto calls and informs them of Konohamaru's mission. They of course are the closest team nearby. They agree to accept the mission, and we also learn Bolt's catch phrase "'ttebasa." Then the chapter ends with Naruto, Shikamaru, and Sai discussing how much of a threat Kara is.
Next releases on Christmas. What an awful gift.
The background were very generic, and I sure at this point the art is now set in it's ways and won't be changing anymore. So it overall comes off as mediocre average, and that won't change anytime soon.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 18 November 2017 - 08:35 PM.