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[kidNinja]

Well I'm officially dropping this manga.
I wanted to write a tl;dr hate post about how Kishi f**cked all things about NARUTO up, trolling/sexism/ass-pull bad writing, etc. But he doesn't deserve this.
I'm all over it already, I don't want to waste my time and health worrying about good-for-nothing mangaka and the manga he ruined with his own hands in like half a year.
I do feel sorry for those people who's been watching/reading NARUTO for literally half of their lives. This thing is not worth your tears/health, etc. Just get over it.

The logout button is on the top of the screen.

[Slextrem]

Because they're associated with love on a totally different level, and they're part of huger ships I suppose. It's soooo disgusting of him. I'm starting to get a little agitated thinking about how he's done Sakura as a character, and now with how things are going now, one can't help but wonder if she'll get her moment.... Yeah, she will. I just thought about it again. LOL I'm just annoyed because I'm not sure when that moment will play out.

No, she won't. No one else in the Alliance will get a moment now that the Hokages are on their way. It's unnecessary. Sasuke will show up with his crew at a critical moment in the battle, (i.e. when the Alliance, including Sakura, is getting their asses handed to them), and they'll take over.

...Oh my God, I just realized what the SasuSaku equivalent to 615 might be. Sasuke saving Sakura from a fatal blow before Naruto can reach her...

Everyone else got to save Sakura during the Summit Arc.

Maybe it's Sasuke's turn.

Holy crap.

[shadow_Uzumaki]

So, aside from...the negatives, here's a neutral question:

With this turn of events, anyone think that Kishi's pushing forward to the manga's endgame? Or would it still keep going a bit more?

In other words, are Madara, Obito, and Jubi the final bosses?

[Slextrem]

Why are you so insecure about Sakura? I don't understand why you're so compelled to mock what is essentially from your own imagination of her. I can't believe I have to defend Sakura among narusaku fans.

Since he was willing to fling kitten at Karin, I'm not expecting rainbows and candycanes for Sakura.

[alexander]

So, aside from...the negatives, here's a neutral question:

With this turn of events, anyone think that Kishi's pushing forward to the manga's endgame? Or would it still keep going a bit more?

In other words, are Madara, Obito, and Jubi the final bosses?

With how rushed this is and how everyone is going to the battlefield at the same time, I think we can assume the manga is comming to an end soon, unless Kishimoto makes another asspull like Orochimaru or Sasuke betraying the others later.

[StriderC]

No, she won't. No one else in the Alliance will get a moment now that the Hokages are on their way. It's unnecessary. Sasuke will show up with his crew at a critical moment in the battle, (i.e. when the Alliance, including Sakura, is getting their asses handed to them), and they'll take over.

...Oh my God, I just realized what the SasuSaku equivalent to 615 might be. Sasuke saving Sakura from a fatal blow before Naruto can reach her...

Everyone else got to save Sakura during the Summit Arc.

Maybe it's Sasuke's turn.

Holy crap.

That's when I'll vomit repeatedly... LOL The way you say it sounds sooo damn ridiculous but it's true. She's a damsel and she'll likely have another distress moment. I wouldn't put it past Kishi. That'd be him showing us what a heroine is capable of..

[HauntedCake]

Dude take a deep breat and read some dialogs. You will feel much better.

It wont help, Kishi will probably hack your account and edit them to asspull SS.

so sasuke suddenly decided to do the good thing....just like that..i only have one thing to say about that......WTF HAS BEEN THE POINT OF THIS MANGA SINCE VOTE THEN KISHI!!!!!!!!!!!

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No, she won't. No one else in the Alliance will get a moment now that the Hokages are on their way. It's unnecessary. Sasuke will show up with his crew at a critical moment in the battle, (i.e. when the Alliance, including Sakura, is getting their asses handed to them), and they'll take over.

...Oh my God, I just realized what the SasuSaku equivalent to 615 might be. Sasuke saving Sakura from a fatal blow before Naruto can reach her...

Everyone else got to save Sakura during the Summit Arc.

Maybe it's Sasuke's turn.

Holy crap.

Yep bridal style all over again.

DEM PARALELLS KISHI!! I see what your doing

[StrikerTheNoble]

If I come back tommorow will everybody be chill and OK with life? Because I`m just waiting for someone to have a complete menatl breakdown. Its just one chapter. Sakura could have a whole volume of moments before Sasuke gets his ass over there. And when he does who knows what Orochimaru might do. Why do you guys have to be like that? And its weird seeing you like this Slex. Your usually a bit more optimistic.

@ HauntedCake. I have 95% of them on my laptop so I would like to see him try.

Edited by StrikerTheNoble, 10 April 2013 - 06:05 PM.

[Nefertieh]

So, aside from...the negatives, here's a neutral question:

With this turn of events, anyone think that Kishi's pushing forward to the manga's endgame? Or would it still keep going a bit more?

In other words, are Madara, Obito, and Jubi the final bosses?

It definitely feels like that the end is being pushed forward, although some people have pointed out that this chapter is the end of the volume.

[dragonflyx11]

No, she won't. No one else in the Alliance will get a moment now that the Hokages are on their way. It's unnecessary. Sasuke will show up with his crew at a critical moment in the battle, (i.e. when the Alliance, including Sakura, is getting their asses handed to them), and they'll take over.

...Oh my God, I just realized what the SasuSaku equivalent to 615 might be. Sasuke saving Sakura from a fatal blow before Naruto can reach her...

Everyone else got to save Sakura during the Summit Arc.

Maybe it's Sasuke's turn.

Holy crap.

kishi wouldn't do that, hes an intelligent writer....writing a well paced manga.....oh wait...my bad i thought we were talking about a different manga named naruto, written by a different kishi.

[HauntedCake]

If I come back tommorow will everybody be chill and OK with life? Because I`m just waiting for someone to have a complete menatl breakdown. Its just one chapter. Sakura could have a whole volume of moments before Sasuke gets his ass over there. And when he does who knows what Orochimaru might do. Why do you guys have to be like that? And its weird seeing you like this Slex. Your usually a bit more optimistic.

@ HauntedCake. I have 95% of them on my laptop so I would like to see him try.

Kishimoto says:



Power of Kishi's trolling knows no bounds

[Nefertieh]

Since he was willing to fling kitten at Karin, I'm not expecting rainbows and candycanes for Sakura.

Karin has about 90% of her screentime as comedy relief. She's usually beating up Suigetsu, trying to flirt with Sasuke, or something else. Case point: when she was locked up in the holding cell, she pretends to be bipolar about Sasuke just to escape prison. She is hardly a serious character, and for all we know, she could be scheming something at this point.

[TouKen4Life3g]

So, aside from...the negatives, here's a neutral question:

With this turn of events, anyone think that Kishi's pushing forward to the manga's endgame? Or would it still keep going a bit more?

In other words, are Madara, Obito, and Jubi the final bosses?

Hard to say because of few things: one is that anything can still happen along the road or anything. It always changes for Sasuke and his crew. One point they were heading to Konoha to cause mayhem, but Tobi stopped him. We don't know how everything will go down. Second, this chapter is the last chapter of the volume, so it was expected that all of his situations will come a close, especially on Karin. Team Taka is back, going to battlefield, and questionable face turn(?). Is it coming to the end? Perhaps, but there's always twist bound to happen.

[shadow_Uzumaki]

If I come back tommorow will everybody be chill and OK with life? Because I`m just waiting for someone to have a complete menatl breakdown. Its just one chapter. Sakura could have a whole volume of moments before Sasuke gets his ass over there. And when he does who knows what Orochimaru might do. Why do you guys have to be like that? And its weird seeing you like this Slex. Your usually a bit more optimistic.

@ HauntedCake. I have 95% of them on my laptop so I would like to see him try.

I'm trying to change the subject, I'm trying so haaaaarrrrdddd

@Nefertieh: Makes sense to end a volume with a bombshell (with a lot of people, that seems literal).

Kinda curious where he'll take this. It's still possible that Sasuke will still get persecuted for his crimes against the Hidden Villages...in a less optimistic story. This IS shounen, after all. And of course, there's the whole theme about breaking the cycle of hatred. Still, won't know for sure until it's down on paper and we're looking at it.

[dragonflyx11]

Karin has about 90% of her screentime as comedy relief. She's usually beating up Suigetsu, trying to flirt with Sasuke, or something else. Case point: when she was locked up in the holding cell, she pretends to be bipolar about Sasuke just to escape prison. She is hardly a serious character, and for all we know, she could be scheming something at this point.

that was basically part 1 sakura in a nutshell, save for maybe the last lil bit. sasuke is a character that always seems to make others revert to there old ways. naruto always looks less intelligent and weaker then he is and sakura always looks helpless and dumbstruck. im afraid with sasuke around that sakura may regress as a character and that......sucks..

[TouKen4Life3g]

I'm trying to change the subject, I'm trying so haaaaarrrrdddd

@Nefertieh: Makes sense to end a volume with a bombshell (with a lot of people, that seems literal).

Kinda curious where he'll take this. It's still possible that Sasuke will still get persecuted for his crimes against the Hidden Villages...in a less optimistic story. This IS shounen, after all. And of course, there's the whole theme about breaking the cycle of hatred. Still, won't know for sure until it's down on paper and we're looking at it.

It's possible that Sasuke entered the stage of where Madara forgives Hashirama and joined together. By that, that would mean one more turn can happen, but I don't know how it will work.

[KnS]

I don't see it being this simple. All Sasuke said was that he wouldn't let his brother and village go to waste. What does that ultimately mean? I thought he'd end up with an Obito-like goal...it sounds good, but it's really not (I don't mean Obito's specific objective). This shouldn't be surprising as Sasuke has his greastest chance to take revenge on Konoha with Naruto not around. Given that Kishi is all but screaming from the mountain tops what the end game is, there was no way Sasuke was going to revert to his original course because even if the First can pull a Madara, the whole village would be witness to him actively tearing it apart and that complicates Kishimoto's ultimate goal.

Also, does anyone think Orochimaru is just going to stand and watch?

I don't think Naruto/Sasuke clash is gone, but I think the grounds it'll be fought on will be different. That has been evident for awhile.

I agree with you on this. I don't see it being this simple either. Will Sasuke get played by Madara and end up flipping again? Will Orochimaru pretend to play nice until the right moment and then move his own goals (whatever they are) forward? Don't know.

Personally, I'm more curious now than I was to see how Naruto vs. Sasuke gets resolved. It's more difficult to see how it might happen, but I'm not ready to believe that Naruto will have zero role in it.

I'm sure people will still bristle at the fangirl charge, but this does nothing to help their case. Geez... I hope that was the translator adding those hearts or that Kishimoto's secretly making her bi-polar or something.

Maybe it's just me, but I've never understood why anyone expected Karin to really get over Sasuke, or that if/when she continued to love him after the way he treated her that would somehow signal her characterization was "ruined" and too screwed up to be believable.

Karin was ruined and screwed up when we met her. She had spent her time under Orochimaru's influence, assisting him in his experiments on other people. She essentially ran his prison for him, on a remote island with no one but incarcerated Frankenfreaks for company. She was clearly a dark and disturbed soul from the get-go, and yet it's unbelievable she would still cling to Sasuke despite the way he treated her? What else does she know? What else has she ever known?

The girl was and still is a defective mess. The way I see it, her attraction to Sasuke makes complete sense.

Edited by KnS, 10 April 2013 - 06:15 PM.

[Fyuria'sLeo]

Never felt this disappointed in character development since....oh wait nothing worse than this.

Sasuke changed way to fast for my liking.

[sushi.]

Since he was willing to fling kitten at Karin, I'm not expecting rainbows and candycanes for Sakura.

I agree, there's nothing to her anymore. The only thing I like about Sakura now is her personality. Her development is no more, her potential is wasted and my idea of her was mistaken. You could say from an objective standpoint that Sakura sucks(I understand why many would say so), but for me it's hard to let go of her, because she's so incomplete.

[tonga1]

idk, everything looks very simple.... naruto and sasuke should be on different paths