I agree. Back during the Pain Invasion arc people asked nearly every people what had happened to the Cloud nin and why had not come yet.
That was because people did not realize what the Invasion most likely lasted several hours, only. It would surely take several days going from Kumogakure to Konohagakure (Team Kakashi took three days to reach Sunagakure).
I shall not try to guess how many chapters... but that depends on what we mean when we talk about the end of the war. If we mean the defeat of Madara and Obito, then I think it will be over in one day (Narutoverse time). If we mean the final battle between Naruto and Sasuke... That is harder to determine and depends on what Kishimoto wants to do.
Yes, I meant the the defeat of the Obito/Madara/Juubi trio, be it they have to retreat or they're obliterated. I doubt the alliance can back up and wait a few days to attack them again, so yeah, I also assume it'll all be in 1 day. Since it's nighttime right now I think (based on the dark sky in recent chapters) I guess it's turning to the day of a resolution.
The time flow in part 1 was much better. You can say all the groundwork was being laid back then, every arc was not so intertwined like they are now. Back then, as Slex said, every arc was independent and free flowing. There wasn't much going on, important events were happening separate of each other at different times, hardly no overlapping. If there was overlapping, Kishi did not go into much detail and the overlapped section was more like segments, I don't think they ever lasted more than 2 chapters. The best example for this I think is during the Chuunin exams when Anko was investigating the death of the grass nins and looking for Orochimaru. If Kishimoto were writing that arc today, it probably would have been 50 chapters long with lots of in-depth explanation about Oro and Anko's past. From what I remember, Kishi did a good job simply implying what happened from their conversation alone. (I can't remember any more recent arcs that went this way, where everything was simply implied by the interaction between characters or a monologue, now it's almost always a long flashback -which also kinda ruins the time flow for people reading it- with more details than anyone needs or cares about-)
I suppose another example of this would be when Sarutobi finds out about Orochimaru and his secret lab. Did that last more than a chapter? I can't remember. If Kishi were writing that now...
So... yeah, I think Kishi has done a bit too much lately. He needs to tone it down. There are so many plot holes he needs to fill now, it would have been easier if he left a lot of things vague for the community to figure out rather than trying to explain it all. Kabuto's back story could have been summarized easily. That would have given Kishi time to do something else. Most of Sasuke's useless adventures could have been compressed so much.
Details are nice, but too much details really makes things too complicated and takes away time from other characters.
Another question, do you think most other pairing fans realize this time warp between reality and the Naruto world? Obviously the ones that use the "Naruto hasn't thought about Sakura in 100 chapters!" don't, but how about others? Do you think they'll embrace this fact and change their view, if only a little bit? By change their view, I mean concede on some of their arguments, like the Naruto not thinking of Sakura for a long time in OUR world, but in fact in his world he was with her and thinking of her at most a week or two ago. Given they still think Sakura was completely lying at her confession when Kishi said himself he wrote an honest girl (or something to that effect), I doubt it. (And yes, I realize some part of her confession was a lie, like not caring about Sasuke anymore, but the rest was no doubt somewhat true)
Edited by kirabook, 15 January 2013 - 03:30 PM.
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