this is one pic of a younger jiraiya and he still looks quite different than clone jiraiya
Ikemoto can't draw in kishimoto's style with out kishimoto watching him like a hawk. In universe, he wore a mask to cover his face -some reason still has the eye liner-, and change his hair style.
I know what you mean, but in essence, it's the same thing.
All were used to power up your base stats.
What you speak are mechanics. I get that, I totally do.
But it still feels a cheap way out to bring something new and flashy in sight because you got lazy to think how what you already had could be used.
Remember how Sage Mode/natural energy used to be the thing against Gods?
What happened to that?
What, scared that you forgot about Shikkotsurin and might have people wonder, and you get no answer to that cuz yer lazy brain doesn't think about it?
Like take Sasuke's speech about his Sharingan not being able to follow him.
Know who else his sharingan wasn't able to follow? B.
Know who already was faster than B with Kurama's chakra so no new mode was necessary?
Yeah, Naruto.
Then add natural energy to that Kurama chakra. In essence it can do what this Barygon or whatever mode can do.
Which is totally pointless. TOTALLY.
Even though I am not into this series and I could care less about Naruto, at least they should've found a smarter way to kill him.
This is so cheap, so so so cheap, I cannot even begin to explain.
No, what I speak of is dramatic tension by introducing a life sacrificing power to try to capture the reader's interest and a cheap justification through a semantic with mechanics to justify its introduction.
This was the manga going, Kurama: "Naruto, we need to boost sales of the manga. So it is time to finally reveal SUPER! FINAL FORM X!!!"
Also, it's not that they have forgotten either sage mode or Cloak mode...Wait, you probably haven't been reading the manga, right? Naruto, in Boruto, when he is fighting is always in cloak mode; outside of sparing. He activates it as soon as he enters combat. It happens so often I often forget to even add it into my summaries. As for sage mode, he may not have been using it, he may have been using it. If you were to bring it up to kishi; he would say Naruto was using sage mode (but that is likely an after the fact correction).
So, Naruto was already using those "two" modes. They weren't working. So, Kurama went into his last resort. Suicide Nuke Form.
The true point is that this final form, Naruto final battle, and kishi coming back is suppose to be drawing interest so people watch/read Boruto again.
Now, look at the cover page. Does it cool to you? Does it look impressive? Does it make you want to read this manga? "Yes," is what in theory this form should be doing for anyone. But. You all should know my answers at least. I thought it look awful last chapter and burst out laughing when I saw it in color.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 22 November 2020 - 03:26 AM.