This came out last week but I forgot about it among other things.
Summary Time: Chapter 44 Amado...That's Madoc, the doctor of Kara in case anyone is wondering guess we are focusing on him.
The cover is Boruto being possessed by the effeminate one with the horn, blue tattoos, and the byakugan eye...checking...oh right his right eye was the one with the scar and a byakugan or are they doing that stupid anime eye that I have forgotten the name of.
Naruto wakes up in the hospital with his family surrounding his bed. God, Hinata's hair is awful. He address Hinata and the kids. I don't think Naruto add Chan to hinata's name. Boruto decides to go inform his friends. Naruto is surprised he is alive, with apparently the same amount of emotion I have when I find out its raining.
The sleazy inventor is talking to Nail about how...his body is rejecting the arm he made for him. Also the clone is their with pain killer seeing as she is in the presence of a boy and is concern for him her age I guess some shipping may happen. Bolt pops in to inform him Naruto is awake.
Back to Naruto with Shikamaru informing what happened the last few chapters. Naruto tries to be joking about the situation...
On to Barbarain Hair and Madoc. They are apparently working together on something. BH summons his toad so Madoc can be transported somewhere. Mustard comes in wondering where Madoc is going, and he shuts her down with a command. BH ponders that he must also have a phrase that could shut him down as well while sending him to the village.
Oh, now we have a seen with the Uchiha family and Cups in the hospital. Salad informs Sasuke about what happened to Bolt last chapter. Cups asks to speak with Sasuke in private in order to inform him what Blacksmith said about Bolt being effeminate one's vessel. So far out side the villains this chapter has just been recapping what happened previously. Yes, its important that the audience knows that the adults are being told what happened, but this should be something briefly done in a few pages not be most of the chapter. Sasuke ponders over this information and states his belief that Jenga is also possessed, he is of course correct.
Ok finally something that isn't recapping. InoShikaCho's kids are training while Madoc watches. He asks to be taken to Shikamaru. Shikamaru's kid uses the shadow bind. So he uses a tuning fork that hijacks the kids shadow bind. He knocks the boy out with a drug. Then puts a collar on him. Ino is contacted by her son.
Meanwhile, Naruto and Shikamru are visiting Nail. How much time is passing in this chapter? So Naruto wakes up. Bolt went to inform Nail. Naruto is talking to Shikamaru alone in his hospital bed. Now he is up dress in his outfit and visiting Nail while Bolt still there. Did he shoo out Hinata and the daughter the second he could or something? While Shikamaru is telling Nail he will be under more supervision and monitoring he is contact by Ino.
Then Moegi, the team's Sensei, comes in to rescue the boy, remove the collar, and restrain Madoc with a single earth jutsu...oh wait the bomb still on another panel guess Ikemoto forgot to draw it in that one panel where we can see his entire bare neck which is easier to see than the panel that shows it still on...Isn't that month work of effort to make sure the reader is getting a quality product just fantastic. Also Sai is there now. He just showed up, don't ask cause I don't know. Madoc shows he can activate the bomb without even moving with another bomb he placed earlier. This forces Moegi to release the jutsu. Then we see another villain which such nice manners apologizing for what he did. He gets in contact and announces that he wishes to defect to konoha and tell them everything he knows about the villains. So, how long till he dies or will they actually have chapters where he explain everything the villains are doing?
Oh by the way I learned something because of nioh 2. The main villain of that game has the same name as Barbarian Hair. Kashin Koji. Information about this character from Japanese folklore is on Barbarian Hair Naruto wiki but I never had a desire to check until looking up the nioh character and having him fill the entire google search. So from the wiki: "Koji Kashin shares his name with a folkloric magician believed to have lived in the late Muromachi period, though his historicity is debated. He is often depicted as a white-haired, bearded, elderly man in robes, and is said to have used his illusions to deceive and defraud prominent rulers such as Oda Nobunaga." So, from the start they were informing the reader that he was a treacherous and deceitful individual. Sort of like a character being named Judas, Brutus, or Benedict Arnold...Oh right, spoilers for that game.
Next chapter April 20.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 11 April 2020 - 07:26 AM.