Bail o' Lies

Oh this came out on the 17th. I want you all to remember I am not religiously looking for when it comes out. I pretty much just check on the 20th.Unless its the weekends and that is because I am reading other manga.

Did more work on my issue topic. The opening I am fine with. Can't really touch up the art because that's not my area of understanding or expertise. Could do maybe a bit more with the narrative. Plot elements has what I have been touching up and I hope I am done....for now. Combat added a bit but don't see anything else to add. Characters I could go over the cast itself, but really no need. Pairings has been done since pretty much posted it. Added Villains by removing it from Narrative. I think of added another about the problems Boruto inherited from Naruto. Any thoughts?

Summary Time: Chapter 37. Trust...is this going to be about Bolt and Clone Jiraiya learning to finally trust one another?

Cover page is Clone Jiraiya.

We start off with more of Bolt explaining his plan to Salad...this will not help because of the flaw of the pins from last chapter shall always make this plan dumb. The only two ways to get to the Tree-people base are either through Punk''s belt marks or Bolt's rip off copy of his grandfather signature jutsu...didn't Gaara come across it while hunting for Bolt? They want to take out Tree-Jenga in oneshot with Salad's gravity balls. God their side profiles look bad.

We return to Bolt realizing that Punk had figured out the importance of the pins for his teleporting...not that it would be hard to figure out. Bolt yells at CJ demanding to know if his latest visions show a way to enter the Tree-People lair. CJ wants Bolt to return as his vision showed him being reckless and handing his body over to Femmy to save Salad. Bolt refuses to listen, and assume there is a way. So CJ asks Blond Sai to cut him from that call so the adults (Hime, CJ, Blond Sai, and Shakimaru) can plan...without having to hear Bolt's tantrums. Also because Femmy hears what Bolt does and he doesn't want Femmy to know he has a way to take over Bolt and kill them all.

Punk brings Salad to the Tree-People while Tree-Sasuke is just looking at more cat pictures...nice to see they are as goal orientated as always. Tree-Jenga is out. So Punk tries to explain his plan to use Salad as bait...dancing around why Bolt cares for her is because Bolt loves her and gives other reason he may care for her. Showing that they do not want to commit to the paring. Despite the fact the strongest reason why Punk would kidnap her and why Bolt would be willing to hand over his body to Femmy to save her. Is that he is in love with her. Thinking of romance is he still pining over Hime or has that plotline been dropped? Granted, it could be he just doesn't know. Just like he didn't know she was Tree-Sasuke's target to eat. Punk explains that since Salad can't leave the area. They should go to Bolt to get him to sacrifice himself to the Divine Tree for a promise of her safety. Problem is, that Tree-Sasuke seemed to inherited Sasuke's pigheadedness and hatred for reasonable plans. As he just wants to eat Salad. So a three way fight is about to start as Salad escaped Punk's grasp.

Oh Tree-Jenga was in the village getting more books...wasn't the person who could see the future; that he assigned Punk to hunt. Just in the village like at best 2 minutes ago? He is getting more cat picture books for Tree-Sasuke. The Bookstore Owner recommends going to a cat cafe (in the ninja world...shrug) with his friend. So Tree-Jenga realize he is friends with Tree-Sasuke. Later he thanks the Shopkeeper for this while he is leaving.

The adults were thinking up a plan while Femmy taunted Bolt about caring for Salad. Again, without saying that he loves her. They really do not want to confirm the pairing. Oh that's neat. Somehow without Punk or Bolt noticing. Salad was able to create a gravity ball to tear off one of her earrings that she poured her chakra into. So now Bolt will use that to teleport himself to her...didn't know he could do that, but granted neither did anyone else. Ah there we go to undermined it by Hime self praising the story again. Any consideration for possible praise retracted, only criticism. Seriously, how can Bolt do that with someone else chakra!?! That not how those teleportation jutsu work. Its not how his was established to work. Also if he can teleport to someone through a piece of metal with their chakra infused in it, why can't he teleport them to himself instead at this point?

Ah another of Ikemoto's 'brilliant' plans by Shikamaru. To keep Tree-Jenga in the village, he asks the shopkeeper to stall him while Bolt rescues Salad...I'm sure this won't backfire like all of Shikamaru's plans have in this manga and lead to this civilian's death. He might just survive if Tree-Jenga likes him enough and his recommendations. 

The chapter ends with the Chamberlain getting on a psychic phone call with Shikamaru to reveal that he was interrogating the character based off Kodachi. And got some information off him...I honestly don't know what the damaging info is because I don't bother to even remember what this character has even done in the story most of the time. 

I love how naruhina is getting cooked on twitter lately, I haven't been following naruto at all since it ended, but seeing anti naruhina/ pro NS stuff on my timeline is nice to see. Something very nostalgic about it.  https://x.com/sticke...068186120049042

Hello don't think we ever talked.

Anyways. The Hinata obsession is a very millennial thing. They spent over ten years while they were growing up surrounded by peers saying she was the most perfect woman ever. She didn't really have much competition of her archetype so she felt unique. Not many anime weren't being brought over to the West during Naruto's prime, even then the Tsundere was still dominant love interest in shounen at the time, and no show in the West would have a female like Hinata.

Take out those years and just watch/read Naruto today without the mindset millennials developed overtime. And. It is just awkward that a story that went on for 15 years building up one girl as the love interest, Sakura. Only to change in the last chapter for a girl that was barely in 15 chapters of a 700 chapter manga. That you can have the revived father met the original girl see her interact with his son, be reminded of his own wife, approve of her getting together with him, and then abandon it. Also, how they justify the switch of the pairings is a character having to die to tie them together for the new pairing because it is just that underdeveloped. Help along by streaming giving people more access to anime and in general eastern entertainment, by people watching more anime they find that Hinata is a very, if not the most, basic underdeveloped character of her archetype, AI translations help people find interviews they couldn't find years ago, and people just increasingly not caring about western entertainment anymore.   

This a major reason why the switch of love interest at the last second was a bad idea. It only appealed to the Western Millennials that grew up reading it and building a romance in their heads for over a decade. As someone just picking it up will just have a last minute switch that doesn't have the satisfaction they had, as who could really be that happy that the main character got with a girl you may not even remember it you just casually read it, and it leads to Boruto, which no one feels satisfaction about.

The latest episode ended with killing Orihime. Doubt it will stick. My guess Yhwach will regain his almighty to cancel out the attack.

No chapter today or any on the upcoming according to Mangaplus. I doubt its cancelled. Checking, likely due to the Obon festival they decided to take a break. Yes because clearly Ikemoto has been working so hard. 37 will be out in September.

Went on the Boruto reddit. They are hoping that some announcement at comic con in New York on 10/10 will be announcing the continuation of the Boruto anime. They still haven't release that four part Naruto miniseries, so it could also be about that. Naruto and Sasuke Japanese VA are going to be their so likely. Why would they risk restarting the anime again when they will likely have to cancel it again due to Ikemoto poor pacing? Would be funny if they restart it just to finish off part one (they still have an arc left) then put it on hiatus again.

Worked a bit more on my problems with Boruto topic.

Make sense bout I don't see much Boruto universe skins.

Simple. Who would pay for that? The companies know Boruto isn't that popular. Both the Japanese companies that own the rights to Naruto-Boruto and the gaming companies buying the rights to make skins for their game. The gaming companies, when ideology isn't blinding them, do research to see what will make them the most money. They know Naruto is still fondly regard, but notice any cameo is his part two version not the Last or Hokage Naruto. Any research would show Boruto isn't worth that much compared to Naruto. Look at any data Boruto seems to have anywhere from a 75-95% drop from Naruto in earning and sales. He just not that valuable. So they only time you will see a (non Naruto-Boruto) game having him as a skin is, when they need new skins for the sake of needing new skins.