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Post by Rasengan on Nov 30, 2007 18:40:03 GMT -5
Chapter of fights Jiraiya vs 6 man pain Tobi vs naruto, sakura, kakashi, kiba, hinata, shino, sai, yamato Kisame vs suigetsu Sasuke vs Itachi Final showdown
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Post by SeraphMazrakiel on Dec 1, 2007 5:26:31 GMT -5
I look forward to Tobi meeting everyone. He should bash all their faces in... but he won't.
It was pleasant to get away from Pain and Jiraiya. I hope Pain kills Jiraiya in a single blow now (or six single blows... lol), so we can just get over that part of the manga and onto something more interesting.
I found it more interesting thinking "Yahiko" was the Fourth... had more potential for a storyline! Mind you, Pain's potential for a storyline went away when he mentioned "I WANT TO DESTROY THE WORLD"... oh well.
Not looking forward to Kisame vs Suigetsu. Looks to be one of the weaker of the fights... doesn't serve much of a plot purpose either.
Sasuke vs Itachi.... should be okay. I've been more interested in the power of the Sharingan since Pain became uninteresting. What is it's true purpose... Sasuke's eventual rise to becoming a "hawk"... where Madara fits into the entire puzzle of the Naruto universe, etc. The fight will be boring... but I'm hoping the next few chapters lead to the development of the Uchiha storyline.
This story could do with some resolution.
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Post by Tensei Kaori on Dec 1, 2007 12:39:04 GMT -5
And the manga could do with some direction. It looks to me - and I could be wrong here - like Kishimoto is getting bored with Naruto. When the series started, everything fit together cleanly, moving the story along in a compelling, yet easily-followed manner. Now, everything's jumbled up and messy, with increasingly goddish jutsu that appear to just be attempts to keep people interested. Either that, or he's trying to do what some storytellers have done quite successfully - intertwining several different subplot threads and weaving them together to complete the whole picture. But if that's what he's intending, it's certainly not working very well. It does, unfortunately, look like Jiraiya's done for. I could be wrong, here, and I sincerely hope I am, but it doesn't look like it. Baaaaaad move on Kishimoto's part, if you ask me. I dunno about Sasuke vs Itachi. It seems way too early to have it, if you ask me - which leads me to think that maybe Kishimoto's getting bored with the story and is trying to just wrap up all the loose ends, no matter the consequences. *shrug* That's just my take on it. By the way, the song-based genjutsu is only further proof in my mind that Kishimoto is reading our IF and stealing ideas.
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Post by strangevisitor on Dec 1, 2007 18:21:59 GMT -5
This chapter...*sigh* I really don't know. Like K-sama said, it's really looking like Jiraiya's getting the axe. And if he does, I may very well stop reading the series. I love Jiraiya, he's an awesome character to me. I think those frogs better have a way to high-tail him out of there last-minute.
I hope Itachi and Sasuke Double Fatality eachother. I'm sick of them both.
I AM curious to see the reasons for Naruto going THROUGH Tobi, though.
But yeah. The quality of the manga has definitely slid down a few notches.
My advice to Kishi to redeem it? Go back and read your old stuff, then kill off Sasuke, Itachi, and the Pains. We don't need them anymore.
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Post by Tensei Kaori on Dec 1, 2007 22:00:47 GMT -5
Maybe he's gotten tired of the series and is using a Ghost Writer. It'd really explain why the series is all of a sudden feeling a lot less like the Naruto we know and love, and a lot more like a badly written fanfic. e______e;;;
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Post by SeraphMazrakiel on Dec 1, 2007 23:09:37 GMT -5
You know K-chan.
I think you're absolutely right.
XD
Perhaps Kishimoto should just, stop writing the series full stop. Accept defeat, and stop the series. Right where it is. XD
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Post by Rasengan on Dec 2, 2007 2:37:04 GMT -5
i dont see jiraiya dying vs pain. they made it obvious that it will happen, would be lame if he died. maybe right before pain is going to kill jiraiya, konan turns on pain to kill him. theres not too much akatsuki left anyway if suigetsu kills kisame and sasuke kills itachi then that leaves zetsu konan tobi pain not many to take over the world
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Post by SeraphMazrakiel on Dec 2, 2007 13:40:03 GMT -5
I was actually thinking that if Jiraiya almost wasted Pain, Konan would throw a paper dart at him and kill him outright.
Amidst all the story of the Rinnegan and the forthcoming chapters on the Uchiha... I bet no-one saw that killer Konan paper dart preparing to fly it's way to Jiraiya's death on page 4.
Not even Kishimoto.
And especially not Jiraiya. XD
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