LOL @ Neji trying to get a 1-hour special.
well, no more lame than any other sword that has no special abilities IMO. I think he could’ve used an average run-of-the-mill katana and been just as feared as the Devil of the Hidden Mist, but his own special blade just made him moreso.
Speaking of Z, wouldn’t it be badass if someone brought him and/or Zaku back as puppets (Looking at you Kabutomaru) in the future? You KNOW the fans would straight backflip and uppercut someone in joy. I would. I even have targets picked out to recieve my fist of happiness. Talk about it bitches!!
-Starhammer-
Something I never thought of before…
So Itachi has loyalties to #1 Sasuke, and #2 Konoha. That is basically it… right? The way I understand it is he was ordered to take out the Uchihas because they were going to overthrow Konoha. He didn’t want to do it but he had to. He couldn’t take out his brother, however because he had a love for him even more than his country. Somewhere along the lines he meets Madara who helps him do this. I guess Danzo felt that Itachi could do it himself? I don’t really get it. Anyways, they do it, and then Itachi is a jerk to Sasuke everytime he sees him, even putting him in a genjutsu and inflicting him with emotionally damaging pain.
I’ve never gotten that part before at all. It just never made sense. But just right now I just thought of something else: what was Itachi’s plan with Naruto? He goes to capture Naruto. He knows Naruto is with Jiraiya. He says he might not be able to take Jiraiya and that there are other ways. He uses a genjutsu’d woman to distract Jiraiya. So… what if it worked? What if Jiraiya didn’t show up. Would he have taken Naruto? His loyalty was to his country. He couldn’t have really taken Naruto. Was he willing to fight Kisame?
I guess the only thing that makes sense in this situation is that he and Jiraiya were buddies. Jiraiya showed up and Itachi ran just as planned. They acted pretty convincingly and Jiraiya loses cool points because he probably would have banged that genjutsu’d chick if it wasn’t part of the plan.
Either that or maybe Kishi didn’t think that far ahead?
I think kakuzu could be a good choice depending on how many hearts he comes back with. Zabuza as a zombie seems not so grand to me, but maybe with a new [special] sword…
my zombie choices would be
- The former Jinch?riki hosts they captured…[with Gaara effect] including the host before Gaara.
- Third Kazekage who studied the host before Gaara
- Haku [because ice powers are cool]
- The Fourth Hokage [perhaps the crow can set him free]
- J-man [because Naruto needs one last match]
a not so ninja edit: Starhammer said puppet as in
new puppets for zombie sasori
- Zabuza and Haku [a formidable set] to replace sasori’s best two puppets
- Zaku [claimed he had more skill, sasori could show him as an S class] is a nice pick, could equip the body with Dosu and Tsuchi sound gear too.
- Kimimaru [probably would make a better zombie] as one of Oro’s favorite.
Been waiting for Bee to teach Naruto, knew he was gonna do that shit when he roll canceled a genjutsu.
The funny thing about the Bee vs Kisame thing is that Akatsuki members are not on par with Jinchuuriki. at least, not the 8 and 9. What Akatsuki has is preparation. These are fucking ninja after all, and they operate through strict discipline. Akatsuki never went into the fights just to go MAX POWER and duke it out, they had standing orders to capture them. These ninjas (lame pun) maneuver endlessly to get what they want. I mean, they just called WW4 on the Kage. Aside from the already rehashed points of Bee’s handicap, there was a reason for Kisame fighting Bee. We just have to find out yet…
That and I think people are somehow forgetting that Akatsuki members worked in teams of two to capture (and do just about any-fucking-thing, now that I think about it) hosts. I would do a couple of things if Kishi made Fishface able to beat a host alone, one of which would downplay everything that made Itachi badass, since he was Fishface’s partner and died to a non-host. Like he was backpacking Itachi. Hell, it would make it look like he’s on the same level as Madara, since he was the only person confirmed to have taken out a functioning host single-handed. Utakata doesn’t count. At all.
woohoo I like people who make sense
Kisame caught the 5-tails solo didnt he? Old dude with magma magic
Apparently. I?m glad you knew that because I damned sure didn?t. Seriously. I didn?t.
So, that invalidates a large part of my argument, I guess.
Except… he doesn’t really make sense.
We’ve already seen Kisame capture a jinchuruki by himself.
http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/353/03/
And Itachi didn’t get killed by a normal ninja. He died of ninja AIDS, and just made it look like Sasuke killed him.
man chapter 491 was a surprise.
isn’t killer bee a top ninja then? ok didn’t realize kisame captured a jin by himself, because he did that it discounts any further critical logic within the arguement
you’ll be glad to know im fed up with talking about characters in naruto, I can’t wait till kisame comes out and killer bee starts shaking at the knees, or kisame kills killer B with his uber power and naruto becomes vengeful and destroys kisame with his new upgraded power
but who knows cos kisame might be able to kill naruto too, because he’s so uber
So the Naruto anime is slowly creeping toward DBZ-dom.
I thought it’s been there for a while.
it was itachi’s way of making him strong as fast as possible. he was willing to die as a traitor and criminal by sasuke’s hand so his brother could return as a hero to rebuild the clan on a new foundation of honor and nobility while at the same time freeing him from orochimaru’s influence and giving him with the eternal mangeky? the potential to defeat madara.
about naruto. itachi had incredible insight, planning very well ahead. he had probably a back-up plan in case they would indeed capture naruto.
I dunno, Kakazu/Hidan was a pretty broken team. If you didn’t realize what Hidan’s powers were ahead of time you pretty much lose. Only reason Team Konoha won was because they got a free time out and Shikamaru has Batman level prep skillz.
http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/353/12/
Deidara’s line right there, wether real or poor translation is just HILARIOUS…exploding bag…yhehe
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Well we do know one thing for certain. Hidan will be alive in the end of the series.
Kishi said himself that Hidan survives off soul energy, which he can’t attain anymore since he can’t perform any sacrifices.
Also I skimmed and saw Saist asking about Gaara’s power after losing the tailed beast. Kishi was asked the same question back when the databook dropped and he said himself that Gaara retains all his abilities so the only thing he lost is the chakra boost. Also, I don’t remember where I read, so I don’t remember if this is fact or guess, but it was stated that the automatic sand protection was a result of a technique his mother used where she sacrificed herself to bind her soul to the sand or some shit like that.
I’m kind of behind on the manga, I usually watch and read it about once a month, because the pacing is too slow to read once a week. Just stopping by the thread to say in before Naruto busts out sharingan, Kabutomaru fucks shit up, and the arc ends with a panel of Kabutomaru’s inner world where Kabuto is trapped by snakes and Orochimaru says just as planned.