Chakra vs. Ki? The Eight Gates?

[darkshadow]

i thought there were 7 chakra points?...

and i dont think he messed up, the gates are actually there for gradual increase of muscle power due to opening the chakra flow
in real life, ppl cant use more than 20/30 % of there total muscle power ( even how much you would strain, you wont go higher) because of limits in the brain, if you go higher you can damage yourself, BUT if you were able to go higher, your strength would increase, drastically..... thats actually the gates for ya there, except for no human can disable the limit, and even if 1 could, you couldnt increase it in 10% each time

and for the whole chakra thing, i just think he didnt want to go for too much reference to dbz, so he altered it abit

[Death BOO Z]

You are welcomed to replace the word chackra with the word energy everytime you see it, I assure you that things will be very clear afterwards.
come on, I don't remember people bitching about DBZ's Ki for being diffrent from what they saw in ninja kid 2... Kishimoto needed a name to the power which fuels the blasting powers of his charecters, so he chose chackra, since it corresponds with body functions and therefore with martial artists (which is what naruto and the gang are, if you hadn't notice it) and it seemed appropiate.

Naruto isn't a story about ninja's history and philosophics, it's a story about kids hitting sense into eachother, don't expect anything more than it, just as you don't expect harry poteer or slayers (it's an anime as well, in case you don't know) to specify abou magic usage. in case you're still not satisfied, go over any fighting manga/anime you know and gather the terms used to describe their power and randomly replace them.
It'll still all make sense, wouldn't it?

anyway, I find it hard to believe that Kishimoto did a research in the subject, or that he even cares.