Naruto 341

[Death BOO Z]

damn,,, i was hoping that maybe, just maybe, Naruto was lying last chapter about this shurisengan being a melee attack, I said to myself "Man, he's just leading Kazuko to believe he has nothing to worry about, but then, he'll throw the shit on Kazuko and everything will be over",but no.

Other than the fight with Uber-Sasuke, I can't recall a single time the Rasengan hit something and didn't finish the battle, did this ever happen?
Naruto never had a power problem, Haku, Neji, Gaara (Kiba?) all went down from one fist, it just that it took 5 chapters to get to that fist. and as said before, this fight was a complete rip off from the fight with Neji, he should either start that way from the beginning or evolve his offence antother level... it's beeen about 4 power ups since he won a battle, at least Kishi should make it look good...

[elmojo]

i love the ending

AKATSUKI HAS FALLEN

very satisfying fight, i cant wait until this is transitioned into the anime in the year 2008

[Etown]

Could this manga possibly become any more predictable? Please... Bring back Shikamaru and make him the main character!

What would you prefer? for naruto to fly around like a helicopter with his new move and eventually crash into him blowing up half the planet? Yeah I bet you would...

[p0ltergeist]

What would you prefer? for naruto to fly around like a helicopter with his new move and eventually crash into him blowing up half the planet? Yeah I bet you would...

Friggen awesome. Why aren't you writing this manga?

[Uchiha Barles]

I was hoping for a more detailed one on one battle between Naruto and Kakuzu, which would have really demonstrated Naruto's development.
Instead, we got a simple distract-and-hit-with-the-I-win-jutsu fight which, in my opinion, cheapened the villainy of the Akatsuki.

Even when Naruto succeeds, he disappoints.

I guess there's something worth pointing out here. Until now, every major battle involving Naruto has been a huge battle with multiple exchanges. Every one of those fights lasted forever. This is the first fight where Naruto actually does something ideally: he wasted nothing. This fight was economical. The guy needed to be "killed three more times" ? Use a massive jutsu that'll kill him a hundred times, just to make sure (as contradictory as this may sound, its economical). Also, Naruto saw that the guy couldn't stop 4 of the clones, so why did he need to change his tactics? Naruto did however realize that the opponent realized that he needed to attack to real clone, so naruto used bunshin jutsu on his kage bunshins for an added layer of diversion. Its a simple plan, but it was enough. This was Naruto's most "professional" fight thus far. So I don't think this cheapens the villainy of the akatsuki guy, so much as it increases Naruto's status as a Ninja.

I will agree however, that it would be nice to see some new tricks. But I don't necessarily think that they need to be new techniques. For instance, I bet that Sasukes end all technique is a fire one. Naruto'll need water to counter it. It would be nice if he used a summon frog for that. Also, I really do think that Naruto's improved in a lot of the basics, so that his fighting is more streamlined and structured. But its hard to see in manga form. When the anime reaches this point, I doubt it'll be as boring as a lot of you are making it out to be.

[SK]

Good chapter, Naruto may actually be on Sasgay's level now.

[Assassin]

This fight wouldn't have been as disaopinting if he had used kakashi and the other jounin to create the distractions instead of using clones. Atleast that way we'd see some nice fight scenes and it wouldn't cheapen the move any. Plus it makes more sense strategically, and if naruto has really grown, he should realize that.

[Teki]

This fight wouldn't have been as disaopinting if he had used kakashi and the other jounin to create the distractions instead of using clones. Atleast that way we'd see some nice fight scenes and it wouldn't cheapen the move any. Plus it makes more sense strategically, and if naruto has really grown, he should realize that.

Remember when naruto first attacked and chouji wanted to back him up? yamato stopped him because chouji would get caught in the jutsu too. so if kakashi and yamato provided distractions, they would get caught in that big whirlwind thing the jutsu made.

it seems naruto himself got caught a bit too so it would make sense to use clones so they can just dissappear if they get hit instead of kakashi or yamato themselves.

and theres also that "please dont stop me from crossing the bridge" thing blah blah blah...

[ChaosK]

Am I the only one that's still wondering and kinda pissed at why the rasengan isn't a projectile-able technique? It's a fucking ball...THROW IT!

This time he has uber-huge shuriken ball...what do you do with shurikens? You don't run at the enemy and plunge it into him, you fucking throw it!

Naruto vs Sasuke

Sasuke: Chidori!
Naruto: throws the rasengan shuriken
game over!

[Elyne]

damn,,, i was hoping that maybe, just maybe, Naruto was lying last chapter about this shurisengan being a melee attack, I said to myself "Man, he's just leading Kazuko to believe he has nothing to worry about, but then, he'll throw the shit on Kazuko and everything will be over",but no.

Other than the fight with Uber-Sasuke, I can't recall a single time the Rasengan hit something and didn't finish the battle, did this ever happen?
Naruto never had a power problem, Haku, Neji, Gaara (Kiba?) all went down from one fist, it just that it took 5 chapters to get to that fist. and as said before, this fight was a complete rip off from the fight with Neji, he should either start that way from the beginning or evolve his offence antother level... it's beeen about 4 power ups since he won a battle, at least Kishi should make it look good...

Actually, the kiba fight was ended with a fart :&

[JaySee]

Let's not forget Sasuke's evolved chidori now covers his whole body. Naruto will have to throw it eventually.

[Sidnne]

Actually, the kiba fight was ended with a fart :&

No it didn't. It ended with a kick.

[elmojo]

well what would you guys expect? thats how naruto is, its not like he's going to stand there and calculate the radius of the area and then do aton of fancy calculations and then when it looks like he failed he somehow manages to win and explains every single little step to the reader/enemy

..its naruto , he's simple minded and he used kage the first time to gain experience on fighting, the second time it worked out (thats his character, he's not meant to be complex and dextrous)

[Sidnne]

well what would you guys expect? thats how naruto is, its not like he's going to stand there and calculate the radius of the area and then do aton of fancy calculations and then when it looks like he failed he somehow manages to win and explains every single little step to the reader/enemy

..its naruto , he's simple minded and he used kage the first time to gain experience on fighting, the second time it worked out (thats his character, he's not meant to be complex and dextrous)

Do you fault us for expecting a little more than that after Yamato stated that Naruto was a completely different person now?

[UChessmaster]

Do you fault us for expecting a little more than that after Yamato stated that Naruto was a completely different person now?

Well, when was the last time naruto used strategy since the begining of the fight?

[HyourinMaru-]

well, at least with the fight vs. kakuzu, naruto shows a more strategic move. first he uses the clones for diversion. let us not forget that the kage bunshin no jutsu was the first high level jutsu he learned. also remember that kakashi told him the real use of the kage bunshin... and so he learned a new jutsu within days time. and even yamato said that we are going to see a different naruto.. and for me.. yes.. we did saw a new naruto... first, not only that he goes to combat wasting chakra for all those clones he makes... with the fight vs. gaara, he used 1000 clones for his combo right. and now.. hes only using 4 clones to end a fight.. he even used clones in testing the skills of the opponent.. if only he faced the akatsuki with shikamaru (but with the rasen shuriken of course) we would probably see them having to fight one on one.. well thats my opinion only!

[toonice714]

Everyone seems to think that this "new" naruto has shown no development and that Yamato is talking out his ass, but its a lot more progress than the three years he spent with Jiraiya. When he came back from the training with Jiraiya all he had was the Oodama rasengan, the knowledge on how to break genjutsu, and better control of his kyubi's chakra. After his nature manipulation training he can do a myriad of things. He can manipulate the wind chakra, do a 50% complete rasengan, and utilize his clones better. When naruto split the waterfall and saw Asuma use his weapons with wind natured chakra, I’m sure naruto wont just let those tid-bits of clever tricks go unnoticed. He might end up throwing nature-manipulated kunai. Or adapt a fighting style like Lee where he puts nature manipulated chakra into his normal hits. Looong story short, I think this new naruto is actually a thousand times better and reminiscent of the clever naruto we used to like.

[elmojo]

thats true, i didnt notice but naruto apparently can control so much energy without loosing control of his kyuubi

[conquistaDan]

so after the fight, how many Akatsuki are left now?

[phil0253]

i'm not really sure they keep on adding new members to replace the ones that are killed