Naruto Chapter 382

[DB_Hunter]

Somewhere in Lord of the Rings?

[Abdula]

No it has nothing to do with Naruto. It must have been in another manga I've read or anime I've watched, I can't be sure of which because its really vague. It wasn't Lord of the Rings either. Its not really important anyway I just wanted to know where I've seen it before. If someone finds out then PM me.

[Death BOO Z]

What is it with you and always wanting to see someone die. Frankly I don't expect to see very many "death" scenes in Naruto or perhaps I didn't before the time skip they seem to be happening fairly often now yet you don't seem to be satisfied. Anyway one thing you can be sure of is that there will be more

well, as for my 'need' to see charecters dying, it gives the 'edge of the sit' feeling, if someone could die any moment, you can never tell what will happen next.
example: if we happen to see a Sakura fighting against someone, we can be 100% sure that she'll win or make the enemy withdraw. therefore, we know the enemy will lose and not bother us again.
if a charecter (who isn't old and futureless like the 3rd, Chiyo and Jiraya) can die any minute, the battle outcome isn't so clear, which makes for a better reading.

for example, Bleach. if we see Hitsugaya fighting someone, we know that he won't die. and since hitsugaya's fight suck in a 'battle-sense' way, the four chapters of watching his fight are wasted, since we know the outcome, and we don't enjoy the fight.

another example: Gantz - SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



When I began to read Gantz, I thought to myself "another shonen series, just with gory guns and boobs, I don't need to read it all right now". I imagined the Kei, Kishimoto and Masaru will live on for the entire series, and become somewhat annoying tresome of idiots.
but in the 7th volume, 2 of the main charecters were killed, and all rules have been broke, the entire series became a roller coster of twists, and you can never tell wheather the new charecer will live to fight again or die in the first alien encounter. the tension is high, and so is the enjoyment.



END SPOILERS....


out of all the dead Charecters, only Asuma died in his prime.
the 3rd was as old as ObiwanKanobi, and he filled the same purpose, nobody cared enough for chiyo to care when she died (and even when she did kick the bucket, she did so from her own will, like some magical fairy), and Jiraya had more foreshadowing to his death than the next batman flick.
it wasn't suprising, it cheapens the "fight to the death" battles, and it makes the entire "behold my awsome sound-nin/akatsuki power" thing stupid. if a villian can't even take out one genin, what good is he? how am I supposed to be impressed by Kimimaru if he couldn't even take out Rock Lee? and Rock Lee was crippled, for crying out loud.
same with Sasori, all the fancy shmancy puppets, and he can't even validate the kill of Kankaru? 3 days for a posion to take effect? no lasting damage? what kind of fighting posion is it? it's like having a super move that takes out the rival charecters in 90 sec while playing a 60 sec long rounds. completly pointless.
if Kishi would have killed more of the guys in Naruto, I could honestly say that I'm waiting to see the fight against Tobi in the following chapters. but since we know that Tobi won't die this fight, and that no one will get killed. the battle is almost meanningless, if not for tobi's plot related comments and speculations about his abilites.

Naruto in Hermit mode will be awsome. maybe Jiraya thought that Naruto will need a power up, and he didn't want Naruto ro rely on Kyuubi for a first option. but probably not, since the Hermit mode seems like a big step into the summonning domain, and Naruto probably never practiced summonning during the timejump, and it doesn't seem his style.

Also, Gamabunta could never beat Payne, GamaKen was a better warrior than him and he couldn't compare to payne's summons.