Naruto Chapter 482

[Uchiha Barles]

You know what? I'm now more interested in seeing how badly this can fuck up than I am in seeing how little of it will be redeemed. Next chapter, Sakura saves Karin, some stupid discussion between Sasuke and Sakura happens, though he may actually try to kill her. Both Kakashi and Naruto show up just in time to make Sasuke raise an eyebrow before delivering a fatal blow to Sakura.

Or, Naruto and Kakashi show up just in time to make Sasuke raise an eyebrow and Sakura go "oh fuck" preventing them from leaving together.

Why am I still following this doodoo?

[poopdeville]

Actually, I think Juugo is older than Sasuke. I forgot where they hinted at it, but I am pretty sure he is an adult.

Juugo was at least a few years older than Kimimaru, who was like 16 when Sasuke split the village. Now, three years later, Juugo has to be (13-14) (for Sasuke's age when he left) + 3 (for time jump) + 3 (for Kimimaru) + some (for just being older than Kimimaru). So he's at least 19-20, and probably older.

[February]

I try not to join bandwagons but this is the last straw..I can't fking stand Sakura anymore. She decides to ditch Konoha for Sasuke? Wow talk about lame

As we saw Sasuke / Naruto live up to Jiraiya / Oro's standards, Sakura doesn't have jack on Tsunade (Plus Tsunade has a big rack)

[poopdeville]

Tsunade tried to help Konoha by betraying Orochimaru, when his arms were messed up. Sakura might still live up to that.

[Assertn]

I'm going to jump on the "Sakura saves Karin" bandwagon on this one...

[Rikudo]

Sakura would die before Karin does. That would be awesome.

On a serious note Sakura can't be serious about aligning with Sasuke. She witness the destruction of Konoha and how much suffering Sasuke brought to Naruto and the others. She's on a suicide mode.

[Windwalker]

I bet naruto gets there as sakura leaves, and saves karin. Then karin takes sakura place in this weird try to get sasuke back but settles for naruto triangle of emo love. Stupid chapter I now hate sakura even more than I did, and I thought that was not even possible.

[Sam98034]

Well, seeing how Naruto didn't fall for Sakura's fake love connection, what makes her think Sasuke is going to fall for this? This is gonna be a fail. She reminds me of fox-head guy in bleach.

[FelixZeroAlastor]

I'm going to jump on the "Sakura saves Karin" bandwagon on this one...

I agree. Sakura is too nice and naive not to save her. Knowing Naruto, he will show up right as they are leaving only to have his heart and hopes crushed even more.

[Spaceaprion]

Well, Sakura did say she would leave the village and her family and friends for Sasuke before he left. Technically She doesn't know he is going after the village yet. Maybe once she hears his reasoning, she'll be on board. I'm starting to like Sakura again, I hope she is serious about this.

[Psyke]

Just when you think you couldn't hate Sakura more.....

But I'm liking the short Karin flashback. Nice.

[insane]

i really want sakura to die this time because of what she said... but im hoping thats a plan to get sakuke offguard for her to attack him.

[redcat]

maybe sasuke will ask sakura to kill naruto to prove herself. all she has to do is punch him in the back of the head as hard as she can and pop it like a watermelon while hes not expecting anything. then we can call the series sasuke. which is the only ninja out of the original nine who has the balls to cause violence instead of stop it. then sakura can save karin which leads to a 10 chapter threesome between sasuke, sakura, and karin. then the uchiha clan is considered revived and the series comes to an end. man im good.

[RyougaZell]

When did Karin's flashback take place anyway?

[rockmanj]

When did Karin's flashback take place anyway?

During the Chunin exams, in the forest of death.

[Archangel]

I call bad writing on this one.

For one, i'm sure that if we go back and check the teams that made it to the forest of death part of the exam we won't see Karin anywhere, and secondly this line makes it sound like he just came up with the move on the spot

Also, does anyone remember when lee was still awesome?

[Uchiha Barles]

You know what the problem is? The argument can be made that we didn't get to see every little thing that happened during the forest of death portion of the test. I have zero interest in going back and seeing if there was any wiggle room for that karin flashback scene to occur, but it's not beyond reason to assume it's possible if you choose not to check. So, assuming we did not see every little thing that happened in the forest of death part of the chuunin exam, it's possible that Sasuke had opportunity to test out Lee's move, which goes a long way to explain why he could pull it off so effectively during the preliminaries.

[Assertn]

I don't really care about Sasuke doing a lion combo in the forest, but that giant fuckin bear seemed like less of a threat for Sasuke than the regular sized tigers that surrounded Anko during that same time.

[Death BOO Z]

You know what the problem is? The argument can be made that we didn't get to see every little thing that happened during the forest of death portion of the test. I have zero interest in going back and seeing if there was any wiggle room for that karin flashback scene to occur, but it's not beyond reason to assume it's possible if you choose not to check. So, assuming we did not see every little thing that happened in the forest of death part of the chuunin exam, it's possible that Sasuke had opportunity to test out Lee's move, which goes a long way to explain why he could pull it off so effectively during the preliminaries.

that's not the problem.
it's just jarring, that we've seen Karin for about two years now (or something?) and we never even heard about something to suggest this connection between them.

it's like we get to see some 3rd rate ninja of Konoha dying, and then in his flashback he'll suddenly turn out to be Kakashi's best friend. or Naruto's other father figure.

expecting Karin to match to one of the contenders in the chunin exam is far above what I expect from Kishimonto (it's not like he's god, or Oda). but come on, this is the first time we hear about Karin's past, and suddenly there's a connection between them?

[Assertn]

It would be a miracle to expect that much forethought from Kishimoto.

Hell, if you read the first chapters of the manga, you won't even see the Kiba or Shikamaru's team among Naruto's classmates like you do in the anime. They were basically last-minute additions.