Originally posted by: hopeknight
Originally posted by: kenshi
hehe.... kishimoto is ecchi.... he is "collecting data"....
LOL
I'm hoping it isn't a long break fro info gathering, it makes me worried that he might be preparing a major change in the series like a time jump. He could have Naruto and Sasuke fight, Sasuke leaves and joins Orochimaru, and then they could do a small time jump (like a year or two).
My reasoning for this:
- This info gathering break could be to work on character designs (new outfits and stuff)
- He could be running out of flashbacks, therefore by placing them in the story after a year jump, he could do more flashbacks for each character and what happened to them in the last year to show their development (for instance, instead of possibly showing Sakura slowly training, they could just skip the process and give us a flashback showing us her motivation to train, and a small amount of her training).
-The plot is moving too fast (I mean in a very broad perspective), just look at all the character development and plot twists that happened within one story arc (I liked it, others were just to impatient, and just wanted to see action). Having Naruto just jump stright into another adventure would seem really weird, a normal person would need time to recuperate mentally from a life or death struggle with their close friend.
-By doing a time jump, he could develop a lot of surprises for the next arc to keep the readers hooked into the story.
I'm really curious to see just what Kishimoto is planning for the next arc