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redbrunja ([personal profile] redbrunja) wrote2008-11-28 02:55 pm
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Now You're Playing For The Team, Everyone Loves To Love A Winner

You know, I actually really enjoyed this chapter.

The longer Kishimoto drags out this whole Kakashi maybe-dying thing, the more I think he's going to live.

Was it just me, or did those things that Pain dragged out of those two chuunin's mouths look incredibly phallic and porny?

I like Eibsu's (sic?) dramatic entry.

I can't figure out what the animals are, but I think Shizune's and Ino!Daddy's summons are badass.

Also, I totally missed it until someone point it out, but Ino and her father are communicating telepathically.

Now I want to write some adorable fic with five times Inoichi mind-speaks Ino while she's doing something she doesn't want him to know about.
 
Wow, the Naruto part of this chapter is incredibly repetitive and boring and tells us something we're only heard about FIFTY BILLION TIMES BEFORE LIKE, OMG, THE NINJA WAY IS TO NEVER GIVE UP REALLY I NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!

I liked the section showing the village's changed opinion of him, partially because it was so clear to me that they love him because of what he did, and that if he stopped pulling off awesome impossibly things, they'd think he was an obscenity again. (Which is why he needs to end up with Sakura or Hinata, if anyone, because both of those girls started respecting him back when no one else did, and also why Iruka was so very awesome /random tangent)

I'm praying SO hard Konohamaru dies. Or at least is horribly maimed because if he even holds his own again the people who took down Jiraiya, beat the hell out of Kakashi, and killed Chouji's dad, I'm going to spit.

[identity profile] nimblnymph.livejournal.com 2008-11-29 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Other than throwing Konoha into mass chaos as all their leadership figures are killed. But again... that's what's called brilliant storylining, and I don't see Kishimoto really doing that. No offense or anything, but the concept of a leaderless society and such would be too much for the kiddies to fully comprehend, I think. Plus, it would be overall too dark a theme for Naruto... though it could REALLY use a good punch of darkness to it once in a while.

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2008-11-29 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
*nods*

Yeah, the structured society of Naruto is WAY too intergral for Kishimoto to kill off his leaders. I can think of one arc where it is basically the Rookie Nine dealing with life alone (Sasuke-in-a-barrel-arc and every other time there has been at least one authority figure around).

It's not like Avatar or even FMA where the young protagonists are shown dealing with things sans parental intervention.