We will now discuss Naruto is a spoilery manner.

[Lithp]

Originally Posted by EVILNess

The Naruto/BLEACH relationship is pretty interesting. At least the way I see it, when one starts to get awesome the other starts to drag ass and not get anywhere.

I've been speculating that Kubo & Kishimoto have some kind of pattern, because they seem to alternate between when they reveal their big shit.

[EVILNess]

Maybe they are actually secret warring deities who thrive on the fan energies put out by their followers and then they build giant stages and then go to war and the winner gets the cooler comic for the month.

[Lithp]

You need many years of therapy. Many, many years of therapy.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by EVILNess

Maybe they are actually secret warring deities who thrive on the fan energies put out by their followers and then they build giant stages and then go to war and the winner gets the cooler comic for the month.

that in and of itself sounds like an awesome comic

[Steel Shadow]

Nah, Naruto's plot's just folding in on itself now. Which is nice, I don't have to think about it anymore. Naruto has become Super-Naruto.

Guy showing up was awesome. and then it got awesomer. That is all.

[batgirl]

For me it's come to the point that I've read it for so long that I feel like I may as well just hang on for the ride. I liked it better when the story featured more than just Naruto and how awesome Naruto is but how Naruto must overcome his Naruto stigma and become the greatest Naruto in the world. I mean, yeah the show is titled with his name and he is the main focal point, but jeez where's everyone else? Remember back in the day when we had actual character development? Remember Shino? Tenten? Neiji? Kiba? Naruto hasn't even addressed the whole Hinata confessing her love for him thing. It was just thrown aside in favor of more training and the new "Deathscythe Hell" Naruto.

[Grimpond]

Might Guy makes everything better. I really can't think of anything else to say on this matter

[Lithp]

Might Guy makes everything worse.

Fixed.

Honestly, I'm not so torn up about the other characters getting shafted. They were boring anyway.

[Tev]

Originally Posted by batgirl

Neiji?

Wait, there's no Neiji? But he's the reason I even bothered to watch Naruto a little bit in the first place. Well, I guess there's really no reason for me to read the manga to see what I've been missing then.

[Donomni]

Originally Posted by Art of Hilt

Although wait what Might Guy is actually being a character that shows up and does stuff again?
The whole series is one thing but Might Guy is another, and that other thing is the shit.

Best part is that there's a 300% chance Killer Bee is gonna fight with Guy.

MIGHT GUY

KILLER BEE

THEY ARE ON A TEAM

Originally Posted by Lithp

You ask me, this was character derailment. Madara had every reason to know that attack was coming. He only got hit because the plot demands that Minato is even MORE ridiculous.

He got hit because it has to at least be possible to fight Madara. Once Naruto stops teleporting himself into a wall, he'll be able to actually fight Madara instead of never landing a goddamn hit.

Another way Naruto's been making with the sucking lately. The Akatsukis' plan is...retarded. Seriously, what the Hell has Kisame been waiting for? His mission was to capture the 8-Tails. He's had him alone many times now, including a time on the high seas, when no one else would have been able to interrupt them. This chapter also confirms that the switch occurred in the bubble, which means that Kisame would have won that fight.

So...Kisame deliberately threw a fight he was WINNING, to wait for who the Hell knows what, only to have his cover blown, & now he's getting his ass handed to him.

Now, maybe it's just me, but aren't Naruto and Bee on a secret island? You know, to hide out? Madara likely wanted Kisame to find where it is so when Sasuke has his new super-dee-duper-eyes they can just pop in and wham, bam, thank you, ma'am, and they have the last two tailed beasts.

Granted, if this is found to be total bunk, then yeah that is pretty nonsensical.

Killer Bee is cool, mostly for making Sasuke & Madara look like the morons they are for a change. But other than that, I tend to think that Pain took what was left of the plot with him when he died. Maybe Orochimaru will eventually come back & resurrect the story with him, but I'm doubting that increasingly.

Well, in regards to Orochimaru, Kabuto has basically taken up his work, but I wouldn't be surprised if later on Orochimaru takes over Kabuto's body and yeah that would be effing sweet huh?

Originally Posted by Sithdarth

General God Mode Naruto comments

I won't refute these, because they are totally true, but as Lithp said Naruto's dealing with some of the most broken villians ever in the manga.

Also, Kabuto is involved now, and he's shown Orochimaru's Make-Dead-Guys-Uber-Zombie-Slaves-Jutsu to Madara, with one of said Uber Zombies(although unseen) freaking the shit out of him.

That, and Madara still has 7 of the Tailed Beasts sealed. It's unlikely he can't utilize all that chakra.

Originally Posted by Premmy

Anyway, Might Guy? any rock-lee? might be coolsies

No Rock Lee, sadly. Mostly a result of the SEKRET ISLAND thing, meant to keep Naruto and Killer Bee safe.

Originally Posted by EVILNess

The Naruto/BLEACH relationship is pretty interesting. At least the way I see it, when one starts to get awesome the other starts to drag ass and not get anywhere.

I think they have a general spoken rule that they can't have LOLAizen and LOLSasuke at the same time, due to the fact such insanity would cause a case of the dead-authors-by-fans-syndrome.

Also, someone's been playing Brütal Legend.

Originally Posted by batgirl

Naruto hasn't even addressed the whole Hinata confessing her love for him thing.

AHHHHHHHH don't get me started on that bullshit. It's been, like, a fucking year. And even now Naruto didn't comment on his mom's advice for romance. On the one hand, it's shonen so I don't expect much, but on the other hand it's keyboard smashy-rage-time.

Originally Posted by Tev

Wait, there's no Neiji? But he's the reason I even bothered to watch Naruto a little bit in the first place. Well, I guess there's really no reason for me to read the manga to see what I've been missing then.

Neji has been outta focus for awhile... I think since the Gaara arc at the start of Shippuden/Part 2. It's kinda sad: In Naruto, main characters are in the focus, but in Bleach it's the exact opposite.