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Naruto Friday! : Manga Ch. 473 & Shippuuden Ep. 137

Reverend Zombie — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:26:47 +0000

Naruto, Chapter 473

WOW. Kishimoto wasn’t playing this week. Killer Bee and Kisame have been tussling for weeks, and today put an end to the madness.

Kisame was pushed into quite a corner last week, with Samehada, his key to invincibility, switching sides and leaguing up with Bee. This chapter opens with Kisame holding one of Bee’s blades, and preparing to take out the fallen rapper. Too bad it wasn’t gonna work out this way.

One of my favorite aspects about manga/anime is seeing the rawest people participating in battles together. We’ve already witnessed the pure power of the Raikage during the Kage/Sasuke battle, and because of his strength, he quickly climbed my list of the most exciting characters. When he showed up during this fight to help Bee … I got hype. As if seeing Killer Bee and the Raikage on the same page isn’t exciting enough, they took it to the next level as soon as the Raikage showed up. The mighty Hoshigaki Kisame, wielder of Samehada, and called the “Monster of the Hidden Mist”, was defeated in mere seconds by a double-team attack, courtesy of the Kumogakure brothers. I literally almost dropped my coffee on my computer. CRAZY.

The rest of the chapter was pretty much a wrap-up: the Hokage’s switch-a-roo technique was concluded, Suigetsu and Juugo were inconveniently discovered as/by samurai in the Land of Iron; and Sai is going to tell Naruto the full truth of what Sakura was trying to get across a few issues ago. Overall good week — pour one out for Kisame cuz that dude is GONE!

C’mon next week!!

^Favorite Moment: Not even a question — when Killer Bee and the Raikage double-dragoned Kisame and promptly took this dude’s head off. Probably one of my all-time favorite Naruto moments, actually — glad to see such a jerk go the great sharkbowl in the sky! Peace out!!!

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Naruto Shippuuden, Episode 137

Another great episode in the pivotal fight between Sasuke and Itachi. Last week left us with an image of Sasuke’s eye being torn out by Itachi, and that’s exactly what it turned to be — an image.

The entire conflict was another genjutsu by Itachi to show Sasuke his death … the thing is, though, this wasn’t just any genjutsu — Itachi broke out the Tsukuyomi for this. Amazingly, Sasuke broke out of this — the most powerful genjutsu in Naruto — with only his regular Sharingan against Itachi’s Mangekyo. As Sasuke stands, (both eyes intact and in his head) genjutsu is rendered irrelevant, and a straight ninjutsu battle ensues. Sasuke has the upper hand, partially due to Itachi’s shock at having his most powerful illusion rendered useless, and partially because Itachi is actually going blind. After a brief stand-off, Sasuke blows the ceiling off the place (literally), and the brothers find themselves on the roof, face to face.

Looking at each other, they both unleash the basic (but still powerful) attack of the Uchiha clan, the Great Fireball technique. Flame to flame, the clash reaches a standstill … until Itachi reveals the next secret of his Mangekyo Sharingan — the almighty black flame, Amaterasu. I don’t even want to get started on explaining the raw power of this technique. The black flames burn through Sasuke’s fireball, and eventually succeed in burning him to a crisp — or so we think. Sasuke has another trick up his sleeve, and uses Orochimaru’s patented body regeneration technique to save himself from a fiery death.

As the episode ends, Sasuke unleashes a mighty flame attack into the air, and the brothers stare each other, out of chakra, waiting for each to make the next move — which Sasuke seems confident will work out to his favor, of course.

A very good episode and great animation — looks like the Naruto creators finally got the message. C’mon next week!!

Favorite Moment: Right after the Tsukuyomi is broken, Sasuke goes into ninja-mode and unleashes a Shadow Shuriken technique on his older brother. Itachi dodges it, but is tricked, as the shuriken is rigged, and at the tug of a wire by Sasuke it explodes shrapnel-style and pierces Itachi square in his leg — and this wasn’t an illusion. Trickery at its finest!

じゃあまた!

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Oh, and since I cheated ya’ll out of neglected to put up a Girls, Girls, Girls post yesterday (it was Thanksgiving, give me a break), here’s a young lady to enjoy. Go ahead and start Googling (is that a word…?)!

Marlene Favela

Indeed.

_Reverend Zombie 14.09

Humanzee … is that you?

WAMI - Juugo

raikun07 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:40:03 +0000

Juugo

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Naruto 459 RAW Prediction

Donuts — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:20:04 +0000

Naruto 459 will release on Saturday, Aug 07, 2009. For now, here is a RAW prediction on what likely would appear on the next chapter… Since Sai has currently told Sakura that Naruto is in love with her and Danzo is chosen as the leader of the alliance it seems like the next chapter might determine everything.

-The other Kages will argue more on why Danzo is chosen as the alliance leader. Possibly Raikage, Mizukage and the Kazekage will be on Danzo’s side while the rude Tsuchikage is complaining on why he isn’t the leader.

-Sakura tells Sai that she is also in love with Naruto and wants to stop Naruto before it is too late. Sakura brings along Sai and maybe Shizune if Tsunade is out of her coma. (Maybe not possible.)

-Sasuke starts moving closer to the 5 kages while Half Zetsu, Suigetsu, Karin and Juugo are taking in as back-up. Zetsu secretly tells a lie to the others to make Karin, Juugo and Suigetsu feel pissed off at Sasuke and leave the platoon.

-Naruto, Kakashi and Yamato head back to the village as Naruto thinks of a better way to convince and go back and disturbs the meeting.

The Chapter ends.