Thread 281362127

Should we apologize to the Tsunade Arc after all?

>>281361821
Tenten is a nothing character so I can understand that, but I always found it weird that we never get to see Lee's parents or what they think about their untalented son wanting to take part in a career where even the talented ones have a high mortality rate. It's possible that they died during the nine tails attack, but that's never specified.
Either that or Lee is the only Uchiha left alive besides Sasuke whose parents got killed during the massacre, but GODtachi sparred him knowing that Danzo would let him get away with not killing a talentless failure like Lee.

I always liked the Tsunade Search
Love the Sannin
Love kaiju shit
Love Naruto/Jiraiya, traveling to unarmed ninja towns
Good de-escalation after Hiruzen's death

Tsunade is hot

>>281362127 (OP)
I am in fact sorry, TR arc. I was not aware of what real flashback fatigue was like until now.

There's multiple instances of people calling out Tsunade for making a retarded decision by sending genins, so I assume Kishi must've gotten letters complaining about it and he had to address it in the manga.

>>281363213
I said it last thread, but genuinely what mission could be more important the aiding the village jinchuriki and stopping Orochimaru from getting the Sharingan? This is literally the fucking guy who killed your previous leader and put you in this predicament in the first place.

>>281361934
*sniffffffff*

>>281363252
Tacit acknowledgement might be even worse writing than the original plothole. Was the story written week to week with no real planning?

I still don't like the whole child-soldiers culture

>>281363402
Probably? Like we know for a fact Kishi invented Sasuke strictly because Naruto needed a rival and he didn't want the manga to be axed.

>>281363252
Apparently he was supposed to do an S-rank mission that day, aka something akin to rescuing Gaara in part 2. It makes you wonder if there were any dire consequences for Kakashi going after the Naruto and Sasuke instead of doing that mission.
Though, I wonder, did he just return from another mission in this scene? Or was he literally doing nothing until he barges in Tsunade's office?

>>281363463
The wear and tear on his uniform from this and the previous pages means he just got back and is immediately being sent back out, which frankly is just fucking absurd.
>spoiler
Remember that Shikarmaru and Asuma's mission on Hidan and Kakuzu was a fucking A-Rank job.

Reminder that Konoha Crush itself was only an A+ mission according to Baki

>>281363796
Wasn't that specifically just the Sand Siblings part of it?

uhhh what kind of bruce wayne is this????

I'm curious
Was there any new reader on Naruto daily thread?
I mean, it's Naruto, right?
People on /a/ must have read it despite everyone shitting on them

>>281364055
>People on /a/ must have read it despite everyone shitting on them
If I've learned anything about 4chinzs on my 11 years of being here it's that people will freely shit on stuff they only know through pure secondhand (or worse)

>>281364081
aaaaand

SEX

>>281364027
Why is Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force in Naruto?

>>281364055
We had a much bigger Daily Naruto Thread back in 2020 that's when everyone read Naruto on /a/. Shit was funny as hell.

>We'll never have another Story time like the 2020 Naruto Storytime.

I'm gonna go dig up memes from it that shit was hilarious.

>>281364304
>all the constant "we are leaving"
peak stuff

>>281363213
IZUMO AND KOTETSU WERE STILL ON THE VILLAGE AND YOU DIDN'T SEND THEM!

>>281364367
dumb and dumber would get one-shot by sakon

>>281364109
thought this movie-wannabe filler would bore me
these kids are legit tearing me apart
https://files.catbox.moe/5thfkk.mp4

it gave me vietnam trauma flashbacks from
https://youtu.be/B0zkF4ZBeAs

>>281364360
>>281364413
>https://desuarchive.org/a/search/subject/Naruto%20Storytime%20Volume/page/10/

Here is the start of the archive shit already has me dying.

>>281364387
They blitzed Kakuzu in the war.
>>281364304
Don't mock dad bodi Kakashi.

>>281364504
>the war
nothing anyone does here matters

>>281363252
Nothing. The kekkei genkai of one of the founding clans of Konoha is obviously of utmost importance, even more so now that there is only one surviving heir. Letting an enemy take a body that has a kekkei genkai is bad enough, but it's the worst when said enemy just fucking assassinated not only your previous leader, but the leader of another main village.
By all accounts, this is priority number one, and the only reason jounins weren't sent on this is because Tsunade is fucking inept. There's no fucking way there are suddenly so many A/S-rank missions that nearly every jounin is missing from the village.

>>281364532
Worse having all Jonin missing from the village on missions would leave said village SUPER FUCKING EXPOSED to outside threats like say the Cloud Chads who for some reason didn't shit stomp the Leaf again.

Why didn't Shizune and the other guy along side her helped?

I like to headcanon that Tsunade's senju blood was acting up and she genuinely wanted Sasuke to be taken.

>>281362127 (OP)
I'm sorry, i'm really sorry.

>>281364744
The spirit of her granduncle possessed her.

I just finished rewatching the Kakashi's mask filler episode and I forgot how surreal the whole thing actually feels, even the way that the characters animate often feels like I'm having a fever dream

Zabuza's arc is still the best.

>>281364810
Not enough since she didn't order Sasuke to be killed.

>>281364952
Channeling Hiruzen's apathy towards child safety. Don't need to say it out loud if the end result is the same.

>>281364952
She was the shame of the Sanin. Orochimaru and Jiraiya constantly endangered the lives of children!

>>281364616
Guess the Cloud didn't know Konoha was in a tight spot, because this is the perfect time to try to steal the Byakugan again.

>>281364901
Eh, not really. The Inari bit is too cheesy. The first part of the chunin exams was fucking perfect

>>281365114
Not at all.

>>281365142
explain

>>281365171
Is this during the part 1 VotE fight?

>>281363252
I don't care about the Sharigan because even if Orochimaru succeeds, he still will have to beg Tsunade to cure his blindness from abusing the Sharigan. Just like how Sasuke has to beg Sakura to cure his blindness. The final arc had Madara stealing Kakashi's eyes cause he sucks at medicine.

>>281365268
>Just like how Sasuke has to beg Sakura to cure his blindness.
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>281363213
What is Kakashi thinking right here?

>>281363402
>Was the story written week to week with no real planning?
Yes, that is correct.

>>281365355
>why did we put a woman in charge

>>281363463
You really got me wondering what Kakashis mission possibly could be. Perhaps quelling a brewing rebellion with serious threats?

>>281365204
No it was during the Chuunin exam.

>>281365355
>God fucking damn it Jiraiya

>>281365303
Kisame don't want those ocular powers and thinks Uchihas are messed up. Without healthcare or charity, the Uchihas would have gone blind or gaslit by Zetsu into becoming muscle. I find Neji's schizophrenia far more fun.

Sasukebros... why is our boy looking shook...

>>281365516
>bro is 100% natty!
>fuck, i need to take roids now

>>281365516
>>281365557
He's already on roids and can't do shit.

>>281362127 (OP)
Always been one of my more enjoyable arcs, the only major weakspot was the backstory flashback. Necessary exposition regardless. Good mix of everything-worldbuilding, adventure, shenanigans, etc. But the fags complaining have no leg to stand on in the final Part 1 flashback excuse of a """fight"""

>>281365688
based

>>281364532
I am a millennial and Tsunade is liked more for letting Naruto does as he pleases and gave him a five to ten man unit to find Sasuke. Her only competition are Danzo who doesn't possess an imagination, the third's teammates who just go hardline.

>>281363463
It's hard to rationalize the numbers (population of ninja mainly) in Naruto to begin with, but especially when Kishimoto tries to upsell how many Konoha ninja died and how much high danger work there is to go around, while also occasionally spinning lines on the economy getting hard for ninja like in the sand. He really never did enough world building to justify any of this.

>>281365738
The issue is the anime does a fuck ton of heavy lifting to fix how bad she is in the manga.Manga. Same with Hiruzen and the Leaf as a whole.

>>281365749
Some fics try to justify it in other ways. Like konoha took a huge reputation hit and had to send out its big names for them to look good again. Anbu are on overdrive because the other villages are starting to see them as weak. That would've been better than somehow losing a huge chunk of your forces in a half-assed attack.

>>281362127 (OP)
Reminder that Tsunade conically gave birth to Naruto's children offscreen

>>281365807
Manga Tsunade was turned on by Naruto's ambition. He acted like a military cadet who's going to be leader. She doesn't trust adults cause they're all bitter and jaded burnouts

>>281365873
>>281365892
your /ss/ fetish doesn't belong here, boy

>>281365807
I will defend Tsunade. The Anbu and Leaf lost to the sound four without becoming flesh eating ogres. One of the ran into the barrier

>>281365928
The adults in Naruto are jaded burnouts while Anko and Gai cares for their job.

>>281364003
>>281364027
>>281364062
>>281364081
>>281364109
done, finished the "Chikara" filler arc
FUCKING. AMAZING.
BEST FILLER EVER
i dont know, i never watched a single naruto movie before, maybe that's the bar naruto movies have?
the stakes felt high. they showed Kurama as a legit creepy, dark evil force inside naruto, like a demon, like the fucking Devil

which leads me to ask, because I'm in the 4th shinobi arc. previous episodes, when Naruto trained with Killer Bee to taint Kurama, he FOUGHT and DEFEATED Kurama, and he did it rather easily - tell me, TELL ME that weak ass kurama wasn't at his real power at all, TELL ME. because if I understood this filler right, it's about Kabuto copying/creating a nine-tailed beast clone, and he is fucking scary and strong. the amount of destruction is huge. and Kurama just laughs and taunts Naruto to give him a little of his power to beat that monster. apparenty that's nothing to Kurama - but he showed nothing even remotely close to this when naruto defeated him!

>>281366031
it was a fight all in the mind sooooo

>>281363252
Maybe Tsunade just assumed that the kids would never even catch up to the sound 4 but they could at least get some reconnaissance done.

You know what I always thought about? What would be the most 'effective' Lee. We've seen taijutsu Lee, what would the Rock Lee version of a genjutsu specialist look like? Just Itachi without his taijutsu/ninjutsu? Ninjutsu is the most broad of the three, hard to say for that one. What would an eight gates equivalent genjutsu even look like.

>>281366223
>Lee secretly has 2 cousins, both of which have the same face as him and can only use ninjutsu and genjutsu respectively and they each have a sensei that looks exactly like Gai
Would make for a funny filler.

>>281366223
>>281366372
LEES
LEES EVERYWHERE

>>281363252
Tsunade not having might guy help with the operation was a huge plot fuckup since he was at the village not doing anything important. In fact why didn't he chase after lee? He knew lee wasn't in top shape and he left literally moments ago so catching up to him wouldn't be difficult.

>>281363528
Kakashi is just that goated

>>281363463
The "important missions" the jonin were busy with never getting mentioned and being of no importance was a big miss by Kishimoto. They could've at least been brought up in early Part 2 to give context of what was going on with the world and what the plot would be.

>>281365967
There are other ninjas outside of the anbu.

>>281366031
I think the Chikara arc was supposed to be a movie, but they chopped it into episodes.

>>281366909
That's basically it.

>>281365355
>I think I understand Shikamaru now

>>281365999
>guy
>burnout
GTFO here with your lies.
Guy NEVER burned out even when his body did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPL-x5VYOR0

>>281367260
>reading comprehension

>>281362127 (OP)
Was Sakura stronger than her at the end of the last arc?

>>281367303
Yes

REAL

>>281362127 (OP)
All of the Uchiha being wiped out always seemed far-fetched. So EVERYONE but Sasuke was in the village that night? NO ONE was out later than normal? There's NO OTHER uchia living outside the village? NO illegal aliens in another Village?

>>281368099
The Uchiha were loyal.

>>281368099
>coolest guy.mp4

>>281368134
Loyal to their bedtime.

>>281362127 (OP)
I'm a heterosexual male and not a closeted incel, so I don't care, I got a BIG pair of BOOBA on screen, so I don't care about logic or that gay shit.
>But muh mission
>But muh sending kids
>But muh Sasuke
Don't care, didn't ask. Big BOOBA simple as.

>>281368099
14 year old Obito could wipe out the entire Konoha village like this.
- maybe Guy or Hiruzen.

>>281368157
But that was one of the few good things he did.

How come Kakashi gets the cool ninken summon? Why don't the Inuzuka clan have any?

>>281368362
Because he’s just that good. No he won’t teach his students how to summon, his teacher didn’t teach him so why should he?

>>281368362
The Inuzuka probably considered it redundant since they have their own dogs.

>>281363252
Hell, Tsud should run after them herself and have Shizune or a second manage admin for a bit.

>people lusting after naruto
swear to god i have a pavlovian conditioning or something because i cannot even fathom that guy being anywhere near hot

>>281363252
An easy fix for this arc among other things, would be for the Genin to go after Sasuke in secret. Nobody from Konoha should know that Sasuke left in the middle of the night. When Naruto learns from Sakura what happened, he would want to save Sasuke without the village knowing, in fear of the consequences for him.

>>281362127 (OP)
>another naruto thread to filter

>>281369201
>he's so bad at filtering that a naruto thread about naruto, with naruto in the title, got through
You can just admit you like the series anon, everyone has a guilty pleasure

Her plan wasn’t bad, she literally asked for sand ninja reinforcements anyways that were able to dispatch two of the sound 4. She also has good faith in Naruto. From her perspective, she saw a ninja that took out Orochimaru’s right hand man in a fight with rasengan. To reiterate, the reinforcements were the future sand kage and his jonin level sister and future bodyguard kankuro. It took cancer kage kimimaro and multiple level boosts from Sasuke for the mission to not succeed. You can call it half ass from tsunade but it was actually working until Boneman entered and Naruto decided to give Sasuke a win for once. Sauce is actually lucky the leaf ninja went and pursued him. They took off enough time for Orochimaru to body snatch someone else.

The dumbest ninja in this arc is easily the one who isn’t present, which is Itachi. Then it’s Sasuke, then it’s Sakon for dying so comically. Tsunade a cute.

>>281369483
"Tee-hee it worked out in the end, which means the plan was good!"
no
The genin would be dead before the sand arrived if the sound 4 didn’t break formation. Or if simply Jirobo and Sakon didn’t fuck around. Orochimaru and Kabuto could have been there as well if they weren’t lazy bums.

>>281369729
Orochimaru was dying and Kabuto was keeping him alive. Not that Tsunade could've safely guessed that.

>>281369122
It'd be ooc for Shikamaru and Neji to act this stupid.

I FUCKING LOVE CHILD SOLDIERS

Shippuden's filler me made me cringe so hard I literally swore off anime for 10 years

I am not kidding here. It took watching AKIRA to bring me back into the fold.

Should I read the manga?

>>281370134
What specific filler turned you off?

>>281370134
Shippuden filler is better than the main plot.

>>281370095
Nah, Neji would follow Naruto into hell itself after the chunin exam.

>>281370153
something about naruto gettings told seeds dont get digested and screaming WOAH SO YOU SHIT THEM OUT!?

I was already feeling severely uncomfortable with the emotional stuff either getting ridiculously slapsticked away or getting super overacted. That was the final straw

>>281362127 (OP)
I MUST breed tsunade.

I think it would have been a LOT cooler if instead of the sand trio coming to save the day it was:
>Ino saving Shikamaru
>Hinata saving Kiba
>Tenten saving Lee
It would be a great opportunity for them to show that indeed they are just as strong if not stronger than the boys.

>>281370344
The Sound 4 (5) would turn them into a light red mist, though.

>>281368099
Even though the Uzumaki were wiped out there were still a few here and there.
Wish we got the same with the Uchiha
>besides Obito obv

>>281370344
>Tenten saving Lee
Even jonin Tenten couldn't beat sick Kimimaro.

>>281370363
No, nuh uh.

>>281370344
>konoha girls
They're only good for OP and ED animations.

Should we apologize to Orochimaru after all? He would've been the hero and savior of the ninja world if Jiraiya wasn't dumb enough to stop him.

>>281370464
Apologize for what? Nobody in the setting even thinks he's wrong.

>>281370464
their best friends btw

>>281363213
funnily enough that mission was of such an importance that Tsunade going after him wouldn't be something one couldn't justify and they still sent genins. literally anyone would do but no, genins.

>>281370954
If the mission was so impotent, she could have gone herself. She would have been done by evening.

>>281368099
>illegal aliens

>>281365171
>true
>true
>false
>hard to say, not as bad as people make her out to be, still really bad, but at least better than Sasuke
>it could have progressed in various way, it did badly
>he was in the sense that people are born for success or gmgailure, he was wrong in believing what he sees was all there was in a person
>false

>>281370464
Imagine being killed by a woman who looks like this? I think I'd be content

>>281370464
There is a reason Orchimaru was the 3rd Hokage's favorite.

Will there be a Part 2 storytime?

There's supposed to be, it's just a matter of whether it can sustain itself all the way through

I see.

>>281372228
We'll be fine until the War Arc. There's definitely lulls before then but nothing *that* bad until the war.

Which part of the war. I enjoyed the first three arcs of the war. The Ten Tails arc is when shit went south for me.

>>281362127 (OP)
The hokage hat looks so stupid on everyone but Hiruzen.

>>281364027
Holy fuark what a milf. This is what Kurenai should've looked like after chapter 700.

>>281372917
And Anko.

>>281370173
Only true during the war arc. And i guess Guren was cool.

>>281364062
Man I love Naruto filler

>>281369729
I dunno because in old anime Sasuke would be on the same level as Gary Oak, Younger Toguro, and Shishio in popular rival confined to the story arc or used sparingly. He doesn't have the autism of Kaiba that he takes over the Leaf and starts making death matches, fighting terrorists on top of sky scrapers, sacrifice God. Sasuke is content with beating Naruto and copying Cell Arc Vegeta.

>>281372157
Ramen doesn't intend to stop at part 1.

>>281372977
FATnko is cute, thin skinned little bitch.

>>281364055
I read the first few chapters via the daily, then binge read it on my own in a week or so and have been an avid Naruto hater ever since.

Damn, Sasuke is a shitty character.

>>281372228
The war arc is just slow because nobody wanted Naruto to go on a rampage despite him, Gaara, and Bee having enough power to brute force their way. I can see Toriyama and Togashi just having the demons cut loose.

>>281364616
Hayate was the jonin who discovered the plot of the invasion and he got killed off. Just like how the sound genin got killed off because none of them were useful to the invasion

>>281368099
And Hyuga were apparently spectating like this.

>>281373860
Nah, like this.

>>281370363
>>281370384
>What are situational upgrades
Have some faith, weaklings. Kishimoto would lend them some asspulls if they were involved in this arc.

>>281370954
>chug a bottle of booze then go on a slaughter mission
The Tsunade we never got…

>>281369483
How did she ask for reinforcements so fast, and how did the reinforcements even make it as fast as they did? Naruto and the others have been making progress constantly, unless Jirobo had them caught for several fucking hours.

>>281368362
Why the fuck are they references to other characters?

I thought this was nice

>>281375155
This genre of fanart is kino.

>>281375272
>>281375308
does this count as grooming?

>>281375308
>>281375334
Is it grooming if it's already written in the future?

>>281375583
the most realistic reaction
nata is a freak
>>281375530
see?

>>281375621
>nata is a freak
That's most women. All of them go for someone older. An older Naruto is a wet dream come true for young Hinata

>>281374787
I find manga Gaara is a professional assassin in the books and he will kill people who tell him to job like grass ninjas. He killed Dosu for trying to assassinate him, only wanted to rip Sasuke for getting blood on his outfit. He tells Kimimaro off for being a tool of Orochimaru, and said Orochimaru an edgelord for not getting into death matches. I guess Temari and Kankuro want to kill Sound Four for making them work for free

>>281375775
pretty based

>>281362127 (OP)
I always liked it

>>281362644
Better arc than Sasuke retrieval.

Could any of you beat Sakura or Ino in a fist fight?
I think I could.

>>281377570
>pre timeskip?
100% they're 12 year old girls.

>>281377570
>>281377726
it's ninja dependence time

>>281377570
It pains my heart Ino didn’t develop her boxing skills more in part 2…

>>281364304
Lets try it with Boruto just kidding who even reads that shit?

>>281366031
That was Sage Naruto, the guy who throws giant rhinos hundreds of meters in the sky like nothing and defeat Raikage with a clone. It's understandable he could knock Kurama around (without actually defeating him because Kurama is the tankiest motherfucker ever)

>>281365516
THE FUCKING DAB KICK

>>281378562
Naruto's been styling on ninjas since the early 2000s

>>281369483
This is retarded.
>I can't spare a fucking chunin for you
>However I can ask sand future Kage and high Jonin to join!
>but only TOMORROW!
>and they wont help after they defeat their enemy lmao

>>281377570
Sakura got fucking washed man. I thought they were equals?

>>281378673
Like chunin can do shit, anon. Sasuke and Naruto were bodying them before they even started the chunin exams

>>281378004
The games made her a kicker, not a boxer.

>>281378673
On them not helping with sasuke it's reasonable considering that gaara was tired and temari did a summon that may be costly, they were probably there to save their allies so they had to search for those too wounded to move, and saw Naruto summon gamabunta and defeat gaara so he didn't need help

>>281379064
No it makes zero sense, Shikamaru can still fight btw. Lee is also fresh

What's his excuse for not coming to save his students?

>>281379098
I was talking about the sand siblings

>>281364901
kind of overrated imo but it's still good

>>281364901
I didn't like the tear jerk ending of Zabuza and Haku. Felt a bit forced.

I wish he kept Haku as a bear.

>>281379470
The anime props the whole thing up a lot more than the manga imo, part of why I think it's a bit overrated is because the source material isn't all that significantly better than what happens in the next couple hundred chapters

>>281364901
>>281379451
Tsunade search arc is still very underrated.
>muh flashba-
Yes they were boring, but they're also in the "good" arcs like this one (kek)

>>281377570
>>281377726
No one here can jump as high as they can on trees, the gap between genin and civilian is MASSIVE.

>>281378714
Sakura was weaker than Ino during the academy.

>>281378004
>>281378714
That's a filler scene.

>>281378357
>spoiler
I read it.

I've really turned around on Tsunade. I used to think she was a shit tier Hokage but, honestly, she's like a wartime president. She came to power during a horrible time in the village's history, too late to do anything about it and just had to roll with the punches.

>>281380275
Tsunade was supposed to be a better pick than Jiraiya but I struggle to see how Jiraiya could have done worse

>>281380275
I dunno bro, she doesn't really make sound decisions as a Hokage. I guess we have to wait and see how she does in pudden. Maybe we should blame Kishi and not her.

>>281365355
Wondering if she's on her period

>>281368362
implying kakashi isnt half inuzuka

>draws some of the hottest women in manga
>all the female characters suck
what did he mean by this

>>281380662
Tsunade, Temari and Hinata are all good thou

>>281368099
>So EVERYONE but Sasuke was in the village that night? NO ONE was out later than normal?
All the Uchiha were in the village. They were planning a coup and the way they made it sound was that every single uchiha besides the sub 10 year old kids were in on it.
>no one was out later than normal
pretty sure you see their corpses scattered on the streets
>no uchiha living outside the village
well the uchiha all lived together when the leaf village was formed, and literally not a single uchiha followed Madara when he left, plus it isn't like modern day where people just picked up and left their homes, clans typically stayed together forever.
>no illegals
why would they go to a shitty other village? The show does a decent job at showing us that all the other villages fucking suck

How do you respond without sounding mad?

>>281380969
Accpet I lost against the strongest, and if either of us were at the valley we could effortlessly end the fight.

>>281380969
Drop the string

>>281364504
>They blitzed Kakuzu in the war.
Kishimoto decided to toss them a bone after how they got effortlessly dominated by Kakuzu last time.

>>281381055
You can't. This move just BLITZED YOU before you could react.

I just realized tayuya was my first tomboy crush

>>281370344
>Konoha girls
All 4 of them would simultaneously get atomized by base Jirobo.

>>281381091
To be fair Kakuzu is way above the pay grade of any chunin.. even jonin

>>281370344
It would have been hot to see the sound 4 getting crushed under Konoha girls heels.

>>281381462
Ino stomping Tayuya to death

>>281381091
I thought that was Hidan?

>>281381462
Hinata knocking the lights out of Sakon and Ukon

>>281381642
Come to think of it, Hinata would be a great counter thanks to the Byakugan. But then again so would Neji

>>281381164
What if Tenten throws a paper bomb?

>>281380662
What more do you need? Doujins from Kishi?

>>281381677
>I just realized tayuya was my first tomboy crush
legit don't think kishi has the range to draw people fucking

>>281381462
Tenten burrying Kimimaro under 10 000 tons of kunai and shurikens. With paper bombs.

>>281380704
>Tsunade
A Hokage almost as retarded as Hiruzen.

>Hinata
Has no relevance besides simping for Naruto.

I'll give you Temari. She's okay.

>>281380210
is it worth?

>>281380662
Temari is cool and powerful
Tenten is the only one with fights like ninja rather than witchcraft
Hinata was the only one who had the balls to help Naruto

>>281381771
God, no. It's genuinely awful. The worst arc of Naruto is 10 times better than the best arc of Boruto. But it's like a train wreck you can't look away from.

>>281365633
I made this edit, fwiw as a last storytimer and two decade narutard I'm really enjoying this daily and ty OP for doing it and ty other anons for their insightful comments; I learned more this time with each ch so far only once a day. And I always love sharing part 1 Naruto; it has something charming that part 2 loses in it's exploration of darker/esoteric themes

>>281380436
Jiraiya didn't want the position. People wanted him too, even Hiruzen, but Jiraiya didn't think he was fit. Jiraiya also does a lot of his business outside of the village and being Hokage would cripple that.

>>281381771
Yes, I really enjoy it, it has some blander moment, but it's still fun.

>>281381557
This >>281378943 but with Tayuya... GIWTWM

>>281362174
Lee is obviously Guy´s bastard child. The joke is that everyone knows except for Lee who is too dense.

>>281382555
jokes aside was this every hinted

>>281382617
No. Guy notices Lee in the academy, canonically.

>>281382794
dang

>>281381637
At first it was but they were also getting effortlessly choked out by Kakuzu when Pain sent the "no we won't even give you a minute to finish these guys off, clock in for your 144 hour shift fuckers" memo.

>>281381764
Characters don't need to be relevant or competent to be good.

GIWTWM

>>281380662
Tayuya is good though

>>281380956
I still don't buy that. Especially in part 2 when we see cases of other ninja migrating to the leaf. Kushina, Temari, the cloud ninja girl choji marries. It just doesn't make logical sense that your entire race was in one section of a city. That's like nuking heroshima and all of the Japanese went extinct.

>>281383972
Tayuya could've been the Android 18 of Naruto but nooo. We get the best girl crushed under a tree... Sucks man.

>>281384791
She would unironically overshadow the resr of the villains. In fact the whole sound 5 were too underused. They should have been as relevant as Akatsuki were in part 2

>>281370095
Not OOC of great magnitude.

>>281369483
Thanks for reminding me why kimimaro is one of my favorite characters. Wish him and Dosu had more time

best play to read / dl the whole thing?