Have you seen the Springtime of Youth manga? It's great. It's like they took everything that was good about Naruto and none of what was bad about it and turned it into a manga.

>>73026
I have not. Is it published in the US or do I need scanlations?

>>73027
Mangastream should have it all up or at least a good deal of it.

>>73025
Hinata looks fine in Ino's clothes.

Fuck yeah Kabuto.

He don't need no shitting ET to kick ass.

>>73025
I can't believe you haven't heard of Springtime of Youth yet, or how awesome it is.

Pfft, it's better than the manga that spawned it.

Any time Sasuke is well written from this point hence, he will be referred to as Dr. Snakes

>>73037
Man they've got two wanked-out sharinigan users staring at him right now, is he doing something to prevent them from destrying him in a massive optical-ejaculation?

>>73038
Yeah....he put his hood over his eyes...

>>73039
Bah as if Genjutsu is even needed for the sharinigan to onshot you anymore.

Haha, Evil Sage Mode, nice.

Fuck you, I'm a dragon!

>>73037
So...Dr Snakes/Sasuke = Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde

Unless Kabuto can turn off Itachi, I don't see how he can win this.
DOUBLE SUSANOO/Amaterasu
Also, I would instantly start liking Naruto again if Sasuke became DR SNAKES,PHD and went around battling ninja snakes.

>>73047
You mean...if he fought SSSSSSSSSSSShinobi?
Damn i'm good.

I'M DOC

DOC

DOCTAH SNAKES

WAIT

WAIT DOESN'T THAT MEAN SHE'S RELATED TO NARUTO?!

PIMP SNAKE

Doctor... snakes...

what the... I can't even...

Is this a joke translation? I mean I certainly don't mind if it is.

>>73056
It's not a good translation, but it does have gist.

Truly Doctor Snakes may end up redeeming the awful stain of Sasuke.

>>73056
You're just jealous you never got your PHD in Herpetology.

>>73058

If I had, maybe I could actually get a job

But seriously between Doctor Snakes and Sage Pimp Snake this was the most hilarious Naruto chapter yet

>>73054
Fucking everyone is related to Naruto, from all the inbreeding his faimly was into.

>I trained at the Ryuchi-dou
>It's as famous as Myoubokuzan and Shikkotzurin
>Watashi-sama-tachi
I didn't know TV-Nihon did mangas too.

Rock Lee is my favorite character from the original, but I've been out of the Naruto fandom for so long that I had no idea the Springtime of Youth manga existed, nor that it was getting an anime adaptation. I am intrigued and will start reading the manga/watching the anime.

>>73054
>All Uzumakis have red hair
>Naruto is blonde
Um, what?

>>73067
>Naruto is blonde

Kakashi has been dying his hair while he sleeps.

>>73067
His real name is Namikaze Naruto, but they used his mother's maiden name in order to protect him from Minato's enemies. who would come after him.

So he's a Namikaze, not a Uzumaki.

>>73069

Technically yes, but genetics don't follow patrilineal naming conventions.

>>73072
And Naruto has Namikaze genetics, not just Uzumaki. Clearly the Kamikaze hair color took priority over Uzumaki's recessive genes.

>>73073

Which is what makes the claim that all Uzumakis have red hair so very, very silly. Unless the red hair is carried on the Y chromosome, I guess, but then you couldn't have girl Uzumakis and that's two out of three.

>>73075

This is the same manga that has entire clans with special eyes that are limited to only their families, and yet there's little to no evidence of either inbreeding or inter-marriage with people from the outside. Genetics ain't this author's strong-suit.

Maybe what was meant was "all red-heads are Uzumakis."

>>73074
Well her 'strong lifeforce' is what makes her a useful healthkit no doubt, and will likely allow her to have strong masculine children in the future.

>>73074

I'm sure Dr. Snakes had a lot to do with that.

Who'd have ever thought we'd actually find a chapter like this entertaining?

so this happened

This chapter was way too fucking fun. This manga is still terrible but goddamn.

You know, Kurama has red hair, that means he's an Uzumaki, too!

>>73081
Will this be enough to make him tolerable again?

Only Time will tell.

Jesus Christ, I laughed way too fucking hard at this chapter
Please be a sign of things to come.

>>73081
Super Doctor Wars? I would read it.

>>73093
make it so!

Why is Itachi suddenly so full of puns and humor?? Did all those years of repressing his true self into a horrible, vengeful person bottle up his childhood jest, only for it to be unleashed after his death? I swear, the man has become Naruto's stand-up comedian!

Also, apparantly all people with red hair are from the Uzumaki clan. I STILL THINK that Sakura's pink hair has something to do with that, and I suspect that her mother may be an Uzumaki; and subtracting pink from red gives white... which means it's possible that Jiraya (or someone else with white hair... I can't think of any others) could be her father.

Wouldn't that be a trip? Also, this may explain why Kishimoto is so insistant to sink Naruto/Sakura in favor of Naruto/Hinata: Sakura is sort-of related to him.

I wonder if the slugs have a sage mode, too.

>>73099
I just realized, Sakura is the only one of the Rookie Nine who's parents we've never seen.

>>73112
IIRC they're also the only ones who aren't ninja themselves.

If it were any other writer, I'd think their lack of appearance was relevant, but this is Kishimoto so...

>>73099
Now that the whole "turn my brother into an avenger" thing is over, he doesn't have to be so stoic anymore.

>>73078
Quick! Someone go through the anime and find all the red-heads you can!

>>73101
If snakes have one, then slugs would probably have one too.

>>73099

He probably isn't, really, it's just a goofy translation.

I want to know what the fuck he IS saying. I doubt it's "Dr Snakes" but then what the fuck made them translate it like that?

Itachi's thought process
>Wow Sasuke sure knows a lot about snakes
>shit, i forgot how to be a brother, shit
>"Yeah...sweet snake info...Doctor Snakes"
>Yes, I am the best brother ever.

Aww, no animated version of the giant armadillo penis. I was so looking forward to that.

Of course, that begs the question... why did they still insist it's a male when it's clearly packing nothing between the legs??

>>73124
I'd need to see the raw, but maybe hebi-hakase? (snake expert.. or snake professor if you want)

>>73099
>subtracting pink from red gives white

GENETICS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY, GOODNIGHT

Almost as bad as all those awful fanfics where people think Hyuuga x Uchiha = 1 Sharingan and 1 Byakugan

>>73132

My google-fu is too weak to find a raw, but it did find people discussing the raw, and apparently it is hebi no hakase.

>>73133
>GENETICS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY, GOODNIGHT
Well, not with human hair, no. But there are actual genetics that work that way, like the color of azaleas.

>>73135
So ninjas are a race of men that evolved from flowers?

>>73133
>saying GENETICS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY
>...in a Naruto thread

Well her name is Sakura

>Hyuuga x Uchiha = 1 Sharingan and 1 Byakugan

That reminds me of an old-school Naruto flash: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/296672

Hilarious. Also it reminds me of how much more awesome the music in Part 1 was.

>>73139
...wow. That flash pretty much summed up the entire series.

>>73139
Hahahaha, I actually remember that.

>>73139
Wow, that really was perfect.

>>73177
Very perfect. It even got the part where it took too damn long for anything to happen and I lost interest.

Kakashi explaining the missed punch was too hilarious.

>>73118
What about Gaara/Sasori/etc, they count?

Oh God, Doctor Snakes really was the key to making Sasuke moderately enjoyable.

Is anyone else weirded out that the snake is coming out of Kabuto's gut?

in b4 that's his dick

I can't even understand what's going on in this fight. They seem to be mostly just standing there and things explode.

Also what exactly is stopping Itachi from Genjutsuing Kabuto now?

>>73238

Snake thingy over his eyes.

>>73234
see
>>73042

>Izanami

Just couldn't resist giving the sharingan yet more hax, could you Kishi? Ugh.

>>73401

Jesus fucking Christ. I mean I'm not surprised, when was the last time you saw an Izanagi without an Izanami? Fucking never, that's when. But it's still fucking retarded.

I don't want to read Naruto, what does the latest bit of hax of the Uchia do?

>>73404

We don't know yet, Itachi just whipped it out on the last page.

>Another Uchia Eye Jutsu

Sasuke's entire dialogue this chapter (no exaggeration):

"?"
"........."
"........."
"...the truth."
"........."
"........."
"........."
"........."
"........."
*flashback scene*
"........."
"I'm not like you. My crushing of the leaf is just mine."
"........."
"........."
"?!"
"........."
"?!"
"...Izanagi...?"
"How do you use Izanagi?"
"Another one?"
"Izanami!?" !!


Sasuke just doesn't know what the fuck is going on. Neither do I.

>>73401
I really hope in the end, knocking some dirt in their eye is all it takes to disable them for a while.

"NOW NARUTO! I WILL DESTROY YOU AND KONOHA TO AVENGE MY BLOODLINE WITH MY HATE AND MY HATED BROTH- FUCK!!!! Fuck... ha-hang on, guys... fuck'n sand I ju- FUUUUUUCK! Ow... tits... screw it I'll do it next year."

>>73412

The only way I can see this not being shit is if it's bullshit, there's no such thing as Izanami, and Itachi's just trying to con Kabuto into opening his eyes so he can see it in action, appealing to his curiosity.

So basically, as long as Itachi remembers a japanese god's name, he can just make up bullshit techniques on the spot for his Sharingan.

>>73425

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_deities
>As it is often said that there are Yaoyorozu-no-Kami (八百万の神, lit. 8 million kami), which is a representation of an infinite number.

So Itachi has 8-million Sharingan powers. Nice.

I suspect, however, that Izanami will fail against Kabuto, which will force Itachi to use the greatest Sharingan power of all time: Inari. This will summon the little dude instantly, where he will then shoot Kabuto to death with one shot from his tiny crossbow, which for this occasion is revealed to be the great weapon of the Sage: "The Noisy Cricket".

Well, honestly, I was wondering when they were going to bring up the Izanami and Izanagi thing. Half the characters, attack names, and bijuu are based of, or named, directly after Japanese shinto gods or old legendary stories.

If anyone is sick of it now, there's still dozens more Kishi can, and probably will, go with.

This is why I loathe computers, and everything they've done to how lazy-as-hell animators create media.

Ten years later... and the animation looks worse: cartoony, depthless, flat-colored. Ugh.

>>73469

Yeah, that's called "the Naruto anime is terrible' not computers, bro.

>>73469
Even in anime, cartoons have been computer-colored since like 1980, dude.

>>73469
Shounen have had crappy animation since forever ago. It's the hazard of having to make a new episode every single week no matter what.

Of course, I do agree that in the past decade character designs have gotten progressively lazier. It's one of the reasons I can't watch new episodes of Chibi Maruko-chan anymore.

Hang on, are these women literally nuns? That's kind of setting-incongruous.

>>73685

There were Shinto Nuns, too. Not all religous women were Shrine Maiden.

Oh god, is this Kabuto's depressing back story being told?

>>73687

They appear to be wearing a christian nun's habit (or at least the head-and-neck portions of it) is what I meant.

>>73688
It's not that depressing, really. I just hope this isn't leading up to a shocking revelation of who his parents really were or anything. That'd be a pain.

Man did Orichimaru fuck up. All that time wasted trying to be immortal, and all he really needed was a jutsu that erases any memory of a tragic past, because if you don't have that to reflect on and/or explain to your enemy during a climactic fight, YOU'LL NEVER FUCKING DIE!

>>73687
As someone who knows fuck all about shinto, I'd like to know: what is the difference?

Okay, what the fuck? Did I miss a chapter?? Itachi was about to unveil his brand-spanking new ultimate Sharingan Jutsu, Izanami, and then... it just didn't happen.

Kabuto: I countered it with Flashback no Jutsu.

Oh, please, everyone in the Naruto-verse can use that.

Kabuto: But that's not all! I added in Orphan no Jutsu, Lost Cause no Jutsu, and Depressing Childhood no Jutsu!!!

Sasuke: So you're like a slightly better-off version of Naruto?

Itachi (ala Kelso): OH! BURN!!!

Remember the coda, guys.

>Flashback = Death

Now then, a good outcome would be Orochimaru suddenly taking over his body. That would be the shit. Shit as in "good", not shit as in "this entire arc".

WELL GEE I DON'T KNOW.

Is it just me, or did they jus imply that Orochimaru was involved in Root? Is there no aspect of this world that Kishimoto won't shove Danzo's useless wrinkled ass into?

>>73715
His fate's already been decided.

>>73933

Probably all of the high-level shinobi in Konoha have been involved in ANBU or Root at one time or another.

In fact, I'm surprised that none of the younger characters are in ANBU. Neji's a freaking jounin... he should be at least.

Didn't we go over this bullshit with Yashamaru already?

>>73942

Clearly he's smart enough to know that the instant you put on an ANBU mask, you become totally useless.

Has Naruto became so bad no one comments on it anymore?