Bah, chap will be up and jitterbugging by the finale.

The Juubi looks like crap though

Fucking Obito finally had a good villain line at least, I like how he seems almost desperate to prove Naruto is wrong.

Also I don't give a FUCK about Hedge or whatever.

The Hyuuga clan. Continuing a proud history of getting impaled for Naruto's sake.

God, what the hell? Did Kishi finally get one too many complaints that "Durr, you don't kill off enough major characters." and just decided to make this a freaking Gainax Ending by kiling ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE, because, really, fuck the entire concept of shounen??

Then again, I think I might like to see what would happen if it ends up with EVERYONE dead at Naruto's feet, and Madarobituubi still standing. Maybe he might go Super Saiyan or something. Naturally, he'd just use rinne tensei no jutsu to bring everyone back after the conclusion, but still. Seeing him go COMPLETELY off the deep end would be nice.

B-b-but I was finally starting to like Neji because of Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth

NEVAR 4GET

Meh, Kishi chose the WORST character to sacrifice. The one whose main theme and concept is all about destiny and those born with privilege.

Naruto is no underdog, he's a spoiled overly privileged ninja Jesus chosen one. Whatever conflict he had with Neji has long since been shat on beyond oblivion.

Ah, the hack flashing back to a time when his work was half decent. A classic mistake, that.

What a shame.

>>80338
I'd like someone to draw him in that style reading the current Shonen Jump and reacting appropriately.
Wh...why does it always have to be me???

Uh Moe, didn't someone already make a Naruto general thread before you?

>>80347
I made that thread. However, something went wrong, and no one can get in. Besides, this is going so much better.

>>80347
Yeah but when I tried it it did not work.
At all.

>>80334
O_O Whoa was that...
>>80335
...oh yeah it was

>>80337
So there's been more major deaths? Guess I'll have o catch up.

Yeah, given that in this chapter it's also revealed the Obito totally knows the "bring-everyone-back-to-life-after-the-crisis-jutsu" colored me unimpressed at Kishi's sudden and apparent sprouting of the balls.

If this arc ends without Obito falling prey to Naruto's see-things-my-way-and-totes-turn-a-new-leaf-at-the-last-minute-and bring-everyone-that-died-back-to-life-again-no-jutsu, then yes, I'll totally eat my words, but that's totally not going to happen.

>>80361
I wish fucking corpse satan would just kill obito before he had a chance to even try it.

>>80361
Pain 2.0 mah nigga, don't even try to deny that shit, it's comin at ya.

Poor poor Neji

Oh my this is some kinky shit

>>80370
Oh hey, I found the rest of that.
Naruto SD Episode 25 Part 1

>>80370
Oh hey, I found the rest of that.
Naruto SD Episode 25 Part 1

>>80415

>>80418
Well in the end no one can fault Neji for being the kind of man that goes against his word.

Aw man, Naruto SD is so fun.

>>80414
>>80417
...Wow.

>>80426
Naruto was being all emo because Neji died after he said he wasn't going to let anyone die, and was even about to join the side of the angry bitter virgin, but Hinata set him straight.
Unlike the other girls and their constant violence she knows to save the pimphand for when it is truly needed.

Speaking of Obito is it just me or would most of this stuff not be happening if he had just gotten laid once?

>>80428

Probably.

>>80428
Someone made a webcomic where Yoda gave Luke some money for a hooker because of that exact reason.

>>80428
this chapter really made up for a LOT of bad times at naruto high with the way it used the Hyuuga family of all things.

good!

I'm interested to what its going to be like when the anime reaches this point in the manga.

Considering how they improved the scene with Hinata during the Pain incident.

>>80456

It's going to be awesome.

>>80418
>>80420

Is it still an retardedly awful manga?

>>80466
It fluctuates as always between mediocre and okay in such a way that touches of loving nostalgia and then nose diving into disgust.

>>80466
It's decent.

Naruto Generations | The Tale …

>>80466
If you talking about Rock Lee YOUTH ect then trade awful.
Also if Hinata dont get laid after this see turns to the dark side.
Most timed bad girl ever.

>>80485
Trade it for Awsome that is!

>>80485
I dunno, I think Naruto finally realized she exists. It took her a few awesome scenes and confessions but she finally got there.

Or maybe its because she slapped him to knock him out of his self-pitying bullshit. He IS something of a masochist regarding his romantic infatuations, see his feelings for Sakura and Sasuke.

- - -
Oh man but did this chapter drive the shippers wild...

Obviously those that ship Hinata/Naruto are overjoyed to a greater or lesser extent while those who fanatically worship Sakura/Naruto are rushing to find a Handwave to brush it all off somehow. Such as "Hinata is just going to die now and be forgotten" or "Sakura is the main heroine and all this came out of nowhere and means nothing compared to all the moments S & N have had together".

Just throwing in my 2-cents but since the fake confession and the fact when that generic dude hit on her during the war but she turned out to still be in love with Sasuke (while imaging him looking all evil and surrounded by flames) kind of makes it seem she's not meant to end with Naruto?

>>80493

The Sasuke thing is still too much of an obstacle for NaruSaku, and with Naruto's increasingly growing awareness on Hinata, yeah, it's complicated.

>>80493
Hinata didn't slap him. She gently put her hand on his cheek. There was no "motion" going into her hand so it wasn't a slap.

But if Hinata wants to bag Naruto she really needs to treat him like shit. Naruto is like a woman, notice how Sasuke treats him and how obsessed Naruto is with the Sauce. Naruto responds only when you treat him like shit.

Another good example is the Kakashi and Iruka relationships. Iruka treated Naruto like a son of sorts with empathy and kindness. End result? Naruto barely acknowledges his existence. Kakashi on the other hand was a much rougher mentor and as such Kakashi is more precious to Naruto.

So if Hinata wants Naruto she really needs to up her bitch factor and start abusing him for no reason other than he exists and makes a good punching bag as that one thunder chick found out when he was defending the Sauce.

>>80495
>>Hinata didn't slap him.

>>There was no "motion" going into her hand

I really wish Naruto himself would die. He's the worst thing in this manga.

>>80497
If the Naruto manga were to suddenly end Naruto's story and become about a random new protagonist in the Shinobi World, it would be better. I want to know more about the politics of the world rather than "I'm a dumbass with no idea of what it means to be a real leader or culture or economic matters! And despite being a moron I am Ninja Jesus and destined to be the very best that ever was POKEMON!!!"

>>80498
That's a problem with all Shounen. They always come down to Idiot Hero is somehow fit to be the greatest no matter what. Even though it doesn't make sense. A moron who is only good at eating and fighting is rightfully not good for anything else.

>>80499

This is not actually true, even just restricting ourselves to action shonen. The Idiot Protagonist is a common trope (often invoked by lesser Dragonball imitators) but it by no means has a monopoly on the genre.

>>80501
All I know is that Idiot Heroes annoy me. Touma from Index is one of the most annoying faggots ever. So Index's former friends who worry over her amnesia try endlessly to keep her memories alive and fail every time. In comes Touma preaching "God damn it you people suck! I'll punch you and solve the problem without even knowing the mechanics of what's wrong with Index herself and it will MAGICALLY nonsensically work for me because I'm the protagonist GOD DAMN IT!!!" and it makes me just feel.....very irritated. To say the least.

>>80499
>A moron who is only good at eating and fighting is rightfully not good for anything else.
Generally speaking they are good at eating and fighting and in believing in people/seeing the good in people's hearts/etc., too, not just eating and fighting. The message that they keep trying to send is that strength comes from friendship / interpersonal bonds, and that the ability to form strong bonds that cause people to follow you or show you loyalty is more important than being smart. Which is true, actually--it's why so many of us nerds fail to be successful despite being smart, while people of average or lesser intelligence who can form networks of people who believe in them / rely on them are able to succeed. That's why Idiot Hero stories almost always cast the Idiot Hero in the role of a Messiah as well.

>>80495

Nah, brah, it was a slap. Though a rather gentle one, considering this is Hinata we're talking about.

Anyway, lots of people are making comparisons of all kinds without taking into accounts circumstances and characters and why one scene can (or not) be more significant than other.

>>80497

Nah, he's alright for the most part. He takes a serious nosedive whenever Sasuke is involved. But EVERYTHING does.

>>80503
Is it a bad thing that I don't like that whole "Your power is to bend people to your will with friendship" cliche? The last time I saw it was in One Piece and I thought it was obnoxious when Mihawk credited Luffy. Um NO!!! During the Marineford War it was White Beard and his unified forces who came together to save Ace, it had NOTHING to do with Luffy. I mean more than half of White Beard's pirates don't even know who Luffy is nor give a rats ass.

But I digress, I just find that cliche really stupid.

>>80508
That is a huge misinterpretation of the situation.

>>80417

>>80508
It was more about him being able to get people to specifically back him up on his personal siege, even when they're foes (Crocodile), just met him (Ivankov/Whitebeard Pirates), or have a complete bias against his gender (Hancock).

>>80527
No dice brah. It was just stupid. Crocodile wanted to keep Luffy alive because he KNEW it would piss off his other enemies. After being in prison for god knows how long a little revenge is in order. He doesn't like Luffy as a person.

Ivankov is loyal to Luffy's father. If he wasn't Dragon's son he wouldn't have done jack outside of saving him, but not lend his troops of Okamas at ID.

And Hancock is just a badly written piece of shit.

>>80528
Hancock isn't poorly written, she's a broken princess.

She's clung to the man who crushed the head of her oppressor.

Naruto must really suck shit if you all are talking about One Piece. Not a surprise though. Many people just read Naruto for the sake of closure like that garbage anime Inuyasha.

The story and characters just got real bad. Happens to all long running series. Look at Berserk.

>>80532

>>80528
>He doesn't like Luffy as a person.

I never implied that.

>>80528

>And Hancock is just a badly written piece of shit.

Fuck off.

>>80535
Same to you.

>>80528
And yet they're all still helping him, and even Whitebeard's crew is helping him and protecting him. The kid amasses allies incredibly easily, whether it be by force of personality, circumstance or just allying himself to others' causes. Also, Crocodile wasn't shown to have any hatred for Luffy: he was downright amiable to the kid, while Luffy couldn't stand him.

>>80541
Well yeah being Ace's 'brother' it makes sense they would have stopped him from dying on the battlefield

>>80542
Point is that his biggest strength comes from being able to get people to align themselves to him--even if it's not always because of some special talent of his, and just a matter of circumstance or luck. Naruto and other shounen heroes of the messianic mould do the same thing so as to show how much more powerful a character is when he has a team to back him up.

>>80544
I have a problem when that happens in Naruto, because for me it always feels "forced". Characters flock to him just because he is the main character and Ninja Jesus. In One Piece the main characters stick around Luffy because he has done something to prove they are stronger together (see Robin's rescue mission). Whereas in Naruto only the Konoha ninja have reason to believe in him, cause he "saved" the village, but all those others ninja got shit in trusting him. He isn't a famous ninja, he hasn't made a name for himself in the world, for fuck's sake, he is STILL a genin, you'd think they would give him a field promotion after that whole Pain thing....

Bottom line, when Naruto does the "together we are stronger" shit, it feels very forced and kinda baseless.

>>80552
Naruto is a horrible character, but the writing is trying to make you respect him as Jesus of Konoha.

Sort of like his Dad who is a douchebag that got himself and his wife killed and fucked over is son's life without even taking a minute to think of the alternatives, hell even his wife was coming up with one before he pushed ahead with it.

>>80566
This always annoyed me about Minato. Everyone and their mothers in Konoha treat him as if he was a great Hokage, a total golden boy. But the fucker died young in his career as a leader and he died not because he was outmatched but because he was an irresponsible dead beat loser father idiot.

What really pissed me off is how Kushina herself "bought" his bullshit argument and reasoning for willingly killing himself to leave his son's life to pure luck. I'm no fan of Kushina, but her agreeing with such bullshit just made her look like such a damn fool.

Then we have the Retarded Third who knew Naruto was the 4th's son, but purposely and for no reason kept this all a secret beginning Naruto's life in misery among the town folk. I just can't bring myself to like these characters when the writing is such shit. This is where the blame on Kishimoto rightfully deserves to pile up.

>>80568
I'm having trouble understanding how more people didn't realize Naruto was the 4th's son, they look so similar and Kushina was obviously pregnant wasn't she?
And who raised Naruto as a baby? I've heard people say the 3rd did but the series never makes it seem that way, wouldn't he have a more fatherly relation with Naruto if he had personally raised him from a newborn baby?

>>80569
Yeah the series makes it seem like Naruto "raised himself" which is bullshit because even Gaara who had a terrible and worse time as a Jinchuuriki ended up raised by someone with food and shelter, etc.

Naruto was in that one flat apartment from early on in the series.

Hey remmber that splach page from what, last year or whatever showing all of the Tailed Beasts with hosts.
And dudes where all like "yo this looks cool, to bad most off them are already dead or sealed and will never do anything".
Well Cyberconnect2 was all like O RLY and made this:
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN™: Ultimate Ninja® STORM 3
Fuck yeah, Bug Girl!

>>80569
Wait, Naruto wasn't basically raised by Iruka?

>>80588
No? Iruka was just his teacher at the acadamy, then had that big emotional moment with him during the whole scroll-stealing incident.

>>80589
I think his thing with Iruka was that he was the only person Naruto knew who only came down on him when he was being an irritating little hooligan rather than treating him like a monster all the time.

On the subject of Naruto raising himself, isn't that kind of a thing in Japan? If you watch enough anime, it seems like 80% of all male highschool students live by themselves all the time.

>>80592
...they hardly raise themselves as newlyborn babies...

>A post on the Naruto subreddit on Reddit has "hubris" in the title.
>Half the comments are people asking what "hubris" means.

NARUTO ICHIRAKU RAMEN - Feast …

Bit of a /diy/ crossover, but enjoy. When Naruto focuses on food, it does the food porn thing very well.

episode 40 of Rock Lee

>>80655
Dang!

That is freakin adorable to be sure.

>>80655
Da'ww how cute.
I'm gonna go and watch that on Crunchyroll.

>>80655
animuuted

>>80670

You know with all this focus on Naruto and Hinata holding hands as they attack the giant final boss monster (along with sharing his aura), haha, makes me wonder if it'll factor in on how they beat it...

>>80674
If they do a Sekiha Love Love Tenkyoken, I will take back everything bad I ever said about Naruto.

>>80675
I'm going to second this.

>>80655
>>80670
... What's the deal?

Rock Lee's springtime of youth is a damn comedy, I ain't gonna get my hopes up about adorable... everything I want in an anime..
... Where the hell was I going with this?

>>80674
Rasengan No Love.

If something like this happens I will love the entire series forever.

>>80675
You fucking better.
Can't wait.

>>80674
Just had to re-watch that scene again, still gave me the "oh fuck year" feeling I got when I first saw it, corniness and everything.

I remember when I used to own the entire series... sigh...

>>80716
G Gundam had the best romance in Gundam and arguably the most fufilling ending of a Gundam series to boot.

(I'd post a youtube link to 'that scene' but I'd feel sort of bad about spoiling it for anyone that hasn't went through the series to get to it themselves.) If this was a G Gundam thread I'd have so many images to post in regards to all facets of the series

>>80694
y'know this IS Naruto still, you should prepare yourself incase of massive disappointment.

>>80719
I don't like any of the Gundams except G Gundam. Gundam 00 had some good things going for it, but it fell flat in the end. G Gundam is the best feel-good anime out there, except maybe Gurren Lagaan.

>>80722
I enjoyed the series but the 'deep' sad ending to TTGL felt really tacked-on

Not to mention the movies were kind of lame, they were basically "The anime series but BIGGER!", all flash and no substance obviously but to be honest a fair mount of the flash wasn't even that awesome.
The whole 'tentacle rape' scene with Nia and the Anti-Spiral was kind of fucked-up and needless as well in the movie, I guess they know what the Otaku like though.

>>80725
As someone explained to me, TTGL is an homage to every form of giant robots ever made. It takes the concept of 'super robot' backwards in time, from the modern age through the post-Evangelion ghetto, through the era of real robots and space opera, through pretty much every sub-genre and series that's ever been made, all the way back to the heyday of the superhero robots. And then, in typical Gainax fashion, it takes that concept FURTHER and does Super Robots in its most classical form in the most over-the-top super-exaggerated way it possibly can. Because the genre really isn't dead yet, and you don't have to have depressing shit in your anime to make good TV. Because things can turn out AWESOME and the good guys can still win.

And then right at the end, the show admits that, yeah, when all's said and done you have to come back to reality. As much as it can suck sometimes, not everything can be like it was. The spirit of those early days may live on, but the world today is a different place no matter how much we'd rather it weren't.

It's a love letter to the past and all the history of the genre, but ultimately, they HAD to end it with a "thank you and goodbye".

>>80732
Sounds pretentious.

>>80725
>The anime series but BIGGER
Is that not like, all anime series movies, ever?
Like the Pokémon movies, the kamen rider movies or to stay on topic the Naruto movies?
Lets just take to ninja-alaska with a goofy film crew and fight some techno-ninjas over a run-a-way princess.
Also snow-whale.
Because why the fuck not.

>>80735
No you don't understand.

The gurren lagann movie was basically an abridged version of the animated series but the mechs themselves were literally bigger.

Alot of the fights were pretty lame though. Like at the climax of the first film all the Beast Generals baseships combine together and almost as soon as they are through with their combining sequence its destroyed by a somewhat half-hearted combination attack from the heroes.

Everything was larger but much more hollow.

Can we go back to talking about G Gundam if we're going to have an /m/ flavoured discussion?

How about to keep it Naruto-related we talk about something like how much ass would the Undefeated of the East kick if he took a jaunt into the world of the Shinobi. Answer: All of it, he would kick all the ass.