Alright, this manga had some very memorable moments and put the Raikage’s strength in perspective, as well as toning down Sasuke a bit, seeing as the entire ninja world wants him dead and they are making him out to be a huge threat. First of all, the manga opens up with what had me laughing for a good little while haha. Sasuke yells “CHIDORI”, a technique that he learned from kakashi, both of them using it to kill countless opponents and possibly even cut lightning in half. It is one of the hardest jutsus to learn and with a sharingan user nearly impossible to dodge. In response to the attack, the Raikage yells out, “ELBOW!” hahahaha. Anyone else laugh there?
Anyways, I like the fact that kakashi’s reputation precedes himself and that (even though they were in the middle of battle) the Raikage mentioning Sasuke had no effect on him emotionally at all. The Raiger Bomb was a nice taijutsu move that closely resembles the end result of the power bomb type move Sasuke used on Naruto at the Valley of the End. What really surprised me was the fact that Sasuke used Susano, arguably on command possibly due to the move’s devastating power. Either way, him having Susano is something that I don’t like because 1. Susano (disregarding Japanese tales) was completely random and overpowered. 2. It belonged to Itachi. And 3. Itachi already gave Sasuke Amaterasu. Still, Sasuke has the power and now seems to be a slightly toned down version of Itachi, apart from the fact that he manipulated the flames of Amaterasu thanks to his sharingan.
The Raikage was quite clever in using shunsin… and for those of you that don’t know that is a specialty of Shisui, known as flash step in bleach, and I think Rock Lee uses some kind of variation of the ability to do the lotus. At first the dodge made me want to stop watching the manga entirely, and as I bit back the urge to yell out “WHY DO THEY KNOW ABOUT THE MANGEKYOU SHARINGAN AND AMATERASU!?” My friend told me that there was a spectator to the Killerbee vs Sasuke fight. That calmed me but even now as I am beginning to put up a youtube video on the manga I’m thinking about other possibilities. Had Madara played some part in this, Zetsu did in fact record the fight between Sasuke and Itachi and Madara said he had the capabilities to watch the fight later. The chances are unlikely but I would like you guys to keep your mind open as Zetsu’s “obvious” roles become more defined and important to the story line.
Besides that I can’t wait to talk some more once manga 464 is released and hope to see you guys again. I would love to here some comments on this blog and if you want to take a look i have the link to my youtube page on the right side so we can talk a little bit more. Take it easy and thanks for reading this bit.
