[Manga] Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring Chapter 8 Discussion Thread
 

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Haha enough with all the sarcasm, this is actually a very nice chapter, props to Kishi :heh:

talk no jutsu naruto is great as always=/..

and also explained sasuke not in 100% when fighting shin previously

A very enjoyable chapter to read.

Hooray! Sasuke still has advanced version of rinnengan and mangekyou!
Glad Kishi addressed that kids were upset with "the fight back then"

Meh
Saw it a million miles away. Though it still doesn't make it better
Does it matter? Whatever
Two more weeks to go..

Talk no jutsu strikes again.
And apparently the ghost of Itachi is residing in Sakura.
And, I can't be the only one who thought she looked JUST like Tsunade when she was flicking Sarada's forehead.

Sasuke: Ha, I'm not weak, my best skills were just on cooldown! What's your excuse Naruto?

Naruto: I CALL FAVORITISM HAX!!


:heh: Looks like Naruto's mastery of Talk no Jutsu hasn't weakened at all. He's getting good at talking down emotional Uchihas.

Yup, Tsunade 2.0
Quite a convenient timing for Shin to attack the two demigods, but at least their rather poor performance was addressed. But is an incomplet Susanoo really more difficult than Sasuke's Rinnegan teleportation?

When it comes to sad backstories and so on, Kishi knows how to convey them.

susanoo can talk?! im assuming the speech bubbles were for it? sakura's hair kinda looks like itachis

It's on purpose since Sakura used the Uchiha style Talk no Jutsu Forehead Poke variation.

Yeah that top panel makes no sense with who it's coming from.


Also

Sarada: you're not even family!
Naruto: well actually, wait till you learn what your actual mother's last name was.

When Sarada was about to go on a journey, I bet Tobirama is facepalming so hard in the afterlife :heh:. Joking aside, it's really great to see that Hokage Naruto can be so mature. Also, everytime I see that panel of Naruto on a swing...I dunno but that has always made me feel sad for so many years :heh:. Anyway, great chapter. Hope Sakura beats the crap out of Shin before they even get there.

Nice chapter. Predictable, but still well done.

whoa... as expected from Naruto..
Naruto is best Papa ever!!! :heh:
I like that flashback so much... and also Sarada's memories about Sakura is so cute. Something better than kiss.. finally, eh? after years of unrequited love :heh:

It is quite weird that Sasuke seems seriously love Sakura right now and even declaring that she is not weak and probably cleaning up enemies right now
looking at the direction of this chapter, Naruto would probably confront Sasuke about Sarada and found out that it is just another trolling attempt from Kishimoto

I had little worry about Sakura might help Shin.. but last panel confirmed that she didn't give any care about Shin's blabbering theory
Sannin is going to go rampage next chapter hopefully

This chapter in a nutshell-

Sarada: I'm gonna leave the village.
Naruto: Notto disu shitto agen.

Nice to see Naruto's talk no justu is as strong as ever. We were going to get a speech from him sooner or later so its nice to get it out of the way.

We also got an explanation for why Sasuke didn't use several of his abilities.

lol, Naruto ain't gonna have any of that Uchiha crap again :heh:.

Hilarious; so as usual people who are up in arms about nothing calling out "bad writing" and so called "plotholes" look like buffoons the next week as the plot anomaly is handily explained with but one sentence.

So Sasuke took a while to 'wake up' his eye powers because... because he hadn't had to use them in a while, maybe? I guess it's sorta like how when Goku first displayed his Super Saiyan 3 form, it had (presumably) been a few years since he learned how / did it, so it took a while, but later on when fighting Super Buu and Kid Buu, he'd been using it often enough recently that transforming took a lot, lot less time than when he did it for the first time in months/years. Or... Does anyone else have any fitting 'takes longer to get going the more time has passed since it was last used' analogues?