Naruto Chapter 563 - Reactions

[alliancesjr]

I'm thinking about adding a re-read of Naruto to Second Time Around, maybe ten chapters at a time. I don't know.

Not much to react to or speculate on with this, just a lot of HOLY CRAP OONOKI and HOLY CRAP TSUNADE. It's pretty amazing to see Oonoki finally on board with world-wide peace between ninja villages, seeing as he's one of the ones to promote war half the time (and has hired out Akatsuki!). If he's convinced, the other Kages and lesser village leaders won't be far behind.

Also, A freakin' punched through Madara's Susano-o! Punched right the hell through it! Not only is it the Uchiha's Absolute Defense, but it's powered by a Rinnegan ("final" form of the Sharingan it looks like?), and reinforced by Madara's considerable will. Sure, Oonoki powered it up by speeding A's charge and upping the density of A's punch, still.

(Is anyone else tired of Susano-o yet? It was interesting when Itachi had one, but like the Sharingan, it's being passed around like a disease.)

They're calling the Madaras "Young Madara" and "Old Madara", though it's up in the air which is which. Edo Tensei Madara is visibly younger but he's also a corpse-dust golem, while Tobi has an older face but is immortal.

Showdown between Tobi and Kyuubi-cloak Naruto! Which Naruto starts with a headbutt. How'd he connect without Tobi phasing out? Is he just that fast?

Since Tobi is the grand mastermind of pretty much the entire series, and Naruto gets to finally fight him, then either he won't need to fight Sasuke afterwards, or Sasuke's the final hurdle for the series, since there's nothing left after that but for Naruto to be named the Rokudaime Hokage (or die). Either way, it looks like we're approaching a series finale within the next year or so.

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[westonian.livejournal.com]

...unless they pull out another Akatsuki. Seriously, I thought that Bleach was going to end when... uh, have you read Bleach? No spoilers. If you haven't or aren't planning to.

The Dust-enhanced Lightning Fist of Holy Crap was pretty awesome. Susano'o needed to be taken down a notch, like Gaara's sand defense.

We haven't seen Tobi use a Susano'o, have we?

Only Sharingan users who have unlocked both the Mangekyo and the Tsukiyomi can use Susano'o, so we have to ask: Is the combat so far an illusion thrown by Madara? Bump Tsukiyomi up a notch with the Rinnegan, and what do you get?

Aaaaand it's probably worth noting that Madara has all six of the Paths of Pain available to him. Dollar says Oonoki has a run-in with Human Path in two weeks.

Tobi, on the other hand, has the old Jinchuuriki. Loaded with both Sharingan and Rinnegan. Each probably channeling one of the Paths. Likely with as much bijuu-boosted chakra as they had in life. Yep. That's gonna be a fun battle. I'll watch it from waaaay over here, outside of Tailed Beast Bomb range. So, from low orbit.