Naruto 431

by Kabitzin on January 16, 2009 in Other Manga

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Katsuyu Nano fits nicely in your pocket and also has 3G so you can access intel reports quickly


Gamakichi takes old Tsunade to safety, and Tsunade leaves a small Katsuyu slug to brief Naruto on Pain’s powers. Naruto and his strike force of frogs will be going in without backup since everyone left will just get in the way. Thanks to his Sage powers, Naruto quickly realizes what might have happened to Kakashi.

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He's in another flashback chapter, isn't he?

Because Sage mode greatly increases physical strength, Naruto easily throws the rhino summon in the air and then launches the puppy and cow summons in the air with his massive balls.

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Air combo time

Bun, Ken, and Hiro take care of the summons freeing up Naruto to take on the remaining Pain Realms. Naturally Naruto opts to run straight in and throw a punch.

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Animal on animal violence

Hungry Ghost Realm can absorb ninjutsu, and so Naruto opts to use a Frog Kata on him. With all Realm eyes on him, Naruto throws a telegraphed punch that Hungry Ghost Realm easily slips. Unfortunately for Hungry Ghost Realm, Frog Kata give you extra invisible range, sorta like what Asuma did with his trench knives. With Demon Realm smashed, Hungry Ghost Realm knocked out, Animal Realm neutralized by the frog squad, and God (and maybe Hell) Realm still on cooldown, Naruto seizes the opportunity to unleash his new attack.

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Although this 'new move' looks suspiciously like more Bunshin no Jutsu

Although Naruto seems monstrously strong, it’s important to remember that he isn’t even fighting the real Pain yet. Besides, those 6 realms can all be resurrected or replaced fairly easily. Still, it is definitely cool watching Naruto toss a rhino in the air. I wonder how his chakra level in Sage mode will compare to the real Pain, considering Pain was able to make impressive copies of Itachi and Kisame in an earlier arc. As for Kakashi, he’s still sitting around roasting marshmallows with the memory of his father, so once Kakashi has a meaningful chat I’m sure he’ll wake up. Kakashi was out of chakra after saving Chouji, which explains why Naruto couldn’t sense Kakashi’s chakra while in Sage mode.

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TJ January 17, 2009 at 3:19 pm

The hand seals to Naruto’s new move do look kinda similar to the Shadow Clone… maybe Naruto needs Shadow Clones to use the new technique (like Rasengan).

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Nekonron January 18, 2009 at 9:21 am

That’s definitely kage bunshin. I mean, have anyone ever seen Naruto actually doing any seals other than that? XD

He might be able to use all those complicated seals like Kakashi does, but chances are low that he will start using that before the end of the main story.

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saider May 13, 2009 at 3:07 am

naruto had hard time dealing/learning/mastering hand seals that’s why jiraiya and the others taught him techniques without the use of hand seals

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Kabitzin January 17, 2009 at 6:00 pm

That’s what I figure as well. There is a good chance it has to do with how Naruto cannot normally gather Sage energy while moving. They never showed us how Naruto solved this problem in training.

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TJ January 17, 2009 at 8:08 pm

yeah that would work if Naruto can gather energy with one or more of the clones while the other clones do the fighting.

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saider May 13, 2009 at 2:52 am

naruto solved the problem when one of pain receiver’s hold him..he cannot move that time and figured out something about gathering sage chakra while not moving…pain absorbed narutos’ sage chakra and turned into a stone frog.

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Kabitzin January 18, 2009 at 9:40 am

The only other techniques I can remember Naruto doing hand seals for are sexy no jutsu and the frog summoning. Rasengan doesn’t even use hand seals and the others are always done outside of the flow of battle.

Sadly, I think the harem no jutsu (sexy no jutsu plus kage bunshin no jutsu) might be the most complicated combination of hand seals that Naruto knows… :o

Edit: Wait, I lied, frog summoning (Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram) uses 1 more hand seal than harem no jutsu (Ram, Snake, Tiger, Ram).

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saider May 13, 2009 at 3:00 am

most of his techniques uses kagebunshin..kagebunshin is the only technique he mastered..he created his new techniques using the bunshin..
narutos’ technique without the use of kagebunshin are summoning technique and the collaboration technique using his toad gamakichi and his sister gamatatsu…

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Nekonron January 19, 2009 at 12:40 am

It’s still sad that he can only do up to 4 seals. But then again, I don’t think Tsunade had even showed that she could do any seals before.

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