Gaara nearly captures Diadora twice, once inside a glob of sand and another with sand attached to Diadora’s arm. But Diadora proves to be a slippery one as he blasts out of the glob of sand and sacrifices his left arm to Gaara’s sand. Meanwhile, the remaining Sand Ninjas, seeing how difficult Gaara’s [...]
Deidara now finds himself in a semi-bind having run into Gaara, so he escapes back into the sky. Given that Gaara is now the Kazekage, the one thing that bothered me was the fact that his sand attacks seemed too slow versus Deidara’s bird. Maybe I’m not giving Deidara enough credit given that [...]
Although they still may be outmatched by Kakashi, Naruto and Sakura show that they work well together in the 2nd iteration of the bell test. Naruto’s fighting maturity becomes very apparent as he doesn’t rush mindlessly into situations anymore and is capable of planning a couple of steps ahead so that he doesn’t get [...]
It’s been quite a while (85 episodes) since we’ve touched on the manga storyline, but Naruto has returned back to its roots! It’s been 2 years since Konoha has last seen Naruto, but under the scrutinizing training of Jiraiya, Naruto has returned to the Hidden Leaf Village with a new look and hopefully more [...]
