Naruto 515

[ishime]

WHAT THE FUCK KISHIMOTO. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK.
I DON'T EVEN HAVE WORDS FOR THAT, SERIOUSLY.

The "Akatsuki vs ALL THE NINJA VILLAGES UNITED" war plot was damn ridiculous already when Akatsuki's troops amounted to Madara, Sasuke and Kabuto. (Ninja villages uniting. Sending thousands of men against a three-men group. Hahaha, good one sensei! TOO BAD IT'S NOT APRIL 1 ANYMORE. Go take a fucking encyclopedia and check the words NINJA and ARMY, please. Also FEODALISM and POLITICAL TENSION would not be a bad idea, given the way you handle the kage-daimyo relationships.)
Kabuto resurrecting Akatsuki's former members came out as somewhat cheap (hear the irony in these words), but believable, and damn pragmatic and logical on Kabuto's part. Also it made him behave more and more like Orochimaru, and I am interested in his fusion with his former boss / love interest creepy role-model.

The I-can't-even-remember-how-many Zetsus thing was dumb, ridiculous and nonsensical.
Seriously, do you ever think of the logical consequences of your worldbuilding? I mean, if ONE NINJA can produce an entire ARMY so damn EASILY, why did they ever bother assembling in villages? Why would any daimyo bother with feeding thousands of them? I'm sorry, but it doesn't make any damn sense to me. 
Not to mention the "ONE MAN. CREATING A N ARMY. OF  HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF NINJAS. AND HIDING THEM IN A CAVE. WTF." part.
...
If somebody mentions that damn Uchiha specialness, I'll murder them. Slowly. WITH A FUCKING SPOON.

And now this. I think it earns you the fucking medal for the cheapest plot ever to spoil a series.
Have you never heard of overkill? Kabuto reviving Akatsuki's dead fighters was cheap - his reviving the former kages was overkill. HIM REVIVING EVERY SHINOBI EVER KILLED IN THIS MANGA FOR THE SAKE OF CHEAP ANGST SCENES JUST FEELS PLAIN INSULTING FOR YOUR READERS TO ME. HONESTLY.

I was happy enough to see Ino in a chuunin vest AND in the special ops troops. It suits her so good. And finally, she might have a chance to shine a little!
...But then came Shikamaru and Chouji. WHAT IS CHOUJI DOING IN A FUCKING LONG-RANGE FIGHTERS DIVISION GODDAMNIT. STOP STICKING HIM WITH HIS FRIEND!  CHOUJI IS HIS OWN CHARACTER, NOT MERELY A FIFTH LIMB FOR SHIKA -SUE.

DID I MENTION HOW HARD IT IS NOT TO START YELLING "BULLSHIT!" EVERY TWO SECONDS I WASTE THINKING ABOUT THIS. My willing suspending of disbelief. It doesn't hurt, it's just plain DEAD. And rather rotten, at that point. Stop violating its corpse, please.

Comments

[flo-nelja.livejournal.com]

HIM REVIVING EVERY SHINOBI EVER KILLED IN THIS MANGA FOR THE SAKE OF CHEAP ANGST SCENES IS JUST PLAIN INSULTING FOR YOUR READERS
Je ne lis plus le manga depuis longtemps, mais ça ne me semble pas absurde d'imaginer Kabuto jouer autant sur le mindfuck et la torture psychologique que sur la force brute, surtout quand une partie de ses adversaires sont très forts, mais toujours des ados que ça peut pousser à faire des erreurs...

[sakoni.livejournal.com]

C'est quoi ce truc? On ressuscite tous les ninja SAUF CEUX D'OTO ?! (Et ne me dis pas qu'il y a Kimimaro. Je m'en fous, de Kimimaro.)

*pleure* Mais c'est méchaaaaant!

[roolley.livejournal.com]

I... have never felt so glad in my life that OM shut down and that I was too lazy to go look for another manga site, to be honest. I mean. I'd been going WTF at Naruto for a very long time anyhow, but what you're describing is - what - no. Kinda like the "Everyone in Konoha is killed - oh no wait they're being revived" Kishi pulled on us a while ago. Oh, and the "Madara controls the moon" or whatever it's called. I liked Naruto when the attacks were still reasonable, y'know, when they fought like ninjas, not like crazy-powered, big-bang level explosion... supermen. Or something (which is part of the reason why I dropped Bleach pretty early on, too.) But your description of what's been going on since I left is just making me stare at my screen with an open mouth and slowly blinking eyes.
... Oh god, you got me ranting about Naruto now...

In other news: Ino! In a special ops troops! MUST SEE.