Naruto

I mean Sage Mode still amps up your physical ability, durability and the power of your jutsu very high. Plus he has those cool chakra snakes.

Speaking of Sages, Hashirama was likely a Slug Sage wasn't he? So if there was an imperfect Slug Sage do you think they would start to look like Piccolo from Dragon Ball?

edited 28th Nov '17 9:36:41 PM by lycropath

Now that you brought it up.

I am disappointed we never saw a slug sage art. Would have been interesting to see.

I also agree with "I would like to see the Slug Sage mode".

Now, I don't actually have a problem with Sage Mode as a powerup, in fact it's by far my favourite powerup in Naruto (mainly because there's not really a way to cheat to get it and it has some very particular limitations).

My main problem is that it's too strong a piece on the board for the small scale battles that Boruto and friends are going through. For comparison, Sasuke clinched victory in the battle at the end of the first section of Naruto by using Orochimaru's Curse Mark of Heaven - which is essentially a weak, bootleg version of sage mode. (well, that and the 3 tomoe sharingan but I digress).

Naruto only learned actual Sage Mode when it was time to go up against Pain, and the Rinnegan is basically the antethesis of the small scale battles of the first part. Even if Mitsuki doesn't have Sage Mode mastered (and he doesn't) it's still really not something that should have been tossed into the ring so casually.

edited 28th Nov '17 10:30:54 PM by Sigilbreaker26

For a very lowkey episode I think this one really did a good job setting up Boruto's attitude for the movie. Some pretty good world building too on how ninja are in decline so the standards for graduation have gone way up in comparison and that many use the shinobi program to help themselves secure jobs in other fields by learning to be super-human.

Kakashi's reporter disguise returning was a fun surprise as was Orochimaru's amusingly good parenting.

edited 29th Nov '17 4:15:29 AM by lycropath

Agreed, though I don't care about Bort especially since there's a Bolt thread for you guys.

-sniffle-

I remember that cutscene being a pain in the ass in Ultimate Ninja Storm 3.

"Oh I see. That is noble of you. That would be justice...however, what about my family? My friends?"

edited 19th Dec '17 11:31:14 AM by FrozenWolf2

Troy Baker knocked that whole role and arc out of the freaking park.

So Kishi has started work on his new series, and I genuinely hope he will have learned from the problems that plagued late Naruto. And hired a consultant to teach him how to write female characters.

A science fiction story, huh?

We'll see how that goes.

Anyone know a good site for translated light novels?

Just seen a video where an interesting observation is made that Naruto's greatest achievement in breaking the curse of hatred is probably his positive influence on Sarada.

So I watched Naruto tonight and the episode was about a talking ostrich that learned ninjutsu.

What?

I probably should have had Coke & rum with dinner instead of a margarita.

What, you don't think ostriches can learn to talk as well as frogs and do ninjutsu as well as dogs? Racist.

Dont forget snakes, monkeys, and slugs.

edited 7th Jan '18 2:21:51 PM by OmegaRadiance

ooooh yeah the ninja ostrich. I'm pretty sure back when I reviewed eps here, I did a filler arc with him. I wanna say he's called Condor and he had an entry caw.

About the sage stuff last page (a month late, I know), Mutsuki has that because Orochimaru shoved Juugo's bits in him.

edited 7th Jan '18 6:27:16 PM by TheCuriousFan

Phrasing?

But that isn't sage mode. That's literally what the curse mark is.

edited 8th Jan '18 6:56:50 AM by Sigilbreaker26

Curse Mark comes from Jugo's affinity to Nature chakra

Curse mark comes from using implanted Jugo cells to allow the body to inhale natural energy/nature chakra.

Sage Mode involves absorbing natural energy by priming your own body to be able to use it.

Therefore, if Mitsuki is using Natural energy via Jugo's cells, then that's a curse mark or something like it, not Sage Mode.

Orochimaru had access to curse marks (and gave them to his subordinates like Sasuke and the Sound Four) but did not have access to Snake Sage Mode (Kabuto did later on, but he learned from the giant Summoning Snakes).

edited 8th Jan '18 3:39:05 PM by Sigilbreaker26

Weird that Orochimaru could never attain Sage Mode on his own. Just kept biting people and seeing what the results would be.

None of the Sannin had full Sage Mode for some reason. Jiraya got the closest but his was always imperfect (not that you'd really know the difference, he was still really strong).