Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage 1

Age : 29 Posts : 3145

Also know as Chapter 1 - Sasuke is a Scumbag Father.

http://www.mangareader.net/naruto-gaiden-the-seventh-hokage/1

Also Sakura doesn't remember if Sasuke had glasses... uh huuuuh.

Age : 94 Posts : 369

Oh, sweet! Is this going to be a continuous series like Naruto, or just something short?

Age : 32 Posts : 1178

It is meant to be something short, but don't be surprised if this drags on for at least a year.

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They're only releasing one chapter a month. I won't be surprised if it goes for two years.

Age : 31 Posts : 1900

Welp, Sarada is my favorite out of the group.

Age : 32 Posts : 1495

Great, I hated Sasuke's guts, now I can hate his whole family...

Sarada is the "Where do I come from though?" kind of emo. Can't wait to see how her emo evolves. So far she switched personalities only twice from a Hinata to a Wolverine, problem is, she's been around for only two issues.

Well done, Kishi, I missed you, you magnificent writer! When you're gone writing is so solid and good, what am I to rant about?!

Welcome back, old friend! Welcome back!

Age : 34 Posts : 718

Ruka wrote:: Well done, Kishi, I missed you, you magnificent writer! When you're gone writing is so solid and good, what am I to rant about?!

Welcome back, old friend! Welcome back!

This...this is sarcasm...right? -looks hopeful-

Age : 29 Posts : 3145

Kishi's writing is best writing! D:

Age : 33 Posts : 544

How come Sakura still has a loan to pay off? Like legit best medical kunochi in Konoha and one of 4 people to fight Kaguya.

Age : 34 Posts : 718

Two reasons:

1. She's useless
2. She spends what little money she does have on therapy trying to deal with the fact that she's raising Karin's child. As we can see from the way she claims to be her mother, the therapy isn't helping.

As a side note, she didn't really "fight" Kaguya very much. She was pretty much there as a chakra battery and to do a single punch. GG.

Age : 33 Posts : 544

Sakura isn't useless >_>. She and everyone else is just underpowered compared to Naruto and Sasuke. Always bugs me when someone says a character is useless when they're not. It's like when people make fun of Yamcha. Yes he's weak compared to Goku and the other, but he could still destroy the planet and kill everyone. It's like saying Green Lantern is useless when you compare him to Superman.

Age : 34 Posts : 718

First of all, the "Sakura is useless" thing is a running joke that's been around on the internet for about as long as Naruto has been around as a series. You shouldn't take it too seriously.

Secondly, the running joke exists because aside from a handful of instances(Fight against Sasori as a glaring example and her highest point) in most situations Sakura is involved in, she contributes almost nothing to the overall victories. It isn't just because other people are overpowered in comparison either. She stands around and worries half the time and hardly ever lives up to her potential as a character.

Lastly, it doesn't matter how powerful Yamcha is in the context of other characters. Once Z began, he was constantly defeated and outclassed by every opponent he ever faced outside of training. So it's pretty fair to call him "useless" in the context of the series since he never accomplishes anything of worthy note. Same thing with Green Lantern. If his track record was just as poor, then it would be fair game to call him useless as well. Thankfully, the Green Lantern is a bad ass and often saves many worlds from imminent doom. So he's not useless and anyone who claims as much is probably just a Green Lantern hater or a Superman fanboy unable to admit that the GL actually becomes stronger than SM in certain scenarios within the DC universe.

Aaaaaaany ways, that perspective in mind, I'm a Sakura hater. Hinata FTW. No waifu no laifu.

Age : 29 Posts : 3145

There is a general lack of strong females in Naruto. Sakura, Ino, Tenten and Hinata are probably the weakest of Konoha 12 and all act in support capacities. While Tsunade is physically strong, I don't think she ever really lived up to her potential - she was a prominent support, but of the Sages and of the Kages I would consider her the weakest. The 5th Mizukage was powerful, though weighed down by her love-life shenanigan bullshit. Chiyo was shown way past her prime, which is a shame, cuz she was probably quite a badass lady. Temari, while initially a force to be reckoned, was quickly degraded to a B or C-lister. Konan had almost no chance to shine, but she was probably the strongest female to be shown on Naruto, with the final exception of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. I'm sure there are some females that I missed out (Sound 4 Girl whose name escapes me) but the fact that I don't remember them speaks for itself.

This is in contrast to a character such as Android 18, for example, who was badass and remained badass throughout the whole show, even if she did take a backseat.

Age : 32 Posts : 1178

Konan was badass as fuck.

Also, we can look forward to 18 getting more time to be a badass from July, seeing as we'll get Dragonball Chou (Super) and Revival of F. So yeah, that should be good.

Age : 33 Posts : 544

Tenten isn't weak >_>. She doesn't get screen time and fought against the worst possible opponent for a projectile user to face. Preshippuden she could have beaten most the people in the exams save Gaara, Temari, Lee, And Neji. The sheer volume of sharp point objects she could send flying through the air would make a pincushion out of everyone else >_>.

Agreed Konan is badass. I really wish she had killed Obito. Sharingan powers are bs, she had him dead to rights.

Don't get me wrong, not much of a Sakura fan either. Hinata should have been leading lady. I just think Kisimoto was lazy with most of his female characters. So much so that it makes other characters in the series look bad. For instance it made Kakashi look like a dick for not training Sakura. If Jiraya hadn't gone to get Tsunade Sakura would have not even gotten medical or the super punches to save her from being a named background ninja.

Age : 34 Posts : 718

Bringing things back on subject with the chapter,

Did anyone else notice that Shikamaru became kind of a jerk? Boruto was playing with a clone so Naruto could be in his office doing work, and Shikamaru stopped it as if that were an active distraction to Naruto or something. What the heck man, what a party pooper.

Age : 33 Posts : 544

#Won the debate.

But yea he was being a bit of a dick. Naruto has chakra enough to spar for one clone to play with his son. Naruto had like what 100 clones all over the place during the war? He's likely gotten stronger since then too so Shikimaru has no right to act like that.

Age : 31 Posts : 1836

Pffff-HAHAHAHAHA! Good on you, Kishi! Making me continue to hate Sasuke and Sakura. It's like a drug to me at this point.

Anyway, Sakura may be one of the most disliked characters in the series (to me, Sasuke is the only person who's more loathsome than her), but you have to give her props for one thing. Even if Sarada isn't her child, Sakura was at least humane enough to take her in after Sasuke undoubtedly dumped Sarada on her. Really, unless we find out that Sasuke has no idea about Sarada's existence, and that it was Karin who actually left the child with Sakura, then the true villain here is everyone's favorite Uchiha.

Mugen Kousen wrote:: Bringing things back on subject with the chapter,

Did anyone else notice that Shikamaru became kind of a jerk? Boruto was playing with a clone so Naruto could be in his office doing work, and Shikamaru stopped it as if that were an active distraction to Naruto or something. What the heck man, what a party pooper.

I interpreted that as Shikamaru trying to tell Boruto to chill out over the fact that Naruto was always too busy to give him proper attention. After all, isn't the reason why Boruto keeps acting out the same reason why Naruto used to? A lack of parental attention? Based on Shikamaru's words, it was more like he was hoping to get Boruto to see things more maturely, and from Naruto's perspective. Well, that's how it seemed to me.

Hiruzen wrote:: Konan was badass as fuck.

Also, we can look forward to 18 getting more time to be a badass from July, seeing as we'll get Dragonball Chou (Super) and Revival of F. So yeah, that should be good.

Quite. The only other female character I wished that Kishimoto had given more screen (panel?) time to was Yugito, the Nibi's Jinchuuriki.

Sadly, Kishimoto has never been good with female characters. I don't recall where I read it, but he apparently admitted as much in an interview once, along with how difficult it was for him to draw "cute" or "pretty" females. Writing romance was also tough for him, hence why the series makes such an abysmal love story. And why he pretty much left the love aspect of the The Last to the movie's producers.

Ahhh... Resurrection F... Dragon Ball Super... So hyped. So very hyped.

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All I want to say is how much I love people who praised Konan.

*Vanishes*

Age : 32 Posts : 1178

Keos wrote:: All I want to say is how much I love people who praised Konan.

*Vanishes*

Who is this?

Age : 33 Posts : 544

Lol Konan is a badass. She could have beaten a bunch of the Akatsuki members. Hell in that moment she out explosioned spammed Diedara.

Age : 29 Posts : 1585

Hiruzen wrote:

Keos wrote:: All I want to say is how much I love people who praised Konan.

*Vanishes*

Who is this?

A person who's waiting for summer to return on the forum.

Age : 32 Posts : 1178

Keos wrote:

Hiruzen wrote:

Keos wrote:: All I want to say is how much I love people who praised Konan.

*Vanishes*

Who is this?

A person who's waiting for summer to return on the forum.

Good, good.