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just finished reading naruto! through fandom osmosis i obviously had been spoiled on all the important plot points but it still made for an interesting read.

pros:

kakashi (from accounting?), killer bee, sakura are the goat

lesser goats are yamato (bro got thanos'd at the start of the last arc lmao), shikamaru (ofc), might guy (rip rock lee character arc ig)

sasuke getting disrespected by killer bee and madara disrespecting everyone was the best parts of the manga you feel me

sasuke kills danzo like thank fucking god and it is also the best fight engineering tbh like the guy who has been victimised by the system perpetuated by danzo is killing danzo also danzo harvested all those eyes from uchiha clan like wtf

IN A VACUUM sasuke and naruto final fight ties everything up. all things considered having this big fight right after obito->madara->kaguya+zetsu made no fucking sense

found it funny that sasuke was acting so edgy but his kill count is so low like theres this scene during orochimaru time when he stands over a 100 bodies and they're like damn sasuke you didnt kill a single one of them. and then when he met edotensei!itachi he basically did the equiv of laying down his arms so itachi could talk no jutsu him out of massacring konoha except itachi was like 'i have nothing more to say to you' like lmaoooo

also sasuke did the funniest thing ever by reviving orochimaru to get orochimaru to edo tensei the hokages to get THEM to talk no jutsu him into not massacring the village

sasuke being completely absent during pain arc and last arc (until the end) is really fucking funny like what did he even do man. walk around, kill time, sit around watching itachi genjutsu kabuto

tobirama being a hater in contrast to hashirama is the funniest thing ever and i love the dynamic

tobirama telling his brother to shut up

haha obito and kakashi shared sharingan panels :)

TRIPLE KUCHIYOSE SUMMONING BY TEAM 7

lee stealing neji's eyebrows meme

shikamaru's dad telling him to burn his pornos

might guy 8 gates vs ten tails madara stole rock lee's wig actually might guy just stole rock lee's whole schtick

the idea that kakashi would have murked himself after witnessing the death of almost everyone in his lives if it weren't for might guy is so funny

how tf did sasuke and naruto lie on the ground with their severed arms forming a heart shaped blood puddle and end up married not to each other

you cant tell me bkg is not based on sasuke but if like bkg didnt have a baggage of a dead brother and clan, same for aizawa with kakashi except kakashi is just cooler cos hrksh flopped

cons:

did NOT expect a prophecy and reincarnation plot point

sasuke was so annoying whenever team 7 met up with him and tried to get him to go back like they shld have just forgotten about him like sai told them to

naruto feels too much of a golden boy at the end of the madara arc when he starts to talk no jutsu obito if that makes sense. plus he gets so power upped its like an automatic win button for any fight now, anytime hes in trouble hes like 'omg kurama give me more chakra dattebayo' and suddenly hes fine

also his friendship w kurama was shoved in so abruptly like kurama literally (really) talked to him for the first time during the last arc and warmed up to him in the middle of the fight with madara(??) like cmon at least drag it out and start during the pain arc

team 7 went for like 1 mission and you expect me to believe now they wld die for sasuke

sasuke (tries to) kill sakura like at least 2 times and one of those moments happens 7 chapters before the end of the manga how are they still together

how the fuck did naruto say 'wow... sasuke and i really r compatible... wind exists to boost fire...' with a straight face like cmon

pencil holder neji :( it felt like he rly just died to further the naruhina plot point like why

obito obsessing an unhealthy amount over dead rin like ig its consistent

how is infinite tsukuyomi even a paradise like bro you could genjutsu yourself to the same effect if that even makes any sense and it wouldn't be any diff + what happens if the chakra used to sustain tsukuyomi runs out anyway what im saying is that sasuke was more onto something with the whole destroying and building anew that what obito and madara were on

rip sakura. girl was like 'i can fight with you two now' w kaguya and then instantly had to be saved by naruto (this also happened with sai 'i am part of team 7 too you know!' like rip)

TALKING ABOUT WHICH they're literally in the final fight against kaguya who transports them into the lava and sasuke saves naruto with his summoned hawk but doesn't give a shit about sakura (and kakashi) and naruto has to point out WHERES SAKURA and turns out kakashi saved sakura (and obito) with his quick thinking and reflexes like what the fuck sasuke this was ur future wife what was kishimoto thinking

also sasuke right after that states that only naruto and sasuke can seal kaguya meaning if they die its game over meaning everyone else was second priority (so basically just abandon kakashi and sakura)

wait in retrospect literally after that sakura and obito go on to save sasuke via tping to where he is like????/ sasuke you kinda suck ass methinks

naruto and sasuke going from tag teaming to ripping off each others arm is the stupidest segue ever

SAKURA SHOULD HAVE LEARNED GENJUTSU AND USED IT IN BATTLES BECAUSE WHAT WAS THE POINT OF KAKASHI SAYING SHE HAD POTENTIAL IN GENJUTSU IF-

why the fuck did kishimoto feel the need to do the thing where a side character goes 'i can help now!! we can pitch in to support!! we are not weak anymore!!' and then get instantly bodied so they need to be bailed out by naruto

anyway it just goes to show writing climaxes and final battles r hard i guess. the only good 'fighting' mangas that had these r like. fma. chihayafuru (except i forgot how the fight ended). (bnhas kinda sucked for me cos i feel nothing for shiggy) (bleach final arc kinda sucked ass in general and ichigo shld have just ended after losing his powers as closure). oh but konosuba is pretty good tho (konosuba is just good fullstop lmao the ln is so tight in mixing plot points disguised as filler)

anyway if kishi or whoever did a rewrite of itachi pov id be down bc imagine being that guy who massacred his entire village for his brother and then spent years rogue in an organization and then died and then edo tensei'd to disrespect kabuto and then have the best talk no jutsu in the manga w naruto and sasuke which he could have used before he died on sasuke

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Yeah there is no way tsubaki would want to be Mikuni's Servamp after the whole Sakuya illusion thing

my bad, i misread, tsubaki promised mikuni that he can be the 9th servamp's eve, aka the revived count (who will be the 9th servamp once he revives). which is still really funny because obviously mikuni trusts tsubaki and obviously mikuni being the eve of two servamps, one of which used to be an eldritch semi-immortal with questionable morals and has committed mass killings 8 times will not have any bad consequences for him

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kinda sucks that naruto doesn't really have a close gang he vibes with for most of the story (in contrast to my fave shonen fairy tail) like we could have had something with sai and sakura doing quests together (and sure sasuke and sakura like why did they do a total of 1 combat mission together the drawn out chunin exams arc kinda suck ass actually) but mainly naruto is just going off on his own to get trained to get increasingly more powerful which is :( meanwhile you have natsu who shares 1 brain cell with gray who shares 1 brain cell with erza who draws on her other brain cell to keep both of them in check while lucy is sitting to the side doing the tsukkomi anyway what im saying is that naruto's dynamics with his friends kinda fall short like even ichigo had closer buddies who tag team fought with more than one (1) person who wasn't their rival and reincarnated enemy/brother/friend/idrfk

like what happened to teamwork in the final arc, teamwork is just naruto spamming biju blast and asking kurama for more chakra when the enemy bodies him or summoning more monsters we only really get to see cool combo moves... against... kaguya... the second final boss... what the hell

actually why didnt we see more of naruto tag team battles like why do i only remember him fighting alongside like sasuke and bee

and did he ever do combo moves w bee its just liek double bijuu blast or sum shit

anyway that was the saddest part about naruto like we could have had named combo moves like hardcoded ino shika cho but for everyone. DOUBLE FUCKING LARIAT BUT NARUTO AND SAKURA OR SOMETHING. EVEN NARUTO AND KAKASHI AT THIS POINt ILL TAKE ANYTHing. DOUBLE RASENGAN W NARUTO AND KONOHAMARU.

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servamp chapter 135 spoilers

ok but is anyone really going to buy the bullshit that mikuni is gonna be tsubaki's eve

EDIT: i misread, it actually reads the 9th's servamp/revived count's eve as promised by tsubaki. still bullshit tho

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servamp chapter 127 spoilers

lawless & licht are in this chapter and thats all i need for it to be a good chapter

looks like licht didn’t suffer for being shot in the arm. shame

tanaka: *twirls hair* remember that time lawless killed a bunch of his eves? isn’t he so secy for committing such war crimes in this economy

oh look we finally get to see that person licht promised to play piano(?) for way back in the first greed arc

he’s going to die before licht can fulfill the promise isn’t he

yeah

literally the moment licht refused to play the piano for him and said Yeah.... Maybe... in the future when I’m GOOD :) i think we all knew what was going to happen next in a smatter of dramatic irony

lawless flashbacking to licht saying he made a promise to his friend: You had a FRIEND????

lawless: licht, you can’t just call a random guy you met in a cafe for a few days a friend

WAIT HUH

HUH

OH

GODDAMMIT I SHOULD HAVE KNOW FROM THE CAFE SCENE

I THOUGHT IT LOOKED LIKE THAT GLUTTONY CAFE SCENE IN INNER GLUTTONY

IT IS BECAUSE IT’S NICCO

licht: *unloads his backstory and thanks lawless for having met him just to make him feel better and refute that they should have never met*

me: 🤨🏳️‍🌈❓

this is the second time someone has ever thanked lawless for existing (the first time being kuro thanking him because of lawless confronting him he was able to overcome his past of killing the guy who unfairly massacred his village to resurrect him) because of how shitty his life has been so far

i feel like the scene where licht tells lawless to do the right thing (exorcise demons or whatever) with or without him is a big ass death flag right here

ngl nicco looks so happy and cute with short hair like look at him!!! my man is thriving

(btw can you believe tsubaki appeared and vanished never to be seen again at the start of this arc? and that kuro and mahiru arrived at the scene to stop him but kuro just got impaled and both of them were teleported to fantasy england, missing an entire gluttony arc because that was a thing)

oh nooooo tsurugi is dead (no corpse found and you know what that means)

misono’s father indirectly saying that mikuni turned out like That because he had no friends huh

and that’s it for the chapter i guess! comment if you think kuro and mahiru are going to be thrown out of the plane next chapter (lol)

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In terms of Shonen manga that mainly focus around battles/conflict, the rankings go something like this:

Fairy Tail the indisputable GOAT

Mangas that know how to end:

Kimetsu no Yaiba (solid themes, characters, final fight, ending)

AssClass (goddamn does the writer know how to make side characters good AND a great final fight and ending)

Jigokuraku (just solid)

FMA (opening scenes are a bit shaky but gets really good by the time they arrive at the wintry area)

Akame ga Kill is kinda good actually

Mangas that are great but have shitty subplots/endings:

Haikyuu (it was so good but it should have run for longer iykyk)

BNHA (It hasn't ended so reserve judgement until then maybe?But Shiggy is boring af so. Yeah. But Bakugou is the GOAT.)

Naruto (so many good side characters)

Shokugeku no Souma (literally tournament arc manga, also last arc doesn't exist to me), Promised Neverland (fine)

Noragami (is ok ig except fuck Yukine in the last arc bro)

Jojos can have a shoutout but there's different things wrong with each part so

The rest:

.......Bleach (the last FEW arcs kinda sucked bro)

I think I've read Tokyo Ghoul but like I must have erased 80% of it I don't remember much about it lol

...anything else ive read arent really worth a comment

Other comments:

I wish Act-AGE wasn't axed

I WISH Baby Steps wasn't axed

Praying that Akanebanashi doesn't get axed for some reason or other

I am reading Owari no Seraph to the end because I WILL see it to the end despite Guren being the most overpowered mf with plot armour who needs to die

I haven't read One Piece or CSM or SnK and most likely never will

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so The Tale of the Outcasts is just Servamp but more furry 

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servamp 123 spoilers

heh is it gay to swap guns with the guy you’ve taken hostage and supposed to kill

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i wonder if anyone is gonna translate the dnk manga now that vol 1 tl is complete

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servamp 121 spoilers

ildio and lawless really be like:

traumadumps their tragic backstory

‘everyone i love is dead’

‘wow i really hate life i’m pretty fucked up huh ha ha’

eve uses the talk no jutsu

literally this image

snap back to reality

get a huge powerup and start beating up antagonist of the current arc

antagonist: BAKA NA! 

also now that their heart is no longer dead, they are smiling 

they really are brothers

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servamp 122 spoilers (2)

lily and touma fans rn: 

meanwhile, tsubaki, hugh and tetsu fans:

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the absolute clownery of lawless to look at ildio’s breakdown with an ‘ugh’ face then repeat the exactly same mental breakdown sequence a hundred years down the road

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servamp 120 spoilers

buries hand in head LAWLESS WATCHING HIS SIBLING GOING CRAZY UNAWARE THAT HE WILL BE THE SAME IN THE FUTURE

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servamp chapter 119 thoughts

first of all, lawless serotonin is real

ildio and nicco have some kinky foreplay where they beat the shit out of each other, i kid you not, some of those poses r suggestive as hell

ildio believing in the survival of the strongest but then getting distracted by a weak kid and dying because of it is so funny

excuse me but lawless being the first thing that you see when you wake up from death??? honestly gave me the largest burst of serotonin

gloved lawless is a very big mood, good, good

the count, right after making ildio: aight imma head out

also the count: remember to pay your respects to your BIG BROTHER SLEEPY ASH, who is totally not just CHILLING OUT IN A FOREST SOMEWHERE WITH HIS BOYFRIEND and MAY OR MAY NOT BE BORED AND THAT’S NOT GOOD ok bye

*grabs count by the neck and shakes him* you are the reason lawless thinks kuro loves you and is your favourite child i can’t

fuck yeah i hope next chapter is gonna be just lawless bringing ildio around on a gourmet trip, introducing him to mcdonalds and fries or something

ildio: what is this

lawless: my brother that is what they call the food of the gods - a burger

ildio:

ildio: holy fuck

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servamp 122 spoilers

okay but can we get hugh and tetsu (who has been shot for a year and a half now) back in the manga

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lots of things happening this chapter