Quote Originally Posted by Death BOO Z
a perfect example of Kishi digging himself a hole, and then shooting his leg and falling into it.

Naruto: it's my new move, the shurikan rasengan!
readers: oh, a new rasengan, looks like naruto finally gets a ranged attack that makes him a more balanced fighter.
naruto: it's the most perfect, awesome, never seen before attack! not even the 4th could do this.
readers; ooh, this better be badass.
naruto plays out the new rasengan in the worst possible way, and manages to destroy his only real win in the past two years.
readers: this is just crap. guess we need to wait for another power up montage for naruto to get better, maybe something original that's not a rasengan.
*a year later*
naruto: I've now mastered the perfect rasengan shurikan, believe it or not, but it can hit distanced enemies.
readers: yawn.
I've got to agree with this. Even from the beginning, It wouldn't have made sense to me that Naruto's new rasengan could be thrown, even if I kind of wanted it to be. That doesn't make things better...he didn't need a stronger rasengan, he needed ranged techniques or taijutsu making him capable of connecting with his close range techniques without needing to pour his soul and ours into the effort. He's getting the latter with this Sage training, so I'm happy about that. But it's not the awesome excitement it could've been, more like "about time...hrrrm...I wonder what's on channel 5 right now.."