Naruto Chapter 525

[Carnage]

Anyone else finding the random new character developments this late into the series quite ridiculous?

[MFauli]

Anyone else finding the random new character developments this late into the series quite ridiculous?

Ever since a year ago so, yes.
Just repeating what others already wrote, but: So many awesome characters that are now going to be wasted for that "cool war". :/
And the power levels are SO ridiculous, there´s no element of excitement, since it could totally go either way.

Remember why battles in the past were interesting?
Naruto/Sasuke vs Zabuza -> two genin against a monster, how will they make it?
Naruto/Sasuke vs Orochimaru -> two genin against a monster, how will they make it?
Rock Lee vs Gaara -> that funny eyebrows against the story arc´s final boss, how will he make it?
and so on
and so on

Here, we have Kages, Super-Jounin, legendary characters and Naruto and Sasuke in the pipeline. Strictly logically, the dead should win, since there should be a higher number of dead Kage-level people than living ones. But, speaking in a Kishimoto-fashion, anything goes. And that´s why this is boring. I want clear setups, no "and suddenly, character x pulls unknown special attack out of his anus and reverses the tides". Yeah, that´s why I hate One Piece.