yea - the relying on "omg, good thing i just learned a new jutsu" sucks.

neji was the only one that didn't have to resort to that in order to beat kidoumaru

not to be mean, but i sincerely hope chouji and kiba die. akamaru can live - he's cool. but i think it has been a trend that these two characters have the ugliest fights. (vs sound, vs naruto)

just kill these two waste of manga space characters off. if these guys weren't around, we'd already be at naruto vs kimimaru already! At minimum - make them goto the hospital like Lee, and never talk about them again. poor Lee =(.

lack of originality is a killer now...
if i wanted to see the kiba fight, i would just watch kenshin beat the mummy face silly
if i wanted to see people eating pills/beans wutever, i would watch dbz (not that I ever would).

"kishimoto's getting lazy"? i was under the impression that the story line for naruto had been completed and the manga was just being released. kishimoto did comment that naruto WAS his favorite work, meaning it was finished? they just haven't published them all yet, and finalized the comics.

And would a mod kindly explain why the topic about chuushin was closed?
I think it's important to elucidate that subject.