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[Noonan]

Actualy Mut@t@ has a few points, as much as I disklike sasuke, at this point his character has had significantly more of his background revealed, We know more about what naruto is doing, but we have no idea whom naruto really is. Sasuke at least is getting some character development, and his singular focus on itachi is being much better explained by the current storyline than it was previously.

Aside from that I have another concern - the anime has a few more episodes on the Tsunade storyline, and then the VERY brief hospital storyline which will pretty much just be Rock Lee and Guy doing flashbacks for 3 weeks in a row followed by Naruto and Sasuke's first little dust up. And then this story line will start.

So if the Anime catches up to the begining of the "Chase" storyline and we still don't know how it ends, do you think we should all go into the Anime forum and start a thread called "Manga readers unable to spoil, this darn story arc still isn't over" [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

[Lefty]

the anime will take a break or do another arc that dosen't appear in the manag just to pad it out so they can let the manag get ahead. But yeah we should start a thread like that pretty soon. But all in all we the manga reader's are in for an intresting ride.

[hopeknight]

Originally posted by: Noonan
Actualy Mut@t@ has a few points, as much as I disklike sasuke, at this point his character has had significantly more of his background revealed, We know more about what naruto is doing, but we have no idea whom naruto really is. Sasuke at least is getting some character development, and his singular focus on itachi is being much better explained by the current storyline than it was previously.

Aside from that I have another concern - the anime has a few more episodes on the Tsunade storyline, and then the VERY brief hospital storyline which will pretty much just be Rock Lee and Guy doing flashbacks for 3 weeks in a row followed by Naruto and Sasuke's first little dust up. And then this story line will start.

So if the Anime catches up to the begining of the "Chase" storyline and we still don't know how it ends, do you think we should all go into the Anime forum and start a thread called "Manga readers unable to spoil, this darn story arc still isn't over" [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

Ah but you forget the animes plan to add a new character, therefore filler episodes might start happening after the current anime arc, so the manga should have time to finish the "Chase" arc before it starts up in the anime. Although, it makes you wonder just how many filler episodes they can come up with this character. It is a frightening thought indeed.

Either way, I think the rest of the Naruto/Sasuke battle will be fairly short once the flashback ends. I'm guessing after a little more fighting, Sasuke will go to Lvl 2 and kick the crap out of Naruto and leave.

[AlbinoFury]

Originally posted by: Noonan
Actualy Mut@t@ has a few points, as much as I disklike sasuke, at this point his character has had significantly more of his background revealed, We know more about what naruto is doing, but we have no idea whom naruto really is. Sasuke at least is getting some character development, and his singular focus on itachi is being much better explained by the current storyline than it was previously.

Aside from that I have another concern - the anime has a few more episodes on the Tsunade storyline, and then the VERY brief hospital storyline which will pretty much just be Rock Lee and Guy doing flashbacks for 3 weeks in a row followed by Naruto and Sasuke's first little dust up. And then this story line will start.

So if the Anime catches up to the begining of the "Chase" storyline and we still don't know how it ends, do you think we should all go into the Anime forum and start a thread called "Manga readers unable to spoil, this darn story arc still isn't over" [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

few more episodes? more like 15ish or so, i mean you have the whole week before the fight, two big ass tsunade flashbacks, and the fight itself is long as hell

[Noonan]

Well I was exaggerating a bit - lets see,

Assuming - each episode covers 2 manga chapters on average, and that neither the manga or the anime takes any breaks for the next few months.

Anime Episode 90 ended with the end of chapter 158, (vol 18 of manga)
The Tsunade storyline - including the 3 Sannin fight goes all the way till the end of volume 19 (ch 171)
so about 14 chapters to cover (159 to 171 inclusive) or 7 episodes of anime

Then there is Volume 20 - Giant pile of flashbacks and character development at konohana + Naruto/Sasuke 1 - this is chapters 172 - 181 (inclusive) so 11 chapters or 5.5 anime episodes.

So the question really becomes, will the Naruto/Sasuke fight and flashbacks be over in the next 12 weeks?

Or will we be watching somebody elses flashback at that point and still going GET ON WITH IT ALREADY!!!!

LOL

all things considered, other than how much the 1 on 1 fights got stretched out in vol 22 and 23 this a been a good story arc - since this one has ended with us finally getting to see why sasuke is such a doink I hope the next story arc gives at least as much development to one of the other "Main" Characters.