Manga Minds

How do you do Jiraiya?

2008-05-20T16:12:00.001-07:00

This matter have disturb me for some time. You know, when Masashi suddenly throws the story of Jiraiya infiltrating Rain Hidden Village / Amagakure in Naruto Manga, I really thought that Masashi was just strolling some time while he thinks about what to do with Sasuke.

Until now, after losing his arm while dueling with Pain and managed to unlock the secret of Pain's identity, there is no more story of how Jiraiya is. The last thing we knew was Jiraiya got drowned on water. That's it. As if Masashi wanted to make all Naruto Manga fans thinking that Jiraiya no longer alive.

I think Masashi left this part as an answer to future problems. Masashi stop Jiraiya story on purpose, until he can show up from neverland and solve the puzzle. I've been hypothesize some scheme. Those scheme were:

Jiraiya still alive and he was captured by Pain.
Jiraiya got drowned and follow the stream, but managed to escape the grimreaper. And then, he needed some time to recover his wound first and practicing Ninjutsu with just one hand.
This would be the worst story. Jiraiya was already in heaven (or hell would be more suitable :D ) and Naruto will make revenge to Pain.

Up till now, only those three hypothesis that came into my mind. Do you have another thought regarding this matter? Please add your thoughts in the comment board :D

The Origin of Sharingan

2008-05-18T10:20:00.001-07:00

Naruto Manga Chapter 400 has been released and available for download in the internet. It was still about Sasuke and Madara's chit chat about the past of Konoha... and it was a little bit boring...

However, I'm not gonna dwell on it. What's on my mind is, after all that talk with the so called Konoha's Founding Father, why do Masashi doesn't enlighten us about the origin of Sharingan. It's been quite a mistery since the only reference we have about it was only when Kakashi said that Byakugan was rumored to be the origin of Sharingan.

That time, Kakashi information was still relevance since we only see a glimpse of Sharingan's ability like copying Ninjutsu, predict movements and sensing Chakra flows. While the information we have on Byakugan was the almost 360 degree vision and Keirakukei (Chakra channels) viewing ability.

But now, we could see that Neji Byakugan doesn't gave us any surprise even after three years of intensive training from the Head of Hyuugas. While Sharingan have been surprisingly introduce us many new ability like dimensional shift, powerful genjutsu, undying flames (amaterasu), impenetrable defense (Sushanoo) and controlling the Kyuubi.

With all that, it seems that Byakugan have come to a dead end in development and Sharingan unfold more and more powerful abilities.

It's not cool because I still remember how strong Hyuuga Neji was as a genin. And now, Sasuke seemed like being the strongest ex-genin of Konoha. It makes Konoha Jounin Sensei looked like useless teacher.

I hope Masashi will came up with a more interesting approach considering this matters...

Naruto Manga Chapter 399 - Oh yeah.. My Naruto Hypothesis Match

2008-05-10T17:45:00.001-07:00

I thought I would have to wait until next week for this Naruto 399 chapters, but I don't have too. When I visit my favorite manga spot, they already have Naruto Manga Chapter 399 released. Oh.. I'm so happy about it :D

The chapters still about the chitchat between Sasuke and Madara. But some of my hypothesis I've made were relevance with the fact in Naruto chapter 399. I never thought that Konoha would discriminates Uchiha who were titled as Konoha elites. I thought when Sasuke's Father told him about Police Department in Konoha with an Uchiha's mark, it was an approval of their strength. But Madara said it was to repress the power of an Uchiha clan...

Well... I'm not sure whether Madara told the truth or not. I became suspicious that Madara tried to create some conflict between Sasuke and Konoha... Hmm... We have to read the later chapter to find out.
Click here to download Naruto Manga Chapter 399.

Naruto Chapter 399 - Gotta wait to see my hypothesys rolls...

2008-05-01T18:56:00.001-07:00

I've been waiting for today to get my hands on Naruto Chapter 399 scanlation. But they didn't came up.. That's because there is a Golden Week in Japan. So there are no new Weekly Shonen Jump that is gonna came up, along with Bleach, Psyren, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Hunter X Hunter and several other manga series I don't read...

Well, guess I have to be patient untill 8/9 May to get more Naruto manga scanlation.. I hope Masashi Kishimoto come with a good story next week. Maybe I'll spend my time writing for Bleach or Psyren manga series for this week... Until then, be patience for the next release :D

Naruto chapter 398 - Madara Throws His Story

2008-04-26T20:24:00.001-07:00

In this chapter, Naruto story still goes around Sasuke being held up by Madara. It's unpleasant that Itachi was dead --Madara said it. Well, Itachi has been a very powerful character, he even made Jiraiya the Sannin surprised with his nijutsu.

Ok, let's get back to Naruto manga chapter 398. This manga chapter is boring though, don't expect any ninja fight, there were only.... Ooops, I don't want to spoil the interest of people who haven't read the latest naruto chapter yet.

I would like to discuss what Uchiha Madara said to Uchiha Sasuke. In this manga chapter, Madara (almost) reveal the story behind "Uchiha Elimination" done by Itachi. Madara stated that there are 3 people left in Konoha that knows the reason behind that Sasuke traumatic event. And more surprisingly, the very accusation to Itachi was ordered by Konoha top brass... Now... now... Things get pretty complicated...
I've came up with a few hypothesis. Let's give it a roll.

Assuming that Konoha top brass was on the good guy side, maybe Uchiha clan has a hidden agenda to overthrow Third Hokage leadership and gaining Konoha supreme controls. Uchiha was feared in Konoha due to their unique chakra and Bloodline LImit manifested through the Sharingan. At that time, Uchiha Clan also gaining control over the Konoha Police department, that was some authority there... Pretty sensible right? :)

Assuming that Konoha top brass was on the bad guy side, and the culprit was Danzou. It could be that stiff and silly man like Danzou has see the Uchiha as a threat for Konoha. Also Danzou wanted his Anbu-ne to be the highest authority in Konoha and the Police Department controlled by Uchiha was an obstacle for that purpose. At that time, Itachi was an Anbu member, so it is possible that he undergo that "you only have your mission" like training.

Again, assuming that Konoha top brass was on the bad guy side. Maybe the Konoha council wanted to know the secret behind Sharingan. For that reason, they wanted to conduct a research to examine the secret. They would need a lot of Uchiha bodes to do that...

Again... that was just a few hypothesis that came to my mind. It could be wrong or right. Also, we can ignore what Madara said in Naruto Manga chapter 397, that Itachi was a saviour for Konohagakure... So it looked like that Konoha top brass was on the good guy side.. But who knows? it could be another Hyuuga incident or anything else.. I can't wait for Naruto manga chapter 399 to be released.

Do you have any other minds about this Konoha - Uchiha matters? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comment;)

PS: You could get a Naruto chapter 398 Binktopia release via this Mangashare links (you might need to register first)