Naruto Chapter 514 – Feint

Post Author: Bob

Hi folks, this week and next are midterm weeks for me, so I apologize ahead of time if this and next week’s reviews are a little on the rough side – I’ll be back to forming normal paragraphs soon I promise.

A pretty good chapter this week, I know a lot of people were probably expecting a bit of a brawl and ninjutsu show-off with Kabuto’s arrival, but I’m actually glad it turned out to be a feint attack. Knowing how intelligent Kabuto actually is, he must have know for sure how much the odds are stacked against him if he forced his way inside and then had to fight two Jinchurriki’s at once. The smarter option was definitely to take Yamato, and I bet many of you had came to this conclusion as early as lack week due to Kabuto’s comment about his interest in Yamato as a test subject. What I do have a gripe about though is just how easily the good guys were fooled into letting their guard down.. again!!! I mean it’s like déjà vu with the Kisame end scenario, but this time they have no real excuse because they more or less know that Kabuto is not to be trifled with and has more than a few tricks up his sleeve. I mean if the giant snake he summoned didn’t clue them in on not underestimating him, I don’t know what would. The other mistake was to send in a third-tier character like Aoba to go in and interrogate a top tier villain. Seriously, I feel that Aoba just isn’t suited for this type of mission; he should just stick to his desk job running errands for the hokage.

– with Yamato captured for Madara, I fear a lot of dark things might transpire. With Madara’s knowledge of the Hashirama genome and Kabuto’s knowledge of medicine and genetics, they could really mess around with his mokuton abilities.
– Kabuto’s mentioning of using Yamato to create better and stronger Zestu clones is a very scary thought, and a process of that magnitude has the potential to kill or seriously maim this character.
– I would have liked to see more exchanges between Deidara zombie and the Tsuchikage – they seem to have a history together because each seems to know the other’s tricks. Makes you wonder the history between them.
– I’m still lost on how exactly a ‘Dust Element’ would grant a person flying abilities.
– Armadillo penis strikeagain in this chapter as week well. Let’s hope this doesn’t become some weird running gag.
– Kurotsuchi being the grand daughter of Tsuchikage was a surprise but it seems to fit with the casual way she address the him. Her ‘lava element’ appears to be a kekkei genkei ability that combines water and earth to create some type of acidic goop – it bears so many similarities to the Mizukage’s technique. It seems everyone and their grand daughters has some kind of chakra fusion technique these days.
– so Madara did end up implanting the Rinnegan into himself, and the way he has spoken so far after his new appearance seems to suggest he is accustomed to this half sharingan- half rinnegan goofiness. Madara wasn’t just boasting when he said Nagato’s rinnegan originally belonged to him, I’m getting the feeling he knows full well how to unleash the power of his ‘new’ eyes.