Naruto Chapter 563 – Win

Post Author: Bob

Another magnificent chapter this week, the battles just keep getting more epic by the week. We are closing in on the battles that will win or lose this war for the alliance, and the big guns are finally being brought out into the battlefield. This week has the five kages united in a pitched battle against the Edo Tensei Madara while Naruto and Killer Bee go head first into the fray versus Tobi and his bodyguard of Edo Tensei Jinchuuriki’s. It’s gonna be one heck of a brawl next chapter, so it’s not surprising to see Kishi take a break next week to take a breather. And before I go further, a big thanks to Sothe for covering for me on last week’s chapter when I took my own break.
So the kages are uniting as a team to defeat this manifestation of Madara. It’s a great risk to bring the leaders of the five most power villages together to fight against one of the most powerful man in the history of the Naruverse, but the stakes have gotten this high. In a split second, they lost nearly an entire army to Madara’s power, the kages know they must step onto the field and put this villain down again if they want to prevent another senseless loss of lives and have any chance of winning this war.

Despite the kages having less than cordial relationships in the past, it’s surprising to see how well they can coordinate together and benefit from their respective specialties when they have had no preparation going into this fight. This Madara can’t be underestimated, he has the combined powers of his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan as well as the Rinnegan – one mistake or miscalculation will be exploited to its fullest by Madara. It looks like the two attackers on the kage team are the Raikage and Mizukage. As always, the Mizukage is great at controlling the shape of the battlefield with her water and acid techniques. This distracts Madara long enough for the Raikage to rush in and do what he does best – get in close and start kicking ass. For now, the Tsuchikage is going to a support role to augmenting the Raikage’s speed and power by manipulating his density. The Tsuchikage is a powerful ranged offensive force in his own right, but I’m guessing he’s putting his money on the Raikage’s insane strength and speed to break through that Susanoo armor of Madara’s where his ranged dust jutsus might not do the trick. Tsunade and Gaara are stuck on the defense for now, but I wouldn’t seeing either of them going in for some shots at Madara too.

I was surprised that even Madara’s sharingans/rinnegans aren’t fast enough to keep up with the speed of the Raikage. Madara was barely able to defend against the Raikage’s first assault, but with the Tsuchikage increasing his speed even more by density manipulation, that Susanoo armor may be coming down fast. Still, I feel like as if Madara is just toying with the kages for now. We haven’t seen much of the offensive force he had been unleashing on the rest of the army just a few chapters back, and neither have we seen him use any of his RInnegan powers on the kages yet. Madara only used one counter attack the entire chapter while being assaulted, and spent the majority of the fight defending. If Madara used some of the Rinnegan’s abilities, he could’ve nullified many of the kage’s jutsus. And let us not forget that Madara’s Sharingan can be unleashed at any moment as well and put a stop to the kage’s battle plans with a powerful genjutsu. It feels like he’s just observing and letting the kages think they might have a chance of winning before unleashing his full force onto them.

Next chapter, Naruto has smashed head first, literally, into Tobi in a bold move (I’m surprised that Tobi allowed Naruto to actually hit him and not used his phasing ability). It’s a very risky move and I’m surprised the kages gave permission to intentionally confront the person who is out to capture him. Even with Killer Bee with him, Naruto is facing against Tobi and seven of the nine Jinchuurikis, you could almost say Naruto is playing right into Tobi’s hand. Nonetheless, it is Naruto’s chance to get another shot to take down the man behind all of this madness.