Naruto Chapter 475: You Can Never Have Too Many Sharingans

Post Author: Bob

Not a bad chapter this week, a bit of action and lotsa new revelations abound. This chapter also raises even more questions regarding Danzo and also Madara to an extent. I’m sure everyone was looking forward to a Danzo versus Madara fight, but instead we got an exhibition battle as Madara toyed with Torune and Fuu, who have been confirmed to be from the Abarame and Yamanaka clan respectively. We don’t yet know Fuu’s exact heredity, but if these translations are correct, Torune is actually Shikuro Aburame’s son and thus Shino’s older brother (my bad, Shino father is Shibi Aburame). This fact raises to question the nature of how Roots recruits its members. As I understand it from Sai’s explanation, Roots mostly raises its members from childhood to become perfectly obedient members; the perfect candidates would be orphans such as Sai since they have no previous bonds left with the world. Yet in the case of Torune and Fuu, both belong to established clans in Konoha, and so are not orphans. I have a hard time believing that Shino’s father would not have known one of his sons was a part of Roots, so either he condoned Torune joining this organization or Torune willingly joined himself. This shows that Roots is not just in the business of training child soldiers out of orphans, but has been recruiting from the major clans of Konoha as well; makes you wonder just how deep this organization extends.

Torune and Fuu never had a chance against Madara, but their little scuffle does verify some of the limits of Madara’s phasing powers. Up until now, we’ve actually never seen Madara participate fully in a fight as he simply just evaded or allowed attacks to harmlessly phase through him. But in this battle, we see Madara physically interacting with his opponents and phasing into and out of solid form at will. This makes Madara nearly invincible in combat, but as Fuu and Torune observed, there is a way to hit him if you counterattack while Madara makes himself solid in order to attack. And although the two of them never managed to land a punch on Madara, Torune’s poisonous bugs jutsu did manage to infect Madara’s right arm, meaning he does have a susceptible physical form of some kind. But after Madara severed his own arm off without hesitation, the limb that fell to the ground didn’t look quite human — like it was filled with some kind of liquid.

Ultimately, this chapter raises more questions about Madara than it answered, and I’m still as confused as ever. One thing that still bothers me is Madara’s dimensional transport powers. In this chapter, Madara has once again shown us that he can suck in others into his dimension at will, effectively capturing them without any resistance. I pointed this out in the past, but if kidnapping people was this easy, why the heck did Madara not capture Naruto already if he wanted the Kyuubi so bad? He certainly has had plenty of opportunities in the past and has proven that he can locate Naruto with ease. Why bother with this war at all? Heck, why did he even bother sending other Akatsuki members to capture the Jinchuuriki when he could have popped in, sucked them in, and pop out? This makes me wonder if Madara has some ulterior motives he has yet to reveal. The way he has been running Akatsuki by carelessly letting almost all the key members die off shows that he really didn’t hold them in much value at all. Maybe his capturing of the Bijuu was more about creating chaos in the great countries than anything else. Think about it, none of the Akatsuki members bothered to hide themselves when they went hunting for Jinchuuriki, as if they wanted their attacks to be seen by as many people as possible. If Madara wanted to steal all the Bijuu efficiently, he should have done it as covertly as possible so that one village would not be able to warn the others. Yet, this whole operation was flashy and sloppy; and Madara did nothing to save his members like he did with Sasuke as they were killed off one after another. And now, with most of the major members dead, he declares war on the world? No, there’s got to be something more here. Madara wanted all the major countries to be united against him. But why? What’s he still hiding?

The last part of this chapter is probably the part where everyone’s yells out “Gross!” Oh Danzo, we knew you were always a power hungry egomaniac; taking Shisui’s Sharingan for your eye is one thing, but that Sharingan-covered arm of yours confirms that you are just bat-sh*t crazy. This is Orochimaru level crazy here, but I don’t even know if snake dude would have resorted to something like this. All those Sharingans likely came from the slaughtered Uchiha clan members. Wouldn’t it be twisted if some of those eyes belonged to people Sasuke knew, like his father? This whole thing raises a lot of questions about the role of Danzo in the whole massacre. I’m sure his intent all along was to steal the Sharingans from the slaughtered Uchiha clan, but didn’t anyone notice that a lot people were missing their eyes when they buried the bodies? Well, whatever the reason, Danzo is still one sick bastard. I don’t know what kind of powers he has with all those Sharingans, but I doubt even one of them is a Mangekyou Sharingan. So, there’s probably no way he can beat Sasuke. But let’s see what happens next week.

Gotta Catch 'Em All!