Naruto Storytime Volume 41 (Part 2)

Sakura cute

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>SO HERE'S THIS GIANT ENEMY CRAB

>spent 3 years with 3 random kids with 0 shinobi skills
>made them top tier shinobis

>spend 3 years with naruto the kid with good skills and a unlimited chakra fox
>DIDN'T TEACH HIM SHIT

WHY???

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>Jiraiya was waiting to fuck Konan this whole time

Same, but ...

Is her having a navel piercing actually canon?

We've been robbed, Minatobros. Akatsuki was supposed to be OUR organization! Konan was supposed to be OUR waifu!

GIANT ENEMY CRAB

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When did Nagato make a contract with crabs? Why did the crabs agree to this?

Damn it I wanted to make that joke.

CRAB BATTLE

wow, I sure hope the other Rinnegan users make use of this ability

He had another set. You still get your Teacher vs Student moment, so what does it matter?

How would the battle have gone if Jiraiya met Deva path first?

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Can anti retcon fags point out where Nagato is? Can they also explain why Jiraiya, one of the strongest ninja in Konoha, was allowed to train and live with 3 literal whos for 3 years in the middle of war?

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I love Sarada!

>Nagato pls we talked about this

Kishimoto's dad passed away around this time (I believe) and I think making Minato a villain would've depressed him a bit since Kishimoto self-inserts into Naruto.

occular jutsu

>Why did the crabs agree to this?
Why not? Pain is a pretty chill dude, also does this mean there's a hidden village of crabs? Is there a shinobi somewhere wandering ready to bust the Crab Sage mode?

calm down, Jiraiya

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konan just getting spit on all day

naruto is retarded

so why didn't he teach anything to naruto in those 3 years? he was able to teach these literally whos something

He doesn't need a contract thanks to those black things. All he needs is to find them and put them in.

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This post lmao.

Hashi/Tobi didn't fight any of their students
Kakashi never fought Sauce
Had Pain been Minato then he would never have fought Obito

There's no parallel of teachers fighting students here, retard. Fucking hell. Halfwit-central.

Even if it wasn't Minato, it could've been one of Jiraiya's other students on Minato's team. But it was ZERO.

Id like a spinoff that’s just different episodes of these teams going on low level missions fighting at low levels with stealth and actual thought put into fights as they explore the world outside of the major villages.

Because Kishimoto is just fucking retarded. Naruto became so much significantly stronger the following like 2 months after Jiraiya died than the two and a half years of him being alive and training him. In fact, one could argue Naruto got WORSE since not only did he not learn to do anything, he became more emotionally and mentally unstable, which resulted in him not being able to control the Fox at all as shown in the second arc of shippuden.

deva path one shots large summons, doubt he'll let him go into sage mode either. jiraya would have been screwed

time for crab

My headcanon is that Animal path is the ability to subjugate any animal with those rods

>the only one that is ever seen again from a non-nagato character is the chakra absorption one
>everyone else just gets completely new asspulls that would've made nagato invincible if kishi had thought of them sooner

We've seen Naruto's stupidity, is it really that surprising?

God I wish I was Orochimaru.

>Jiraya 3 year lesson plan for 3 orphans
>how to fish, take care of themselves, chakra natures, and to fight in the span of 3 years
>Jiraya 3 year lesson plan for Naruto
>how to throw tantrums and bigger rasengan
The fuck happened?

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It's very accurate to Japanese history.

Jiraiya has an answer to everything.

While I'm actually kind of leaning towards the idea that Pain was supposed to be Minato at some point, this really isn't the best proof since Hiruzen is specifically remembering Leaf shinobi here. Nagato's little squad were a bunch of Rain orphans he probably only heard about second hand from Jiraiya

It's Hiruzen's flashback. He never met them so obviously he wouldn't think of them.

too distracted by Naruto's big titties

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imagine naruto using hair and shadow techs

too busy stealing money from naruto

>no crustacean themed ninjas
Wasted potential.
Kishi being shellfish as usual

I always imagine it's sort of like Dragon Quest you have to go out and capture the monsters yourself if you want to use them.

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How strong would Konan be against someone without oil?

I thought it was only months. But THREE YEARS? Did Konoha not wonder what the fuck was up with that? Doing that shit should mark you as a missing nin.

>good skills

Checked, but no. Naruto never trying to befriend anyone is a meme. In reality, he started befriending more of the Konoha 12 once he proved he wasn't a hopeless, worthless idiot by getting a headband, going on a C-Rank mission, standing up for himself to Ibiki, and beating the loose dogshit out of Kiba.

Naruto's sexy form distracted him too much.

oh you

I mean it’s pretty likely they thought he was still out there fighting all that time and they didn’t know he was actually fucking around with three orphans.

Yes.

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>Can they also explain why Jiraiya, one of the strongest ninja in Konoha, was allowed to train and live with 3 literal whos for 3 years in the middle of war?
Because Kishimoto needed a flashback and Ninja are practically independent contractors at this point.

anime even gives sasuke basho tenin

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>Konan was oiled up by an old man and now she's wet and later she gets impaled by a guy in a mask

Hell ... Legit one of the hottest anime characters ever

Why return the crab at that point? It's in fucking pieces, what will its crab family think? Pain could've fed like half of the village with a crab feast

>"Stay out of this fight, female."
Nagato, what the hell?

Based

I'm more interested in konan covered in oil.

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>jiraya: dammit why didn't i listen to orochimaru!?!

Who are you trying to bullshit here Nagato?

natuto was too stupid to learn more than 1 jutsu

>Woman, leave.
What a fucking CHAD.

>Kakashi never fought Sauce
He kinda did in the Summit arc.

Deva made Sage Mode Naruto look like a pussy and Naruto had to get bailed out again.

the war was over user. They were going back to Konoha.

Looks kinda like adult Sakura's outfit

>Kakashi never fought Sauce
????????

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Bobobo-bo bo-bobo!

I much prefer the Rinnegan design from the last page of Part 1 when the rings didn't surround the whole eye

>stay back kishi has no jutsu ideas for you

Reminds me of the ergo proxy girl.

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That part made me really sad. He watched him nearly kill his other student with the technique he taught that kid for a month. Poor guy just couldn’t stop losing people.

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See, THIS is why you don't leave emotionally unstable orphans to fend for themselves after becoming a father figure to them, it screws them up even worse.

Much harder to enter SM

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He seemed a lot more sane when he was Big Boss

So when there's no active war soldiers can just kinda fuck off for as long as they please in (hitherto) enemy territory doing whatever the fuck they feel like and have no concerns over being declared AWOL or any other punishment? It's like I said, they're independent contractors, or at least just volunteer soldiers. Or the explanation is simply 'lol main characters can do whatever they want lmao'

Who was mirin Pain?

Jiraya's SS3 looks legit.

I mean, it's not really a retcon, more like a replanning (since none of it was confirmed).

It probably was supposed to be Minato, but Kishi decided to change it at some point along the way.

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Man jiraiya really has a lot of jutsu

bruh you abandoned oro

youtu.be/XBDtg1r6EIg

>from below literal accademy brats into elite chuunin
Memes aside Jman was actually a decent teacher.

Is there LITERALLY any reason why Jiraya couldnt take the orphans back with him?
Especially when one developed fucking legendary eyes?

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So what was Madaras masterplan in leaving his eyes to a literally who redneck kid?

They could have easily been destroyed or used against him.

Pain in general was a lot more chill and down to earth when he was just the shadowy Akatsuki leader who wanted to build Outer Heaven. Almost like he suddenly became a different character after his reveal

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Such subtle symbolism my smooth brain can barely comprehend it

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i'm fawking pain bruh

Troy Baker as Pain was godly

He wanted them to be independent, I guess would be the only somewhat reasonable explanation.

IIRC he passed away at the War

A WEAPON TO SURPASS JUTSU GEAR

Technically right, he's on life support

Konoha is racist against non-Leaf people.

He wanted to respect Yahiko's wishes, like when he stood back and watched Sasuke get thrashed by his brother because he asked him to stay out of it.

Yeah, silhouette Pain was less deadpan and delusional with divinity. He was more casual and logical. I miss that sorta.

Pain could already destroy entire villages, wasn't that enough? I mean destroying an entire fucking nation just to make sure people live in peace through fear is going a bit far, I think a village here and there ought to do the trick

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why did he even need to do that? Literally what would be wrong with Zetsu holding on to them?

Kakashi is the best character because he puts up with that shit and keeps going. When he faces Sauce he, while preparing to kill him, straight up says, "I understand now. No matter how much Orochimaru fell, the Third still loved him."

GET YOUR HANDS OFF HER YOU BITCH

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Nagato thought he was making a nuke when in reality he was making a tree.

He was really cool till we found out what happened back then

How was Konan's VA?

Also if he was planning to ressurect himself why wouldn't his rinengan ressurect with him?

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>I have moved toward the divine
One of the final villains in Naruto is a literal Chuunibyou retard. Thinking he's a god.

Probably because everyone figured out. He tried to fool everyone with Tobi = Madara just to flip it back to Obito once he was certain he had everyone convinced.

>I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JIRAYA!

Jiraya is the type of dude who avoids all responsibility, it's actually pretty in-character for him to just abandon them after convincing himself that they'll be fine

Based, I love chuunis.

>when the villains motives are hard to find a fault in and arguably better then the hero's

>Taking children to Konoha

his plan was to make THAT kid resurrect him

The anime gave this speech better imo

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>uses substitution jutsu
I thought each path could only do one thing?

Good ol' log jutsu

No,because then they'd just try to kill him. He needs those techniques to be free so nations have no target and are constantly afraid.

>Pain is a religion of peace!

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>nuclear deterrence
We're Peace Walker now.

The animation for this part of the fight was great too.

Cheeky

he likes his freedom

Based

Jiraiya...

>Thanks Obito, now I'm gonna touch your waifu while in the afterlife and there's nothing you can do about it!

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Raikage and killer bee would fodderize all these pein jobbers

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>One of the final villains
Please, he's the final villain as Byakuya in Bleach was one of the 'final villains'. We haven't even gotten to the alien chakra gods yet.

>pacifist deity
He sounds boring and insane, a literal autist with the god complex. I miss Metal Gear Pain already.

He's not wrong

>one of the greatest leaf ninja in history
>falls for the log

>OH MY REINCARNATION JUTSU

This is so fucking stupid I can't believe the manga jumped the shark this hard, does it get good again or should I drop it here? I'm pretty invested at this point but I'm getting frustrated.

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KONOHA
I HAVE RETURNED

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I mean it would've worked to some degree I guess since nuclear weapons have done a pretty good job at keeping a huge scale war at bay. But we still have constant smaller scale war all over the place

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What a nerd

>single celled organism that hasn't even managed to evolve
Jiraya also taught them molecular biology AND evolution. Come on now...

>Pain no longer wants world domination
hmm

How strong were ame trio here. Around Sound 4 level I assume.