Saturday, July 15, 2006 

Naruto 315

Training Naruto:

This chapter is all about training Naruto.

Kakashi's method to train Naruto is to use Naruto's famous Mass Shadow Clone (Kage Bunshin) technique. Still, this is like DBZ...In DBZ, Piccolo divide himself into clones and train.

Each Shadow Clone is an exact copy of the original with their Chakra shared. So, each is capable of performing jutsus. When you release the jutsu, any experience and knowledge gained by the clones will transfer back to the original body. This attribute makes Shadow Clones ideal for recon missions, observing an enemy's camp, infiltration, and information gathering.

Something that would take two days would only take one using a shadow clone. With Naruto's one thousand clones combo, something that would normally take him twenty years would take a week.

Kakashi admitted that Naruto has twice as much chakra as him. If Yamato keeps the Nine-tails in check, it could be 100 times more. Thus, Yamato is also there as Naruto and Kakashi train.

There are five basic types of chakra used for jutsu. They are the five elements - Fire, Wind, Water, Lightning and Earth. These are what the 5 Great Countries (and Kage) are named. Most people's chakra naturally lean towards a certain nature...The Uchia clan were full of people with an affinity to fire, thus, they were exceptionally skilled with fire element jutsu. Kakashi leans towards Lightning - thus, he uses Chidori. Yamato, of course, uses earth element as shown in the Grass Country Arc. Sasuke is of Fire and Lightning element.

Naruto's element is still unknown. Kakashi and Yamato uses the Chakra Cards (made from trees nutured using chakra) to see Naruto's element.

Kakashi:
If you're Lightning-natured, the paper gets crumpled.
Wind-natured, it gets cut in half.
Fire, it burns.
Water, it gets wet.
Earth, it turns to dust.


Naruto's nature is wind.


[After reading this chapter, there were many hints in the earlier chapters that Naruto is of Wind nature.

The most apparent clue it is his name Naruto Uzumaki.

Taken from Wikipedia:

The surname "Uzumaki" is a pun to "spiral" (渦巻). While "Uzumaki" refers more to a tri-dimensional spiral, like a whirlpool or vortex, a more accurate translation for spiral would be 'Rasen'. The Konoha leaf symbol is drawn with an arrow attached to a spiral, the seal on his abdomen is a spiral, the symbol on his jacket's back and shoulders is a spiral, and one of his attacks is Rasengan, which means "Spiraling Sphere".

"Uzumaki" can also mean "whirlpool" in reference to the Naruto whirlpool (鳴門の渦潮), named after the city of Naruto, lies between said city and Awaji Island.

Naruto can mean "maelstrom", and is also the name for a sliced stick of Kamaboko with a pink whirlpool design in the middle that is used as a topping for Ramen (Naruto's favorite food).

Also, in the anime, the first ED song is called "Wind" by 明星 (Akeboshi).

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Saturday, July 08, 2006 

Naruto Chapter 313 and Chapter 314

Chapter 313 Summary

This chapter is filled with action, but it has only one single plot -- Nibi is captured by the two Akatsuki Hidan and Kakuzu. "Two-tails" Jinchūriki is able to changed into her Nibi form very quickly unlike Gaara and Naruto. Hidan and Kakuzu performed some sort of ritual after then have captured her.

In Konoha, Asuma is about to tell Kakashi something when Kurenai went to Kakashi's room to fetch Asuma. Kakashi never got his questions answered...Asuma will tell Kakashi later.

Hidan and Kakuzu are going to Konoha directly to get another Jinchūriki for the Akatsuki.


Chapter 314 Summary

Zetsu met up with Hidan and Kakuzu and he offered to take the Nibi back to the Akatsuki so they can extract the demon. Hidan and Kakuzu continue to Konoha -- Fire Temple. There, they meet the monk Chiriku who was the leader of an elite squad that used to protect the Lord Hokage, "The 12 Ninja Guards". They killed Chiriku and cannot find what they were looking for. Another monk in the temple went to warn the Leaf.

Kakashi is now training Naruto. He tells Naruto that in order to create the Ultimate jutsu, he need to understand the techniques for changing his chakra's nature and its shape. Nartuo's Rasengan only change his chakra's shape, but not it's nature. Rasengan requires the user to rotate raw chakra wildly, at extreme speeds, and compress the energy into a ball. The nature of the chakra is not changed; Resengan only creates a chakra ball. However, Kakashi's Chidori changes both shape and nature. When using the Chidori, he manipulates the nature of his chakra to be like an electric current, and its shape to that of an electic surge. There is another cliffhanger -- once again, we are not told how Kakashi is going to shorten Naruto's training time.

Asuma is looking up at the Hokage Mountain - at Sandaime. This is a direct quote from mangahelper's translation [by HisshouBuraiKen]:

Asuma: I'm sorry for leaving the village, and for acting so selfishly...
Even if I don't regret any of it...

But now, I'm glad I was born into the Sarutobi family...
You definitely went above and beyond as the village's leader.

Asuma: You were a great father...
(Literally, he says "Oyaji" which can mean "old man", "pops", or just be a term of endearment for an old man. However, the context from the previous page, the fact that this line gets a page all to its own, and the fact that Asuma is a minor character, it only makes sense that the intended meaning is "father" here.)


*** Another Naruto Mystery is answered ***
Asuma's full name is Asuma Sarutobi. Fans always wondered whether he and Sandaime are related. Sandaime was always called as Sarutobi-sensei by Jiraiya and Tusnade. Sarutobi could be Sandaime's first or last name. Now, it is confirmed that it is a last name -- there exists a Sarutobi clan. Asuma and the Third are related -- father and son. We now know more about Sandaime's family. Asuma is Konohamaru's uncle.

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