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I need to stop reading this late at night. There is no such thing as "just a chapter or two."
I am chronically unable to follow intrigue-y plots, and am additionally hampered by the clunky translation and the difficulty of flipping back while reading scans. So can someone help me out here, either by explaining things that have already been revealed, and/or by telling me that I'm not supposed to know something yet?
So the Sand Village trio were supposed to get up to the semi-finals, but it was irrelevant if they won, because they were actually supposed to infiltrate... but infiltrate what? The semi-finals themselves? Or were they supposed to do something afterward? How was participating in the tests supposed to achieve their goals?
Why did the catsuit guy concede? What exactly went wrong during the Gaara/Sauke bout, other than Gaara completely flipping his lid? Was Gaara supposed to kill Sasuke?
The rest is mostly squee:
Kakashi and Sasuke's late entrance in a flurry of leaves was so cool!
Shikamaru and Temari continue to be interesting, and I loved the contrast between Shikamaru's nonchalant concession and the typical shounen "I WILL CONTINUE FIGHTING EVEN IF MY LEGS FLY OFF!" (Surprisingly, that is a verbatim quote not from Fullmetal Alchemist, where it would make sense, but from the Bleach anime.)
Gaara is even more insane than I had thought, and I already thought he was insane. That Norman Bates-like talking to his mother about feeding her blood, and the mega-creepy thing where his ninja buddies (um, if that's an appropriate word) were talking about how being wounded in the "cocoon" interrupted his "metamorphosis" was... mega-creepy. Also, he seems to be a big potential liability to his own side if in addition to the typical berserker trait of potentially killing his teammates, he's also prone to going catatonic or whatever the hell was going on and having to be dragged off like a sack of sand.
I loved Naruto telling Neji that when he becomes Hokage, he will change the Hyouga. It was just so Naruto. Also, Neji is an asshole. I get where he's coming from now, but he's still an asshole.
I am chronically unable to follow intrigue-y plots, and am additionally hampered by the clunky translation and the difficulty of flipping back while reading scans. So can someone help me out here, either by explaining things that have already been revealed, and/or by telling me that I'm not supposed to know something yet?
So the Sand Village trio were supposed to get up to the semi-finals, but it was irrelevant if they won, because they were actually supposed to infiltrate... but infiltrate what? The semi-finals themselves? Or were they supposed to do something afterward? How was participating in the tests supposed to achieve their goals?
Why did the catsuit guy concede? What exactly went wrong during the Gaara/Sauke bout, other than Gaara completely flipping his lid? Was Gaara supposed to kill Sasuke?
The rest is mostly squee:
Kakashi and Sasuke's late entrance in a flurry of leaves was so cool!
Shikamaru and Temari continue to be interesting, and I loved the contrast between Shikamaru's nonchalant concession and the typical shounen "I WILL CONTINUE FIGHTING EVEN IF MY LEGS FLY OFF!" (Surprisingly, that is a verbatim quote not from Fullmetal Alchemist, where it would make sense, but from the Bleach anime.)
Gaara is even more insane than I had thought, and I already thought he was insane. That Norman Bates-like talking to his mother about feeding her blood, and the mega-creepy thing where his ninja buddies (um, if that's an appropriate word) were talking about how being wounded in the "cocoon" interrupted his "metamorphosis" was... mega-creepy. Also, he seems to be a big potential liability to his own side if in addition to the typical berserker trait of potentially killing his teammates, he's also prone to going catatonic or whatever the hell was going on and having to be dragged off like a sack of sand.
I loved Naruto telling Neji that when he becomes Hokage, he will change the Hyouga. It was just so Naruto. Also, Neji is an asshole. I get where he's coming from now, but he's still an asshole.