Narutalk!

Damn, I see I've missed the NejiHina talk. Ah well.

Someone recommended that I post this here as well. This is my study of team 7.

Intro

I. The characters in team 7.
I.1. Naruto in team 7 - fighting for those precious to him, learning the pain of loss
I.2. Sasuke in team 7 - from descent into darkness to shades of grey
I.3. Sakura in team 7 - from a normal teenage girl into a shinobi
I.4. What about Kakashi and Iruka?

II. The cycles of interaction
II.1. Naruto and Sasuke's Humanity cycle.
II.2. Sakura's Protection cycle.
II.3. The cycles of Failure.

III. The scenes!

Conclusion

( Team 7 - Greater than the sum of its parts )

I was looking around the other day and came across a site that some interesting stuff on the sharingan and the byakugan.

links below.

byakugan

sharingan

I emailed the chick that wrote thatand she sent me a draft paper she wrote on the probability of breeding a byakugan and sharingan.

( breeding under cut )

Apologies for the recent quiet here; we understand that many of our members are busy folks (so are we!) but let's start talking, shall we?

This week's topic is Kekkei Genkai. Canon has established several Bloodline Limits (the Sharingan, the Byakugan, and Haku and Kimimaro's unnamed Bloodline Limits) but left open to interpretation how a Bloodline Limit develops or what defines a Bloodline Limit as distinct from a genetics-linked series of jutsu. Are there undefined Bloodline Limits in Konoha, that simply never appear in canon because their traits don't come into play? Is there a reason why Konoha's two canon Bloodline Limits are doujutsu? Why were bearers of the Bloodline Limits so feared after the wars, and was there a similar backlash against kekkei genkai in Konoha?

We eagerly await your speculations, theories, in-depth discussions, essays, and ramblings. Let's see some narutalk-worthy talk!


P.S. This is still your friendly neighborhood mod Ki; I've simply switched journals.

but according to the rules that's ok.

Now, I don't have a theory of my own really but rather a question that I feel deserves some speculations. Anyway, enough chit-chat.

Why does Naruto live on his own?

Ok, so probably there weren't a lot of volunteers when it came to raising the kyuubi kid but I'm somehow having a hard time picturing, say, a five-year-old taking proper care of himself - and furthermore, maintaining such a childish and playful attitude (even if some of it is a mask) later on in life for that matter.

Neither the manga nor the anime has in any way (that I recall - please correct me if i'm wrong) hinted at that Naruto had any legal guardians or babysitter of any kind, ever. All we know is at least by the time he's 12, he's got his own place and who knows how long he's had it.

Did he maybe grow up in an orphanage and only recently moved out on his own? Do they have any sort of foster care system thing in hidden villages? Who bottle-fed him as a toddler? changed his diaper? cleaned up after him, made dinner for him (although maybe that's why he likes instant Ramen so much since it's easy to prepare and he didn't have anyone to cook for him).

Any thoughts?

Figured that since no one else was posting, I would.

Arranged marriages are definitely popular among fanfiction writers, especially for those characters who come from a clan. The Hyuuga are especially prone to this according to fanon; I'm not going to discuss that with the exception of saying that arranged marriages within the clan would make sense in order to preserve the bloodline limit. (Someone else should start a discussion for this.)

( What I do want to discuss is why Neji is almost always paired with Hinata. )

How's that for an introductory topic starter?

-Fi
(not Ki, who is a moderator)

EDIT: Hanabi is seven, five years younger, not five and seven years younger.

Running even later than usual this week @_@ My apologies!

This week's topic is the Hyuuga clan. Wanna talk about Neji, Hinata, Hanabi, Hiashi? Wanna talk about the politics of the Hyuuga as a group? Wanna talk about Hyuugacest or SasuHina or the idea of arranged marriages? Wanna talk about the Hyuuga-Uchiha rivalry? We'd love to hear your thoughts and questions on these or anything else that might cross your mind. Happy posting!

To start things off with a kick in the pants:

( Uchiha Itachi and spoilers for the most recent manga arc )

Your thoughts?

Late on posting again, sorry. :[

Without a single post last week, the topic is being extended. This is my fault, too, because I haven't posted either when I was going to. It looks like everyone's been very busy lately as well. :[

But! I'm writing something now. Though it's a bit rushed and casual, since I need to get back to my research paper. It's mostly in regards to Itachi's own views of his potential, and the revolutionary words he almost got arrested for, and why he's now apparently contradicting himself by being in Akatsuki. I was hoping to post it yesterday along with the notice of the extension, but that obviously didn't happen, and it's certainly not finished tonight either. ^-^; It'll be up sometime over the next couple days, while I'm busy procrastinating.

Feel free to post (on anything!) in the meantime. <3

Late, as usual, which makes it on time, right?
This week's topic is: Uchiha Itachi

So, what about Itachi? Boy genius, said to have been the best student to have ever attended the Ninja Academy, prodigy heir to the noble Uchiha clan, massacres his entire extended family at the age of thirteen leaving only his baby brother alive. Seriously, what's with this guy? Is he an actual sociopath? Was he driven through pressure and depression to finally snapping? Is there something greater at work behind him?

What's going on with Itachi and Naruto? Anything suspicious with how Itachi hasn't been able to take him yet, or is it entirely coincidental that he's had two chances and it still hasn't happened yet?

And Itachi and Akatsuki? Itachi spoke againt the Uchiha clan for the limits such a group places upon an individual, so then... what's he doing in another group? (This is actually a question asked in the official second data book.)

And what's going on with Itachi and Sasuke? Sasuke had some introspection during his fight with Gaara, in which he says Itachi left him alive so that he wouldn't feel guilty for killing the entire clan. Guilt? :O Is Sasuke alive to kill Itachi and in a sense "atone" for his sins, or is there another reason? Do any brotherly feelings remain?

We've also had some foreshadowing concerning Itachi's eyesight. How will this effect the future? How will this effect Sasuke's revenge?

So discuss away!

Modly Note: After discussing this with duelist, the comment feature has been removed from this post. We want you guys to make new posts with your ideas and interpretations, which would encourage more in-depth discussion. Some great things have been said in the past couple weeks in the topic posts, but I think if they'd been said in their own posts then more members would have seen them and there would've been more discussion. The point: Make new posts!

Hey, it's that time again!

This week's topic is End-of-Series Predictions. Whether for a single character, a team, an organization, a village, a country, the series as a whole -- what do you think's going to happen by the end of this thing? How will the Naruto world grow and change? Who's gonna make it out alive, and who's going down in flames? Your thoughts about the whos, whys, whats, and wherefores are eagerly awaited. :)

After a lot of thinking for a whole minute and thirty seconds, I've decided this week's topic: Kabuto. Also, please remember spoiler warnings for anything in the current arc of the manga.

Kabuto is one of the more interesting side characters, partly for the mystery, and party for the running gag Kishimoto seems to have with making us question his loyalties. It's happened a few times already, when Orochimaru practically questions Kabuto himself before Kabuto goes off to kidnap Sasuke, which more looks like Kabuto was about to murder him instead. And again when Tsunade is about to heal Oro-sama's arms and he intervenes, only for us to discover Tsunade was about to kill Orochimaru instead of heal him. And ever time it happens, we get all excited about it. And every time so far, Kabuto has apparently stayed by Orochimaru's side. But I don't think I'll ever stop questioning Kabuto's true intentions.

So what about Kabuto? What about his past? How was he raised to such a good medical-ninja when he joined Konoha at such a young age and yet did nothing as a genin there? What about his parents, his past loyalties before he was adopted? What were his relationships with the Sound Five? His opinions on others? On Sasuke? What will his place be at the end of the series? Anything you can think about Kabuto, as in-depth as you like.

Discuss!

[Edit] The are spoilers in the comments of this post.

Continuing with the theme of Sunagakure, let's discuss Gaara's bijuu!

Canon gives us some contradictory information about Shukaku. Gaara tells Naruto and Shikamaru that the demon inside him is the evil spirit of a priest of the sand, which was imprisoned in a tea pot before it was put into him. However, we also know that Shukaku is the one-tailed bijuu, a tanuki which seems to exercise power over wind and sand, and that it was put in several unlucky Sand shinobi before the technique was finally "perfected" with Gaara. Gaara's birth required his mother's death. Was the death of his mother a required element in the binding technique, or simply an unhappy byproduct of having a demon spirit inserted in her unborn child? Which version of Shukaku's origin is true? Or was the evil priest perhaps the first demon-vessel, meaning that Gaara simply didn't know the story well enough to explain it?

What are your theories for what the Akatsuki will do with the bijuu, and how Gaara will cope with the loss of his most formidable source of power? We see that he still maintains some control over sand; to what degree, and how?

Let's hear what you think!

( Kakashi + sex = ? )

Crossposted to my own journal.


PS: I took a break from putting up a new Weekly Topic for Christmas Eve; we'll have another one this coming Saturday. In the meantime, it'd be great to see some more Suna thoughts. :)

X-posted

( spoilers from manga )

I feel silly for not asking this last week, when the Sharingan discussion was going on...but I only just thought of it today while talking with my friend.

Basically, the discussion was about the origin of the Sharingan from the Byakugan. Was it formed from a defective Byakugan (too much inbreeding, perhaps?) or from breeding outside the clan? Is it a mutated Byakugan? We also wondered about those Sasuke/Hinata fics and how he was gonna bring back the Uchiha clan that way but uh...if they had kids, would they get the Sharingan or the Byakugan? Or some weird and crazy mix of the two, instead?

So I'm not quite sure where I'm going with this, but I've never seen anything about the origins of the Sharingan, or how exactly the Uchiha came from the Hyuuga. And now I'm curious to see what other people might think.

Anything we can come up with, right? o_o;;

( Sunagakure thoughts... )

Bleh. I'm rambling, but how do you guys think of Sunagakure?

Well, we didn't do too bad for our first week, did we? :)

This week's Weekly Topic, lasting until next Saturday, is Sunagakure -- covering the people, the village itself, its history, the desert environment, and anything else you can come up with.  As always, discussion of non-Weekly-Topic ideas or characters is more than welcome too.  Hope to be hearing your thoughts soon!

The truth is that my love for the relationship between Kakashi and Gai has been growing steadily. It doesn't even have to be shonen-ai. It's fine if it is, but I love the friendship between these two. Why some fans assume that Kakashi has no friends is beyond me when it's quite clear that Gai is the closest thing that Kakashi has to a best friend. I'd love to know how the two of them met and when the rivalry started. Gai needs more of a backstory.

( Read more... )

What about the sharingans ability to tell the difference between clones and real ninja.

In the chuunin 2nd exam, in the forest after naruto, sasuke and sakura have meet up with kabuto, they are attacked by the rain ninjas. sasuke cant use his sharingan much because he is screwed up from the cursed seal.

When naruto is battling them, sasuke can tell that they are all clones and that the real ones are stil in hiding.

This fact seems to be left out when ever someone talks about the sharingans abilities.

Just a thought.....

can anyone fill me in on how the 3rd became hokage?

I heard that the 1st and the 2nd just decided when he was young that he would become the 3rd.
Any links to the manga or other resources would be helpful.


Also another question.
I thought I saw on the scroll with the summoning toads, the 4ths name before Jiraiya's (sp) name? is that so or am I seeing things.
Wasn't Jiraiya the one who trained the 4th?

thanks in advance