Naruto Shippuuden

Episode 50: The picture book’s story

You’re not going to like this episode. No, really, you aren’t. NOTHING happens here! We don’t see Sasuke (at least not really) and there is little to no fighting. *sigh* Well, to start things off, Kabuto is still tied up, but making plans on escaping, Naruto and Sai are in one group looking and Yamato and Sakura are in another group. Naruto collapses out of exhaustio (and still injured from the Kyuubi fight) and Sai sits by until he wakes up. The two of them get talking and Sai talks about how Naruto is so much like Sai’s brother. At that moment, he remembers the face of his brother, and Sai finally finishes the picture book, and smiles sincerely. Just then Orochimaru shows up taunting Naruto. He plays with Naruto while Sai leaves to continue looking for Sasuke. Yamato and Sakura sense Naruto is fighting they show up. Orochimaru leaves Naruto alone telling him to kill another member of Akatsuki. Just then Yamato sees a black book in Sai’s bag that he left behind. It was a boingo book (or book of people Sai is going to assasinate) and it has Sasuke in it!

Next week is the highly anticipated reunion of Naruto and Sasuke. How do I know? Well it’s a special double episode and the title’s are “Reunion” and “Uchiha’s Power”. So don’t ever question me again. This episode might have been a little over-hyped, but next week is the one we have all been waiting for!

Episode 51-52: Reunion, and The Power of Uchiha

I would separate these episodes out, but there is really not enough content to really delve into these episodes. If you remember the intro to the new series, you’ve pretty much seen the episode. For that reason I say that this episode is disappointing and horrible. There is literally as much flashbacks as there is new content (which really isn’t all that new since we’ve seen most of it in the intro).

So here is the summary. Sai finds Sasuke. Decides not to kill him, but to bring him back to Konoha because Naruto is just so awesome. Sasuke blows a hole in that base, then everyone is there. After just looking at each other for a solid 2 minutes, they get in a little sparring match. Yamato is stabbed, and then sasuke escapes to outside the hole. AND THAT’S IT. If you really think that there is more to this episode, I plead for you to correct me. Just remember that we’ve seen the intro, which is basically a quick version of this episode. *sigh*… Looks like we are going to have to wait until April 3rd for the next episode too…

Episode 53-54:  Title, and Nightmare

These two episodes are, for the most part, follow up episodes to the mission of saving Sasuke. Orochimaru stops Sasuke from killing anybody saying that they could help kill off some of the members of Akatsuki. Sasuke reluctantly stops using some dangerous technique and leaves. Naruto is depressed because he failed again, but Sasuke comforts him. They return and report to Tsunade who gets ticked off by Danzou having given out confidential information. Sai also requests to remain a part of the team.

Nightmare shows Naruto having a nightmare about his Kyuubi getting out of control. He wakes up with a stronger determination to train. Sai starts studying relationships learning that nick names is a good way to develop relationships. It pretty much acts as a source of comic relief for the episode as he continues to insult people with his names.  Kakashi tells Naruto as well that he has a special sort of training for him, that only Naruto can perform.

Episode 55: Wind 

This is a fantastic episode. No fighting happens but they explain some concepts of Ninjahood that is new. We find in this episode that there are five elements of Ninja chakra. Naruto happens to be a “wind” element. We also find out that Naruto has 4x the amount of Chakra that Kakashi has. He would have 100x if he didn’t have to contain the Kyuubi. With this huge reserve of chakra, he is able to create shadow clones and learn techniques significantly faster than anyone else. Shadow clones return their knowledge to the user, so using 1,000 clones let’s you learn 1,000 times faster. And with this training Naruto is learning to mold his chakra with an element to create new techniques and fighting styles. Cool stuff. We also learn you can combine elements (like earth and water to create wood elements-these are also called bloodline limits which we’ve learned about before).