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(English Translation!)

Oikawa, languidly: Iwaizumi-san, you like this sort of thing, riiiight?

Iwaizumi: ...hah?

Oikawa: Sorry, nothing...

(Fin!)

we as a community don’t appreciate this move enough. remember how everyone was telling ino she’d be making a mistake using the shintenshin no jutsu on her own, that it was only supposed to be used in the inoshikacho formation?? and what did she do? she faked an outburst, chopped off her ponytail (basically a yamanaka clan sign) tricked sakura and everyone else into thinking she missed her target and then seized the right opportunity to get into sakura’s head

like that was one of the smartest moves from the preliminaries; ino figured out a way to keep sakura at a distance (chouji’s role) AND immobilize her (shikamaru’s) and you know what not even he saw that coming and he’s supposed to be a genius

The thing that is truly insulting about them copying this scene is that there is NO WAY it holds the same emotional impact as the original.

Naruto crying out that he didn't need to be be saved, still so unable to Cope with the idea that somebody, let alone someone incredible like Sasuke, valued him enough to protect him, and Sasuke willing to die before yet another precious person was taken away before him, prickly to the very idea of a loudmouth like Naruto, but knowing nonetheless that Naruto is precious to him...

And then there was Haku in the background, one of the most heart-breaking 'villains' who understood what he was seeing, and even complimented Sasuke for his will, chillingly echoing that same behavior to save his own precious person...

It was a beautiful scene, and Boruto is just milking our memories with lukewarm reenactments with none of the heart : /

did they just-

(English Translation!)

“Staying Over At Kageyama's House!"

Kageyama: I want to try sleeping together... But if I enter suddenly it seems like he'll start...

Kageyama: Ah! If I slide in, then he won't notice right?!

Kageyama: If that's the case...!

(He slides under the covers but Sugawara notices)

Kageyama: ...This is different than what I thought...

Sugawara: What is he doing?! Is this some kind of senpai-teasing?!

(Fin!)

(English Translation!)

Atsumu: Sorry Tobio-kun, Shoyou-kun is mine ~

Tobio: !!

(Fin!)

credits: (dm if u know)

As a long time Supernatural fan who has also witnessed AWFUL Star Wars and Naruto endings...;

I'll be looking forward to all of your fix-it fanfic and fanart :')

G R O S S! UGH! What the fuck is this bullshit?!

Can you imagine behavior like this in real life? You kindly greet your friend's long-absent partner and their kid gets in between you to try and keep YOU AWAY FROM THEM as your friend LAUGHS?! I'd be furious and publicly humiliated! What the fuck has Sakura been telling her daughter about her supposed best friend? And how dramatic and stupid is Sarada to make such a scene in public over a simple greeting?!

Fuck! What an anti-social, unbearable, and wretched family! Ino, yet again, is shafted by being forced to play along with this garbage. Honestly!!!

Love how they kept in Sarada feeling the need to protect her father from her mother’s friend with Sakura laughing, awkward and embarrassed in the background

ino looks like the popular girl that bullied you in middle school but like she’s actually the one that invites you to group hangouts and gives you a ride home if you need one and if people are rude to you she casually drops the fact that her dad works for the fbi and ppl are terrified of her

(English Translation)

Sasuke: You're not scared... You're not scared... *pspspsps*

(Fin!)

NARUTOごちゃっとまとめ | 桜庭ちづる [pixiv] 

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All the credit goes to wonderful artist/author, not me. Thus, please do not edit/repost this article without permission.

Another random thought, but am I the only one who thought that after Iruka sensei got such an iconic character introduction into the franchise... that he would have somewhat of a bigger role in the manga?

I recognize that his role is that of Naruto's school teacher and that he graduates early on in the series, but I was always looking for more 'Iruka-supporting-Naruto' interactions and I feel like I was starved; especially considering how good each one that we DID get was. Iruka worrying about Naruto in the chuunin exams, him being the one to comfort him after Jiraiya's death, celebrating his homecoming, etc. etc. All great moments!

And of course, that early scene when he saves Naruto from Mizuki and just looks at him and goes, "Your loneliness must have been painful, right? I understand..." Goodness! It's the first time that Naruto felt his own humanity was recognized and recognized in a way that moved his teacher so much that he was willing to die to save him!

If you ask me, I think the reason Iruka didn't feature more is because he wouldn't have let half the people who treated Naruto badly (including Naruto himself) get away with it, and then Naruto would have been radicalized by the realization that the village was crap for treating him and all the other orphans so badly...

(English Translation)

Hijikata and Gintoki talking at the side while Okita and Kagura are playing around; but then they kiss and Hijikata f r e a k s.

Hijikata: Hey... There's something I want to ask you... Till where do you think their relationship has progressed?

Gintoki: Probably to hand-holding or something like that.

Hijikata pales.

Gintoki, paling too: You know something, don't you...?

Gintoki: OI. SAY IT!!!

Kagura&Okita: Aren't we leaving yet?

(Fin!)

(English Translation)

"Meeting Asahi"

Nishinoya, looking at the giggling girls and a handsome Asahi, thinking: it's hard to come out...

(Fin)

Meeting at the station with asahisan

Random thought but I really liked how in the Original Naruto, all of the characters' forehead protectors were tied on - and by that I mean that they were each a single piece of cloth knotted, not a circle of fabric slipped over the body.

I liked the symbolism that Kishimoto was able to invoke when he had characters tying their head bands, or when their head bands slipped off in the heat of battle. It was all quite evocative in my opinion. It made for a lot of heated dialogue between Naruto and Sasuke, and even Sakura and Ino to a lesser extent. The scene where Sakura cuts her hair and her forehead protector flies off is a great one, plus the one where she and Ino both punch their protectors off. And of course the scene where Naruto looks at Sasuke's flung off forehead protector from when he tried to scratch his forehead after Sasuke said that there's no way Naruto would be able to land even a scratch on him, is iconic. And at the very end, the last battle, when Naruto's forehead protectors comes off too, it feels like they aren't shinobi anymore, they're just Naruto and Sasuke.

Aside from the asethetics of how without the ties, the forehead protectors look more like athletic headbands, I think it is sad that we won't get moments like that in Boruto where the characters have to contend with what it means to tie the protector around themselves and be Konoha shinobi. If you ask me, it speaks to how it's no longer important to consider how each character defines themselves in and out of the Konoha ninja framework, wearing or not wearing their forehead protector, in the Boruto universe.

Of course the tension in those scenes was also developed through much stronger character backgrounds which few (if any) Boruto new gen character has, but it seems strange to think the symbolic option is precluded entirely.

(English Translation!)

Nishinoya: Asahi-san's coat is biiiig ~

(FIN)

Noya wears a coat of asahi♡

EXCUSE ME? Are my eyes betraying me? Why is the frame of this shot almost looking up this girl's crotch? All the way up her entire leg?!

What happened to the Kishimoto who felt awkward about drawing Sakura in a bathing suit? What about all of the praise he got for NOT sexualizing Ino/Sakura/Hinata/Tenten/Temari when they were preteens? What is UP with those HEELS??? Where is her weapons holder? Oh, right! Because drawing one in would only emphasize the fact that this girl isN'T WEARING SHORTS OR PANTS OR ANYTHING!

Why spend all this time adding in stupid, impractical details like a bow around her neck and a belt with a tassle while forgetting the BASICS of costume design?

Just a thought - maybe you wouldn't HAVE to try and win over the Pervert Consumer demographic if you gave her a compelling character drive or personality!!!

Cover reveal! 🌟

The Naruto: Sasuke's Story--Star Pupil novel releases October 6th, 2020. 🌟

(English Translation)

After everyone introduces themselves (plus Murakami instead of Irino Miyu for Todomatsu)

Choromatsu: Wait! Even the seiyuus have appeared! Is this really okay?!

Todomatsu: Who is Murakami?!

(Fin!)

That was THE BEST!!!

Have been seeing a lot of people going on about how Hinata kept losing to Hanabi because she didn't want to hurt her.

But I don't remember reading it!

Can anyone direct me to the manga chapter where it's specified that she feels that way?

(English Translation)

Sasuke: Not yet...?

Naruto: You know... Why don't you go wait over there? Please?

Sasuke: Seriously not yet? Hurry up and finish it quickly...

Naruto grabs Sasuke's face.

Naruto: I'm begging you to please listen to what I'm saying...

Sasuke: if you kiss me now, you won't finish your work.

Naruto: I'm not gonna!

(Fin)

(English Translation)

Request Form: Stay with Naruto forever, okay?

(Fin)

Source: X

(English Translation)

Won't you be my model? Ms. Beautiful?

(Fin)

モデルになってくれる？美人さん

(English Translation)

Let's take a walk together!

(fin)

いっしょにさんぽしましょう！ | artist info

(English Translation) 

That's why, now...

(Fin)

새히

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I completely disagree with this!!! I see that the user for this is 'shannaro-kamo,' so perhaps this account is only here for Pro-Sakura takes, and so maybe this is me shouting at a wall, but this is such a strange take that's completely inconsistent with Ino's character, the plot parallels, the fact that Inoichi's literal dying words are that Ino's best quality is her ability to be a GREAT FRIEND?! and the reoccurring meaning of that quote.

Ino actually says

"(彼女は)強がってはしゃいてるだけど"

And words meaning the same thing twice; once as a kid in the quote OP used, and then later when Sakura cuts her hair in the Forest of Death as she tells Naruto that the reason she cut her hair was for an 'image change,' which is obviously not true. Of course, since Naruto was unconscious when she cut her hair, he believes her, while Ino (and Sasuke, probably) rightly identify that she's fronting instead of being honest. In the chuunin exam context, anyone can induce that Ino uses such words to say 'Sakura is putting on a front to hide her true feelings.'

See here;

So what does is mean when she says these words as a child? Kishimoto loves to have characters echo their own words and the words of others in parallel meaning afterall. There has to be a link in the meaning, not just a random attribution.

You used some bad faith on Ino's part to say that she was... Somehow aware of some future rivalry brewing between her and Sakura over Sasuke and getting mad at Sakura for becoming confident and challenging her to the point of even regretting her past goodwill??? But that is SO inconsistent with everything the canon establishes about Ino.

Consider;

1) Ino is absolutely fine with the idea of Sakura one day surpassing her using floriography metaphors when Sakura asks why she gave her the ribbon (remember that Ino is symbolized as a cosmos!);

So why would she suddenly go back on her word with no explanation and feel a sudden rivalry when she herself already acknowledged that Sakura, perhaps, had even more potential? Ino only ever tried to make Sakura bloom, or do you think she's lying about considering it a shame when others don't reach their full potential too? And that she only wants herself to bloom? Her regretting helping Sakura would go against her core beliefs. Ouch. Bad faith : /

2) Ino is a sharp, bold, and confident girl who easily thought on her feet to shoot flower stems into the mouths of the girls being mean to Sakura, and who pretended to get mad over Sakura's later taunts just to use her jutsu. Although she gets loud and obnoxious, Ino is a planner. So does it really make sense for an Ino who was already sensing a rivalry and regretting helping Sakura to look THIS upset and shocked over her Sakura leaving and have no pithy words in response? Shouldn't she look more resigned? Angry? Does this look like the face of a girl who is already certain that Sakura is her rival? Or is it the face of genuine devastation? Besides, where is all her characteristic yelling and self-righteousness from literally any other time someone 'challenges' her?

3) Ino didn't need any time after tying with Sakura to immediately express happiness that Sakura had bloomed beautifully, because she never had any doubt that Sakura would one day bloom and never regretted helping her get there.

Why? How? Because Ino wasn't the one harbouring an inferiority complex about Sakura, or underestimating Sakura. All of her 'I'm better than you!!!' dialogue was clearly posturing - posturing, mind you, that was so good that nobody even on her own team realized her acting prowess lol. Her happiness at Sakura's growth is what is genuine - no resentment, a Naruto-like close-eyed smile. It's Sakura who is unable to say anything positive about Ino after the fight...

So what exactly was baby-Ino trying to say up there in OP’s quote? To be completely honest, Kishimoto doesn't give us many Ino-centric pages... But let's use what we have instead of making up awful, unfounded characteristics to attribute to Ino, and understanding that when she says these words, she's referring to Sakura covering up her feelings.

If you ask me, the most evidence lies in the idea that Ino was worried that Sakura was pretending to be someone else, someone who fronted, competed with other girls, put other girls down - becoming the type of girl that Ino is shown to hate.

Remember that most of the girls around them were the sort who liked Sasuke and weren't nice to each other or any other girl because of the perceived competition - and Ino knows this. Ino was afraid of Sakura becoming someone she disliked by being so explicit with her crush on Sasuke and throwing herself into the vicious ring of girls who tore each other down over Sasuke and changed for the worse. These girls don’t believe that every person should be made to bloom into the best flower they could be, they tear each other down, and that goes against everything Ino stands for. Compare Ino's expression in the screencap below to OP's screencaps - they're almost identical. She's not being petty or jealous. Those narrowed eyebrows over her eyes mean that she’s pissed and concerned.

Although I'm not even sure if Ino specifically liked Sasuke, because it seemed like she liked ALL pretty guys (Neji, Sai, etc.) and likes to flirt, it's clear that Ino has a problem with girls who bring others down and make fun of others for wanting to look/be better, and that she implicitly didn't want Sakura to become a girl like that. Consider the way Ino dealt with her (alleged) crush, she kept it private and to herself, and only had it thrown her face via rumours - not reputed facts. She wasn't interested in the drama of liking Sasuke and what that did to the other girls. Not to mention, on the flipside, if she really thought Sakura was no match for her, why not tell Sakura about her crush to her face? Why not declare it like the many other girls? Is she jealous? Or superior? How can she logically be both? Or is it that Ino isn’t interested in hating on other girls over mutual crushes and getting competitive to begin with? In defense of this, Sakura was the one who made it an issue first and set the precedent.

Moreover, it's telling of you to assume that two girls can't like the same guy without provoking a fight over it in repressed jealousy or dismissing each other as lesser and not a competitor, when it actually is more often than not in Naruto. For instance, Karin never diminishes Sakura nor does she challenge her over their feelings for Sasuke. They co-exist while simultaneously liking Sasuke, and even in the Gaiden, when Karin is shown to still have feelings for Sasuke, she never puts down Sakura. Hinata similarly never takes to tearing Sakura down over the fact that Naruto likes her, she is neutral. Ino, by Kishimoto's pattern in dealing with girl’s crushes, was probably neutral at first until Sakura threw it in her face, because Sakura, as the protagonist heroine, is the exception who needed to 'surpass' Ino. You would need strong evidence to the contrary to disprove that Ino was always a two-faced bitch, and you don't provide that burden of proof with the simple 'フン'/‘Hm” and the aforementioned repeated quote that means something else. Plus, more than Hinata and Sakura were friends, or Sakura and Karin were friends, Ino and Sakura friends - so you would need a very high burden of proof to recast Ino as a worse friend than any of the other girls.

Plus, Ino even gets proven right in her worries about Sakura fronting and becoming mean when Sakura throws the exact kind of crap her bullies said to her back in Ino's face, even if it just to provoke her (which, you know, outside of this analysis, it's always classy to provoke your enemy by straw-manning them into a weak girly girl archetype when they were the one to give YOU strength when you needed it regardless of context. Wanting someone to fight you doesn't give you the justification to disrespect them);

This is actually the only time Ino grits her teeth and the SFX says that she visibly bristles, which she doesn't do elsewhere. Plus, the nature of SFX shows the reality of her feelings, not just her acting for her jutsu. So Ino's actually offended. Sure, Sakura was trying to provoke Ino, but what a low-ball way to do that. 

“Sakura did nothing wrong! ~” you say...

(Sure, Jan. I’m sure you get looooots of friends by treating people in this way. Couldn’t be me, lol. Me and my decade long girlfriends will see ourselves out.)

Their whole rivalry is barely even 'mutual.' Sakura declares it, Ino is first SHOCKED before anything else, and then half-heartedly reciprocated for a few panels. Sakura is the one who says their entire friendship and all Ino's ever done for her is meaningless unless she surpasses her. Ino just rises to Sakura's challenge understanding that the other girl needs this, though she herself definitely doesn't because she always acknowledged her own abilities and Sakura's without a problem. Ino doesn't change at all, her character is consistent, but forced to move with Sakura's own changing perceptions of Sakura, Ino, and their relationship. It's not Ino's fault that Sakura retconned all of the good things Ino said to her as proof that Ino never acknowledged her - when she already did in the memory with the cosmos. The idea that Ino never acknowledged her as a kid and spoke down to her is a weird one based on the warped and traumatized Sasuke & Naruto dynamic that the only way to acknowledge someone is to want to fight them or be jealous of them, which even Sasuke & Naruto realize isn't right towards the end of the manga. It's not Ino's fault she never drank Team 7's 'how to (badly) relate to people' Kool-Aid?

If you want to find someone who 'wasn't that good of a friend,' I'm sorry self-described 'Sakura apologist,' but the girl you're looking for isn't top kunoichi, defender of bullied girls, floriography nerd Ino Yamanaka. Consider that Ino and Sakura barely interact towards the end of the manga, but even so, Kishimoto goes out of his way to establish that Ino is defined by her positive friendships when it's barely even relevant to the plot, through both Asuma and Inoichi Yamanaka's last words, for no other reason than to clarify Ino’s character.

Unless you think Inoichi and Asuma are liars too, or don't understand their daughter and student respectively.... Unlikely, right? So don’t come for Ino for being a bad friend when she was the best one. #thankunext

Debunking the notion that Ino was a perfect friend to Sakura

disclaimer: I love both Ino and Sakura and won’t judge them for their behavior in the context of their rivalry, whether as kids or young adults. This is just to show that Ino wasn’t infallible when it came to helping Sakura, because many like to incorrectly antagonize Sakura in favor of Ino to this day.

Ino did show regret about helping Sakura once Sakura confessed about her crush.

強がってはしゃいでるだけよ= Tsuyo gatte hashai deru dake yo which translates roughly to ‘just acting tough’ which is exactly what she says in the anime (the following screenshots are from the Netflix sub)

this one is from another website

this is a translation from online

and this is the Viz translation, which is inconsistent with the rest

Even the “Him, hah!” is wrong because all she says in the raw is “フン” = hun = hmph. She says nothing about Sasuke and isn’t talking about Sasuke. She’s talking about Sakura to the girl next to her; she’s not responding to the girls in the foreground telling Sakura that Sasuke is popular, that wouldn’t even make sense. She’s sensing a rivalry, and a significant part of her wishes Sakura would go back to being shy and insecure. It’s therefore no wonder that when she hears of Ino’s crush from other sources, Sakura has doubts about Ino and realizes she can no longer be a tagalong. Ino didn’t tell Sakura about her crush because it would mean confronting her feelings of jealousy; it wasn’t because Ino was prioritizing the friendship. That’s the real reason Sakura broke off the friendship.

Ino herself comes to understand this:

Ino was forced to recognize Sakura as an equal, and it was for the benefit of both girls. Sakura did nothing wrong.

Just so y'all know, his headband says "♡ GAARA ♡"

eternal mood

Sasuke, largely, was right about many things towards the end of the manga, but I'm not a Stan who condones everything he did. For example, him asking Sakura to kill Karin in order to join him is not justifiable as 'working through trauma' or whatever you guys say it is. That's not a Sasuke who is acting justly and in line with any morality and I don't like that version of him. Those acts speak to some kind of darkness beyond righteousness. In a better-written manga, that coldness is what Naruto should have helped him resolve so that Sasuke could continue to make the changes he wanted in a just manner. Even if you sympathize with him, you have to admit there was an actual darkness to Sasuke, though perhaps not one as all-encompassing as canon suggests wherein he was apparently wrong about everything. He's not that black and white in my opinion.

(English Translation!)

Sasuke: It doesn't suit you, Naruto.

Naruto: Not you either, Sasuke.

(End)

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(English Translation!)

A modest happiness ~

(End)

シュワり

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(English Translation)

I wanted to meet you... Every day.

…毎日。

(English Translation!)

~ Sleepy Sasuke ~

turns out the real villain in naruto was blind loyality to the state all along