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If I recall, she is listed as Kurenai Sarutobi in the Retsu no Sho, hence, they were married.

Besides, it doesn't really matter, she was shown with a marriage ring in the manga, so it was revealed they were married before the Retsu no Sho anyway. It just wasn't confirmed she took his surname until the Retsu no Sho. Which isn't that surprising, since her and Asuma seemed to have kept the marriage secret until Asuma's death.

Luffy's view as a Yonko, or in this case a "Gonko", is because of what he's done, not what he possesses. Being a Yonko is much more than being a tough pirate, that is just the first step. Like Blackbeard, I believe its far too early to say he's a Yonko.

I'm much more comfortable saying he's Commander-level, maybe getting close to Admiral-level.

Even in spite of his crew, I don't think of Luffy at that level, and I don't see why any self-respecting fan would. With Luffy struggling so much against the Commanders, how can anyone say he's "Kaido-level" or "Big Mom-level", when these are their subordinates and underlings.

What said he was? Mihawk is probably somewhere between Commander and Yonko like Luffy is now, maybe Admiral-level, but I feel saying he's Yonko level may be going too far.

and Kuma's level?

Hard to really say. I would like to know more about his Devil Fruit, because that is clearly his strongest trait. I'm also curious how his transition to a Pacifista has changed his powers, and if he is weaker or stronger as a result. My intuition says weaker, because the Devil Fruit is all about "how" you use it, so if Kuma's mind is all but gone, it leaves one to feel he's inferior now.

Do you think part of Luffy's awakened DF powers would be a bounce house effect?

I could see that, but I hope that isn't what it is.

I would prefer him to alter his own rubber body in someway rather than alter the ground into rubber.

Remember, unlike Doflamingo and Katakuri, Luffy's Paramecia is different, his body is in an altered state, he doesn't "generate rubber" like Doflamingo and Katakuri generate/control string and mochi. Katakuri was unique because he was a "Special Paramecia" with Logia qualities due to being made of a liquid-solid substance and being able to generate his "object".

Still, that doesn't change the fact that Luffy's body is a stark difference, in fact, I'd say he has more in common with the Zoan than with Paramecia like Doflamingo and Katakuri. WHich is why I would prefer him to just get an upgrade to his rubber, allowing him to use his harder abilities more easily and access to high forms.

Technically we are already seeing the workings of a combination form. Boundman is an offensive form, Tankman is defensive, and Snakeman is improved attack speed.

In which case, it would make more sense to be to just merge these forms under an Awakening and create a Fifth Gear, with characteristics of all of them.

Then, you could perhaps take it to the next level, and merged Fifth, Third, and Second Gear all together for a Sixth Gear.

That's what I would like to see anyway.

I see what you mean, but i'm saying a bounce room effect on the side couldn't hurt either.

I feel we are going to get one or another. Besides, I feel a "bounce room" maybe be too comedic if the story is supposed to be getting more serious.

After all, after all we've been exposed to with Kaido, can you really see Luffy bouncing him around in a bouncy castle?

See your point, but isn't that also the point Oda is making? Its even in one of his sbs, volume 65 i think.

?: "I was just thinking of all the amazing devil fruits in one piece what is the significance behind the gum gum fruit which made Oda choose this fruit for the character who is supposed to become the strongest person in the world. I know usually in OP there's a reason behind everything or a history linked back to it so I wonder who the last owner of the fruit was and why shanks was guarding it. I feel like choosing the main protagonists ability is a huge decision. I want to know what the motive behind it is."

Oda: "Ahaha, that is true. It must seem like a mystery when you consider all the other strong and cool abilities. The answer is simple. I have picked the most ridiculous ability. If the protagonist were the typical strong guy, I doubt I could continue on with this for long. No matter how serious the story gets, Luffy is there to stretch and inflate. He always give me a chance to fool around. That's the kind of manga I wanted to write."

Well, the biggest joke about that was Luffy's power to "inflate" that Oda is mentioning is the gear system.

In other words, the goofiness of something like Fourth Gear is off-set by its power.

Think, Oda puts a lot of effort into creating "logic" for why the gears make him more powerful. Lately, he's been giving Luffy "parts" of a stronger state in order to give him and his Haki and edge in battle against pirates with stronger Haki or Devil Fruits. In other words, it actually makes more sense for him to merged these parts than to create something so outside the norm.

Also, I'm not entirely convinced the "area-alterting" effect is the only form that the Paramecia Awakening can take. After all, unlike Katakuri and Doflamingo, Luffy doesn't fit certain categories of Paramecia.

Paramecia, I find, are split into three categories; Generators, Transmutaters, and Manipulators. These three categories basically cover every Paramecia shown so far. In that they either generate something, like string, are transmutated into something, like rubber, or manipulate something, like stone. Unlike Katakuri and Doflamingo, who generator string and mochi, it doesn't make much sense for Luffy to alter his enviroment when his Devil Fruit goes generate or manipulate anything external to his body from the get-go.

Besides, try thinking of it from a different perspective. What would Buggy's Awakening be?

The point I'm try to make is that transmutators are more like Zoans than they are like generators or manipulators, because their power purely resides in their bodies. So it makes more sense for Luffy's Awakening to affect his rubber body alone than alter the surroundings, especially because the latter is so far out of Luffy's fighting style while the former fits right into it.

You mean you see being Mr. Fantastic his awakening?

Sort of, he kind of already is Mr. Fantastic. The point is that the durability and strength of the rubber improves giving him superior control over his various gears by making them less taxing on his body. In short, it becomes easy for him to use Fourth Gear and it opens him up to more of the future gears.

Could a awakened gear two and three, possibly be commander?

Maybe a black rubber bullet gear?

Could haki in the right way, cause teleportation?

No, I'd imagine he'd still need Fourth Gear at least, but it wouldn't be as hard because he could control it better. What's more, a Fifth Gear would be strong enough to beat them down much easier. Allowing Luffy to rise above that commander-threshold into Yonko territory.

Personally, I'm seeing a pretty consistent trend with Luffy's Gears in Haki in terms of an enemies bounty. Second Gear is for things $100-$300 million, Gear Third for $300-$500, Fourth Gear for $600-$1 billion, and a Fifth Gear would probably be needed for stuff $1 billion+. In short, stuff like the strongest of the commanders, Admirals, and Yonko.

Ultimately, what we are hoping to see if eventually Luffy's Haki overshadows his gears. After all, that is what Luffy is in effect trying to achieve with Fourth Gear, using his Devil Fruit to make up for the weakness of his Haki. If he had stronger Haki, the forms wouldn't be as necessary.

So, in a perfect world, Luffy would be able to tank most things with just Haki alone, and use his Devil Fruit for only the most high-tier of enemies, like a true Yonko or Pirate King.

Garp has already shown you can get quite far on apparently Haki alone. In fact, it's implied Luffy still hasn't caught up to his grandfather's level, since Garp collapsed Chinjao's head with just a Haki covered fist in his youth, while Luffy had to use Third Gear and Haki to reform it. Implying that power difference between Luffy and Garp's Haki-enhanced punch right now is at leastwhatever power boost he gets from Third Gear.

To that end, if Luffy's Haki gets strong, the less he has to rely on high gears. The less he does that, the less energy he will waste. As a result, he wouldn't be tired out like he was against Cracker, Doflamingo, and Katakuri. What's more, because Fourth Gear runs on Haki, the stronger the Haki, the longer it will last.

Basically, Luffy's weakneses right now are the amount of energy his Fourth Gear burns, and the weakness of his Haki. The energy consumption is a Devil Fruit problem, with an Awakening could fix, and his Haki is something that can be mitigated with practice. Fortunately, they've already established that Luffy can improve his Haki by fighting stronger enemies. In short, Luffy's Haki will improve with every fight he's in.

This is probably because Haki is tied to strong willpower and emotion. The more intense and critical the fight is, the more Luffy's spirit strengthens, and so, the stronger his Haki gets.

People ask me if Luffy will be the strongest character when he finds the One Piece, and I say "yes". Because once Luffy's finds the One Piece, he will probably have made his way through Kaido, Big Mom, Shanks, and Blackbeard; growing his Haki more and more along the way. And, in according to Chinjao's statement, the Pirate King has the strongest Haki on the seas.

The gears sound like a crutch if I'm hearing you right?

I don't think it would be anything too complicated. That is the same sort of stuff people were theorizing for Fourth Gear, and in the end we just got Muscle Balloon. XD

Oda does put a lot of thought into Luffy's abilities, but its never really that complicated.

To me, that's why I suspect Fifth Gear is probably just a fusion of the Fourth Gears forms, giving the user the strengths/advantages of all the Fourth Gear forms, to form a "Big Man", and Sixth Gear is probably just a fusion of all of his gears together. Adding air from Third Gear on top of Fifth Gear to grow into a "Giant Man" and gain immense speed to make up for the bulking size with Second Gear.

Do you see him in a full black haki form?

I'm pretty sure he already can, it's just a question of practicality.

For example, Full Body Armament is like putting on a suit of armor. But to the same vein, the armor is only as useful as the object attacking it.

If someone only aims for Luffy's right arm, having Full Body on the rest of the body is pointless. In fact, it is just a waste.

Law implied that one can "overuse" their Haki if they use it continuously for too long. This is part of the reason Luffy's Fourth Gear has a time limit, because he can't sustain his Haki for too long. If he does, he needs at least 10 minutes to recharge it.

So, when it comes to Full Body, it's only useful if Luffy needs to block from all angles. Otherwise, it would be far more efficient to only cover the parts you need at the time. For example, when Doflamingo attacked Luffy's stomach with his Athlete Thread, Luffy covered the entire side of his stomach, and only that side, with Haki. What's more, depending on the situation, Luffy has covered all the parts of his body at seperate points when needed.

So, simply put, Luffy probably can use Full Body, it's just a question of "in what situation would it be useful?"

You see, Rayleigh explained that usually Haki users tend to gravitate to one or the other among the more common uses. Spending a majority of their time building up their skill in one of the normal two.

As a result, most Armamanet masters haven't honed their Observation skills to the same degree, and vise versa.

So, the Full Body is more useful for someone who can't predict attacks or see the future, because it allows you to pretty much become a Juggernaut, and defend against whatever attack comes your way. So knowing where an attack is coming becomes unnecessary because you'll be defended regardless.

The problem with this becomes you can't sense the power level of an attack coming. This is why Vergo and Pica both fell to Law and Zoro, because they couldn't sense the difference in strength.

By the same course, an Observation user can specialize in predicting or foreseeing attacks, but that doesn't mean they have the physical means necessary to dodge or block them. And, if you don't have the physical advantages of a Armament master, you can really get hurt if attacked by an Armament master.

For example, Katakuri was able to see most attacks coming from Luffy, but Luffy's Snakeman's Jet Culverin was too fast for him to dodge. Likewise, Luffy's initial Observation Haki was too slow to predict where Katakuri would dodge after seeing the future.

So, the key of Armament is to block and strengthen attacks to where they don't hurt you, but the key to Observation is to strengthen your senses to the point where you can avoid and predict attacks in the first place. One blocks damage, the other avoids it completely.

So, you can see why Luffy, as a user of both, can mix the two to his advantage. Double masters are far more flexible because they can do something like predict an attack with Observation and guard only the part of their body that is being attacked with Armament. This preserves Armament Haki through out the fight and allowing them to pick and choose the blows they take or dodge.

So simply, Luffy doesn't need to cover his entire body, because he can always just predict where any one attack will come from and block it. That doesn't mean he could potentially block the attack with Full Body or dodge 100% of the time Observation. He can choose what he blocks and what he dodges, and with Observation's ability to guage the strength level of an enemy, Luffy can see and choose what attacks would be better to block and which would be better to avoid.

Personally, I would like it if Luffy showed Full Body, at least once, to prove he could do it. Its just he has to be put into a situation where they would be necessary, such as an attack so large-scale and so high-speed that he'd need to guard against it with his entire body from almost all angles, thus requiring "Full Body".

Otherwise, Luffy will probably just learn to dodge attacks he can't handle with Armament, and block whatever attacks he can handle with Armament. And, in which situation, he can just block with the part of his body being attacked.

Or even levitation?

I feel "teleportation" is one of the most questionable Haki theories I've seen. Because I know where it comes from. Shanks suddenly "appeared" on Marineford ahead of his ship that was coming into harbor, implying at that time he needed a certain amount of time to step in and Coby provided that window.

So, some theorize that Shanks actually used "teleportation" through Haki after getting within a certain range, but it was never confirmed to even be Haki, it could have been a Devil Fruit. Or a Rokushiki manuever. Either way, it raised a lot of eyebrows I remember.

Honestly, I wouldn't like it if it was possible. Levitation and Telekinesis I could believe, because its been shown that Haki can affect nearby objects if the will is strong enough. In other words, you could destroy something will your will alone. If that was the case, I don't feel like moving an object up and down, whether it be yourself or something else, would be very hard either.

That's why I could buy Shanks "flying" to Marineford before I'd buy "teleporting".

I hope we see more elite Haki users like Katakuri, that was an unexpected nice treat in the Whole Cake arc.

So, I really hope someone has a similar level of skill in the Wano arc. Whether it be the Shogun or one of the last two Calamities we haven't seen.

How powerful were the creatures of rushika and how well-known is it?

You mean Rusukaina? Man, you weren't even close with that one. At least you got the "Ru" right. XD

Rayleigh said that there were 500 beasts there when Luffy arrived that Luffy could not defeat. As a result, it's clear they were strong enough to give a pirate with a $400 million bounty like Luffy a hard time.

In fact, Luffy implied that the creation of Fourth Gear was necessitated by the beasts of Rusukaina. In other words, some he needed Fourth Gear to defeat. That's considerably powerful, since Post-Time Skip Luffy is strong enough to fight $500 million bounty people without using Fourth Gear. Showing how dangerous those animals are.

However, it should be noted it wasn't just the monsters that were the challenge. Rayleigh explained that Rusukaina goes through 48 seasons a year, so you constantly have to adapt. It's what makes it the perfect training ground.

As for how well-known it is, I doubt its very well-known. It's in the Calm Belt and there was a civilization there, but that was apparently long ago. Since the Calm Belt is so hard to navigate by itself, I doubt many have even been there. Rayleigh seemed to just think of the place would be useful because he had trained there for Haki in the past. How exactly he knew of it I don't know, but seeing as he knew where Amazon Lily was, it wouldn't surprise me if he knows a lot of that general area. Amazon Lily is probably aware of it because its close to the island. Other than that, it's not even implied anyone else even knows about it.

What also should be noted that when Luffy left the island he was "the boss". In short, despite these monsters being able to challenge Fourth Gear Luffy, he eventually subjugated all of them. Probably when his Conqueror's Haki became strong enough.

Personally, I feel Luffy's training went like this.

First, Rayleigh explained and taught the basics of Haki to Luffy. All the while keeping Luffy safe against the dangerous creatures of Rusukaina.

Afterwards, he started training Luffy in how to control his Conqueror's Haki and how to use Armament and Observation through small practice sessions. Some of which he saw, like him trying to dodge Rayleigh's attacks while blindfolded.

After this, once he got the basics down, Luffy mastered Observation and Armament to the point he could use them in combat, and use Armament; Hardening.

With that, he mastered his Second and Third Gears to remove the negative effects and added Haki to them to make them stronger.

However, there were still monsters that were too strong for him, so he created Fourth Gear by combining Muscle Balloon with Haki.

After that, Luffy found some monsters were still too strong, so he learned the King Kong Gun and probably other "King" variants to handle these stronger enemies.

At some point after this, Rayleigh discussed that "future viewers" exist among the Observation Haki masters. As a result, Luffy would probably find himself completely outclassed because he couldn't master Observation to such an extent to counter them. He also explained to Luffy that combat grows Haki in addition to training, so even after Luffy completed his training, his Haki would still grow if Luffy continued to fight strong enemies.

This is supposedly around the time Luffy develops Tankman and Snakeman as variants to the usually Fourth Gear: Boundman. The Snakeman variant specifically is meant to allow Luffy to close the gap between him and the "future viewers" however, its useability is limited unless Luffy's Observation Haki grows strong enough.

Some point after this, Rayleigh left, around 6 months before Luffy's training was complete. To me, this signifies that Luffy had grown strong enough that Rayleigh wasn't needed to protect him, and Luffy had learned as much as he could from Rayleigh.

Finally, Luffy probably continued to strength his Haki on the animals of the forest. Probably trying to push his Armament and Observation as far as he could. However, around this time, Luffy's Conqueror's Haki became so strong that he could intimidate the mosnters of the island into not attacking him, effectively becoming "the boss".

So, the training of Rusukaina effectively ended when Luffy became too strong for the island's creatures. In the end, he just conquered and befriended the island.

As a result, his Conqueror's Haki is apparently strong enough to tame a "sea monster" like the Kraken. So, it raises questions if any animal is capable of defying Luffy at this point. I think the only ones that might be able to are the "Deep" Sea Kings that only Poseidon can control, and maybe Zuneisha, that only Momonosuke's disposition can control.

It also implies that Luffy "needed" to leave Rusukaina, because he had become "too strong" for the island. The animals were left unable to challenge Luffy to allow him to improve his Haki and his disposition completely destroyed any sense of hostility in them.

So, it actually works out really well, because it shows at this point Luffy "needed" to go the New World because it was left the only place that could "challenge" him, while before, he himself wasn't ready for the New World.

What do you think Ryokugyu's abilities are?

I would think it would depend on whether his "fasting" is Devil Fruit related or not. It wouldn't be the first time someone is just capable of some bizarre physical trait without it being Devil Fruit related.

However, if it is related, it may be something that allows him to get nutrition from a source other than food. The fact that he is "Green" Bull is possibly referencing plants. In which case, he could be using photosynthesis, to gain nutrition from sunlight, water, and the ground around him.

If its not related, then I suppose the next question would be if Oda is trying to keep a "theme" going for the Admirals.

Very rarely has Oda not had some kind of theme going for the groups in One Piece, especially when it comes to their Devil Fruit. For example, Kaido's crew seems to be all Zoans. Big Mom's are all food-related Paramecia. Even the Straw-Hat members were all relevant to the setting and organization they were apart of when they were introduced.

For the Admirals, initially they were all Logia. However, with Fujitora's introduction we have a Paramecia, which means the Devil Fruit-type is no long the theme.

So, we have to ask ourselves, what would be the theme?

Kizaru is Light, Fujitora is Gravity. This may be a stretch, but these are both concepts present in astrophysics. In other words, they are space terms. This makes me think, if anything, Ryokugyu's probably "space" related as well.

That could a lot of things, but its sort of important to note that among space-related terms, Light and Gravity are two of the largest. If Oda is really going that direction, which is a bit of a stretch, then personally I would think, the other most important term missing is "Mass"

In other words, the ability to control "Mass". Now a Mass of an object isn't the same as the weight. Weight is Mass x Gravity. In other words, Mass is an object that is acted on by Gravity to cause its weight.

This would explain why Ryokugyu and Fujitora are both considered monsters, and why Akainu feels Ryokugyu could handle Fujitora if necessary. Because they are polar opposites, they can control the affecting nature of the other's power.

Fujitora can't use Gravity on Ryokugyu because Ryokugyu can just change his Mass to compensate. Meanwhile, Ryokugyu can't use Mass on Fujitora because Fujitora can just change his Gravity to compensate. This would apply to the objects they use.

This at least makes the most sense to be. It's what I would "like" to see from Ryokugyu's ability.

Mostly because it also opens up the question if he can control Mass, he can probably control Kinetic Energy as well. Kinetic Energy is 1/2mv^2. If Ryokugyu can control Mass, he can manipulate the kinetic energy of an object by altering the Mass of an object in motion. So, he could throw a rock, and alter its mass to turn it into a bullet. Or turn a falling mountain into a leaf.

To me, this ability would be very OP, unless Ryokugyu is limited to what he "touches" to affect its Mass. Then again, you might argue that Fujitora's ability are too OP and should require the same restriction, which they don't have.

Either way, based on what we've heard from Doflamingo and Akainu, Ryokugyu must be considerably power because he is constantly put on the same level as Fujitora in terms of ability, and Fujitora is extremely powerful. Whether this means he has a planet-based fruit or a mass-affecting fruit, I can't say.

Where did Luffy find the time to come up with gears?

You mean his Second and Third Gear? Presumably, he was just taking Crocodile's advice that "it isn't just the power of your Devil Fruit that matters, but how you use it".

Luffy, despite how simple he is, understands how muscle operate. Our bodies can only move so fast because oxygen is needed perform activity, hence why you run out of breath while running. Your muscles are using more oxygen than you are gathering through a calm, controlled breath.

However, Luffy knows that blood is what gives your body oxygen, so if you speed up how blood moves through your body, you can hyperoxyginate your body to allow you to outperform your usual feats.

Now, presumably the reason Luffy thought to do this was because he saw Blueno using Soru, or Slave, which Luffy explained is adding extra steps to your movements to achieve enhanced speed.

Luffy however, couldn't do this normally so he got the idea to "dope himself" with oxygen by forcing his blood to move at a higher speed and in turn his muscle operate faster, thus the steam.

As for Bone Balloon. I'd guess using Enel's gold to create a giant punch may have been the inspiration, i.e. the Golden Rifle. Luffy also saw giants before and logically he knows he can grow his body by taking in air.

Of course, where Luffy figured out that he can blow air into his muscles is unknown. My guess is that Luffy is simply thinking about his Devil Fruit more critically because he was running to the limit of what he could do with it normally.

I meant when too, unless its the same thing?

It is. What I'm trying to say is there is no "special moment" where Luffy gets a hint of how to use it. He just does it.

Crocodile was the first to "imply" to Luffy that his Devil Fruit is capable of more than he thinks, and that its a user's duty to train and play with the fruit to test its limit.

For Luffy, he hadn't really come across the need to improve his Devil Fruit. It wasn't until Water 7 that Luffy had the encouragement to improve because he "physically" couldn't fight with how he was. So, because he was put in that situation, he thought of new ways to use his Devil Fruit, i.e. Second and Third Gear.

Do you see an a Yonko alliance between BM and Kaido against Luffy going through?

Depends on what happens in Wano. If Luffy wins in Wano but doesn't beat Kaido, Kaido may consider an alliance.

If Big Mom shows up in Wano and offers to help Kaido like Kuma did with Moriah in Thriller Bark, then that's another thing.

But like I said, neither is planning on this. Unlike Luffy and Law, both think they can defeat Luffy without the others help at the moment.

Meaning the nature of that conversation was not to form an alliance, but to make sure each other stands out of the other's way. Unless Kaido is about to be defeated and then sides with Big Mom, I don't see it really happening.

Chances are Kaido will be defeated before such an alliance actually happens.

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My problem with Boruto is not that he's a punk, that, I kind of don't really care about. My problem is his completely lack of any sort of understanding on what Naruto is to the village. There are signs of him starting to understand at the end of the movie, but the problem is why it took that for him to realize it.

Boruto isn't like Naruto, he's a smart kid, with great natural talent. The fact he is so dense to what his father does and is to the village is sort of annoying. He also knows next to nothing about Naruto's own past, which also is sort of irritating.

Granted, I am being more defensive of Naruto in this situation, because I understand why Naruto feels he needs to do this. But I can't support the obvious melodrama injected by this completely unnecessary conflict. Naruto has no real excuse for being too busy for his family, and Boruto really has no position to demand his father solely took after his family. Neither one of them really has a leg to stand on.

That's why it's sort of nice seeing Naruto take a day off after the movie and Boruto starting to understand his father's position a bit more. It's just a shame some insane crisis was needed for it to come to pass.

Probably Shino

Well, I'm not exactly an expert of what is considered depression or not. Even you mean just something like clinical depression. Tsunade, when she was introduced, might count, because she was suffering compound PTSD and haemophobia, basically drowning her depression in gambling and drinking.

Otherwise, I feel some characters went through bouts of depression, but none really remained depressed. So I'm not quite sure how to answer that.

Who was deppressed for a short amont of time?

Hmm, I would say Naruto definitely went through a period of depression when Jiraiya died. I feel others, like Shikamaru, also went through something similar. The grief process can be very complicated, it's not odd for depression to develop because of it either.

Where are you in the series right now? Part I stuff is usually very easy to decide based on where you are in the series at the moment. You need to be at least passed the Chunin Exams to watch most of it, both the movies and the OVAs.

I'm pretty sure you can watch the first OVA whenever, provided you've been introduced to Konohamaru at least, since it takes place before the Chunin Exams at no particular time.

As for movies, they can only been done after the Search of Tsunade arc, and the last two of Part I need to be done after the Sasuke Retrival arc.

You can just let me know whenever you get past these points.

I started watching naruto about a month ago. I'm around episode 190 (land of greens, princess Haruna). I dunno much about the series yet and i was told that the actual thrill lies within Shippuden. But since I've been reading blogs and all, i kinda know some extra stuff. 

So maybe rn I'd be able to watch everything related to original naruto series except the last two parts?

I had some more questions.

1) what is the speciality of senju clan? ( Like sealing- uzumaki clan, blocking chakra- hyuga clan, etc)

2) is the soundtrack of original naruto series continued to be used in Shippuden too?

3) is there any difference between the storyline of manga series and the anime series, may it be a minor one?

Thanks a tonne for the efforts.

Last two movies*

I see, so you've already watched the Sasuke Retrieval arc. It sounds like you are in the filler of Part I then. After Sasuke defects, the rest of Part I is pretty much was is considered "filler", it is just extra stuff that doesn't have any affect on the story itself and was originally meant to give some distance between the manga and the anime at the time.

So, you can feel free to skip that stuff if you want to get to the actual story, or watch it if you want. Either way, it won't really affect your understanding of the future story. I guess if you want to watch everything associated with it, you could watch it.

Either way, if you are that far into Part I, feel free to watch all the OVA from Part I, there's like four or five of them if I remember right. You can also watch the first three movies if you want as well.

1. The Senju Clan was multi-specialized. That is actually what their name meant "thousand hands" or "thousand skills". They had no specialty other than Hashirama's Wood Release. In fact, it's a common fan theory that the Senju Clan disbanded after Hashirama and Tobirama's death, and became the smaller clans that make up Konohagakure. In effect turning the clan into Konoha.

2. They bring back some at certain points. But no, the OST changes as the series progresses.

3. The anime has a lot of filler, which is extra story material, that doesn't have any affect on the story itself. As a result, you will sometimes run into counter-plot points that don't make sense time-wise. If you want, you can find lists of episodes online that will tell you want is filler and what is not. If you do this, you can essentially watch the anime as the manga. Otherwise, you'll need to read the manga first to know the difference.

You had a lot of stuff going on in that paragraph. XD

Yes, Naruto's chakra is by itself, very strong. It probably is in no small part because of his Uzumaki bloodline and the fact the Fourth Hokage was his father. There's also the possibilty that his mutation on the part of being a female Jinchuriki's child also affect him biologically.

Understand this, the Eight Sign Seal that Naruto has on him contributed a large portion of his chakra to rejecting the bulk of the Nine-Tails' chakra. In doing so, despite this, Naruto still had far more chakra than his peers and superiors. The only problem was his chakra control was poor as a result.

Also, it was stated that Naruto's own chakra was re-enforced by the Nine-Tails' chakra naturally mixing with it. This caused it to be even larger and more powerful than it would have been without the Nine-Tails' there.

What's more, Yamato encouraged Naruto to focus on his own strength without using the Nine-Tails' power, because he felt Naruto was strong enough that he didn't need Kurama's power to save Sasuke and become Hokage.

Kabuto also noted that despite Naruto becoming tired quickly because of his poor control, he's still able to pull very powerful jutsu off in this state, showing his chakra is strong enough to the point Kabuto worried that Naruto might become invincible should he learn how to completely control it. He even summoned Gamabunta when he was pretty much out of chakra, something Pakkun considered amazing.

He's at least skilled enough to use his key on his Eight Sign Seal and Torii Seal to open and close it. He also can use juinjutsu and fuinjutsu through Shukaku's chakra via the Sage Art: Magnet Release: Rasengan

He was never shown to practice the art by himself though, but he presumably can if he ever attempted to.

The only issue would be fuinjutsu is very complicated, sort of like genjutsu. It's a "smart person's" skill set. True, Naruto's natural compatibility for the art might help, he might still have problems because he isn't the sharpest knife in the crayon box. That is, of course, unless his "ability to understanding the nature of things" can be applied to fuinjutsu as well. In which case, he wouldn't have any problems.

What made him think that Naruto is strong enough?

To be honest, I wonder if he was sincere or he was just trying to remove Naruto's dependency on the Nine-Tails' chakra.

After all, Yamato seems to probably be one who is more conservative about Naruto's abilities and potential. Not to say he doesn't believe in Naruto, he just doesn't believe as much as some others.

Still, there's the real possibility he already knew Naruto was the son of Minato at this time. After all, he was one of Hiruzen's more elite and trusted ANBU. If that was the case, he would obviously know Naruto's potential as being the son of such a famous shinobi.

Either way, he seemed to think Kakashi wasn't serious when he stated that "he believe Naruto was the only shinobi who could surpass the Fourth Hokage", thinking Kakashi was just trying to inspire Naruto. When in reality, Kakashi was being serious.

How durable is Naruto is compared to others?

Extremely durable actually. It partially has to do with his heritage and his Jinchuriki status, but Naruto has some of the most insane and durable chakra of any character shown.

This is most likely due to the physical energy produced by his body.

Like I mentioned before, there's a high likelihood his mutation he got from his mother plays into this.

Basically, I would re-visit this seen to fully comprehend it:

When Naruto was in the Forest of Death during the second exam of the Chunin Exams, he was chosen as "bait" for the Team Oboro to draw them out by using himself and three Shadow Clones to fight the team's illusions. The plan was to then have the rest of Team 7 and Kabuto eliminate them when they came out of hiding.

However, Naruto was annoyed that after dealing with the constant attacks that he wouldn't get the chance to fight them himself, so he ended up just beating them himself.

What's important to recognize in this scene is that Naruto not only had the stamina to endure Team Oboro's exhausting assault, but then defeat all three of them on top of that. This is what made Kabuto so worried, because Naruto clearly was stronger than the whole team on the point of exhaustion, despite them being fresh and ready.

What's more. Naruto had a Five Elements Seal placed on him during this time. Which was drastically reducing his chakra control. On top of that, Naruto's own Eight Sign Seal already does this. So basically Naruto did this with *two* handicaps.

What's even more insane. Naruto then goes on to duel Kiba less than a few hours later. Kiba, unlike Naruto, completed the exams nearly a day ago, and wasn't even remotely tired. He also was superior to Naruto in both terms of hand-to-hand combat and taijutsu.

However, despite this, Naruto lasted so long against Kiba he ended up exhausting Kiba before himself. Which is insane, given what Naruto had just experienced facing Team Oboro and having two seals restricting his chakra. He basically ignored all of these factors and still lasted longer than Kiba and ended up beating him in hand-to-hand combat, which Kiba was better at already.

So, as you can see, Naruto could perform "just as well", if not "better" than his collegues even on the point of exhaustion. Even with two handicaps.

So, it should come as no surprise when these handicaps are removed and Naruto's chakra control reaches near perfection, that you get what Kabuto was talking about, a near "invincible shinobi".

In fact, it wouldn't shock me at all if someone told me Naruto's chakra grows to Hashirama-proportions in the future, which is even in league with Kurama's. Naruto's chakra and stamina were already so insane in adolescence that it would be odd for it not to be even more insane once he reaches his biological prime and peak.

Again, the seal was at least half the reason why he struggled with his wind release training?

Right. Naruto had to train much more than his comrades to overcome the handicap his Double Tetragram Seal places on his chakra control.

The upside is, Naruto had so much chakra, even after the handicap, that it still wasn't too hard.

What's more, once Naruto did undo the seal and regain all his lost chakra control, his overall chakra control was much better than it would have been normally. Because he had to train to effectively use only a portion of his usual chakra, when he got it all back, it was even easier to use it efficiently.

That is why we see such a large spike in Naruto's chakra control after his battle with Kurama. The difference in chakra control is almost like night and day it's so much better. With that, we start seeing what Kabuto was talking about, a near invincible shinobi.

Hello Tintor3, or is it Tintor2? XD

I'm not quite sure what you are asking. Are you asking for the results of the 10th Anniversary Poll for just Naruto or for Shonen at large?

D The shonen at large are easy to get. However, I have no idea which issue from the American shonen jump had the 10th anniversary (the ones where they made the top Konohagakure and top Akatsuki)

If you are just looking for the results we have them on Narutopedia here.

Otherwise, you can ask for the specific issue numbers on the article's talk page. They should have it sourced anyway.

Thanks. Already left the message

Sure. Just FYI, those talk pages are the best places to get additional info on. Nothing on that site should without a source.

Also, let me know if you don't get a response, stuff can slip through the cracks. I can probably reach out to some of the guys over there to speed things along.

Also, sorry to bother but I also wondered if there was creation info about Naruto and the others adult forms from the  Boruto franchise here http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:254719#25 but it appears nobody has Kishimoto or Kodachi's info

Not that I know of. But I'm pretty poor at keeping up with side materials such as character designs and sketches.

I've seen off-handed interview articles referring to how Kishimoto designed the Last and Hokage Naruto's hair to be short because he had wanted to give Naruto a shorter hair style for a while now. He just didn't have a good excuse for the story. Odds are he had the same reasoning to give Sasuke longer hair.

I also know from reading the first few chapters of the Boruto manga that Kodachi favors more of a buzz cut for Naruto's hair and more of a curl for Sasuke's hair. Meanwhile, Kishimoto just favored short spiky hair for Naruto and the traditional Uchiha drapping design for Sasuke's.

You can tell the different looking at the manga designs versus the anime designs. The manga designs are Kodachi's, the anime designs are Kishimoto's.

Are you talking about concept art? Like for the manga? Because I'm pretty sure Kodachi had some up when the manga was announced, but it got such terrible backlash because the art style was so different. Hence why the manga is becoming more like the anime nowadays.

How Kishi came up with the adult designs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasuke_Uchiha#Design as an example. The section mentions his designs except the adult version

I understand. How exactly he came up with their design I do not know, perhaps you will have better luck on Narutopedia, there's a lot more people you can ask there. So odds of finding such secondary information is quite high.

Otherwise, all I've told you is about all I have. We know for certain the Last and Boruto Movie characters were designed by Kishimoto. The Boruto manga and probably the anime's stand-alone filler characters are all Kodachi's design.

The only real difference is that Studio Perriot is capable of copying Kishimoto's more popular art style to the anime-only characters, meaning Kodachi's designs of them are not fully duplicated. This is why characters like Sumire appear very differently.

Looks like nobody answered my question about the Western Shonen Jump poll

Alright. Why don't you reach out to Seelentau on Narutopedia. He's the official translator for the site, so he may have seen something.

Okay

I meant on Narutopedia. But, oh well, he should still see it.

BTW, I think Denki was based on a fan illustration according to the voice actress

Presumably yes, the only thing that was ever said is that two Mangekyo Sharingan were required for the Susano'o.

Presumably though, had Itachi say implanted Shisui's eye and removed his own, he's have just awakened an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in his left eye. Which is really what Sasuke and Madara have in both of their eyes.

It also was never stated that a person had to awaken a Susano'o with their original eyes.

Based on what we know, you just need two, it doesn't matter whose two it is. Take Kakashi for example, he used Obito's two Mangekyo to use Susano'o, but it wasn't Obito's Susano'o. The Susano'o had traits that corresponded with Kakashi, not Obito. However, because the Mangekyo power was being focused from Obito, the Susano'o didn't last, because Kakashi didn't have the Mangekyo power himself.

So, as you can see, it can get rather convoluted.

So does this mean that you shouldn't have blood relation with another Uchiha to awake EMS?

Technically, all Uchiha were blood related. It's just a question of how related. Shisui and Itachi were probably distant cousins for example.

It was explained that the closer the blood relation was, the more power is created from transfer of the Mangekyo Sharingan from one to the other.

This is presumably because the closer the blood connection, the closer the compatibility because of the similar DNA. Hence why siblings would be the best because siblings have similar DNA to one another, it's just arranged differently.

So really, Sasuke/Itachi and Madara/Izuna were the best possible matches for each other, but that doesn't mean Itachi or Obito couldn't have potentially awoken an Eternal Mangekyo from Shisui's eyes, because they are all in fact related.

The only problem with this is how the Eternal Mangekyo functions. When Sasuke implanted Itachi's eyes, he didn't gain Itachi's dojutsu. Even though they shared Amaterasu, it was in a different eye. Tsukuyomi on the other hand seemed to just completely disappear.

So, it is actually pretty foolish to transplant Shisui's eye because it "erases" Shisui's powerful, rare dojutsu, Kotoamatsukami. The reason Shisui's eyes were so coveted was because of this dojutsu. So, to waste them by turning them into a Eternal Mangekyo would be unwise.

What styles are you referring to? Can you give me a bit more context?

For example, Earth Style or Fire Style.

Oh, you mean the nature transformations. There are five central transformations, Wind, Water, Earth, Fire, and Lightning Release.

There also is Yin and Yang Release, which is a part of all mainstream jutsu, but often shinobi will add a nature transformation, such as say; Fire or Wind Release to create more powerful jutsu.

Outside of the five nature transformations, there are numerous "advanced nature transformations" which are usually the result of kekkei genkai. These natures are usually created by merging two of the original five natures. Wood Release would be such an example, as Water and Earth Release.

From the story, there are about 9 or 10 advanced natures shown. 14 to 15 if you count the anime filler.

Ultimately, these advanced natures are just mixing the central five, and there can be as many combinations are there are mixtures of these five.

Outside of the usually two nature mixture, there are also three nature mixtures that require Kekkei Tota, such as Dust Release, or advanced natures based on one nature, such as Blaze Release.

You can find more information on the releases here.