Naruto 548

[askerian]

http://www.mangareader.net/naruto/548/1


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eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee team seven having a lazy summer together eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee best splash page ever eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Okay, i'm easy. >_>;;



I didn't comment in a while because frankly the old Kages interest me as much as ... well, they don't. >__> Goddamnit Kishi KONOHA 11 PLZ. Also I was kinda meh on the idea that Gaara's story was being retconned just so Gaara's dad could come across as a bit less of a douche/repenting somehow. (also the sand taking the shape of his mom... eh. I liked it better when the idea of his mom's spirit being in the sand was his way of coping by inventing someone who cared about him and the automatic defense was really all about shuukaku saving his own hide.)

I must say I was rather happy when Gaara didn't immediately go "oh, okay. I forgive you" but instead made a lot of shocked, very expressive faces. Crying!Gaara = n'awww he looks so YOUNG. *lovesquishes* But that end... >:/ hrrrm. Not sure if want.

AND THEN THERE WAS ITACHI (and nagato okay i'm amused enough by the blind carrying around the invalid that i'm also glad to see him) AND NARUTO MEETS ITACHI AND AAAAAA NO WHY DOES THE CHAPTER END HERE WHYYYYYY NOOOOOOOOOO

I want the next chapter right now. RIGHT NOW.

Comments

[askerian]

Yes, but in that dance when someone tells you "i realized i was horrible to you" there's this expectation that the next step is the wronged person saying "i forgive you", and if they don't want to forgive and soothe the bad person's (well-earned) guilt it means THEY aren't as noble/awesome/nice as they "should" be and that's maybe not as bad as the initial offense but still a disappointment.

I want Gaara to have a chance to say "I'll need to work real hard and for a long time to forgive you and I'm not even 100% sure I want to bother", but for a shounen manga it wouldn't make him a nuanced character, it would make him a Not Very Nice person. Since that's not going to happen in Shonen and Kishimoto won't explore those emotional nuances and stay with his Gaara Is A Prophet of Naruto Now themes, which makes this sideplot unnecessary for Gaara's character evolution (he's already at the top), I would have prefered it were never brought up. :/

[q99.livejournal.com]

I don't think he's ever going to exactly forgive him (or explicitly not forgive him either), but he does appreciate being inform that neither his mother nor caregiver really hated him, that was all Gaaradad.

I found learning about the circumstances interesting.