(Itachi Thinking): Next, I'm Going To Eat Sweet Apples...

(English Translation!)

Illumi *kisses Killua's head, holds him tightly*: Killuuu ~

Killua: What the hell are you doing in front of people?! Baka-aniki!

Hisoka, smiling with a smiling Gon: Waa ~ ♡ Illumi's face is amaaazing ☆

(Fin!)

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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.

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 introduces naruto to make up.. he taps into sage mode once and inspires the next generation of ninja to love and appreciate orange eyeshadow

(English Translation)

Itachi: Somebody... Please save me...

(Fin)

うちはイタチの真実 | キロの [pixiv] 

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Dean: Woah! It's too tall!!!

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(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) 

That's why, now...

(Fin)

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(English Translation!)

Sasuke watches as Itachi picks up a Mandarin orange and puts it down, his tiny round face frustrated.

Itachi: *Gives a look like he would like Sasuke to peel the orange for him.*

(End)

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...