OK, so you should know by now that I'm pretty big on sports, politics, and music (specifically hip-hop). My other passion is....manga/anime. Yea. Like Lupe Fiasco. I'm not ashamed to admit it, I'm a nerd. Been a nerd for a long time, will probably die a nerd. So, I'll be watching anime and reading manga until the day I die. With that in mind, I'll probably do some reviews of manga chapters as they come out; the manga I will be reviewing will most likely be Naruto, Gamaran, and Shaman King: Flowers. This first one is going to be for Naruto, specifically Chapter 591.
Before I go any further, let me state that I'm not linking to any images or adding any images to my manga reviews....I'm not about that get my blog seized on some copyright infringement bullshit life. If you're a manga fan, you know where to find the stuff. Buy it online or at a bookstore. Or...do whatever.
So Chapter 591 picks up where 590 left off. Itachi, having ended the Edo Tensei, revealed the truth of the night of the Uchiha massacre to Sasuke, and reassuring Sasuke that no matter what path he chooses, he will always love him, returns to the realm of the dead, with his spirit leaving the sacrificial body it was housed in. The Konoha sacrifice fell to the ground, and while Kabuto stood trapped in Izanami (damn, the shit lasts even after the user dies), Sasuke seems to come to some realization about his future goals...of course Kishimoto chooses not to reveal what said realization is.
As the remaining Edo Tensei return to the land of the dead, we get a forced recognition of Itachi as a true hero through the ending of the Edo Tensei, as if killing his own clan, keeping Akatsuki away from Konoha, and remaining silent about what he knew about Konoha weren't already enough. Idk, it really irked me how forced the recognition seemed. We finally get to see Dan's Reika no Jutsu (Spiritualization Technique) and it's fucking OP. You send your spirit to inhabit another shinobi and murk them. Goddamn, that's broken as fuck. It's basically a better version of the Yamanaka Clan's techniques, IMO. Madara launches a "final" assault on the Gokage, trying to land a blow before he is eliminated, but thanks to Tsunade's Byakugou no Jutsu, she's able to fend off his fire attack. The jutsu runs out, but Tsunade is content knowing that Madara has been defeated, but...........
Come on bro, there's no way you thought Madara was going out like that. It's annoying enough that Itachi basically made Kabuto's contributions to the war worthless, you couldn't expect him to also get rid of Madara, who really seems like the only villain competent and powerful enough to be the final villain. Besides, it keeps with Itachi's story...a very talented, selfless shinobi who always fucking failed. But that's why he's my favorite character. He's not perfect, he never pretends to be, and no matter how broken his abilities are, no matter how great strategically he is, no matter how powerful he is overall, he never actually succeeds at shit.
Anyway, so Madara regains his ET body and almost kills Tsunade, but Dan's OP Reika no Jutsu allows him to reach her, inhabit her body, and move it to dodge Madara's attack. Either the Gokage fight was really close to where he was or that technique is way too fucking OP. Fam. Between Dan and Minato, how many shinobi do you think were murked without even seeing their opponent? Holy fuck.
We get the Dan/Tsunade meeting that all of us expected after seeing him resurrected, and in a reversal of what happened before, Dan kisses Tsunade on the head...how cute. So you were talking about how if Jiraiya came back alive, you'd be better to him, but you're still sprung off Dan. Fuck you, Tsunade, smh.
After the touching reunion, Madara reveals why he's still around: the drawback to Edo Tensei is not Itachi's existence (although in this instance, I guess it kinda was, lol), it is that any ET that knows the seals can undo the summoning contract and free him/herself from the summoner. The ET is then an independent, immortal, infinite chakra (someone tell Muu and the Niidaime Mizukage that they had infinite chakra at their disposal, LOL) being who is close to impossible to stop. Madara undoes the contract, and we're sure to see the Gokage get their collective asses kicked next chapter. That's the end.
Overall, I give the chapter a 4/5. We already knew there would be a loophole for Madara to survive, but rather than it being the Rinnegan's resurrection technique, it is Madara's knowledge of Edo Tensei. So instead of Madara simply coming back with a normal human body, he retains his ET body, which is fucking ridiculous. Itachi is gone, so now we have to wonder, how in the world will Madara be defeated? Will Sasuke join up with Naruto to crush him? I'm really curious to see what happens. I took a point off for them waiting so long to have the Dan/Tsunade meeting happen, and then having it happen so ridiculously. How in the world did this guy die in combat? Luckily they got him in the barrier early, and apparently Kabuto summoned him purely for his relationship with Tsunade, rather than knowing the techniques he knew...if he DID know that Dan had that technique, then Kabuto is a fucking idiot.
Predictions for the next chapter: we get to see Madara do some damage, and we get a return to the Tobi vs. Naruto/Gai/Kakashi fight. I don't really care for that fight, but maybe Tobi can make it interesting.
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