YUSH!!! Minato appears! Holy crap I'm so excited for the next chapter already!

And great motivating speech by Sakura! It's nice to reconfirm that she does understand Naruto and his intentions very well given he didn't even need to speak up or anything.

But anyway, I guess this means Naruto did sense his dad coming? He gave no indication before...

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Yeah, he didn't seem the least bit surprised that his dad showed up. Nevertheless, I'm excited that for the next chapter too.

Well, he was in kyuubi mode earlier, he can sense chakra

As far as i remember, minato cant use that technique to transfer other people right? I didn't exactly love the fact that everyone could use the rock wall technique. If everyone could do that, then why havent they done that before? Why is it that people always think of the best moves pretty much when the battle is near its climax...?

They're freeballing it, and trying anything now. Even things that aren't in everyone's wheelhouse. That's why Shikamaru asked if there were any rockwall techniques that anyone can use. Just because this stuff isn't classic literature, doesn't mean reading comprehension doesn't help. Although I suppose lots of people have the reasonable excuse of English not being their native language.

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I will be disappointed if Obito changes his ways after Naruto uses his preaching-no-jutsu. Most of the villains change their ways after Naruto uses his nonsense jutsu 2-3 times.

And ninja world really lack good war commanders if their troops moral can be boosted by a brat's speech and not by them. Before and during a war, troops' moral is raised to its highest level by their commander/leader, but it seems in the world of Ninjas that can only be done by Naruto and no one else.

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what kinda annoys me is that Naruto didn't even flinch after seeing his dad... i mean, some sort of reaction, a bit of a surprise or something, you know?

Because, as far as i'm aware of, only Sasuke's party were there when the hokages were summoned, and i wasn't aware that Naruto's kyuubi-chakra form made him able to differentiate everyone's chakra, even if they're miles away and undead, whilst he's in a life-or-death battle and making sure villages are staying alive (it would've been more believable if it was sage mode and in the vicinity but oh well).

strixflash is probably right, i can see the undead summoning jutsu unfolding, only madara being able to stay in the world, naruto on the brink of defeat and Obito deciding yes, I should've lived my life like Naruto, <enter new (probably multi-coloured infused with uchiha / villagers powers) rasengan>

But where does this leave Sasuke and can someone actually tell me what Madara's issue is? He received the love, friendship and united clans that are (sorta) living in peace which he craved since he was, yet he still wants everyone dead and at war- even after has 'death', it just kinda makes me wonder you know?

Orochimaru was (in my opinion) the only straightforward villian, but even he is acting up right now.

what i'm concerned is about why the Juubi is turning into Vileplume...is this like a NarutoXPokemon crossover...

Sorry for the comparison but the whole dragging chapters until the juubi final transformation kind of reminds me of bleach

Other than that, I don't remember any of the characters they fought against. At least in this war arc Kishi focused on the side characters a little bit like Hinata/Neji and Ino/Shika/Cho. And here we are, one of the biggest moments in Kakashi's life, fighting against the very person who made him who he is today.

In reality, it's only taken like, 5 or 10 minutes their time for the Juubi to get where it is right now. It's transforming pretty quickly. It seems like it's longer because Kishi is trying to stuff all these concurrent events in. Such as Sasuke's little history lesson.

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I agree with you that kishimoto sensei is handling this a LOT better than kubo sensei did with bleach. However, I just felt that the dragging feeling was similar.

That kind of makes sense, doesn't it. Aside from the brutal wars every couple of generations, ninja are not like a regular army. They tend to work in small teams and seperately form each other.

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I'm pretty sure thatll end up happening sadly. Like in the anime, it focused on pretty much everyone at least for a good few minutes with their individual fights. That weird form of the juubi is going to garner a few displeased fans. It looked like something out of apocalypse no toride.

It probably will end with that scene happening. The preaching no jutsu is so amazing and works enough to make pain give up his life for random people so that naruto can save a world he hated. Sigh made no sense and i doubt it will.

so... any guesses as to the "final form" of the ten tails? They mention before was the "attack form" and now this is closer to the original form. Kind of makes you wonder what the heck it is in the first place.

Though, how can it return to the original form when it's only got a small piece of both the 8 and 9 tails, the two most powerful tailed beasts? That's one thing I'm not quite understanding.

I bet a cent that either obito, madara or both of them do not care about the moon plan. the objective being to unite the clans against a common enemy. If that's so, I hope sasuke mess it all up by stealing the power for his own pranks.