Is it me or the manga series feels like its being rushed, the quailty is going down, and the author is going on a killing spree just to make it seem interesting? i am a nartuo fanboy but there is a line and the author is trying to blow up that line...
Naruto is going through its own "DBZ syndrome" phase, where the battles are simply stretched through multiple volumes and all sorts of characters "discovering" new powerful techniques because the writer has pretty much run out of ideas. There's never an actual ceiling to the amount of power that can be expended in a battle in Naruto, thus leaving the door open for various deus ex machina to appear whenever the creators need to justify another paycheck. Of course, I could get into the whole "They're not actually ninjas! They don't bother using stealth!" argument, but that's a topic for another time.
















