Jiraiya – Naruto Shippuden
Naruto, Fight Me Now! – Rift – Naruto Shippuden 259
The Third out of the Four Fillers for Naruto Shippuden this month. The story carries on from last week. As Naruto starts to get crazy powerful, Sasuke starts to get confused as well as angry every time he see’s Naruto. Sasuke tries to get powerful, but the things his brother Itachi told him just gets him and he isn’t able to notice that he’s also getting powerful.
We start the episode as Sasuke trains to get more powerful, he also thinks of the time when he was fighting Gaara, but had failed and was saved by Naruto. As he fights Gaara, he is told that he’s weak, but as both of them power up, Sasuke with he’s Chidori and Sharingan plus he’s Orochimaru powers versus Gaara with he’s Jinchuuriki powers.
Gaara’s hand is cut but then regrows on the other side due to the fact that Sand is not affected by Electricity. Naruto comes to save Sasuke when he starts to collapse. Sakura is captured by one of Gaara’s hand but is probably saved. At this point, as Sasuke trains, he mentions that both Naruto and Sakura should get away quickly since he doesn’t want to see the friends he cherish die in front of he’s eyes.
When Gaara is nearly transformed into the First Jinchuuriki, Naruto uses he’s Naruto 2K Uzumaki Barrage which punches Gaara out of his misery, but then Gaara transforms into he’s Full Form. Sasuke sits and watches how strong has gotten. Sasuke can tell just by watching him. He has some kind of enormous power inside him, but once in a while it even makes him scared. Sasuke wonders how Naruto had gotten so strong as he wants to get he’s revenge.
Sasuke finds out that Itachi had returned to the Hidden Leaf, but this time not for Sasuke but in fact for Naruto. Sasuke finds Itachi with Kisame and Naruto there too. Sasuke tells Itachi that he will kill you. Kisame wonders how he’s got the Sharingan, Itachi tells him that they are brothers. Naruto finds out that this is the person who’s been giving Sasuke so much grief.
Sasuke activates his Chidori and runs up to Itachi. Itachi catches he’s hand and the damage has only been dealt to the building. Itachi cracks he’s wrist. Naruto tries to help by making a shadow clone, when Kisame tries to attack. Jiraiya appears there to help. Itachi and Kisame are there to take Naruto for their needs. Jiraiya tells them that he’s going to step them when he’s stopped by Sasuke.
Sasuke then reveals that he’s going to be the one to kill Itachi. He’s kicked to the wall when Naruto tries to help but is stopped by Sasuke himself. Itachi approaches Sasuke and has a fist fight with Sasuke body as though it’s just a sand bag. Itachi holds Sasuke’s throat and lifts him up only to use he’s Sharingan to remind him of the time when he’s parents had died.
Naruto tries to save him when Kisame tries to attack but fails when Jiraiya releases Ninja Art: Toad Mouth Trap. Jiraiya mentions that no one has been able to get out of this trap, but within seconds Itachi uses Amaterasu to open up a doorway allowing them to escape.
Sasuke wakes up with Sakura giving him a hug when Naruto walks in and sees them hug and then walks out. Sakura gives some apples to Sasuke but then are beaten off her hand. Naruto walks in and is asked for a match. Naruto accepts.
They both go to the top of the Hospital, at this point, everything they say as well as insults, they don’t mean them since Sasuke is actually somewhat scared of Naruto since he’s damn powerful while Naruto can’t stop what he’s saying! At this point it seems as though they both care for each other, but this fight has to be done somehow.
Sasuke uses the Chidori while Naruto uses he’s Rasengan. Everything slows down as Sakura walks into the way and they aren’t able to stop their attacks. It’s going to be a direct attack to Sakura when out of no where, Kakashi walks in and redirects their attacks to the two tankers filler with water.
Sasuke notices that he’s attack has done more damage, as Naruto’s Rasengan has only made a while in the tanker. He grins in success that he’s made the most damage. He walks off and notices that back of Naruto’s tanker. It’s all been destroyed! Sasuke get’s pissed.
After some time has passed, Sasuke is visited by 4 members of the Sound Ninja who are part of Orochimaru. Sasuke is provoked by them and start to fight. Somewhere else, Sakura thinks of the moment when Naruto had told her that Sasuke would never go to the wrong side since Sasuke knows what he’s doing.
Back to Sasuke, he’s getting beaten up by the four members when they tell him that he’s going goal, and the only way of completing that goal is to get more powerful. Orochimaru is the only person that can help him do such a thing. Therefore Sasuke should join to obtain that power. Naruto Shippuden 259 ends here.
That filler was somewhat interesting since it showed Sasuke’s view-point instead of Naruto’s all the time. The point when they were both fighting above the hospital showed that they both care about each other, and that Sasuke acknowledges Naruto. Next week’s Naruto Shippuden 260 episode, titled “Separation/Parting” features the fight between Naruto and Sasuke. This time they talk a little bit more and Sasuke finds out that Naruto cares for him.
Filed under: Daily Anime Art, Daily Anime Episode Tagged: Fillers, Gaara, Itachi Uchiha, Jinchuuriki, Jiraiya, Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Shippuden 259, Naruto Shippuden 260, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha

I’m Coming Home, Konan – Naruto
The author described Konan as one of the saddest characters in the story, there’s are multiple reasons why this is. Firstly she set her life up so that she would have to give up everything for both Yahiko and Nagato. She never had a say in the Akatsuki because she may have believed that it was never a group that she belonged in, she only followed Yahiko and Nagato, she believed in them till the end.
The only time we saw her happy was during her time with Jiraiya while both Yahiko and Nagato were having fun playing games before the Akatsuki was formed. We also saw her in relief as both Yahiko and Nagato were set free from such a painful world, they had died believing that Naruto would save this grieving world from all the pain in it, Konan had also built some trust in Naruto.
The story of Konan is truly sad, and the fantastic image drawn by Warb1rd tells her story perfectly. Hopefully now she’s happy with both Nagato and Yahiko by her side.
Filed under: Daily Anime Art, Featured Anime Art Tagged: Akatsuki, Fan Art, Jiraiya, Konan, Nagato, Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, Naruto Uzumaki, Paper Person of God Technique, Yahiko

Free Spirit – Jiraiya
Jiraiya was first thought to be the child of the prophecy, but that quickly changed into Minato. However when Minato died, the prophecy changed once more into one which made Naruto the person in the prophecy. Jiraiya was very confident that he was training the child and thus told him everything he knew, even told him about his fathers techniques such as the Rasengan. From this Naruto believed that he had to train really hard in order to prove it true.
The fantastic anime artwork of one of the best characters in Naruto was drawn by Nivalis70 who has a ton of other fantastic artwork from different animes, especially Naruto. Therefore you should definitely go and check her out.
Filed under: Daily Anime Art, Featured Anime Art Tagged: Fan Art, Jiraiya, Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, Naruto Uzumaki, Team Jiraiya

Minato could still be the Child of the Prophecy!
Your minds could be fully settled that Naruto Uzumaki is the Child of the Prophecy, so hear my out. I think that Minato Namikaze still has a chance of being the Child of the Prophecy in which the Great Toad Sage had first mentioned to Jiraiya. Jiraiya found Minato’s natural genius to be something unique and suggested that he could be the Child of the Prophecy.
However after his death, Jiraiya settled on failure until he finally met Minato’s son, Naruto who possessed no unique powers or genius but something about him helped rekindle the task the Great Toad Sage gave Jiraiya. He grew up and after a number of years, we were completely sure that Naruto was the Child of the Prophecy who would bring harmony and peace to all nations. He gained a number of different powers, mostly using Kurama’s great chakra.
During the Fourth Ninja Shinobi War, we saw the power of the Edo Tensei come alive, a number of key characters were brought to life, for example Madara Uchiha, Hashirama and Tobirama Senju. At this point Minato was finally brought to life, thus rekindling the fact that Minato could still be saviour, he could use his powers in order to bring peace, that is until Orochimaru limits him. The pure fact that Minato is even alive could mean so, it could also interpret that Kishimoto is trying to lead us in a way to which we’re going to be mind blown!
Yes, these facts are not hard, therefore it is a possibility, and thus it could happen. I personally do want Minato to get this credit, we don’t know a lot about him, only what Kushina told us, and so it would be nice to see Minato also get this title, just like the Yellow Flash. The amazing artwork above was done by Itachis999, check them out.
Filed under: Daily Anime Art, Featured Anime Art Tagged: Child of the Prophecy, Fan Art, Great Toad Sage, Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, Nagato, Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki

Top 10 Saddest Anime Deaths
Death’s within any anime is sad, however deaths of major characters that we love and hope to see live and fight in the anime are without a doubt heart touching. Here are some of the saddest anime deaths which myself and a few friends thought you’d like to see in no particular order.
Portgas D. Ace and Edward Newgate (Whitebeard)
Son the Pirate King, and one of the Four Emperors; Ace and Whitebeard. Not much of these two is seen throughout the anime but their deaths are equally devastating to any One Piece fan, as they are to the OP universe. Ace, as well as being son of the Pirate King, is also Luffy’s brother, as they exchanged cups of sake as youths in a vow of brotherhood. During the war of the best in Marineford, we see Luffy and all of Whitebeard’s crew and allied crews trying to storm through the battlefront in an effort to save Ace. Luffy, after entering the battlefield, exclaims “I’m going to save you, even if I die”, and in a cruel twist of fate, Luffy fully exhausts his body but continues to fight, and succeeds in rescuing Ace, but Ace ends up sacrificing his life in order to save Luffy from Akainu during the escape. Whitebeard’s death was equally touching, since throughout the entire war, you see Whitebeard facing a storm of different attacks; gunshots, sword stabs, cannon ball fires and also Akainu’s lava fists, but still stands strong, and in his final moments, he dies standing tall. [Image]
Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto
Yamamoto’s death was probably one which had touched all Bleach fans. After revealing his beastly Bankai, he was certainly shocked to know that he was cheated of his chance to kill Juha Bach, after such a moment he had no moment to react to which Juha took the chance to cut Yamamoto in half. While his body stands, the other half falls to the ground as though all his spirit and fire has disappeared from the Earth. It was truly a shocking death and Juha Bach was certainly clever in the way he took Yamamoto’s life! [Image]
Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze
Kushina and Minato are Naruto’s parents as you may know, they saved Naruto’s life by giving up their own. As Kurama see’s his chance to kill Naruto we see Minato and Kushina quickly take action in stopping Kurama’s hand by stepping in front of it. Both of them die by Kurama’s hand which means that they will die together. They know their fate and thus begin to say goodbye to Naruto as a child as well as when he’s grown up. [Image]
Going Merry
Possibly one of the more obscure anime deaths out there, simply because it’s technically not a living being. However, despite this, the death of Going Merry is still a worthy mention, as he has been with the Strawhat nakama since their first voyage as a real crew, meeting new challenges and facing bombardments from rivals (and mostly Luffy). At Enie’s lobby, Merry has pushed himself far beyond the limits of any regular ship, and even voyaged (on its own will) on one final trip, even whilst no longer being seaworthy. What makes Going Merry so special is the fact that through the plot, you can slowly see Merry developing a spirit/soul/will of its own, shown on Sky island where he repairs himself to his original form, and also during the battle between Luffy and Usopp, where Merry is seen crying. [Image]
Itachi Uchiha
Itachi Uchiha’s death was hard to see. After all Itachi and Sasuke had together as kids, it’s really hard to see both of them fight to the end. Plus after learning about he’s past and how he died, it was amazingly touching and to see Sasuke make his decisions after learning all of it was incredible. Furthermore his death wasn’t the most disappointing thing, it was the after effect in which Sasuke had to it, plus after Itachi was reincarnated it was good to see that Sasuke got to see his brother in an equal term where Sasuke was told the truth. Itachi was a great leaf shinobi in disguise. [Image]
Jiraiya
Jiraiya is awesome, he was a leader to many as well as a teacher to some. From Nagato to Minato and his beloved son Naruto. He was amazing and although his death affected Naruto the most, it affected others such as Tsunade and Orochimaru, which were friends from the very start. He was awesome, his death brought forward a lot and helped Naruto think through some stuff to figure out how to stop Nagato as well as use Sage Mode to fight against many other enemies. He was a teacher and a friend. [Image]
Ulquiorra Cifer
Ulquiorra was an enemy to some but he grew on many of us, from being quite yet powerful member of the Espada, he was never a bad guy. All he wanted to do was to protect his leader which in this case Aizen. Ulquiorra is one of my favourite Bleach characters, to which his death was definitely shocking. However I was angered to see Ichigo death while being ecstatic to see Ichigo go crazy on Ulquiorra. There was definitely a touching moment between Orihime and Ulquiorra, that is what is most upsetting. [Image]
Gin Ichimaru
Gin, a lover to Rangiku while being a secret hero to many. In the end, he didn’t realize that Aizen had gotten a lot stronger than he could have anticipated, because of this such a wonderful hero died. He started with us by being a somewhat free spirit character to which he and Aizen had great plans. He stole the Hogyoku off Aizen to prevent him getting any stronger but paid with his life, he knew from the moment he met Aizen that he would do something, thus he stayed with him. I only hope that we see him one more time, however it’s most unlikely as he’s died in the arms of Rangiku. [Image]
Zabuza Momochi (And Haku)
Zabuza and Haku were the first and main antagonist to Naruto when it began. We see him as a very aggressive character at start but as we learnt about him we quickly found out that he cared deeply for Haku, who were always together. Naruto had quickly figured out that Zabuza obviously had strong feelings for Haku to which he’s never showed, and after figuring this out, he wasn’t able to tell Haku, who was already killed. During the Edo Tensei arc, Haku was able to find out, even if it was short it was something they both could share, it was truly wonderful, even if they’ve already dead. [Image]
Asuma Sarutobi
Sarutobi being the leader of Team 10 as well as a very close teacher to his students, in particular Shikamaru, is a very sad story. He was fortunate enough to have loved and be loved by Kurenai who is now pregnant. It’s also sad that she will have a child in which they will never be able to see their father, all because of how he died. He was a teacher to every as well as Naruto and the others. He’s definitely a very cool teacher to have, always paying for Choji’s meals. He was awesome, sad to see him go! [Image]
There are too many deaths that are too sad to mention above so here are some that we also considered:
- Kaname Tosen (from Bleach)
- Lisanna Strauss (before she came back from Edolas)
- L (from Death Note)
- Simon (from Fairy Tail)
- Marco Bott (from Attack on Titan)
- Goku (During Cell Games Saga, against Cell)
Note that this list is from anime’s that have been watched by all of us, please don’t criticize is we have missed some very important deaths. This was post done with the help of a few of my friends, Naim and Nirmal, thank you both for the help! Also if you’ve got a sad death that you think was very sad within any anime, please be sure to tell me using the comment section.
Filed under: Daily Anime Art, Daily Anime Thoughts Tagged: Asuma Sarutobi, Bleach, Fairy Tail, Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, Gin Ichimaru, Going Merry, Haku, Itachi Uchiha, Jiraiya, Kushina Uzumaki, Minato Namikaze, Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, One Piece, Portgas D Ace, Top 10, Ulquiorra Cifer, Whitebeard, Zabuza Momochi

New Three-Way Deadlock! Tsunade Recovers – Naruto Shippuden 374

Mecha-Kurama Appears! Mecha-Naruto Saves Village – Naruto Shippuden 377

Groundbreaking Rasengan – Naruto Uzumaki

Chunin Exams Begin! Sakura’s Strength – Naruto Shippuden 395

Sakura's Emotions! Naruto's Chakra Control – Naruto Shippuden 409
Naruto Shippuden 409 follows the story of Sakura as she with Ino and Choji try to beat their opponents who just don't know when to stop. On top of this, Naruto and Jiraiya begin their training as Naruto's seal is undone a little to train with Kurama's chakra, however it all goes out of control and both Naruto and Jiraiya get hurt from it.
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In a World Without Tragedy – Infinite Tsukuyomi
In a world with tragedy, Madara Uchiha tries his best in order to free the world and rid it off all the tragedy, sorrow and pain which everyone lives in the normal world. A powerful technique called the Infinite Tsukuyomi was used by Madara in order to save humanity and all mother Earth animals. Below are some dream worthy artwork.
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Tsunade’s Infinite Tsukuyomi – Naruto Shippuden 432

Surviving A War – Jiraiya

Hyuga’s Past! Tsunade’s Tsukuyomi – Naruto Shippuden 436

More Filler! Tsunade’s Infinite Tsukuyomi – Naruto Shippuden 437

Naruto’s Four Tail! Sasori’s Puppets – Naruto Shippuden 438

Neji’s Father! Naruto Saves All – Naruto Shippuden 439

Sasuke and Naruto’s Training! Orochimaru’s Plan – Naruto Shippuden 441

Naruto and Sasuke’s Training – Naruto Shippuden 442
