Naruto: actually getting good now?

If you haven’t given up on Naruto the manga series yet, it’s a good time to be a reader. The last few chapters have actually been shockingly good. Kishimoto sensei has finally started focusing on the main character again.  All of a suddden, more has happened in these last few chapters than what’s happened in the last hundred. Let’s run down the list, a major character dies, several minor characters die, Kohonagakure is practically destroyed and finally we begin to see the results of all that training Naruto has been undergoing.

The Naruto you see in the last couple of chapters doesn’t resemble the Naruto you’ve seen before. He’s always been powerful, but now do we see…maturity? Also, the training has taken its course. Naruto weilds a diversity of moves that has never been seem from him. In one clear sign of Naruto’s growth, he decides to use a different type of attack when he learns his opponent in immune to ninjitsu.

I’m at the edge of my seat now and can’t wait for the next chapter. This is what Naruto should’ve been all along. I’m finally glad that Kishimoto sensei has kicked this series up several notches.  The end should be epic.