- Joined
- Jan 11, 2013
- Messages
- 983
- Reaction score
- 27
The ability to react fast enough to jump 100 feet in the air and deflect a bunch of Katon's before anyone else can move to do so is most definitely a speed feat.The ability to jump high, isnt speed nor does it make you fast.
The ability to jump hundreds of feet in the air in less than a second, while being weighed down by several hundred tonnes at least, is a feat for how quickly you can cover a short distance. You can talk about how she was helped by her super calf muscles (and I'm sure she was), but those are the same muscles she'll be using to spring off the ground and right into Deidara, so it's not like it matters. In addition, she clearly needed amazing reaction speed, awareness, timing, etc, to be able to pull off a move like that. Manda is moving at full bite right at Bunta, and she's fast enough to follow his movements while moving hundreds of feet through the air in a second. There are some characters who are merely fast, but unable to react at the same speed they can move, Tsunade clearly isn't one of them.
Or that Tsunade is really fast, which is the obvious conclusion, rather than the first conclusion (which you admit makes no sense), and the 2nd (which defies everything we know about gravity, and still doesn't explain how Tsunade was able to move hundreds off feet into the air against the force of gravity, weighed down by a giant sword (unless you know, she's ridiculously strong and fast, since all this is happening in a matter of seconds).If tsunade hit Manda before he closed his mouth, it can only mean that either:
-> Manda's bite was delayed because he was still coming out of the ground (wouldn't make sense).
-> The force tsunade thrust downward + the force of gravity, doubled the speed causing her to get there in time (most possible case).
Speed comes nowhere into play here being that both panels are connecting the same incident at different angles.
It's bizarre for you to dismiss the scans as not being relevant to speed. How do you think she got hundreds of meters into the air in time unless she can propel herself hundreds of feet into the air in the time it took for her to see Manda busting out of the ground (which would be what, 1 second warning?).
Your attempts to try and claim this isn't "speed" but something else misses the point entirely. The point is this.
In the time it took Manda to unexpectedly bust out of the ground and close his mouth Tsunade was able to:
- See what Manda was doing
- Grab a giant knife and hurl it hundreds of feet into the air
- jump hundreds of feet into the air with the knife
- Aim that knife
- Hurl it down with incredible speed
- Slam Manda's jaw shut
- Land.
If she can do all that in a few seconds, it's hard to believe she can't bridge the gap between herself and Deidara in a few seconds tops (just leap right at the guy). There is no logical explanation for why she can leap hundreds of feet into the air against gravity while weighed down by hundreds of tonnes (which further slows her) in a second, but can't jump towards Deidara who is standing 30 feet away in a second (while not working against gravity, and not being slowed down carrying hundreds of tonnes). Whether it's "speed" or velocity or whatever, the fact remains Deidara should be dead several seconds into the fight.
Last edited: