Review of chapter 635

[Sennin of Logic]

This was a talking chapter. I'm usually very lenient when it come to these. Heck, I didn't enjoy the first parts of Hashirama's flashback, but I at least understood its importance. This chapter was both a major disappointment and has no action to entertain us to make up for the lack in plot.

I'm fine with talking chapters, as long as the dialog holds relevance to the story. Sadly, the vast majority of the dialog is entirely pointless and does not hold any relevance to keep you interested. Tsunade's healing was okay, but it took much longer than it needed to because of Suigetsu and Karin's bantering. Like I really want to see what happens when those 2 argue who's weirder and mindless complaints when the should be worrying about the juubi destroying the world! This took up to much panel time, and I think Kishimoto intended that.



Now, I did like hearing Orochimaru's motives. Believe it or not, I predicted them in my fanfiction.

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However, instead of focusing on it alone, Orochimaru talks about philosophy. Orochimaru's philosophy, yet again, is entirely irrelevant to the story. You could have taken this part out and miss nothing in the story. Unfortunately, this waters down the impact of the reveal.

The last part showing the tension between team 7 is interesting. It's interesting, but there's no new developments other than we found out that the bjus are actually connected to the juubi and not absorbed, and Sasuke, for some apparent reason, wants to destroy them along with the juubi but he fails. The other "new" development is that Sakura's not happy for some reason, yet Sai said that she was being sincere when she said she was happy Sasuke came back and that she trusts him. What am I supposed to get out of that?! And Obito continues to fight Kakashi, what a surprise.


Overall, this chapter is a huge disappointment. Most of the panels are filled with irrelevant dialog and most of the events are irrelevant as well. You can literally read the previous chapter, then read the future chapter, and still know what's going on. There's been no real surprises. This is basically a filler chapter. Clearly Kishimoto can't come up with what happens next, so he's stalling for time by filling this chapter with meaningless dialog so that he can call this stalling a complete chapter. There are redeeming qualities to this chapter, but they're not enough to save it.

I rate this chapter 3 out of 5 stars. It's a filler chapter!

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[Form]

The last page made it the slightest bit of interesting.

 

[hixa kuogame]

There's no need to rush the manga
So I don't mind if he takes it slow and steady
The Karin and suigetsu part did annoy me
I liked the chapter

 

[Sennin of Logic]

The last page made it the slightest bit of interesting.

Yes, but who didn't see this coming? I mean, they were preparing to fight the last time we saw them. Although it was good to see, it along with the other good things, are not enough to save this chapter.

 

[Sennin of Logic]

There's no need to rush the manga
So I don't mind if he takes it slow and steady
The Karin and suigetsu part did annoy me
I liked the chapter

I don't mind talking. What annoys me is that most of it holds no relevance to the story whatsoever. He doesn't have to rush through it, but he should at least cover important points that might interest us, like Sasuke's goal. Having more panel time of everyone's thoughts on what Sasuke's planning would have been 10X more interesting than mindless banter and philosophy that doesn't matter story-wise.

 

[GenKiDama]

boring chapter indeed. what purpose do the current kage serve now.

 

[tharrison09]

you guys are trippin..this chapter was awesome

 

[Sennin of Logic]

you guys are trippin..this chapter was awesome

If the definition of awesome is boring as heck do to the fact that there's little to no new developments and throwing out pointless dialog, then yes, it was awesome.

 

[hixa kuogame]

I don't mind talking. What annoys me is that most of it holds no relevance to the story whatsoever. He doesn't have to rush through it, but he should at least cover important points that might interest us, like Sasuke's goal. Having more panel time of everyone's thoughts on what Sasuke's planning would have been 10X more interesting than mindless banter and philosophy that doesn't matter story-wise.

I see what you mean

 

[AnimusOra]

Aside from the story progression i must agree with you that this chapter was boring and did not leave much interest in me. The plot continued in some pace but to be honest the pages with Karin, Suigetsu were completely pointless and were just filler pages it seems

 

[maven]

Just as I expected that tsunade will bite karin and recover then they hurry to the battlefield and somehow juubi will bounce back bcos there has to be more enemies to keep the current kages occupied when they join the battle. Too much filler dialogues in this chapter. I didn't expect to see kakashi today. I guess kishi wants to conclude other distractions so that the war will focus on the battlefield which is about to rewrite history. The only new information here is that we know what the reaSon for Sasuke vs naruto

 

[Momo86]

I don't mind talking. What annoys me is that most of it holds no relevance to the story whatsoever. He doesn't have to rush through it, but he should at least cover important points that might interest us, like Sasuke's goal. Having more panel time of everyone's thoughts on what Sasuke's planning would have been 10X more interesting than mindless banter and philosophy that doesn't matter story-wise.

I see your point but consider things the other way around. Orochimaru spent his better years performing acts of unforgivable evil, if he decided to stick with the good guys now the author has at least to make him explain why in depth and NEEDS a slow pace to do so. Sure, nothing Orochimaru said couldn't be deduced from his previous statements, but Kishi has to add more beef to the new vision of the world Orochimaru just adopted. I felt this chapter had the "correct" pace, even if I hoped they'd move faster just as much as you did.

 

[Sennin of Logic]

I see your point but consider things the other way around. Orochimaru spent his better years performing acts of unforgivable evil, if he decided to stick with the good guys now the author has at least to make him explain why in depth and NEEDS a slow pace to do so. Sure, nothing Orochimaru said couldn't be deduced from his previous statements, but Kishi has to add more beef to the new vision of the world Orochimaru just adopted. I felt this chapter had the "correct" pace, even if I hoped they'd move faster just as much as you did.

One thing though. He's not interested in good. He's interested to see how Sasuke impacts the world with his own evil. That's what I get from this chapter.

 

[Momo86]

One thing though. He's not interested in good. He's interested to see how Sasuke impacts the world with his own evil. That's what I get from this chapter.

Yeah, I wasn't saying he is "good" in the traditional moral acception right now, I am merely saying that the story needs him to explain himself fully for a few scenes otherwise it'd feel more forced than it already does.