Well for one in the two-three scans of naruto getting his ass kicked is because Boruto is a factor. So his attention is split in saving his son and fighting momoshiki. The last couple of pages of naruto putting up a good fight is him fighting 100% with no distractions.
Well for one in the two-three scans of naruto getting his ass kicked is because Boruto is a factor. So his attention is split in saving his son and fighting momoshiki. The last couple of pages of naruto putting up a good fight is him fighting 100% with no distractions.
He tried to do a sneak attack, but it failed. Yes, saving baruto was on his mind but you can't deny his attention was on momoshiki before it switched to getting boruto out of the way.
I was referring to this scan in my last post.
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Naruto looked in momo's direction before he got sent flying. But like i said, he was caught off guard.
Here, we have a fresh naruto being blitz by base momoshiki.
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And here he couldn't even land a kick on momoshiki, who had his back turned and dodged naruto's kick easily.
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All of this is the same thing as it was in the movie
However, ikemoto did change some things.
Note that Naruto had to put with momoshiki absorbing his chakra(specifically kurama's chakra) for several nonstop hours.
The man could block & dodge a powered up momoshiki.
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dodging yet another attack
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Sees momo's punch coming and pretty much overpowers the alien.
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So, is ikemoto playing favorites or does naruto perform better under stress?
I think its only a change in Naruto's mindset. While fighting in arena he was on defensive, more focused on protecting others with no intel on Momoshiki....later on he could fight without any restrictions or danger of getting people injured.
