Jesus, we need to hide this thread from Daz. If THE Daz reads this weeks chapters it's all down to hell for all of us.
Naruto - what the actual fuck? Naruto and Sasuke are suddenly looking at eachothers asses and thinking "Yeah, he looks nice, I like his big new techniques A LOT"?
Also - yaaay, fan service! Kishi can't draw boobs, so it's shonen fanservice, where a lot of characters who never do stuff start doing stuff. It's nice that they're attacking now, when the monster has more power and a few thousands ninja have died (like, I don't know, Neji?) and now earlier, when the monster was weaker.
And what the fuck are they doing suddenly attacking in teams of three? Aren't there any officers, any actual groups? They can't fight in a war just the way they want to, it doesn't work that way, there are words like "tactics" and "don't go running and doing whatever you want to, because you can stab the guy next to you by accident". Both of these are the reason we have squads and commanders (or whatever they are called).
I liked Shikamarus teams new attack, and Kiba did kick some ass, but it's funny how 2D Hinata is in all of her 3D boob glory - she still can only "be strong" when she thinks about the yellow-haired idiot.
Bleach - oh god, this chapter SOOO is going to get Bleach to the top three in the polls, just you wait. Kubo did plan this one out, oh yes, yes he did - he started this arc with reading all of the past Bleach chapters and he actually did make this connection to Zangetsu. No, it wasn't foreshadowed in any earlier arcs, before it was Zangetsu and it was the hollow thing that was eating Ichigo away.
Now Kubo decided to make a Shyamalan on us (what a twist!) and made it so that it was the new big bad.
It's actually very sinister and intelligent, it's the perfect twist to make the younger readers and Bleach fans masturbate themselves to death. This is pure fanservice, plot fanservice with a twist, this is something Oda does in a good way, where he introduces characters, treasures them, makes a backstory for Hachi or something and then makes a twist of them coming back.
Kubo is the evil twin, he makes a twist that is just purely to pleasure fans, he suddenly shows a loved character (Zangetsu) and makes a sinister twist. And we all KNOW that Kubo just pulled it out of his ass not long ago, but it's so perfectly "logical" in some sense, that it looks like he planned this even better than Oda would. This is evil… and people will love it.
Kubo Tite is the new Dr. Evil of manga, people.