Why exactly is losing arms a big deal when Hashirama cells is a thing. Or Tsunade slug goo.
@Outerspec:
Sasukes development
While circumstances did change around Sasuke, my overall issues with it post the Saint Itachi reveal were always
A) Sasuke celebrating his newfound love of Itachi and his noble, deliberate, conscious sacrifice by declaring that he will completely fuck over said sacrifice. Also, people are living in Peace and consider Itachi a bad guy in perfect accordance with Itachis wishes, how dare they.
B) Every single "revelation" past that point is pretty much repeating Tobis story, with a few minor details added. Itachi even said: "Dude, everything is like Tobi and Danzo already said, I have literally nothing more to add". But somehow, this promts Sasuke to visit the Konoha Museums Hokage exhibit, and hear the same story again, only with more biology facts and anecdotes about Madara and Hashiramas bromance. This final retelling then prompts him to decide that Itachis actions were totally great, and that all Ninja leaders of all Ninja villages must die.
Basically, Sasuke went from hating Itachi/the actions Itachi had done, to thinking that doing what Itachi did is the best idea ever by being retold the same story 4 times.
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@Sander:
So guys, what do you think was the absolute rock bottom of this manga? The lowest of all terrible low points?
For me it was the reveal of Kaguya. I literally had to double-take when I heard about her and then confirm it because I couldn't believe that Kishi could something so dumb.
The Itachi reveal was incredibly dumb and nonsensical for a ton of reasons, and the amount on wankery about his character afterwards became incredibly obnoxious…but as a twist it was predictable as all hell, simply due to Shonen Tropes.
The one that caught me off guard and now stand as the shining pillar of Turdness in the series is the Gaara retcon. Even Kaguya, dumb as she was, was predicted in jest in these threads. But noone predicted that Kishi would up and bastardize one of the most tragic and affecting parts of the mangas good years out of the blue.
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@Purple:
lol Sasuke really is Byakuya
I am confident that had Sasuke ever hadsiblings, he'd treat them with the same love and kindness as everyones favourite CAPTAIN NII-SAMA.
Afterall, he had such an excellent role model.