Comments on: (WIP) Suiren, Chapter Fourteen: [UNTITLED] Scene 3 – Complete Draft?

By: shikome kido mi

shikome kido mi — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:10:44 +0000

Do you mean “prodigy”?
Otherwise, I agree with you on term misuse.

By: CUP

CUP — Sun, 03 May 2009 08:26:13 +0000

It doesn’t do tons more damage than an explosive, and obviously you could just ’stab them in the face’ like you said.

I think the rasengan’s niche is that it’s unblockable by any conventional means.

By: shikome kido mi

shikome kido mi — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:18:10 +0000

Ah, but the original version (another case of canon contradicting itself) helped pull the user forward and thus had limited sideways maneuverability.
And Lee could maneuver around Gaara because Gaara doesn’t move much, so even at high speeds he stays relatively easy to track.

By: ArjunaAnja

ArjunaAnja — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:28:46 +0000

There was also the fact that gaara’s sand defense was automatic. So Lee probably figured that while he was going at those crazy fast speeds and hitting randomly he might be able confuse the sand and/or find an opening in it.

I don’t think lee had any problem seeing what was right in front of him but it’s another thing with his peripheral vision. It’s like when your in a car going really fast, the side window views aren’t as clear as the windshield up front.

What Lee also had to learn was making fast reactions, or split second decisions. That’s why he’s the master of hard work. He taught his muscles to automatically do things through muscle memory. Sasuke’s bloodline gives him an advantage in that it allows him to see movement before it happens, so he has more time to react to situations. Even if he’s eyes weren’t very advanced at that point i’m sure it still helped.

By: Black-Petal

Black-Petal — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:23:16 +0000

Random thought:
It just struck me that canon Nagato/Pein and fandom Sakura’s ability seems to have some (perhaps shallow) similareties.

Sakura apparently somehow through chacra implants an copy(?) of herself into a living ‘victim’ that manages to repress the ‘host’ and (temporarely?) takes over. While Nagato somehow broadcasts himself through the use of the Rinnegan and special piercings/rods/antennaes into corpses that he controls? And at the same time recieves direct feedback from, he is able to see ‘live’ through all his ‘puppets’ eyes.

So far Sakura seems to only be able to gain information from her copies if she partly or completely reabsorbs the her injected chacra. Similar to how one can gain the knowledge of one’s own kage bunshin clone after they have been dispelled. Also she doesn’t appear to have any dirrect link with her ‘copies’ or anyway to control them.

I wonder if it could also be possible for Sakura to somehow (with or without devices like the rods to) broadcast her chacra and syncronise with her ‘copies’. Perhaps gain intelligence from them, sense their position or similar without having to ‘reabsorb’ or directly communicate with them. Could it also be possible for her to ‘posses/animate’ recently dead beings? Or is this all impossible for her?
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Will there perhaps be more info about Sakura’s ’special talent’ later in the storyline. Yoshinari or some else ought to figure out something about the ‘Kitsune-tsuki’ soon, or are everybody to busy with other things at this point?

By: The Unicorn

The Unicorn — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:49:37 +0000

The thing is whatever the reason Lee was able to maneuver and attack from the side at those speeds, or even higher speeds. This means that it’s possible to do so even without the sharingan, much less with it so there’s nothing limiting the Raikiri/Chidori do direct suicidal frontal attack in a straight line, much less requiring a sharingan while doing it. for that matter even if it was an issue any Hyuuga would be able to use it without any of these problems, probably some other clans as well.

By: shikome kido mi

shikome kido mi — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:28:34 +0000

I believe Lee said something about not daring to make straight on attacks at those speeds due to everything blurring.
And if you watch his fight with Gaara most of the time he runs around and attacks from a bunch of angles other than the front (at least until he has so many gates unlocked he doesn’t care) so I’ve been thinking he just ignores the blurring and maneuvers so that it’s harder for his opponent to counterattack than it would be if he came at them straight on, only attacking the front after he’s done the back and sides.
Though you are right about canon sometimes being inconsistent.

By: The Unicorn

The Unicorn — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:19:51 +0000

Which explains why Lee was limited to lower speeds when fighting Gaara, oh wait he wasn’t.
That might be the official explanation in the Manga but like many such ‘explanations’ it contradicts canon events both before and after the ‘explanation’

By: paranoid android

paranoid android — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:41:48 +0000

the explanation given in the manga after kakashi first uses chidori is that moving so quickly in a straight line causes tunnel vision making it easy for your enemies to intercept your charge, which is why kakashi was banned from using it until he gained the Sharingan which is able to track movement at that speed.

also my conclusion into why kakashi taught sasuke the chidori was to dissuade sasuke from relying on the cursed seals power.

By: The Unicorn

The Unicorn — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:04:30 +0000

My impression was the blinding lightning issue was why you needed an activated Sharingan to use it – the Sharingan allowed the person using to actually see what he was doing.