UPDATE TIME!
Today, it’s time for the tournament arc of the Chunin Exams! While Boruto easily overpowers his opponents with his jutsu gauntlet, it seems like his luck is just about to run out. And it wouldn’t be a Naruto chunin exam without a terrorist attack, as the plot flies into the spotlight! Next week, the epic conclusion of Boruto’s Tale!
The Five Kage: Naruto the Regenerating Fox Demigod, Gaara the Untouchable Sand Dude, and three D-listers that are apparently became as powerful as the other two over the time skip.
I don’t know if Jay was joking or not about Carter, but he was right about him being a master of Reagonomics no Jutsu. https://www.salon.com/2011/02/08/lind_reaganism_carter/
I hate these fucking rabbit people. The manga version of Momoshiki’s line when taking their chakra boosting drug is basically “HERE IS THE THEME” and bashing you over the head with it until you, and subtly, have died.
This was a really good episode by the way I’m just probably letting my dislike of the story affect my commenting a bit too much.
Sounds like they wanted to make an 80s anti-drug PSA.
I mean it’s not even that. The entire theme of Boruto is not relying on tech. You have to do stuff with effort to make it “count”. Momoshiki literally goes “Oh man I love abusing these drugs they let me do everything without effort” and it’s PROBABLY the most blunt I’ve ever seen a series go.
I was hoping Boruto would point out the hypocrisy of disqualifying him for using the ninja gauntlet when the only reason Naruto is so powerful is that he’s got the Nine-tails’s chakra. And just because Boruto got access to all sorts of extra jutsu doesn’t guarantee he’ll be any good with them, but he did win two fights. Not everyone is as powerful as Madara. Heck, Madara is a great example of how effective pumping yourself full of stolen power can be, so why deny your ninja army the potential of smart soldiers who aren’t blessed with bullshit super eyes?
My Take is that, since the test isn’t really a test of “who’s the best fighter” as “who can best use what they know” it makes it questionable as to How Much of their performance was him, and how much was the gauntlet, which means that he can’t be tested. While you could say it was a test of who could better use their tools, since it was asymmetric, there’s no way to say whether Boruto is better at using them, or if he just had better ones.
Like, in the first series Naruto won his fights and failed the exam, while Shikamaru lost his fight and was the only person who passed, because even though he was outmatched he could show creativity, planning, adaptability etc. By contrast, Naruto was just immovable and unstoppable and kept punching Neji until he fell over.
Naruto wasn’t disqualified for being an accursed freak of nature, but it didn’t do him any favors wrt passing the equivalent stage of the exam.
That’s basically true. I don’t know how far this DLC goes, but I will note Naruto doesn’t deny people using the Ninja Tech. It’s just against the spirit of the exam to use it.
As for the Tailed Beast Chakra, I don’t think that’s a valid comparison. Naruto still has to Effort to make use of that, and if he messes it up he dies or unleashed the beast and everyone dies. If Boruto messes up using his ninja gauntlet he drops a tube on the ground and gets punched in the face.
Never thought I’d see people defending Narcruto.
FINAL UPDATE TIME!
Today, it’s time to close the book on Boruto’s Tale, and the Ultimate Ninja Storm franchise! Can Boruto and Sasuke save Naruto from the new moon villains? Was Boruto really an anti-drug/anti-doping PSA disguises as a franchise movie? And what of the redemption arc for Naruto’s familial issues? All this and more on the finale of Let’s Play Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4! Thanks for watching!
Gonna be off for a couple of weeks, but look forward to the next thread hopefully coming soon!
WOW, A PODCAST!
Let’s send off the thread with one of these as well! Co-host Xain and I watched a lot of anime in a surprisingly intense spring season, and now we’re here to talk through all of them! Almost 20 shows are on the table, and most of them turned out great! And the ones that didn’t? Well, we still get to have a worthwhile discussion on those as well.
I’m glad you brought up that Naruto’s shadow clones send the memories back to him because it brings up a really important thing I wanted to bring up.
The fact that the Forbidden Shadow Clone technique is not just a clone, but a straight splitting in half of Naruto to become two people, and the chakra and memory and experiences return to him when it poofs, means HE DOES ACTUALLY MAKE THE EFFORT TO BE A GOOD DAD. It just feels bad because oops he poofed. It’s ENTIRELY VALID, I think. Naruto tries to be a good dad! It’s better than Sasuke, he has lightning powers but can’t be bothered to charge his fucking cellphone and that’s cannon by the way.
Also this finale is JUST the Father Son Kamehameha from Dragon Ball Z, entirely. I saw it joked as that, but seeing it again really pushes home just how explicitly it is that.
And yes the doctor man was being brainwashed by the moon people.
Shame on Cyberconnect for making a Samurai Fox boring.
So at first I was a bit appalled at Naruto encouraging his 10 year old son to kill a man, but then I realized that Moon Man is probably going to turn out to have survived and will come back as a good guy in a few hundred chapters.
Thanks for LPing this series. I heard that the ending of Naruto got weird and it did not disappoint.
I just realized that Naruto with his Clones could eat every restaurant out of business. Out of curiosity does Sarada continue the Uchiha tradition of taking their relatives eyes for their own after a certain time? In a weird way they are reminding me of the Igors from discworld.
I’m not sure how far I’m able to mention from the anime, but so far Sarada’s entire thing is that she’s the anti Uchiha. She’s actually a good person and not a piece of shit.
And therefore will never master her Sharingan.
Dumb nerd conversations aside (too late) I’d like to actually thank Chorps for this great LP. I got a bit carried away there with my complaints about the story and forgot that what really matters is this dude’s been slaving away in the anime mines for us with his cool friends and we should mention that.
Thanks for going through this series of Games, they’ve been a delight to watch.
This LP series is good, and Chorps and his Otaku Trash Machine are good people. 
