Naruto 278

[Psyke]

I belive Gaara's powers came from the Shukaku sealed inside him. There is a reason why his father decided to seal it in him, and why the Akatsuki members want it so much. Like Naruto, Gaara's power source comes from the demon sealed within him. Of course, Gaara might still know all the jutsus he mastered previously, but now he may not have the level of chakra required to execute them.

[Uchiha Barles]

I seem to recall there being discussions of naruto slowly converting kyubi's chakra into his own. Perhaps a similar thing might've been occuring in gaara so that he's not totally undone by this extraction. Also, I don't think those akatsuki members died too fast. I think it was pretty slow. Painfully slow in fact. And to make matters worse, it was horribly done.
If they had tweaked a few things in the fight, I would've been able to accept Sakura's apparently immennse growth in ability, but they didn't. If they had tweaked a few other things ("you're a master puppeteer with 1 puppet to each finger to crush a castle, but behold! I control 100 to crush a nation!!" ....among other things) the fight might've been good. But they didn't.
Also, after all this time, you'd hope to see the main character grow into something that doesn't reek of elephant nuts, but he accomplished absolutely nothing important this entire arc. Dissapointment? No, completely expected. Which is sad if you think about it, or even if you don't.
There was one possible saving grace to this arc. The emotions brought by gaara's death could've made all the other nonsense I've mentioned almost bearable. But no, apparently there's nothing the good guys cannot defeat. Death included. Booooooo I declare!

[ChaosK]

Originally posted by: Psyke
I belive Gaara's powers came from the Shukaku sealed inside him. There is a reason why his father decided to seal it in him, and why the Akatsuki members want it so much. Like Naruto, Gaara's power source comes from the demon sealed within him. Of course, Gaara might still know all the jutsus he mastered previously, but now he may not have the level of chakra required to execute them.

do we have any proof that all of garra's powers are from shukaku? i mean naruto's chakra comes from the kyubi but his moves are entirely his own.

also, you want to see garra search for the meaning of life, well i wanna see him rape somebody without the shukaku to show every1 he STILL CAN be a kazekage.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Originally posted by: Chaoskiddo

Originally posted by: Psyke
I belive Gaara's powers came from the Shukaku sealed inside him. There is a reason why his father decided to seal it in him, and why the Akatsuki members want it so much. Like Naruto, Gaara's power source comes from the demon sealed within him. Of course, Gaara might still know all the jutsus he mastered previously, but now he may not have the level of chakra required to execute them.

do we have any proof that all of garra's powers are from shukaku? i mean naruto's chakra comes from the kyubi but his moves are entirely his own.

also, you want to see garra search for the meaning of life, well i wanna see him rape somebody without the shukaku to show every1 he STILL CAN be a kazekage.

I agree with this.. no matter how many people on these forums bitch about Gaara getting back Shukaku, the thought of future fights even better than against Rock Lee and Kimimaro makes me hope things go back to normal.

[folf]

the previous point wasn't for things to revert to normal, but for Gaara to remain the badass, without the demon, which is something different. No one has ever had a demon extracted and survived, so.. we presume a lot with precisely what was stipped from Gaara, other than the demon..