Naruto Shippuuden Episode 88

[Yukimura]

It's always struck me as odd that the Rasen* supposedly has to be hand delivered and can't be thrown, however once it connects with an enemy it seems to detach from the user and continue doing it's destructive thing as the target is pushed away from the user. Once Naruto hit Kakuzu with Rasenshuriken the doom ball seemed to get stuck to him and he and it both flew a good 100+ feet before the doom ball evolved into giant doom cloud. If the technique can push the target that far before 'activating' I don't see why Naruto shouldn't be able to just throw it at someone and have it hit them and then turn into the doom cloud.

Anyway, I liked the ep overall. I'm glad Shikamaru got the lighter back, and I thought Hidan's mad ravings were decently done. However, I also thought that Kakuzu did a little too much standing around. I don't see the point of him just waiting around for them to confer and decide what to do as opposed to trying for an attack of some sort while Naruto was down the first time. It was like he was just waiting around for them to come up with a way to kill him.

[Kn1ves]

It's always struck me as odd that the Rasen* supposedly has to be hand delivered and can't be thrown, however once it connects with an enemy it seems to detach from the user and continue doing it's destructive thing as the target is pushed away from the user. Once Naruto hit Kakuzu with Rasenshuriken the doom ball seemed to get stuck to him and he and it both flew a good 100+ feet before the doom ball evolved into giant doom cloud. If the technique can push the target that far before 'activating' I don't see why Naruto shouldn't be able to just throw it at someone and have it hit them and then turn into the doom cloud.

The way I see it, Rasengan is a concentrated ball of energy that's being controlled by the hand, and when released, the spirals that were created expands outward.
That is why opponents usually spin since the energy that was wound up is being released outwardly.

Now if you throw a ball of rasengan like that, it will immediately peter out without much distance and will just be a waste since nothing is containing the energy (hand).

one way to counter this is to either wind it up tighter by using wind element.

The technique is 50% done so it is a possibility

The fact that people fly 100+ feet shows how much energy was stored in the ball to begin with

[DB_Hunter]

I think we need to stop seeing repeats of "this is a new Naruto" lines only to see him going back to being a prat. Let's hope he stays "new" this time.