What the.. Kabuto? (Episode 94)

[complich8]

"rasengan doesn't seem like a kill move" ????

Errm .... bit of a spoiler but .... Kabuto just barely survives it, because he's like uber-elite. If that had connected against someone who wasn't able to block a good part of the damage with raw chakra and the heal most of the rest of the damage, yeah, it would be a kill move.

Even then, as it's connecting kabuto still manages to pretty badly injure naruto though ... so it must be a moment dilation thing ... where the narutos actually make rasengan in like a fraction of a second and smack kabuto with it while he's still surprised that he got stopped that way.

I don't like how that sequence gets animated though. I'd have preferred for the whole "make rasengan" to start quicker after the hand-stabbing and hand-grabbing bit. So it didn't seem like they stood there for half a minute. There's plenty of time to say "it connected!" or "shit" or whatever after the fact ... but I guess they did it the way they did it to increase the dramatic sense of the moment. Naruto's little "cat-paw grabbing" method is a bit antithetical to that though ... we can only hope he _actually_ masters the move in the near future so he can use it in real combat effectively. Jiraiya can fire up a full-blown rasengan one-handed, in pretty much no time flat.

For naruto rasengan right now is a wrecking ball: big and destructive, but pretty easy to get out of the way of. He needs to make it more of a bazooka ... big and destructive, but also faster than you can keep track of.

[wirm]

You know complich8, you really should have put spoiler tags around that. Either that or added a couple paragraphs before spoiling.

In any case, I didn't actually read your spoiler, so it's all good [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]


The reason I don't think rasengan is a kill move is because so far it seems more like pushing than punching through. When Jiraiya demonstrated on the "legendary dark ninja" (hahaha) it just pushed him away. I know he softened it up a lot, but still.

And when he demonstrated against the tree, it seemed like he was pushing pretty hard to make that little hole.


On the other hand, I know chidori is a kill move because it punches holes in anything it touches. Note in ep 66-67 when sasuke just drew his hand back and dug a trench in the ground where he was standing.
I'm not trying to start the whole rasengan vs chidori debate over again, I'm just explaining why I think ransengan is more of a stun or knock-back move.