
I would think that rather than having the Juubi under his control, he would be at the mercy of the Juubi if he became its host. As powerful as he might have been, I doubt he was anywhere close to the Sage of the Six Path. Even though Madara says he will become the host to the Juubi, I have my doubts if he would be able to control it. I think it’s clear that Madara isn’t trying to complete his Moon Eye Plan just for achieving a form of world peace – he’s doing it because he wants absolute control of everything in the world the guy is really an ultra control freak.

He then plans to use the Juubi’s immense power to reflect his Infinite Tsukuyomi down on the world from the moon, and in effect control everyone in the world. Madara’s plan is to restore the Juubi and accomplish what the Sage did by becoming its host. The Juubi’s actually body was blasted into space to form the moon (remember Pein’s comment about the Sage creating the moon?). The Sage was able to seal the beast within himself and split the Juubi’s immense chakra into nine parts to prevent the beast from reappearing again. With a being with the combined powers of all the Bijuu roaming the world, I find it hard to believe how any humans could have survived in the past. The story about the Ten-tails (Juubi) and the Sage of the Six Paths who sealed him is really interesting. It is the same reason some people take heavy drugs or intoxicate themselves with alcohol all the time: to escape the harshness of reality or to forget the pains of their past. This illusion will certainly appeal to people like Nagato who have suffered the pain of loss so many times in his life. Although this is peace created from pure illusion, it is a solution to bringing peace to the whole world. Madara’s ideal of peace is to put everyone into a mass genjutsu hypnosis so that all will think and believe what he tells them to. I can now understand why Nagato decided to work for Madara. Now, about Madara’s plan to unify the world and the back story on the Ten-tails. I just shudder to think that if even in this “weakened” state, Madara still possess such powerful abilities, what his restored state’s powers will be like. We don’t even know if he can be categorized as being human right now. Madara mentioned that he wanted Sasuke to weaken the kages so he could take them hostage, but couldn’t he just as easily do it by sending the all to that dimension he sent Sasuke and Karin into? And if he wanted Naruto’s Kyuubi so bad, couldn’t he just have sucked Naruto in too during their last few encounters? I think there’s a lot more Madara is hiding about the extent of his powers at the moment. it is a space-time jutsu that creates another dimension to send whatever people or objects Madara sets his eye on.

The ability is very similar to Kakashi’s Mangekyou Sharingan ability, ie. I wonder how it feels to be sucked into another dimension through a tiny hole in Madara’s mask. Madara finally demonstrated some physical applications of his powers in this chapter, and as expected it was just weird. The Raikage had that priceless “I lost an arm for WHAT?!?” face. I also found the scene when Raikage learned that Killerbee has been playing hookie all along really funny. If anyone, I think Hinata should be coming as the fourth member, now that would be a REALLY awkward reunion, hahaha. I can understand why Sai is going and why Kiba is needed for tracking, but why is Lee tagging along? Sure he’s had a crush on Sakura in the past, but that’s really old history now. She needs to out do Hinata’s bold confession though – maybe a hot kiss – knowing Naruto, he’d be putty in her hands if Sakura did that.

I think it’s about time Sakura took some initiative and proved to Naruto she loves him. Like Kiba says, “it’s gonna be pretty damn awkward” when they meet each other. Though I still have no idea what she plans to say to Naruto – it’s not like Naruto is saving Sasuke solely for her sake, Naruto is also saving Sasuke because he is like a brother to him. Oh, and props to Kishi for giving us the great colored spread with this chapter, but I notice that Sasuke is oddly missing – I wonder why?įirst of all, it was nice to see Sakura at least making an active effort to find Naruto and set things straight. After keeping everyone in the dark for hundreds of chapters, we finally get some info on Madara’s goals as well as the story of the Sage of the Six Paths and the Bijuu. This chapter was one of the most information loaded chapters in the Naruto manga. My fellow narutards, as you know there are certain turning points in the Naruto manga that drastically change the way the story will flow in the future, and I believe that chapter 467 is one of these.
