Naruto--The Final Chapter!

[skjam]

Hi folks!

After fifteen years and 700 chapters, Naruto finally ended. Like the Harry Potter series, the actual plotline ended a chapter earlier, but you can read the collected volumes for that. Naturally, if you've skipped the last couple of years of the manga on the grounds that you'd catch up when the dang thing finally ended, this post will have heavy SPOILERS for things that happened in the last arc.



Seven pages of twenty-three.



At the ninja academy, Master Aburame lets the kids go home early because--






Uncles Gaara and Kankuro are visiting.

Nearby, Kiba explains that he turned down the Hokage job; Akamaru is looking a dog's age.

Ino, Sai, Choji and Karui are waiting to start training with their kids; they're going to have a long wait. I gotta say that Choji really grew into his weight.

Kurenai and Asuma's daughter is assigned to bodyguarding the former Hokage.



Bee is doing waterfall meditation and worries that he's getting out of shape.

The current Hokage is trying to finish up paperwork so that he can go to the summit meeting when some underling burst in. It seems that a certain someone has been defacing Mount Hokage.

Naruto (for it is he) teleports up to scold his son. Konohamaru has become something of a stickler for proper behavior over the years, and Iruka teases him that he too was once a brat.



The dark-haired girl with glasses was watching, and seems to be thinking deeply as she returns home.



Sasuke, off somewhere on his journey, senses he's being talked about.

The Gokage Council meets, and Naruto is the host. Nine-Tails drools in its sleep.


There's evidently a short sequel series planned starring the kids.



So, what's going to replace Naruto in Shounen Jump? The series that seems to be poised to be the next "cool-looking battles" hit manga is Boku no Hero Academia, which is about kids at a superhero school. Think of a cross between House of M and Avengers Academy, but played for optimism.

The series literally taking Naruto's space in the magazine is Takujo no Ageha, which is about table tennis. I'll be posting that sometime next week.

Your thoughts and comments?
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Comments

[leoboiko]

But that's all we get to see; of all the possible things that the author could choose to show us, he chose this one, and giving his handling of Sakura in the series so far, I don't think that's a coincidence.

[draganoche]

What else is she going to do? It looks like the world is at a level of peace where pretty much all the characters have retired with only Konohamaru wearing a headband and no one's even buying kunai anymore. Sakura's a battle healer expert in a world that doesn't need one anymore so she can live an easy life and be there for her child. Ino-Shika-Cho spends most of their time trying to get their uninterested kids together and teach them old moves, Anko got fat because she spends all her time eating dango and doesn't go on missions anymore and Naruto's biggest problem is how to divide his time between the village and his son.

[leoboiko]

Training the next generation of medical ninjas, for starters – like Shino was shown teaching young ninjas. Leading the hospital; it's not like medical ninjutsu is only useful for battles, think about the magic she could work with chakra scalpels and meridian manipulation. Given her experience with the ninja society, with war, and her well-deserved glory as a hero (of which we got to see nothing), she could be an ambassador to maintain peaceful ties with the other nations. Or at least travel with Sasuke, take the kid to see the world and work to build a ninja multiculturalism, to prevent another war. Be an adventurous itinerant magical doctor (think Mushishi and cub). Lead the investigation about what Orochimaru and Kabuto are up to. Anything that I could show my daughter and she'd say "wow, Sakura is so cool".

[draganoche]

Naruto's a bureaucrat, Sasuke's a hobo and considering that Sarada's training to be a ninja she'll probably see the world soon enough once she graduates. I doubt that she spends all her time cleaning considering that she's the one supporting Sarada, all in all Sakura's probably being a better parent than both of her teammates since she has the best upbringing and makes up for Sasuke's absence. Notice that unlike Bolt with Naruto, Sarada doesn't feel neglected by Sakura and instead complains about her father.

[md84]

Then again, Hinata's probably a decent mother to Bolt. Sarada and Bolt just seem to have daddy issues. Which again, is one reason Sarada is fond of Bolt -- they both wish they could spend more time with their dads. And it is nice that Sasuke is at least good enough to Sarada that she actually misses him.

[q99]

True.