So the latest issue of the Naruto manga come out last Friday and is available at www.narutofan.com. Now it was announced that this would be the “Year of Sasuke.” And it has been. He finally had the showdown with his brother Itachi, and won. Unfortunately they now introduced Madara Uchiha who is Sasuke’s ancestor and he is still somehow around. He convinced Sasuke that Konoha is the enemy. So team Sasuke is now an enemy of Konoha. I don’t mind any of this. What I do mind is that he now has a new and improved Sharingan.
Now I thought the Sharingan was cool. It allowed Sasuke to copy ninjutsu from others without learning it the old fashion way. I thought it was cool that it allowed the Uchiha clan to have very powerful genjutsu (create illusions). I thought it was really cool that it has something to do with the Kyuubi (Nine Tailed Fox Demon, or Chakra Beast in the case of the Naruto series). Now however it seems that the Sharingan has morphed once again. Now they haven’t shown us his new powers but it is starting to remind me of Dragonball where they ran out of way to make the characters cool after Super Saiyan and kept increasing the level all the way to the very hairy Super Saiyan 4. It was jJust a cheap ploy to try and keep people interested in a series without actually introducing something new. I loved Dragonball Z, and I still love Naruto. It is cool to power-up one thing once or twice, but in a series like Naruto they should be getting cool new attacks not just making one single ability more and more uber. They also need to go back to Naruto and the rest of Team Konoha because hey, the series is called Naruto, not Sasuke.
