As I watched Greene play Naruto Ninja Storm Revolution, I realized I forgot a lot of shit in the series, particularly toward the end as I stopped paying as close attention. So I'm rereading it from the beginning, and now a lot of things seem weird in retrospect. So about once a week I'll write a post with comments.

This confused me for a long time because I thought that he was the fox, and later during the chuunin exams they talked as if it was inside of him (which it is). Perhaps it's a translation problem? Mizuki says, "ナルトの正体がガケ狐だと口にしない掟だ," although every version I've seen has Mizuki proclaiming he's Kyuubi itself. I've read websites explaining this away by saying he was saying the prejudice of the village, but part of me wonders whether Kishimoto's original intention was for Naruto to be the fox itself. If you read the pilot chapter, he is a transforming fox and perhaps Kishimoto wanted to continue that but changed his mind later.

Let's think about this. Some shithead who couldn't even pass the Ninja Academy exam, never mind the genin exam, somehow managed to slip past security, defeat the hokage, and get his hands on this super secret scroll? How fucking crappy is their security if Mizuki thought this useless kid had a decent chance of success? Also, what the fuck else was in that scroll? Naruto only managed to learn the first thing before Mizuki and Iruka caught up with him. We know there's kage bunshin no jutsu and shiki fuujin, but what else? The way everyone was phrasing it, there's jutsu in there that could topple the whole world.

Is that Chouji's dad right there getting pumped up to murder Naruto? Christ, he seems so fucking nice later.

Man, I miss this crystal ball. Maybe if someone else knew how to use it, Jiraiya wouldn't've had to enter Amegakure on a fact-finding mission and he'd be alive today.

New link. Thanks for the heads up Devin.
*update* Goddammit, taken down again already.