I was talking with Greene and we did the math together: If I read twenty chapters a week instead of the ~5 I've been doing, I should be finished with the series in a year. Well, here's chapters 40-60.

I never fucking understood how TenTen did this. She would have to throw up two kunai with a mirror attached into that light fixture somehow without anyone in the room noticing. Fucking impossible.

Also, no one notices this one kid suddenly pop veins out of his eyes like he's having some sort of seizure? Especially in a room full of Leaf ninjas for proctors, who regularly work with Hyuugas?

This is Anko's grand entrance after the written exam. I really hope she paid for that window.

Man, remember when the series' main antagonist was Orochimaru? God, I miss those days.

I always wondered what happened to Kabuto and Orochimaru's teammates here. Zaku, Dosu, and Kin were killed and their bodies were used to summon the hokages later, but as far as I can tell nothing happened to these dudes. Actually, I think this is literally the only shot you get of Orochimaru's "grass" teammates. Who the fuck were they?

I was initially really impressed at Sasuke's foresight here, but then I realized this plan only works if it's Naruto's who's separated from the group. You have a 50% chance of success. If Orochimaru came in impersonating Sakura and said the password correctly, you wouldn't have any idea.

In retrospect when you look at scenes like this, you wonder how the fuck Orochimaru didn't recognize who Naruto was from the start. He's a fucking spitting image of the dude who took over the job you wanted.

I thought Sakura was going to do something amazing here, but instead all she did was bite a guy on the arm and get punched in the face a lot.

This scene was confusing as shit in the anime and I don't think the manga makes it any better. I thought Sasuke ripped Zaku's arms off, but in reality he just broke them. It made this disgusting crunching noise in the anime too. I must've rewound those five seconds at least a dozen times trying to figure out what happened.

Technology in the Naruto universe is pretty interesting for me. They have TVs and VHS, but they don't have cars or trains. They have telephone poles, but I've never seen a telephone. I wonder how Kishimoto decided on stuff.