Comics Review: Naruto Chapter 551: Stop Nagato!

The last chapter was left at a cliffhanger as Nagato was now under the full control of Kabuto and absorbed Bee’s chakra to gain his full power, grabbing Naruto and starting to pull out his soul..

After a week€™s holiday in Japan, Shonen Jump is back to work and thus the continuation of the Naruto manga. The last chapter was left at a cliffhanger as Nagato was now under the full control of Kabuto and absorbed Bee€™s chakra to gain his full power, grabbing Naruto and starting to pull out his soul. These Naruto reviews will contain spoilers for those who may not have read the recent chapters and this particular review will explain what happens in this chapter. While Nagato is slowly pulling out Naruto€™s soul out of him, Naruto soon realizes that Nagato can use the same abilities and powers as all the Pains and tries to attack him with a Rasengan that Nagato quickly absorbs. Nagato summons the Naraka Path that has the ability to revive and take away souls from people, which Kabuto is planning to use so that he can take out Naruto and Killer Bee and revive them later so that he can gain all the powers of the combined Jinchuuriki€™s powers. Naruto tries to hold onto his spirit as Nagato is continuing to pull it out. Just then, Killer Bee is seen jumping up high in the air and tries to attack Nagato with one of his swords and is immediately grabbed by two mechanical arms that have sprout out of his body. Naruto struggles to hold onto his soul as it is now about to be pulled out and Nagato transforms one of his mechanical arms into a gun and is about to fire when a giant hands comes out of nowhere, grabbing Naruto and Killer Bee. Nagato jumps back and Itachi jumps into the battle with his Sasanoo. The giant chameleon and the Nakata Pain have been hit in the eyes with multiple kunai knives and both disappear. Naruto tells Itachi and Killer Bee that Nagato can use all the powers that were made by the Sage of Six Paths and because he is not transferring his chakra to dead bodies and using them for himself, meaning that he is more powerful than he previously was. Nagato then sends the Celestial Terrablast (which is a dark sphere) into the air and the ground starts to break up and move towards the sphere that also sends the three ninjas into the air. The three try to think of how to escape from it and Naruto tries to warn them about the exact details into this technique. Itachi then tells everyone to attack the sphere itself and they all attack with Itachi€™s Yasak€™s Magatama, Naruto€™s Wind Element: Resen Shuriken and Killer Bee€™s Eight-Tails Form using the Tailed Beast Bomb. Nagato€™s technique pulls in all three of the moves and blows it up, pushing a huge force of power in the location. As Nagato is watching, he is then pierced with Itachi€™s Sasanoo clutching the Sword of Totsuka (which was used to absorb Orochimaru and seal him from his fight with Sasuke) and as he slowly crumbles away due to the breaking of his resurrected body, he tells Naruto that he is the final part of what Jiraya wanted and to wrap it all up. While it was great to see Nagato use all of the abilities from his Pains and Naruto, Itachi and Killer Bee to work together to take him down, I honestly wanted more as the fight only lasted for three chapters. But I liked the way that the team managed to make an good ending to this fight and how the three ninjas worked together. The drawings for the frames with Kabuto are not as good as previous pages containing the character, but then its just a personal opinion as the frames with him during the Confining the Jinchuriki Arc. But then, this is a team that is making weekly chapters and this is only a bit of a nag compared to the way they drew the other characters. What do you think will happen in the next chapter? Please feel free to comment below and let us know!
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