Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20180531110046/@comment-6036561-20180531122008

Pretty good episode, I must say.

The Araya/Sarada fight was good in a way, but really disappointed me on three points:  The rules. The whole "It's forbidden to leave the arena, but if you were not in the arena from the beginning it's fine" smelled like bullshit, to me Araya's character is basically a rip-off of Metal Lee - and they even acknowledged it in the fight The match was over when the puppet was down, even before Araya can say "I quit"... so Araya can't do anything without the puppet, and everyone knows that? 

On the Mitsuki/Shink fight side, I have no complains. I half expected Mitsuki to quit the fight instead of using Sage Mode, and I really liked his use of the snake-related jutsus.

LordMitsuki wrote: And I'm probably not alone at thinking it but I think they might just be overreacting with Shinki. I mean, I love him too but he's so far stronger, much stronger than Gaara (if we don't count Shukaku) of pre-Shippuden.

In all honesty, I can't say if Shinki is stronger than chuunin exam Gaara... I mean, Chocho seems just as strong as Choji was back in the days, and I don't think Choji would have done any better against Gaara, and even comparing what we saw of Mitsuki/Shinki to Rock Lee/Gaara wouldn't do any good (I think that Mitsuki without Sage Mode would have been wrecked by Rock Lee)

The only thing we can say for sure is that Shinki has a more wide variety of moves, since he seem to have pretty much all the techniques Gaara had at the time, plus some technique from the Third Kazekage and some new uses of the Iron Sand (I particularly liked the "iron glove" he used against Mitsuki)