Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26388300-20150603054656/@comment-25402783-20150604022102

The worst to me was anything with Kaguya. It's not that they were bad fights per-say but just a very disappointing final villain and that took away from what it could and should have been. It should have been Madara in Kaguya's place and that's why I think it's the worst. I honestly hope someone at New York City Comic Con asks Kishi why he did Kaguya and not Madara as the final villain.

Anyway I digress my favorite fight is a four way tie: Pain-Jiraiya, Naruto-Pain and Kakashi-Obito And Naruto-Sasuke 2nd fight. All these fights have one thing in common; emotional heft and build up. With Pain Vs Jiraiya you had Jiraiya fighting his former pupil whom he still loves but feels he must kill to save the world. All the while Pain/Nagato doesn't care for his former teacher and just want's to kill him.

With Naruto Vs Pain you finally see Naruto have bloodlust in his eyes; he want's to kill Pain so much, you've never seen such rage in Naruto and you can really feel his pain and hate. And the one part where Pain is about to stab Hinata and when Naruto yells "Stop!" And Pain just looks up at him... then back down. . . and stabs Hinata, it was a pretty powerful moment.

And the Kakashi Vs Obito fight was alright in the manga, but man in the show it was so good! The fight choreography, the way they blended the flashbacks into the fight without having them get in the way or slow things down. It was so great to see these two former friends fight with the intent to kill.

Now I know there's a number of people that have problems with the 2nd Naruto-Sasuke fight. But I loved it. People say there wasn't any build-up to it, but if you look back at the fights with Ten-Tails Obito and Madara you get little hints as to what Sasuke is thinking. When he says he's not going to put out his black flames on the Ten-Tails he talks about how he is going to strip down the current system and re-make it, Then while on the brink of death after Madara stabbed him he talks about changing the system again in memory of his brother (so to speak) Sasuke also saves Naruto from Obito ands say's that HE his going to be the one who defeats Naruto. The hints and build up was there, sure some of it's hindsight but you don't want Sasuke to just tell everyone what his plan is outright. And it also wasn't that long, it was only five chapters. That's not that long to me, especially when you look at how long it took Naruto to take down Obito, Pain, Kaguya etc.