Good to know for sure Sakishi knows how this fight is gonna go. 5 weeks is not enough time to make a lot of mistakes I'd be worried about.

Here we go, I'm ready.

Hmmm, so it will be a short fight.
That's okay, I'm ready too.

Week one of five: Naruto briefly turned into Pacific Rim, except the kaiju is the good guy. Yah

Lol.

But really, I could almost swear that the five weeks will start next week, you know, since Kishi himself announced it on the first pages of this chapter.
Making the final chapter the 700th. Man what a timing.

I doubt Naruto is actually going to become Hokage, because when you think about it he wants to be hokage for all the wrong reasons

Maybe in the beginning of the series his reasons were wrong. How are they wrong now? He inherited the will of fire, and would do anything to protect the village and his friends.

Did you guys noticed that the shape Naruto took near the end of the chapter is very similar to the battle avatar of Asura when he was alive?

This reincarnation stuff is getting serious.

I can say with all honesty...

Better than I expected!!!
You were right Ness, hand-to-hand combat is way better than super powers and mountain destroyer stuff. This chapter was so short, can't wait for next week.

Haha right? I was glad we got to see a good deal of that in this fight.

Hashirama and Madara's heads fell off the statues. I bet they replace them with Sasuke and Naruto's heads.

Well, with only 2-3 chapters left in the manga... Yeah, I'll say it.
BEST. FIGHT SCENE. IN THE SERIES.
I love it when magic/chi/whatever powered characters are left totally drained and just have to beat the s*** out of each other the old fashioned way. It's also pretty crazy to see Naruto actually lost his jacket in the blast, that's a hell of a way to highlight the finality of this battle.

I know it's divisive, but I really enjoyed the fight with Kaguya, but I still think there were some major hiccups. This right here? Naruto and Sasuke? Kishi can do whatever he wants at this point and I don't think he can f*** it up. I am having a fantastic time. Just a fantastic time.

i still don't understand what the f*** kaguya was doing

did she teleport people around the earth?? or just like planets or some s***??

She teleported them between the different paintings in Mario 64. They went to Dry Dry Desert, Lethal Lava Land and Snowman's Land

Well we got a Wednesday release again, just in time for 1-2 chapters left. I still haven't seen confirmation of if we're ending in 699 or 700...

Emotional confrontation was maybe a little rushed, but still pretty effective.

The last panel changes everything though...

Did anyone else felt that the final battle was too short?
Hopefully Shippuden will give us an even better fight.
So that explains the bandages around the adult Naruto's arm, I wasn't expecting that, well done Kishi.

Nah, the series has just conditioned us to expect fights to take for-freaking-ever. I really prefered the pacing here.