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Naruto [ナルト] #46

Naruto, Vol. 46: Naruto Returns

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Naruto's friends are tested as an attempt to overthrow Tsunade begins and they must all fight—or fall. New secrets about Pain are revealed, but they only add to the mystery of his identity. As Pain commences with the final destruction of Konoha, Naruto and the Toads prepare to take him on in battle. Can Naruto save his beloved village?

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2009

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Masashi Kishimoto

1,110 books3,838 followers
Masashi Kishimoto (岸本斉史 Kishimoto Masashi) is a Japanese manga artist, well known for creating the manga series Naruto. His younger twin brother, Seishi Kishimoto, is also a manga artist and creator of the manga series O-Parts Hunter (666 Satan) and Blazer Drive. Two of his former assistants, Osamu Kajisa (Tattoo Hearts) and Yuuichi Itakura (Hand's), have also gone on to moderate success following their work on Naruto.

Kishimoto's first work as a manga artist was Karakuri (カラクリ?), which he submitted to Shueisha in 1995. This earned him the Weekly Shōnen Jump's monthly "Hop Step Award" in 1996, granted to promising new manga artists. This was followed in 1997 by a pilot version of Naruto (NARUTO-ナルト-), published in Akamaru Jump Summer. In 1998, Kishimoto premiered as a Weekly Shōnen Jump artist with a serialized version of Karakuri in Weekly Shōnen Jump, but it proved unpopular and was canceled soon after. In 1999, a serialized version of Naruto began publication in Weekly Shōnen Jump and quickly became a hit.

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Profile Image for Bradley.
Author 5 books4,560 followers
August 9, 2015
This volume is easily one of my favorites in the series. Naruto, having mastered Sage mode, takes on Pain, who singlehandedly brought down the entire village. It brought shivers to my spine and I felt all the awe of all the villagers as they see this old fuck-up surpass everyone including the legendary ero-senin.

I know greater shit happens later in the series, but at this point in time, Naruto has become truly awesome, and it affects me as only a true underdog story can.

Brilliant.
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136 reviews15 followers
October 12, 2022
Amazing volume, but it has its flaws. Tsunade should've gotten her 'Hokage moment' and fight Pain (as Kishimoto had originally intended to) even if she wasn't going to win. She deserved her share of action after being the only Kage who was actively opposing the Akatsuki.

Sakura randomly crying for Naruto to come is one of the lamest moments in the series, I have no idea what was Kishimoto trying to do here, but going from having her taking down Sasori to this is just.. distasteful. While the action may be again a little too focused on Naruto, it's far from worse (we'll get there, eventually).

There's also a small plot hole. The Pain that was initially taken down by Konohamaru's Rasengan was seemingly fine moments later.
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277 reviews74 followers
August 6, 2015
Yep... just when I thought it was safe to go in the water. BOOM. Lets make sure to kill off the OTHER favorite character. Thanks, I really needed to feel myself die again. It actually took a good friend of mine spoiling what happened to get me reading again after this.
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351 reviews372 followers
January 16, 2022
GUESS WHOS FUCKING BAWLING HER EYES OUT AT 5 IN THE MORNING BECAUSE OF EBISU'S POV AB NARUTO YES DEFINITELY ME!

I CANT DO THIS SHIT IM SO EMOTIONAL OH MY FUCKING GOD
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474 reviews46 followers
June 27, 2022
9/10 stars

This was epic. I'd have been devastated had I not known better ;) Pain is such a compelling character, his story an intentional parallel of Naruto's - they are like mirror images of each other, diverging in their paths but not in their goals.

Naruto's matured so much so quickly, it's incredibly rewarding to see him coming into his own and achieving new levels of knowledge, understanding, and control.

The levels of devastation and sacrifice are staggering. I know shonen's modus operandi is exaggeration, and the emotional and mental costs are often depicted as purely physical, but man, Kishimoto, isn't this a tad too much? ;) Still, in a world where power creep is the only constant, the sky is the limit. And it certainly works here, masterfully conveying the pain and quiet fury of loss.
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Author 17 books1,180 followers
April 28, 2022
Pain wrecks shit, Naurto fucking around training, and after Pain blows stuff up Naruto returns angry.

Pretty cool to see see Naruto in new Sage mode, pretty cool looking design wise, and the way he fights is pretty solid.

But this manga is really stretching it...And there's like 30 more volumes? Jesus...
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207 reviews55 followers
December 11, 2016
Love it!!!! <3<3 But he can't be dead!!! Please no!!!
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815 reviews6 followers
June 5, 2017
This volume really heats u quickly as the Konoha ninja fight with all they have to take on Pain. Pain is in a league of his own and proves to be impossible to stop. However, Naruto finally shows up but is it to late to save his village and friends from Pain???
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April 1, 2014
This long ongoing series of this book is called naruto.naruto is a kid who grows up in the hidden leaf village and has the nine tails fox sealed in him because of an incident that happened in the leaf village when he was just born.during this part in naruto he is training with grandpa toad in a place called mount myoboku so he can defeat pain.pain is one of the leaders of the akatsuki.the akatsuki is a group of ninja who hunt down jinchuriki and naruto is one of them jinchuriki are ninja who have a tail beast sealed inside them.

I would recommend this book to anybody who loves anime.everytime i get finish watching naruto it has me s thinking about whats going to happen next.such as when pain killed hinata and naruto almost lost complete control of the nine tails.i grew up watching and reading the book since i first picked up a video game.i also recommend this book because it is interesting and it has lots funny moments.such as when sakura hits naruto when he starts acting stupid.

I forgot to mention that their are 9 tailed beast and narutos tailed beast is the ninth one.they use to be all together into a beast called the jubii but the sage of six path separated them into nine entities. team 7 is the squad naruto is in during their training with kakashi naruto,sakura,and sasuke are put into a test of wheather they can work as a team or be disqualified and have to go back to the ninja academy.so now they go on adventures together as team seven.
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253 reviews33 followers
July 5, 2011
I must say it is and it will forever be(fingers crossed) my favorite Manga novel read.

the way Masashi Kishimoto described the characters is just awesome, you get to see them growing up, becoming responsible... powerful...

and it is not just characters,

The plot itself is so much bigger... u simply can't get enough of it. and add to that,

u get more than just entertainment, you learn...
what is
responsibility,
respect,
kindness,
friendship...

so it is not just a manga it is a way of living... The sprite of never giving up!!!

NARUTO!!!
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1,862 reviews17 followers
September 17, 2018
Seguimos con la esperada pelea entre Pain y Naruto.
Naruto sigue entrenando el modo senju y cuando finalmente se integra a la batalla, lo hace demostrando lo mucho que ha aprendido y crecido.
El misterio detrás de la identidad de Pain comienza a aclararse un poco y podemos empezar a entender como funcionan sus habilidades.
La trama empieza a ponerse mucho más serie, ya que en este volumen tenemos mucho caos y muchas muertes. He escuchado que a partir de aquí morirán personajes y ya no regresarán. Eso será interesante aunque doloroso.
El volumen combina buenas escenas de acción con ligeros avances en la trama del arco, en este caso la identidad de Pain y el verdadero objetivo de Akatsuki. Aunque la ansiada pelea entre Naruto y Pain queda pendiente para el siguiente volumen.
Me gustó que pude percibir el crecimiento que los personajes, principalmente Naruto, han tenido a lo largo de estos 46 volúmenes. Si me hubieran dicho tras leer el primer volumen que Naruto se volvería tan poderoso como para enfrentarse uno a uno contra uno de los personajes más fuertes de la serie, no lo habría creído. Sin embargo ese crecimiento ha sido construido de manera orgánica y es bastante creíble.
Sigo ansioso por seguir leyendo el arco de Naruto vs Pain, tanto que apenas anuncian que está disponible el nuevo volumen, corro a adquirirlo y lo pongo hasta arriba de la cada vez más larga, pila de lectura.
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Author 5 books151 followers
October 19, 2022
Another complete bombshell of a volume. I can only imagine what it must`ve felt like to read through these chapters for the first time. (I grew up with the anime and was kinda spoiled well in advance. I watched the isolated epic fights English dubbed before actually knowing any context, as hilarious as that sounds. My friends and I loved the fights before we even knew who the characters were).
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1,007 reviews28 followers
January 6, 2018
NNNNNOOOOO!!!!! My heart is breaking into pieces! KAKASHI!!! I feel like everyone is dying! But Naruto! He is so strong!
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2,419 reviews94 followers
July 9, 2021
The battle scenes are excellent! Naruto is really coming into his own.
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2,694 reviews47 followers
August 30, 2022
Oh nooo what happened to Tsunade and Kakashi?! 😭😭
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23 reviews3 followers
May 30, 2024
OP SAGE MODE NARUTO LETS GOOO! I feel like I can’t read fast enough! Kishimoto does it again!
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July 1, 2024
I AM TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW MY MANS BETTER NOT BE DEAD. I WILL LOSE MY MIND
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204 reviews
May 3, 2021
Madre mía que buen volumen todo es acción pura 🤩
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Author 1 book307 followers
September 15, 2020
This is a review of the entire series.

Once upon a time, the spirit of an evil Nine Tailed Fox wreaked havoc on Konohagakure; the Village Hidden in the Leaves, killing hundreds of honorable ninja in the skirmish and leaving many children without homes or parents. The Fourth Hokage (leader of the village) unleashes a forbidden jutsu (magic spell/ninja ability) to seal the spirit of the evil fox into the body of a newborn baby named Naruto at the cost of his own life. He did this in the hopes that the boy could one day learn to master the power of the demonic spirit and use it to protect the village and become a great hero of the people.

Unknown to the citizens of the Leaf, the Nine Tailed Fox was being controlled by an even more powerful adversary, a legendary rogue ninja that plans to wage war against the entire world from the shadows. The identity of the mysterious ninja that attacked the Leaf Village using the Nine Tails died with the Fourth Hokage, and he used what remained of his life to gift Naruto with the power of one day being able to stop this evil ninja and a clan of outlawed S-rank criminals called the Akatsuki from committing mass genocide against the many hidden villages and clans of the world.

Because of the evil spirit sealed inside him, Naruto grew up hated by the other children of the village because they believe him and the Nine Tails to be one and the same. They believe he’s a ticking time bomb waiting to go off, waiting for the perfect moment to kill them all just like the Nine Tails killed their parents and families. Shunned, dehumanized and treated like dirt, Naruto vows to become the greatest hokage the world has ever seen so that he can receive the love and acknowledgement he never got as a child.

On top of the Nine Tails power and the will to never quit, Naruto also possesses the uncanny ability to turn everyone he meets into a potential comrade. He brings out the best in his peers and tries his hardest to make his enemies see the errors of their ways. He disobeys the rules and ignores cultural traditions to try and make changes to the world and break the eternal cycle of war and hatred through his own methods. His determination is infectious to friend and foe alike. He earns himself the respect he deserves by overcoming one impossible obstacle at a time.

Naruto encounters many fascinating and terrifying ninja over the course of his journey to become hokage. Among them are Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto’s best friend and rival who is driven by the vengeful lust to murder his elder brother after he wiped out their own clan in cold blood. Sasuke warms up to Naruto, but his hatred and trauma are dangerous forces that threaten to break his moral code as a ninja and destroy his reputation among his peers.

Kakashi Hatake is a notorious copycat ninja that survived one of the most brutal and devastating wars in history as well as the Nine Tails attack on the Leaf Village. He becomes Naruto and Sasuke’s mentor and teaches them a great number of valuable lessons about surviving in the dangerous world of rogue ninja, bloodthirsty assassins and clans ruled by corruption.

Jiraiya is a perverted yet wise sage who taught the Fourth Hokage everything he knew and he’s regarded as a god among shinobi that’s famous for his heroic actions in the second great ninja war. He takes an interest in Naruto and raises him as a father figure to carry on the legacy of the Fourth Hokage to prepare him for the many dangerous people that want to use his power for their own nefarious purposes.

The Akatsuki is one such group of wicked ninja. Among them are Sasuke’s brother Itachi who murdered his clan and possesses many dangerous techniques involving illusions, psychological torture and elemental manipulation. Sasori who controls poisonous puppets with magical threads, Orochimaru who mastered the forbidden arts of reanimation and quasi-immortality, Deidara who fights from afar using detonating clay and many other deadly foes.

The entire series chronicles Naruto and his fellow ninja comrades growing through countless trials and tragedies. There are hundreds of unique jutsus, clans, and techniques which lead to some very intense, creative and strategic battles between skilled ninja with diverse abilities that don’t always match up evenly. There are clan based abilities such as the Aburame clan’s ability to control insects, the Yamanaka clan’s ability to jump into other people’s minds and control their bodies and the Inuzuka clan’s ability to bond with wolves that learn to mimic their master’s battle skills. Then there’s ocular genetic abilities such as the sharingan which allows the user to create psychological illusions, copy their enemy’s abilities and manipulate elemental energy. The byakugan allows the user to read their enemies vital points and detect their spiritual energy from faraway. The rinnegan grants control over space and gravity and so on.

On top of having countless unique abilities, nearly every character has a tragic backstory that makes them sympathetic and relatable, even the nastiest of the villains have well-explored reasons for following the paths they do and becoming the way they are. One of my favorite aspects of the series is how well it explores the physical, emotional and psychological effects war can have on society and culture as well as the survivors and future generations that are forced to live in them. How it breeds racism and cultural disputes, how it inspires hatred in orphaned children and war veterans robbed of their homes toward foreign nations, as well as how this eventually leads to further death, war, poverty and destruction. Learning to forgive the ones you hate to prevent further conflict and damaging the world for future generations even further is a major theme throughout the story.

Being a massive 700 chapter series, it’s not too surprising that there’s some plot holes and consistency issues. A rule might be stated regarding the requirements and usage of a certain jutsu or ability only for that rule to be repeatedly broken 400 chapters later. Sometimes the characters and rules contradict themselves, sometimes the chronology of certain events and historical facts don’t match up perfectly, the lore and general backstory go through several retcons that change the philosophy and power scaling of the characters and the scope of world-building; the final arc especially drags on and breaks a lot of the logic and rules that the story spent the whole series setting up, etc...

Naruto’s far from perfect, but I remember it very fondly for being one of the first series that introduced me to things like manga and Japanese entertainment in general. It was one of those childhood classics like Dragon Ball, Inuyasha, Yu Yu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin. The series grew up with me and I can’t help but feel grateful to it for introducing me to hundreds of other franchises that I’m still a huge fan of to this day and I continue to find many new ones on the regular. Naruto's journey from a clownish, disrespected outcast into a talented, well-loved and admired hero is a memorable one.
39 reviews
June 11, 2010
Naruto, Vol. 46, by Masashi Kishimoto, is about a boy named Naruto who is a shinobi. While he is off training, a rouge ninja named Pein is trying to get everyone that has a jinjurikan (special beasts held within only certain ninjas) to destory the world and create a new world with peace. He looks for Naruto in the village, and destroys the village. Naruto hears the news and comes back from his training to fight for his village, and revenge for Pein killing Naruto's sensei. Naruto's internal conflict is dealing with the lost of his sensei. His external conflict is nothing.

While reading this book i made a text to self connection. During the book, Naruto tries to save his friends, by tellign them to stay out of the fight, that its just between him and Pein. And sometimes when i get in trouble, i dont want my friends to get hurt, so i tell them to stay out of it.

I'd rate this book 5 stars. It has a lot of action, It's filled with action which is good. But sometimes theres too much talk which is boring when you have a lot of action. I'd reccomend this book to anyone who reads or watch Naruto or mangas, but they should definitely read the WHOLE manga instead of this book, they'd be confused.
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87 reviews2 followers
December 11, 2016
As expected Naruto arrives and everything will almost be sorted.
I don't like the back- up and ground work done by others whose credit will go to the kid with the new technique.
Naruto is showing no growth , except getting new fancy techniques cause others see potential in him.
A bit expected , no surprise factor in this episode.
I am excited to know who pein is actually.
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August 5, 2011
noooo another good one bites the dust (maybe. probably. T^T) *sniff* I hope it was fake...?
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