Re: Naruto *Spoiler warnings*
Well, we all saw that Tobi can do some vortex crap with his mask, so maybe it looked different in the past because it was "fresher" that the latter result of the vortexing. I don't know.
Can anyone else smell a strong aroma of bullshitnojustu here, too? I totally love the series, but if we're going to keep reading that Madara/Tobi/Obito/Sasuke's Split Personality/Big sage dude in disguise/Naruto's Uchiha Uncle/Some ancient akatsuki guy have been around forever, but only lately anyone's actually ever heard of them, why does Kishimoto keep tying Tobi to everyone's pasts? Do I get to read in the next exciting episode how he helped an old lady transfer groceries from her kart into her car, then he killed her to get the bakugantenkaisei sharingan that only ninjaGod could imagine, but never achieve that somehow Tobi can? And to make it stronger he ate his neighbor's dog with a side of ninjaicecream? It's just funny that as we're going to keep reading it, Tobi will have his past unfolded so far that we're all going to learn that he started what was known as ninja in the Narutoverse. Might as well call this Tobi Shippuuden, because it's no longer how Naruto will achieve nirvana, but how Tobi invented the wheel, fire, and martial arts.
On the note of other characters, didn't Kishimoto promise that Tenten would actually be useful sometime in Shippuuden? As we can all tell, Shippuuden is reaching it's end, and Tenten hasn't even done anything but kick her own butt when Naruto was goofing around with Gaara and in a filler when everyone in her team was doing some fighting, and because it involved her team, she came out of a cloud of smoke, made in battle, only to say she did something in the anime. Tenten's pretty cute, they need to use her more. Not just Tenten's useless butt needs more development, but everyone does. Here are some examples:
Tenten: Some how made it to Kakashi's ninja level, but can't win a fight against crippled Timmeh.
Shino: His clan can manipulte beetles because they feed on chakras, so whenever Shino goes to buy a gallon of milk so his mom can make his dad a birthday cake, Shino always just HAPPENS to have the right kind of beetle in his veins for taking out an Armored Core.
Akamaru: The only dog without the ability to talk as mentioned by Naruto, with the exception that he forgot about every other dog in the Narutoverse that only appears so they can be summoned and prance around like pixies so they can be mistaken for doing work when it's always Pakkun that finds what the dogs were summoned to search for.
Kakashi: He dies, comes back, dies, comes back, kills his friends for sharingans so they can come back as akatsukis older than they were when they died, and dies again. He has the ability to copy ninja techniques from anyone using any element, though his element is lightning and he said that he can't copy techniques from people whos element differ from his, yet he would have no problem copying someone using the forbidden of all forbidden jutsus, the negative element, with the ability to make a black hole. Kakashi also has the ability to smell things 5000000000000000000000 times better than Kiba can, that's why he's always summoning dogs do do his searching work and he didn't die at the Chunin exams when Naruto farted.
Choji: A fatass that eats the last chip from every bag he gets because they're always the smallest, but tasty powder of flavoring that you always find at the bottom of a Lay's bag or something, and has no background other than Shikamaru is his friend. He also has an ability to turn into a butterfly that would powder all of superman's bones with a flick, but can only use the ability when he fights someone with a curse mark fighting Choji alone, but wouldn't use it to defend his villiage when it's being destroyed by Pain, and his dad just died infront of him, along with Kakka(Poop?)-sensei.
Neji: Who unlike anyone else during the Sasuke retreival arch, had no special power. Choji transformed into a kick-butt butterfly, Naruto pulled out a tail, Kiba made fusion love to his dog, and Shikamaru, who fights no battles, but has the ability to manipulate his teachers into letting him be a leader of a team of people who are looking for some emo witch because he wants a teacher to himself. All Neji did was exactly what he did when he fights anywhere else, except he got an arrow trhough his lung and heart, but made it out with no problem.
Kankuro: Who can no longer fight because his puppets are broken and for some unknown reason feels the need to wear all the avon make-up he can when he knows he has to fight, and all he does is get poisoned by Shino and Akatsuki bitches.
Temari: Some hott chick with a fan.
That one witch from the Chunin exams who I guess worked with Orochimaru once upon a time: who was witch from the Chunin exams who I guess worked with Orochimaru once upon a time.
Kabuto: Who does nothing but witch, whine, lose battles, and eats his friends so he can get some scaly disease and the claps.
And the best one...
Everyone from every freaking Naruto movie who Naruto swears friendship to and two girls offer to be his love slaves that we never see again... and they were hott too.