Naruto, Volume 08: Life-and-Death Battles

Cut scene to the beginning of the tournament. Tournament? Why? Oh yeah... we gotta weed out the remaining slackers and the peeps who aren't doing their countries proud.

Fortunately, we're not asked to do much soul searching, here. Instead, we get some quick and interesting battles with peeps with wide abilities and mismatched aptitudes. It's a much more fun read, in general, over the previous volume, but never as mind-blowingly cool in quick instances, such as Sasuke's curse.

On the other hand, the fight between Inu and Sakura was enough to make up for everything and make me cheer and laugh. She really has my heart in this one, and it doesn't matter if it's just a carry-over from her greatness in volume 6. She's earned it.

Fun volume, Im enjoying the battles a lot! Its really cool to actually see everyone's abilities instead of just having a ton of groups tossed sporadically around and not knowing much about any of them.

Excited for vol. 9

I've only added the first 8 (although I've read(seen) all), but if you love cartoons/anime this series is GREAT! It's about family, love and kick-ass action. My daughter and I are HUGE fans of the show and the Manga.

High 2.