Friday, May 23, 2014

Vol. no. 5 THE CHALLENGERS

In this volume,the story continues as Naruto became intimidated with Lee's behavior upon challenging Sasuke for a fight. Naruto was easily defeated when he attacked Lee. Sasuke was impressed and agreed to fight the challenger. Lee was very good in taijutsu or martial arts that Sasuke can't keep up to his swift body movement. At first, Sasuke thought of it as a ninjutsu or a genjutsu. Lee is about to use his trump card but was halted by a talking tortoise? The next scene was hilarious. 

At first, you'll assume that the tortoise was Lee's master. But, one thing that seems confusing is when someone appeared on the tortoise'sback. That man was Gai, Lee's true mentor. The audience will get the tortoise was the one who actually summoned Gai, which supposedly, it must be the opposite. I think it wasn't explained thoroughly in succeeding chapters. But, I believe that nobody bothers about this as we are entertained with the comical act of Gai and Lee. Who could ever forget the scene when Gai punched Lee for attempting to use of what seemed to be a forbidden jutsu, and immediately, hugged him while crying, feeling sorry for what he did? In addition to that, the faces of Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura watching the two of them from the back, were very funny.

The time came when all the challengers gathered in the exam site. They met their other classmates who graduated same with them from the academy.

Overall, there are three challenges each team needs to face. The fifth volume entails the first part of Chunin Exams. It's a written exam and Ibiki's the examiner.

the exam has ten questions, where teh tenth question will be revealed at the near end of the exam. Anyone caught for cheating will be disqualified together with his or her teammates. Also, if any one member fails to pass the test, the entire team will also be disqualified.

When the exam began, Naruto panicked as expected, and both Sasuke and Sakura knew about this, praying that Naruto won't cheat. This scene I had watched in animation, made my stomach hurts for laughing out loud, because as I watched Naruto's expression I recalled myself and my classmates who crammed when the date for departmental test is near to come.

The true objective of answering the nine questions is to test their ability to gather information without getting caught as the exam is not easy to answer. At this time again, Naruto is in delimma. To cheat? Or, not to cheat?


Hinata was concern that Naruto will fail in the exam and offered her answers to him. But, Naruto turned it down because he realized that she will also be disqualified, whenever he'll be caught cheating.


Finally, the tenth question is about to be revealed. However, Ibiki explained first that to answer the tenth question, one must decide of whether to proceed to the tenth question or not. He said tha anyone who answers the question wrong will not only be disqualified but will not able to join the Chunin Exams forever. There were many examinees who backed out as expected. Naruto, on the other hand, yelled inside the exam room that he won't back own even if he fails. Ibiki realized that Naruto somehow lifted up the others and so decided to go on with the tenth question. 

It was revealed that there's no tenth question. Ibiki further explained to them that while the first nine questions were designed to apply their information gathering skill, the last question is to test their willingness to face the unknown. Team 7 passed the first phase of exams along with other teams who decided to take the tenth question. 

The last chapter of the fifth volume tells about the second part of the Chuin Exams. The proctor was Anko, and she brought the 26 teams to the next exam site, Forest of Death. She explained that each team will have one scroll, either a heaven scroll or an earth scroll. Within five days, the team must have both scrolls bringing it to the building in the center. Before entering the exam site, they need to sign consent because death is inevitable inside with their chase of the other scroll. 



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