Naruto Shippuden – 168

What I enjoyed about this final confrontation between Naruto and Pain is that the show has Naruto sticking to his roots. Pain is not defeated by anything fancy like with Naruto’s new Sage Mode, his Wind Style: Rasenshuriken or some new desperation move he could have created using Nine-Tails chakra, no, in the end Pain is brought down by Naruto’s old standby, the Rasengan.

Sure it nullifies all that training he did to get Rasenshuriken, but under the circumstances since Rasengan was taught to him by Jiraiya who was defeated by Pain, it makes the moment oh so much better that Pain is beaten by it.

I was completely oblivious to the fact Naruto did not know who his parents are, because as the viewer it’s already common knowledge. At least it made the long deserved father and son talk not as sappy with Naruto pouring out all his emotions to his father. I suppose if Naruto did not gut punch the chakra out of the Fourth so hard he might have stuck around a bit longer.

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