lizardjay

I have several posts I want to make (including sunshine_challenge T_T) but first... I have thoughts about the Minato manga.

I'll be honest, I didn't have high expectations. When Minato won the character poll I thought ".....Minato? Really?" Not so much for him being popular, although he's not one of my favorites, but because... THAT'S who people want a side story about?

But I actually really enjoyed it! Partially because it's majorly about Kushina :D But Minato has his moments too.

In no particular order, things I enjoyed/am interested in:

The Uzumaki lore is fascinating but very sparse. What do you mean about the spirals, Mito???? Are you speaking metaphorically, that the Uzumaki's downfall was caused by events they set in motion, or that the Uzumaki literally shaped eddies in space that literally led to their end? As in like, equivalents of ley lines? I have many questions. And why did they already have this spiral system for containing things? What were they containing? Does this tie into them mysteriously having the Shinigami mask, among others?
Baby Kushina is SO CUTE (see below)
My friend and I have a semi-crack ship of Minato/Kurama (listen. They spend years together in the Shinigami realm and in the war Minato is his jinchuuriki.) and this chapter only strengthened it. "I like strong people.... people stronger than me!" he says to Kurama's face. It's practically canon. Kushina/Minato/Kurama perhaps?
Little Gai, Obito, and Kakashi (and Kurenai and Asuma I guess). This instantly made my friend and I start thinking about the timeline (which is, of course, a nebulous thing in Naruto) and when this extra is set. And why are those three hanging out??
"I exist within Kushina at all times." Minato........ I get your message, but........ XD
~~why is Tsunade here. Truly the timeline is baffling.~~
~~why did Minato walk away from the center of the village to turn in his mission report. where are you going Minato???~~

I made an icon but I'm currently torn on which version is better. (I might also want to clean up some linework but once it's at correct size, maybe nobody will notice...)

I'm now realizing that I can color in any manga panel I want. My power is limitless :D

I'm testing out the beta post page and wow does it look different... I'm intimidated! I swapped solely for the ability to use the @ to link to users. Current cons: I don't know how to make a bullet list and had to use HTML :( the old version had a button for that.