Naruto Anime Analysis

Season 4: Episode 155

Source: Wikipedia

"The Dark Creeping Clouds"

"With Raiga seemingly dead, the gang heads back to find Karashi waiting for them. It turns out to be a trap as the Kurosuki family ambushes them. Luckily, Naruto fools them not once, but twice, with his clones. With the enemies defeated, the villagers focus their anger on Karashi. Rock Lee intercepts them and says that Karashi is still young and weak and that it is partially his fault that Karashi joined the Kurosuki family. Lee begs them to let him return to his mother, promising to punish Karashi himself if he should fall from grace. The villagers agree, and the group heads back, but not before picking up Ranmaru. They head back to the Curry of Life shop for a meal, where Naruto tries to retrieve information from Ranmaru. Ranmaru has Karashi take him to the canyon where Raiga fell and use his chakra to revive him."

Analysis

The following analysis will look at the technique used by the Kurosuki family, more details about Ranmaru's past, and the relevance of the episode's title.

With Raiga seemingly dead, the gang heads back to find Karashi waiting for them. It turns out to be a trap as the Kurosuki family ambushes them. When one of the villagers tried to warn the genin, Karashi closed his mouth and said to him, "If you value your life, you keep your mouth shut." Karashi's actions are questionable since the villagers thought that he repented. In the process, huge boulders are tossed at the genin by the Kurosuki family. As a result, it seems that the boulders crushed the genin.

Luckily, Naruto fools them not once, but twice, with his clones. With the enemies defeated, the villagers focus their anger on Karashi. After realizing that they were deceived, the Kurosuki family takes formation. In the background, intense music with a mix of electric guitar and drums plays. The Kurosuki family used a technique known as Ninja Art: Flag Turnado. As asserted by the Narutopedia website, all members are armed with gloves with retractable blades. With the blades out, the members can use the Black Tornado Technique. To add on, they climb on top of each other's shoulders and form a tornado to destroy the genin. However, the genin used shadow clones.

Triumph music starts to play in the background with a mix of Japanese guitar and Japanese flute as the genin defeats the family with their different techniques. Tenten summons one of her ninja tools; Rock Lee uses his Leaf Hurricane technique; and Neji activates his Byakugan using 8 trigrams: 64 palms. Before Naruto could use his Shadow Clones, the enemies were already defeated. This shows that Team 3 has improved their techniques as shinobi without needing help from Naruto.

Rock Lee intercepts them and says that Karashi is still young and weak and that it is partially his fault that Karashi joined the Kurosuki family. Lee begs them to let him return to his mother, promising to punish Karashi himself if he should fall from grace. The villagers agree, and the group heads back, but not before picking up Ranmaru. After convincing the villagers to forgive Karashi, the old man said that since Karashu was just an underling of the Kurosuki family, it's not like he attacked the village himself. Therefore, Rock Lee took Karashi under his wing instead.

More details about Ranmaru's past

Before the Genin can pick up Ranmaru, he starts telling them about his past. Afterward, sad music with a low-pitched piano and violin plays in the background as he begins telling them about his story. Ranmaru said, "Since the day I was born, I've always been frail, and for almost my life, the shabby cabin was my entire world. I have no memory of my parents; I survived only because the villagers took pity on me and brought me small amounts of food from time to time. But even as fragile as I was, I had a special power no one else did. As time went on, everyone feared me because, without leaving my room, I could see what was happening outside. From then on, I had no more visitors bringing me food; all I could do was wait to die. If it weren't for Raiga, I wouldn't be alive. Raiga took me out beyond those walls, showing me a world I'd never experienced. If Raiga isn't here to care for me, it's the same as losing my own body."