Yeah the Jiraiya battle is pretty good so far. But i am more worried for the future of the show's battles. I understand that the Akatsuki are exceptional ninja from all over the world, they are so good that they kinda didn't fit in, so they formed into this group. But at the same time they made them so powerful that all of team Kakashi couldn't take the Turtle Tails Beast (forget how many tails) and yet in like 1 hit the Akatsuki took it. Well the Nine tails took on the whole of Leaf village including the Hakoge and they had to resort to super desperate measures to contain it (Naruto's seal). So already we are at Hakoge level powers for this group that I assume Naruto will beat. So really ever enemy he encounters after this in this show, the enemy will realistically be more powerful than a Hakoge.... And that's supposed to be rare. Instead of making him more powerful they should have focused on making him smarter, more responsible, maybe deal with more complex matters, I dunno... Im not a writer... I just saw the same thing happen with DBZ and its the same creator so... soon guys will be too strong i think.....   See 3 other replies

it was implied in the manga, that all jutsu was derived from a particular source. Though there are deviations from the base jutsus...the basic ones were derived from one that held this particular ability(rinnegan). Thus these base skills as it were, were handed down thru time, some were mastered, changed or altered thru time and held as clan jutsus and such, while others were for lack of a better explaination to be general jutsus anyone could come to learn.... then again this is basically how i understood it to be. in short a large number of the jutus that are known in this world(Naruto) got there start from a person and/or persons who held the rinnegan. (though the bloodline based ones may not fall into this catagory)   See 5 other replies

basically it bypasses the limit of a regular human which is 4 elemental jutsu. so they can master each elemental type which alone gives a huge advantage. then besides that it also gives the user 6 special abilities 2 we've already seen. each of those guys can only use one ability. they go one to say theres alot more abilities but they never bother to explain what they are DX. so basically we only get a basic descrip of it like the sharingan and the byakugan.   See 5 other replies