Nitpicky? You bet :D

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Mrrr. I've been re-reading the earlier manga that's actually come out in the U.S. partially out of boredom and partially to see how much the series has grown since the start of it. Naturally, there are some inconsistencies between what's developing currently to what was said in the first few volumes. Kishimoto was still developing the story back then and everything was a bit more uncertain than it is now. However, there was one slight inconstancy that irked me to no end once I spotted it. I was seriously rolling around on my bed like an overturned beetle and having a fit over how obvious it was.

I'm talking about this image from vol. 5, chapter 45. Knowing what we do know about Orochimaru, that KISS tongue thing is his signature move. It's like his snakey version of an erection, he's got it whipped out so much. So.. how in the world did Anko not know who that was? I have yet to see anyone with the capabilities Orochimaru has with a tongue (And yes, I know how perverted that sounded; this is Orochimaru we're talking about). Sure, it would have completely deterioated the plot, but she was his freaking student and one of the elite. She's supposed to be trained to see this sort of stuff. If someone as oblivious as I can be could see that, then why couldn't she?

For instance, I hadn't connected/followed (either that or completely forgot) that Orochimaru and two of his henchmen had taken the faces of the grass ninja. How? I have no idea. I can be stupid like that sometimes. In fact, I think I only noticed this second time because of that image I scanned and linked. I saw that and thought, "OMG! That's Orochimaru! It has to be!" and followed from there.. and felt like an idiot for not connecting the dots the first time XD;

It's happened again in vol. 8 too, as Sandaime-sama explains just what the chunin exams are about. There's a panel of the sound ninja instructor, smirking in perverse amusement tinged with malice. He just screams Orochimaru at me and I roll around and flail again. How can they be so oblivious to that when he's right there and Sarutobi-sensei at the least should be able to pick him out and adfkjlewafioa. *flail, flail* It makes me use run-on sentences!!! RAWR.

*Huff* >_> I guess I'm just wondering if I'm the only one who feels this way. Am I the only one wonders how Anko can be so horridly blind in that?

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The thing about him rolling around in public and looking so much like himself without getting discovered: it's just an anime thing, I think. Kishimoto made him look deliberately enough like his normal form that we could make the connection, and made the rest of the characters blind to it. It's just so we can see what the characters can't: it's a storytelling sort of device.

As for the first, I mean, there's a chance that other countries have bloodline limits or techniques that imitate those in Konoha. I mean, Konoha doesn't pretend to own every technique. It's quite possible that other country variations on common techniques exist. Also, it'd kind of be hard for Anko just to be, "OMG IT'S OREO HE DID THAT CREEPY TONGUE THING I KNOW IT'S HIM". XD;;

I'm totally babbling. @__@ Just woke up from a nap, sorry for my incoherence.

**Wolf**