Not really... most of the time a summon is called there is a puff of smoke, and people wait until the smoke clears for dramatic effect (in the anime). But in the first summon we see by Jiraiya, in the manga, he summons a toad in the middle of being rushed by Ebisu.
Jiraiya notices Ebisu right as he's hurdling the fence. Next panel Jiraiya is sitting on top of a toad, which takes Ebisu out an instant later (right beside the fence). There was seemingly no pause there at all.
Pretty much the same thing when he's summoning the toad with the scroll for Naruto to sign it. He presses his hand to the ground to show the seal spreading out, and suddenly he's on top of a toad.
Hell, even Naruto seems to do it pretty much instantly. The only time it actually takes is forming the seals and pressing hand to ground (or air in the case of Naruto summoning Gamabunta).
But regardless the Hiraishin no Jutsu isn't exactly the same. It uses a jutsu shiki that is different from the shiki planted when normal summoning is used, and there is seemingly no need for blood (at least it's never shown). It's just essentially the same general result.
When the Yondaime was about to use the technique, he was planning to take out about fifty guys by himself. The ninja telling the others to 'shut up, they were about to see Konoha's Yellow Flash fight,' then told them, 'Don't blink.'
While that might be exaggeration... that still doesn't suggest any significant 'down time' as he's using it. :huh.:
And I don't think summoning into water would be all that dangerous unless you tried to breathe the second you appeared... but considering that you control where you go, if you're dumb enough to transport into water and drown yourself then you deserve to die anyway. :rofl:
Fire, on the other hand, would definitely roast your nuts. :snigger:
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Now, as for the women... I like Tsunade (tough women are uberwin), Anko (actually reminds me of my ex... seriously), and I prefer to think of Haku as female... outside of jokes.
I never really was a big fan of Kurenai. I didn't think she was ugly, but I never thought she was as hot as some people seemed to think. She was too... I guess 'wholesome and motherly' is the phrase I'm looking for.
The genin girls are all fairly alright, though a certain picture (MERRY #*&^IN' CHRISTMAS!) makes me wish the artist was doing the art for the manga. At least then it wouldn't be so hard to tell the sex of certain... ambiguous... people. :sisi: This includes Tenten and Temari, by the way (Edit: The genin part... not the ambiguous part... :snigger
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Yugito... honestly, I don't think she's all that hot. She's certainly not bad, but... eh. There was one panel, at least, where she definitely looked like a man, though. Jaw was just way too square. :no:
Kinda hot, but not really shown enough? Nara Yoshino and Uchiha Mikoto. Both looked fairly hot in their few appearances. Um... yeah. Tsunami was pretty decent, too.
Anyway, I'm only half awake as it is, so I probably missed someone obvious...
Jiraiya notices Ebisu right as he's hurdling the fence. Next panel Jiraiya is sitting on top of a toad, which takes Ebisu out an instant later (right beside the fence). There was seemingly no pause there at all.
Pretty much the same thing when he's summoning the toad with the scroll for Naruto to sign it. He presses his hand to the ground to show the seal spreading out, and suddenly he's on top of a toad.
Hell, even Naruto seems to do it pretty much instantly. The only time it actually takes is forming the seals and pressing hand to ground (or air in the case of Naruto summoning Gamabunta).
But regardless the Hiraishin no Jutsu isn't exactly the same. It uses a jutsu shiki that is different from the shiki planted when normal summoning is used, and there is seemingly no need for blood (at least it's never shown). It's just essentially the same general result.
When the Yondaime was about to use the technique, he was planning to take out about fifty guys by himself. The ninja telling the others to 'shut up, they were about to see Konoha's Yellow Flash fight,' then told them, 'Don't blink.'
While that might be exaggeration... that still doesn't suggest any significant 'down time' as he's using it. :huh.:
And I don't think summoning into water would be all that dangerous unless you tried to breathe the second you appeared... but considering that you control where you go, if you're dumb enough to transport into water and drown yourself then you deserve to die anyway. :rofl:
Fire, on the other hand, would definitely roast your nuts. :snigger:
---- And now for the important stuff! -----
Now, as for the women... I like Tsunade (tough women are uberwin), Anko (actually reminds me of my ex... seriously), and I prefer to think of Haku as female... outside of jokes.
I never really was a big fan of Kurenai. I didn't think she was ugly, but I never thought she was as hot as some people seemed to think. She was too... I guess 'wholesome and motherly' is the phrase I'm looking for.
The genin girls are all fairly alright, though a certain picture (MERRY #*&^IN' CHRISTMAS!) makes me wish the artist was doing the art for the manga. At least then it wouldn't be so hard to tell the sex of certain... ambiguous... people. :sisi: This includes Tenten and Temari, by the way (Edit: The genin part... not the ambiguous part... :snigger
.Yugito... honestly, I don't think she's all that hot. She's certainly not bad, but... eh. There was one panel, at least, where she definitely looked like a man, though. Jaw was just way too square. :no:
Kinda hot, but not really shown enough? Nara Yoshino and Uchiha Mikoto. Both looked fairly hot in their few appearances. Um... yeah. Tsunami was pretty decent, too.
Anyway, I'm only half awake as it is, so I probably missed someone obvious...
