INO IS NOT TOTALLY USELESS ANYMORE!!!!!!!

[Rakoga]

Today, i just watched episode 171, and i noticed that Ino used a different jutsu! Instead of her normal "mind piercing" jutsu (i don't know the japanese names for the jutsus), she used a "Manipulation" jutsu. She can actually constrict an opponent without losing consciousness. It's so awesome. She really isn't useless anymore.  

[Owenlars2]

OH MY GEEWHIZZ!!!
you are right!!
maybe the real purpose of the filler episodes is to make all the useless charatcters appear less well useless.  

[Historical]

or, mabye ino is just a useless sack of crap and they decided she should do something *shrugs*  

[~Teh Surgeon~]

wow, ur right, unfortunally  

[Owenlars2]

i noticed that this week during the fight that while naruto and the others each took thier respective targets for 1v1 dueling, ino stayed behind to help get people out of the water, yet every time the camera panned over to her, there were still the same number of bodies in the water as before......i think she went back to being useless.  

[Satch]

Owenlars2

OH MY GEEWHIZZ!!!
you are right!!
maybe the real purpose of the filler episodes is to make all the useless charatcters appear less well useless.

That's quite possible. Sakura's getting her training, Hinata's training more, Ino's "supposedly" becoming useful... hey, I'm noticing a trend with girls here...  

[Owenlars2]

yeah i bet after the first 125 episodes some "Japanese womens league of geeky anime watcher" all banded together to get the animators to stop being sexually discriminate against women. i am wondering how long until they get bleach.......  

[Satch]

Owenlars2

yeah i bet after the first 125 episodes some "Japanese womens league of geeky anime watcher" all banded together to get the animators to stop being sexually discriminate against women. i am wondering how long until they get bleach.......

Ha ha, That's a very possible theory.
Bleach isn't that discriminating, although, it seems every anime has one pathetic female character confused  

[Reso Miso Soup]

well unlit I reach that episdoe....-_-;  

[Sakura_Chan_Dattebayo]

I am actually going to watch 171 tommorow. . .I think she uses this technique in another episode too.I used to hate Ino than after the second part of the chuunin exams I started liking her than when she cut her hair to be a show off I hated her again than when she defeated fuujin and raijinn with shika and chouji I started liking her again.  

[Itazu]

I wouldn't say she's useless, she is pretty much one of the people that motivates Sakura along with Naruto, Sasuke and Lee. Sakura never wants to lose to Ino which gets her going, also Ino is one of Sakura's firends now in the series since they've settled their differences. I can't see Hinata or Tenten being on of Sakura's friends if Ino wasn't there, and of course Sakura needs a friend that's a girl, it's just common sense.  

[JhonnyRaincloud]

Yeah, she helped out Shino. And she learned how to take over a victim's mind without leaving her body and having Shikamaru catch her everytime. YES. WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU INO! OUR PRECIOUS, WEAK, PEPPY INO-CHAN IS GROWING UP! *Tearstearstears...*  

[Syndactyly]

She used that a long time ago against Sakura.
What have you all been missing? >_>
It's just a different variety of the same technique is all.