The official Naruto Forum is full of passionate fans from around the world debating all aspects of the timeless series. Each week we'll pick out some of our favorite recent discussions, and we hope you'll join in the conversation too!

Great things come in threes. Three ninja per squad. Three tomoe per sharingan. And at least three items to qualify as a decent list. If you had to narrow it down after letting them battle it out, what are your top three favorite episodes? We here at Team VIZ love a good fight scene, making it hard for us to pick among the many genre-shaking ones Naruto’s blessed us with.

Naruto’s host to a great number of compelling characters, but Kakashi’s probably the one that comes up most often as a fan favorite. Were we to gather together all the wonderful Kakashi cosplays we’ve seen over the years, they would outnumber the other characters by many orders of magnitude. Aside from thinking he’s enigmatically great, what’s your opinion of Kakashi? Who knows, maybe you’ll be the first fan that didn’t find something to like under that slanted headband, but we seriously doubt it. He’s pretty bad-ass, isn’t he?

It isn’t always easy reading manga. Some chapters are long. Some covers are hard. But a great story can make it all worthwhile! Naruto or not, what’s the latest manga chapter you’ve read?