Hello and welcome to Keba's Anime and Manga Place (KAAMP for short)! Here at KAAMP, I write about anime and manga that I have seen/read as well as my views on them. I'll also post about my original stories from time to time.

Just beware that some of my posts contain spoilers. I'll put them in spoiler tags just in case.

KAAMP's history: KAAMP was created in July 2002 by yours truly. It was a sloppy-looking website on Yahoo's now defunct Geocities. I posted my anime fan art on that site. Also, for a time, I posted my thoughts on the few anime series that I had seen. Now that I look back on it, my thoughts were rather ill-informed (is that even a word?) because I had only seen bits and pieces of anime dubs. Now that I've seen more series, I think that my commentary on various anime will be a little better than before.

So, come on in and stay awhile! KAAMP is now in session.

Early on in the Naruto series...

*Blows dust off.* Happy new year! In April. *Shot.*

OK, this has been bugging me for quite some time. I mean, a year or two. I know most people here have read all the available volumes of Naruto manga or seen the anime, but just in case you haven't met characters introduced in the beginning of the chuunin exam arc, you need to catch up desperately I'm putting this in spoiler tags.

So, when Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke meet Kakashi for the first time, Kakashi tells them that there are 27 academy students that had graduated. So if those 27 students are split up into teams of three, there are nine teams altogether. So, how can Ino, Shikamaru, and Chouji be the tenth team?

Furthermore, Kakashi tells his new team that only three of those nine teams will be allowed to become ninja and the rest will be sent back to the academy. Those three teams will be determined by whether they pass a test (I don't know if the other teams did the bell test or something else). So, what happens if a fourth team passes the test? What if only one or two teams pass?

This leads me now to Gai's team. Were Neji, Lee, and Tenten the only ones to pass the test? Or did other academy students their age pass? If so, what happened to them? Did they die? It would be pretty sad if two teams died trying to complete D-rank missions. Most likely, they just aren't mentioned. Maybe they're purposely omitted to help the fans fabricate original characters. Yeah, that's probably it.

Boy, I asked a lot of questions. Then again, plotholes can make you do that. You, the reader, don't have to answer them. It's just something to think about.