>An action-packed chapter full of "gasp! is he? did he? what?
>huh?"

way more than that in this chapter...

>Next week should be dope though, as long he doesn't cut to the
>Madara battle. I'm hoping for the accidental death of Zetsu.

I'm thinking more of the same. I didn't see anything that said this hasn't all been genjutsu.

>Incidentally, is Zetsu there spying for Pein/Akatsuki, or is
>he there for his own reasons? The quick translation makes it
>sound like he has some special interest in observing Itachi's
>Mangekyou powers, but I'm not sure that would do him any good.
>To an outside observer, genjutsu appears as though nothing's
>happening, and the powers aren't based on hand seals, so
>there's no special information for Zetsu to capture.

but that's just it...he's seeing everything. I think he's just doing commentary since in every battle someone has done that for the "oh shit...no way...did he just...wow" effect.

>Also, considering Zetsu apparently thought that Itachi had
>actually taken Sasuke's left eye, that would mean that he's
>already caught in Itachi's genjutsu, right?

yeah that confused me too so unless zetsu can see inside of genjutsu that would mean Sasuke did indeed break Tsukiyomi with his own genjutsu.

>So what's that about?

kishimoto is throwing curveballs side arm and from the basement.