I know that much, just wondering why it took them that many before deciding, yeah lets go to the manga, i mean bleach didn't take that long, plus it was a better filler (worth watching once, no more) still in the end, thank god its over.Well I don't know how good Bleach is, but the pacing in Naruto is pretty terrible. Like things will suddenly stop or drag out over several episodes what could be done in one or two. Like half the time it was either flashbacks or Naruto and co lying on the floor going "Ughh", then other times it's like HOLY SHIT something happened so fast. So I guess Naruto was always catching up with the manga just flashbacks and groaning held it back before fillers.
All I can say is Shikamaru better be rocking out or else.
I know that much, just wondering why it took them that many before deciding, yeah lets go to the manga, i mean bleach didn't take that long, plus it was a better filler (worth watching once, no more) still in the end, thank god its over.They weren't deciding if they are going with the manga or not, I'm sure they were always going to go with the manga. They just wanted to create a considerable gap between the manga and the anime. It's pretty close to the amount of chapters which were out when Naruto initially started, over 100. Considering how they have paced things before (using flashbacks, prolonging battles and so on), I'd say that this is pretty accurate:
I'm going to laugh hard when the fillers start again.Naruto's animation has only been top-notch in a few episodes. The animation looks pretty much what Naruto's standard canon has always looked like and I'm fine with it.
Also, the animation doesn't look too good. : /
But didn't they do that before when Sasuke was in the team? Then there was like 20 episodes afterwards and then the 85 fillers.
I'm pretty sure Bleach will have fillers after the current arc finishes. Naruto should have at least 3 arcs before having fillers again. Unless they do what I hope they will and have one or two short filler arcs after every major arc so that there won't be second time with nearly 100 consecutive fillers.
Naruto's animation has only been top-notch in a few episodes. The animation looks pretty much what Naruto's standard canon has always looked like and I'm fine with it.
But didn't they do that before when Sasuke was in the team? Then there was like 20 episodes afterwards and then the 85 fillers.Yeah, there was one filler arc like that. I just hope they'll do that after every arc and maybe have two arcs sometimes. That way having some fillers wouldn't feel that bad. Especially if they put effort in them like in some of the latest filler arcs.
Unfortunately, around here we don't have the newer episodes (yet)If they'll air all the fillers, years. 220 is the latest episode.
The newest one is the one where Sasuke catches up with Gaara
How long until I can actually see the end of fillers?
And wow, 85 episodes of fillers? That's a little too much to handle.
What? No more T. Matsuda?Yeah, the new composer is called Takanashi Yasuharu. Don't worry though, the new music definitely doesn't disappoint. It actually gives a more... serious atmosphere if you ask me. I still hope they will recycle some of the old themes though.
This episode was.... nostalgic.
Just watched it. Great soundtrack (don't like the main theme, unless the music during the next ep's preview is just another track), but the animation shold've been like the beggining of the ep.I don't think it's the main theme. At least I hope it's not. And as awesome as it would be, it's pretty much impossible for a long running series to maintain the quality of the animation which the beginning had.
this wasn't that great btw. the animation was really shitty at points (particularly any time Sakura turned her head) and there was one moment where Sakura was speaking and her mouth wasn't moving (no it wasn't frozen because Naruto was climbing in through the window). there was no really great action sequences or anything either. also the constant NOSTALGIA shit was irritating.I noticed the part where Sakura's mouth didn't move as well. It was not well done and I have no clue how the animators didn't notice it. I think the animation was completely fine otherwise though. I was talking about this with Kaworu on IRC but Dattebayo used the word nostalgic way too much even though it didn't seem to be a literal translation (and it was different in manga too).
Hmmm, I hope someone's put it up on YouTube. That's pretty much where I watch all my Narutard because who can honestly be fucked to keep hundreds of videos on their computer?Wouldn't it be better to download the episode and delete it once you've seen it? Maybe it's just me but watching anime on youtube is much worse than watching a good quality version which you have downloaded.
I remember watching 220 (i think ) and dattebayo said that there were stil going to be 3 weeks of fillers. I guess this still counts as a filler? since naruto has to go through the chuunin exam again and fight kakashi with sakuraI don't think Dattebayo ever said anything like that and if they did, they are wrong. The new stuff (like bell training) is not filler. They changed some stuff and there were some added scenes (like the cat mission and the weird key word parts) but it's canon all right. I think the next two episodes will be:
Episode 4: Gaara vs Deidara (he's the Akatsuki with yellow hair). This will be awesome.
Torrents aren't slow at all. I remember when I used another program to get Naruto episodes, which would take a day or two. Now I can get them in one hour or two thanks to Bittorrent.One hour is too long to wait.
I noticed the part where Sakura's mouth didn't move as well. It was not well done and I have no clue how the animators didn't notice it. I think the animation was completely fine otherwise though.
check around that scene and watch for when Sakura turns her head. the character's eyes are also kind of unfocused (GOOD NARUTO YOU LOOK COOL) for a few scenes.Hmm, I still don't really notice anything. I know the animation isn't BEST EVER but it's great for Naruto animation, especially after fillers. I noticed that sometimes the eyes are kinda unfocused but it didn't really bother me and was nowhere as horrible as the GOOD NARUTO YOU LOOK COOL part. That part was so bad. :(
Downloading now. I hope it is as good as rami and DS claim.its not just us you know.....
DragonSlayer they announced it at their mini random msg screen where the tokyo sign is.
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but you're prolly right about them being wrong. since sasuke was in the flash, and naruto came back to the village (making the story go on ahead), I doubt those 2 eps were fillers.
Either DB though the last filler "season" would last for 24 episodes (it usually takes that much for the intro to change) or then they were just joking. I believe it's the latter because there's no way they didn't know about fillers ending after seeing the preview in 220. That and they joke around a lot.
2 years of training and Naruto still seems weak from what they showed between him and Sasuke. He had to rely on Kyuubi to fight Sasuke and even then, Sasuke stopped him. Either the authors are making Naruto overly weak or Sasuke too strong. There wasn't that much of a gap in their last fight.Sasuke had to rely on Orochimaru's seal to beat Naruto... it balanced out.
For those whiny people complaining about the nostalgia value: it's a new series, they have to establish a character relationship for those who might have dropped the series or never watched the thing at all. It's common marketing sense.Nobody really cares about that, like yeah things need to be reintroduced. However what is being complained about is how much the term Nostalgic was used... It was almost every minute of the episode! It kinda shows a bad translation when they use the same phrase over and over when someone's saying "This brings back memories" or "hey remember when..." and it comes out as "THIS IS NOSTALGIC"
That's an understatement. yhbt, remember: You have been trolled. It's part of their website address even; I remember when they 'dropped' Naruto.
For those whiny people complaining about the nostalgia value: it's a new series, they have to establish a character relationship for those who might have dropped the series or never watched the thing at all. It's common marketing sense.
I wonder, the words they gave through the episode, Shitsupuu, wtf does it mean?
Actually, his name is Jiraiya (Jirachi is a pokemon I think). The reason he told Kakashi that was because Naruto can now use his Kyuubi form with more than one tail.Actually I really doubt he said it for that reason. I doubt there was any meaning behind it other than he has grown. It wasn't in manga either.
It was good, but you can't help but sigh when he does the KAGE BUNSHIN CHARGE which gets owned (like always), and after 2.5 years of training why can Naruto STILL not use Rasengan properly (ie with one hand), and surely he could have further refined it (by throwing the chakra ball or something).Yeah, like I said, that kage bunshin part was not in manga and I hope they won't do it again. And as for Rasengan, I agree that it'd be better if he didn't use a kage bunshin for it but I suppose it's just his style though, I doubt it has anything to do with his chakra control at this point.
Sakura seems to have become useful at last though, as before all she did was whisper "sasuke-kun" and tremble.
The Akatsuki bits were very good though, can't wait to see more of Deidara's skills, and how Gaara's developed as well. I'm also very curious as to what Sasori can do, he seems somewhat strong based but I wonder how much.
They better stop with the flashbacks soon. I don't care if it's supposed to serve a purpose. It isn't like the series was off the air for 2 years ( though fans might beg to differ ho ho ho ). All the flashbacks/ reintroduction bullshit feels the same as the cheap fillers.Yeah this is exactly what I was thinking. I was very disappointed after this week's ep because of the flashback bullshit.
Perhaps it's just me, but the animation is really subpar. Recently I've been watching Haruhi, Kino, NHK and really amazing storyline animes that all were more fluid. I really miss that about Naruto right now, it's like I'm viewing life at 20 fps. :/ I know it's acon and ninjas and special styles and shit, but that's no excuse when things actually wind up looking poor.Yeah, when I said the animation could have been better, I meant that it wasn't very fluid. And not only that but some of the shots were completely pointless and were only there to slow it down as much as possible. Like when Deidara was about to use the explosives, we saw Deidara flying towards Gaara for like 20 seconds.
"WTF? he still can't do it without a clone?"Well, not to switch sides from complaining to defending here, but the Rasengan is a "legendary" class move. To my knowledge only three people in history have been able to learn it (including Naruto) and the fact that it is nearly an impossible move to master means that it is acceptable that Naruto can't perform it in its true form. I believe Jiraya even said his own version was less effective than the Fourth's. This indicated (to me, at least) that the only one who could actually do the move correctly was the man who invented it (an opinion held by most characters in the anime iirc) and Naruto just found a way to use a normally unusable move by circumventing the norm. The fact that he can use it at all is shocking if you hold the same views as the characters in the show, so I would not say his having to use a clone to cast it is anything that diminishes the fact he can do it at all.
I don't remember seeing Naruto doing rasengan at all during part 2, except for oodama rasengan, so I think him using a clone to use it was filler.He uses a normal Rasengan against Itachi as well (although that part wasn't too clear in manga and you don't see a kage bunshin). He also uses it against Kabuto when they are infiltrating Orochimaru's hideout and uses a kage bunshin. Actually, he uses TWO kage bunshins to create the Rasengan without real Naruto so I suppose that doesn't really prove anything. And oh yes, he also uses Rasengan on Deidara's bird. We didn't see Naruto creating Rasengan but I think he was with a clone.
This week - no episodeI also thought it's going to be this way but the the preview in episode 5 confirms that there will be an episode next week. So good news.
Next week - episode
Next next week - no episode
Next next next week - 1 hour special
Actually, there is no episode this week. It was DB's mistranslation.well, fuck :(
the importance of pinky promises
garaGaara's a fag. Get a fucking clue.
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my fav character *_*
Gaara's a fag. Get a fucking clue.
1) they finally realized that naruto has a daemon inside, but the forgot the swirling orange chakra that usually accompany Berserk Naruto.Who realized? Also, Naruto doesn't always have the swirling chakra when he's using Kyuubi's powers.
Their goal has been revealed in the manga already. From what I remember, it's not what you have in mind.
9 Akatsuki members... 9 demons... I really pray it isn't what I think.
9 Akatsuki members... 9 demons... I really pray it isn't what I think.dingdingdingdingding we have a winner
The fight scenes were really slow and jerky. I don't understand how you see the good side of everything with each episode DS...wait what
P.S:
Don't even try and say that floating on water is Taijutsu...
Sorry Lee I caught you slipping!
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9 Akatsuki members... 9 demons... I really pray it isn't what I think.
DS HOW LONGBDO YOU THINK WE HAVE TILL THEN (considering the PACE of it atm)well, it was around chapter 290 and right now the anime is around chapter 260 but there's one long fight coming and assuming anime has even a bit faster pace for that, maybe around 20 episodes, give or take.
He is so over-rated in my opinion. And the fact that both Sasuke and Kakashi learned that Mageyko makes him look even more shit.You should give a warning if you are going to post manga spoilers. And about that, Sasuke hasn't learned Mangekyou Sharingan.
Oh btw, I really, REALLY laughed out loud at the part where Gai swung his nunchuks at the Kisame's water clone while running.Yeah that was hilariously bad.
261.
More like Kankurou *_*Gaara would've been better :gwa:
Yep... looks like I'm quitting the series after the Sasori fights.yeah, sounds like a plan!
From the looks of next episode preview, it seems like they are going to waste a whole episode for entering the hideout which is completely ridiculous.They didn't even enter the fucking hideout. It ended with them standing outside looking at that damn stone.
They didn't even enter the fucking hideout. It ended with them standing outside looking at that damn stone.I was refering to episode 18 preview.
Fucking hell the anime team has no idea what they're doing right now.
I was refering to episode 18 preview.@@
I was a die hard naruto fan. I sometimes would plan my day around the releases of the anime.Have you ever tried making your own comic? You're lucky if you even get one page within a given week!
This of course will never happen again. I'm enjoying the manga though! I just think that in ONE week they should be able to make like... 2-4 chapters!
I assume this dude has MONEY and a team of artists, editors, etc.
(one of them only does white lines).What a useless assistant.
What a useless assistant.
Wow, nothing happened at all this week.It sure made me happy
Still I suppose the hot springs Tenmari made some people happy.
Gaara would've been better :gwa:Well, not better but it would still br awsome to see a soaked Gaara in action :gwa:
Oh yeah there'll be fighting all right!!
Konoha VS. BOULDER that is!!
I wouldn't be surprised if the episode would be Konoha VS. Boulder, Gaara's DEEP PHILOSOPHIES LOL + Akatsuki hot topics, ends in the DEATH OF BOULDER
Well, not better but it would still br awsome to see a soaked Gaara in action :gwa:
I haven't kept up with this for a few weeks.I think it's pretty safe to pass the next few episodes too, considering the pace. Maybe after 3 weeks they get to the cool stuff.
Is it good, or getting shittier by the episode? I stopped watching because I became insanely bored.
I haven't kept up with this for a few weeks.it's pretty much the same. 15 is the best episode since first double episode and i somewhat liked 17 too though it was slow. 18 will be boring as fuck but hopefully the major fight starts after that.
Is it good, or getting shittier by the episode? I stopped watching because I became insanely bored.
18 = piece of shitI thought the same.
and seeing the preview of 19, it seems like the fight won't even really start, just more talk.
Maybe i do...Actually we'll know in... eight days.
Anyhows I'm pretty sure the next ep is disappointing but maybe after 3 weeks something good starts. I guess we'll know tomorrow.
There was a scene where Sakura looked like a porn star...
Noticed the animation was getting better, especially at the end of the special. Next week's episode doesn't look too good though.
this week's double episode wasn't too bad.............. but still not good enoughNothings Good Enough For U
no, i'm gonna have to go with DS on this one, it isn't good enough. Even Naruto one went at a faster pace. It's like there dragging it out in purpose just to make it longer, if thats the case why? It just makes the series take longer to do the same thing that can be done in a shorter time and be better paced.they probably don't want to catch up with the manga again though I think the main reason is that they simply want to drag it on to make more money since the fans (like me) are dumb enough to watch it anyway. :domo:
they probably don't want to catch up with the manga again though I think the main reason is that they simply want to drag it out to make more money since the fans (like me) are dumb enough to watch it anyway. :domo:Well wasn't the whole point of having almost 100 filler episodes to develop the manga further to prevent things like this
Well wasn't the whole point of having almost 100 filler episodes to develop the manga further to prevent things like thisObviously so but that doesn't mean they can't catch up again. They definitely could afford a faster pace since the manga is almost 100 chapters ahead. They could have the same pace which they had in part 1 and it would take almost two years to catch up.
Oh my god. This week's episode was so horrible I don't know what to say. It got better near the end but christ, it was so awful.$$$$$$$$$$ money corrupts
It can't be that hard to make a good series when the manga is so good.
It seems like their budget is getting lower and lower every episode.Dude, what the hell are you talking about, that's the single greatest minute of animation I have ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwPKDdToTpc
I mean wtf is this supposed to be, is it even an actual fight?
It seems like their budget is getting lower and lower every episode.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwPKDdToTpc
I mean wtf is this supposed to be, is it even an actual fight?
why the hell are they trying to waste time when the manga is so far ahead of the anime ?_?Why but the Manga is only like roughly at least 50 episodes ahead of the anime surely they could catch up!!!
i mean i know they want money but this is just silly(loved the gai vs gai fight)
I thought it was pretty darn good. And I generally never liked the puppet fights.It won't. they just bring in this animator at important fights because he costs a lot and then outsource half of the episodes to korea
I hope the animation quality stays at this level, or at least close to it.
All is forgiven.
Just as a sidenote:Yeah sure that's annoying, know what's worse though? When they do the thing where the fight ends with the two charging up and talking trash and then their auras grow to huge size and they charge at each other and you see it form a distance and there's a huge explosion and then they're standing there, back to each other and one of them fall.
Is anyone else just fucking tired by how they always, no matter what sort of injury there is, they always bleed from the side of their mouth? In the end of 26 it was kinda ok because that prolly would happen but:
I mean please. Your hand get slashed by a knife, you get punched in your guts, thrown against a wall, or you just get tired etc. the results are the same, you are OK but you are BLEEDING FROM THE SIDE OF YOUR MOUTH. Even when it's an anime and nothing is logical this is just so STUPID. It's not like this is a major flaw but please, I'd rather have them bleed from their asses for a change. It's been like this since the start.
10 chapters of plain fighting would be dull. Most mangas I've read tend to keep it to 1/2 a chapter to 2 chapters maximum
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edit: I CAN'T FUCKING STOP LAUGHING
I missed two episodes worth of Naruto, and then watched this week's episode... I didn't miss a thing.
I think that really goes to show how bad it is.
ive only seen one of the movies where naruto does that rainbow rasengan (well, you know what I mean). i just thought the SHIPPUFFDEEDNN movie'd be entertaining :hmm:
come on dattebayo 28 :|
anyone hear about that HD release of Naruto movie 3? what a waste, and 2 gb on top of that
Studio Pierrot are really irritating me with these eps. This whole arc looks like some experimental arc what with all the different animation teams every episode. Why can't Shippuden be animated like the Sasuke retrieval saga or all the new Bleach episodes!?
Well yeah, but we've had fillers for two years. Most of those fillers weren't good quality wise and the third movie didn't match the quality of the first two. They should have saved enough money by now for better Shippuden episodes.
Studio Pierrot are really irritating me with these eps. This whole arc looks like some experimental arc what with all the different animation teams every episode. Why can't Shippuden be animated like the Sasuke retrieval saga or all the new Bleach episodes!?
DS: Next week's episode? Try 3 week's time's episode.Yeah, I meant next episode, not next week's. I know it airs on 18th October. I wonder what's up with the break.
Yeah, I meant next episode, not next week's. I know it airs on 18th October. I wonder what's up with the break.
I love how in Naruto it takes half an episode to say "we've gotten tired due to fighting for so long" by saying "they have gotten stronger" " no, because they are merely constructs blah blah blah we are tired" and that to defeat the enemy we must... become stronger *gasp*!
I mean jesus, this stuff is common sense, IT DOES NOT NEED AN EPISODES WORTH OF CONVERSATION.
31 is a really, REALLY boring episode. To me it felt like a waste of good 25 mins like it often has since shippuuden began. I dunno maybe you can enjoy it if you like overdramatic anime talk. Talk that goes on for 90% of the episode that it. It just goes on and on and on and fuck you could've put all that shit in 10 minutes and have the rest of the episode display something even remotely interesting. There's also the event that everyone has guessed to happen since 5 episodes ago.
Also the new opening is a really big spoilerfest if you can do some 1 + 1. It has a really gay jpop song too. At least the animation was decent, not that anything really moved.
The white bars are just a fad. Like the ones used in many recent music videos (Goldigger by Kanye West is an example).I'm pretty sure everyone who remembers Winds noticed the reference. And I think you are right about the Akatsuki thing.
By the way I was wondering, the scene showing the Akatsuki in the op is in Hidden Rain Village right? And did anyone catch the reference the anime made to the first ending theme Wind when Naruto was in the dream world?
The manga is only getting better and better. I really just wish it was done a little better. I'm having problems understanding what's going on in the panels.Umm are you like ignoring how the plot is just sucking in EVERY fantasy cliche possible in just like 3 chapters? It's like they tried to go with something even semi-original at first but now they're all like 'fuck it, back to the tried and true'.
Yeah...32 was dragged out. It was only saved by Tobi! It's funny though, because the anime voice sounds similar to the voice Tobi has in the Fun with Akatsuki comics on SaiyanislandI 100% agree with this statment
Here is a good question I've never heard asked before./me shrugs
How come we don't get two chapteres of manga as compared to the 2 episode special in the anime?
I really liked Ep 39. The double episode looks pretty entertaining. Was it suppose to air next thursday, or the one after?It airs next week, then there's a two weeks break I think.
P.S: How do you how many chapters are covered in each episode DS? Are you guesstimating or actually confirming this. I always wondered about that.Most of the time I'm just estimating but sometimes I have checked it.
Please don't tell me I'm going to have to wait two to three weeks to see black and white lines ;_;.Not that I know, though there'll probably be one week christmas break soon.
I don't know how someone can fill 30 minutes on TV with looping stare cycles...Theres not much they could have done about it being "drawn out." The pointless filler's is generally probably to cure the "Drawn out" feel, yet people will complain of both; they could fix it by including more manga chapters into episodes, but then they'd have to do a filler arc earlier again and then people would AGAIN complain. Theres no winning with people.
The anime' is really starting to bug me...drawn out episodes, pointless fillers, slow pace...ugh...I'm losing hope in the series...
I'd love if all the shounen series were done in the same way as Major. Major starts in January, airs for 26 episodes and then there's a break till next January. It's not slow and the quality is very good. If shounen series were handled this way, it would be awesome. :(Yeah, I think that filler scenes are usually handled pretty decently. Theres a greater level of success with adding 1-2 scenes per episode of filler then entire filler episodes it seems. I guess its just a lot easier.
Also, I think they should add more filler scenes to the canon. They have done pretty good job at it so far, it's far better idea than drag the manga scenes in such a boring way.
They could've just used that time for something a little more valuable is all I'm saying...Like?
Don't forget the 10 minutes worth of back to back clips of Naruto and Oro staring at each other in ep 41!40, not 41.
They could've just used that time for something a little more valuable is all I'm saying...
Like?No they wouldn't. People only complain about the long filler period in the end of part 1 because the anime writers are pretty horrible when they have to come up with stories on their own. If you read manga and then watch anime, you notice that a lot of scenes in Naruto are filler and they are well done too. They should had extended the fight with some new scenes or something else instead of staring. The problem is, whoever directed episode 40 can't direct for shit. Episode 41 had some nice filler scenes (like Naruto's monologue about Sasuke, that was well done) which was already a lot better than what we got in 40.
Filler? Most people would complain even if it was well done.
40, not 41.Aww, my bad :sweat: but well put DS, I agree actually. That Sasuke part and seeing Naruto go Yonbi (since he only had four of the ninetales, I don't consider him elligible of Kyubi title...then again, there is already a Yonbi...) was cool. But there only like one or two punches in that whole hour, usually with filler inbetween. Just put in some more fighting clips or even use a little bit from the next ep. That buildup was just too much imo. It was supposed to be the uber dramatic OMG fight that many have waited around 40 weeks/eps for, but we just got a bunch a filler, some good, some meh...
No they wouldn't. People only complain about the long filler period in the end of part 1 because the anime writers are pretty horrible when they have to come up with stories on their own. If you read manga and then watch anime, you notice that a lot of scenes in Naruto are filler and they are well done too. They should had extended the fight with some new scenes or something else instead of staring. The problem is, whoever directed episode 40 can't direct for shit. Episode 41 had some nice filler scenes (like Naruto's monologue about Sasuke, that was well done) which was already a lot better than what we got in 40.
No they wouldn't. People only complain about the long filler period in the end of part 1 because the anime writers are pretty horrible when they have to come up with stories on their own. If you read manga and then watch anime, you notice that a lot of scenes in Naruto are filler and they are well done too. They should had extended the fight with some new scenes or something else instead of staring. The problem is, whoever directed episode 40 can't direct for shit. Episode 41 had some nice filler scenes (like Naruto's monologue about Sasuke, that was well done) which was already a lot better than what we got in 40.Whenever I go to large Naruto communities like Narutofan, etc, they almost always complain about any filler related material put into non-filler episodes(Except for a few rare exceptions.)
man ......40-41, whichever, long ass time just on the bridge. SO STUPID. and now i heard that dattebayo wont be subbing anything until YouTubers and Veoh people take off DB's subs off those sites. 42 should HOPEFULLY be interesting considering that naruto will go crazy. ah well
Anyway, the only thing I disliked about this episode is the fact that it should've gone just a little faster.According to DS, the pace will be slowing down again starting next episode.
Ya, it's going back to the usual 1 chapter pace. At least the next 3 episodes will be based on the episode titles / summaries.
Didn't they do 3 chapters per episode?The pace was usually 2 chapters per episode during part 1 but there were a few episodes which covered 3 chapters.
Aye like who made the Kyubi attack, but not why . Still, its its pretty awesome that there entire fight was simply Genjitsu also i wonder what Jirayas message means, personally i think that faint image of the 4th's head on the rock face is a clue, might mean that Pein is in fact the 4th (how i don't know) but if that were true, wouldn't that mean that Naruto could awaken the rin'ningan, and if that were true, well, it just means that Naruto has the potential to be the most powerful ninja of all time.
besides even if you still have some speculations, with chapter 386, Itachi just said that Madara was stopped by the 4th hokage making him a failure, which is why itachi is using the secret so he can surpass Madara. It wouldnt make sense for Pein to be working with Madara if pein was the 4th, since he was the one that stopped the nine tailed fox that madara summoned to attack konoha.
I know that, but you'd be suprised how often a loop hole apears.
not only that but lol when you use the sealing jutsu that the 4th used YOU DIE lolololololol
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naruto
The most frustrating thing about the NS anime is the way they fill it most of the time. I don't mind things like the filler fight scene vs Kabuto or even the filler Sai flashbacks in the last episode, but 5 minutes of them running down fucking corridors opening identical doors shouting "GUSY, HES NOT HERE WAT!" is just a crock of shit. And its constant as well. Unecessarily long pan shots of characters faces or dumbass repeated shots of someone walking over and over... they should just make it bi-weekly if they're paranoid about catching the manga again (even though they are _streets_ behind the manga now), instead of making glacial episodes that may as well be in slow motion with hilarious distorted voices. But no its another truimph for profit over quality since people still watch it since its number 1 show in Japan or whatever (thanks to part 1 I might add).Pretty much this. The pacing wouldn't be a problem if they wrote good filler parts instead of dragging it out with such painfully obvious and horrible methods. There have been a few well directed episodes which didn't actually cover that much manga. But most of the episodes are too slow and that's a fact. Though I think it has gotten better in this arc even though some episodes are still way too slow. At least the animation quality has improved and there hasn't been any downright horrible episodes since the first arc.
And I hope that Uchiha fight finally gets wrapped up in the next manga chapter, that was beginning to drag and its about time we saw the MAIN HERO fight again.Well, Kishimoto (manga creator) said that this year is going to focus on Sasuke and then Sakura and especially Kakashi (why is this in spoilers heh) so I doubt we'll be seeing Naruto fighting in manga any time soon. My bet is that he'll go train alone or with someone after finding out about Jiraya's death and the manga will cover other characters for a while and then he'll return at some crucial time.
I haven't seen an episode this year... Have they met Sasuke again yet?Sai has met him, but the rest of them will met him next episode.
Well, Kishimoto (manga creator) said that this year is going to focus on Sasuke and then Sakura and especially Kakashi (why is this in spoilers heh) so I doubt we'll be seeing Naruto fighting in manga any time soon. My bet is that he'll go train alone or with someone after finding out about Jiraya's death and the manga will cover other characters for a while and then he'll return at some crucial time.
This week's episode wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Not that it was that good, but the animation was a lot better than what I expected. Anyway, next week's double episode seems promising.
I just hope Sasuke doesn't become pseudo-villain/whatever he was during part 2. He should at least make some contact with Konoha now that his brother's been defeated. He'll probably go off with team snake though.only a bit needed to be spoilered like:
I just hope Sasuke doesn't become pseudo-villain/whatever he was during part 2. He should at least make some contact with Konoha now that his brother's been defeated. He'll probably go off with team snake though.
Oh man. Did he get another SPECIAL RASENGAN in this one too?
I added the spoiler to the last part since it was pretty spoilery for anime watchers. Also, here are some of my reasoning on the subject:
A lot of people think Tobi is not Obito because it seems too obvious, it did from the very beginning. He's wearing a mask with only one eye, he has similar characteristics and acts in a similar goofy way and it seems like one side of his body has some weird thing attached to it. Later on it was revealed he's an Uchiha, which made it all the more obvious, and people just couldn't buy it. They think that Kishimoto is trying to make it obvious and then it's someone else, and since they knew that from the moment Tobi was introduced, and once he stated he is Madara, they assumed they were right.
But I think it goes beyond that. I think Kishimoto made him so similar to Obito so that people would think he is someone else, and it's pretty easy to predict they'd do that. Next he gives them what they want to hear, that he's some super powerful Uchiha from the past. What makes me even more suspicious of this is that if he was Madara, why the hell would he still wear his mask for one? Why would he wear it in the first place? We know what Madara looks like. Second, while Madara has been portrayed as a powerful character, he lost against First Hokage and I can't really buy that the strongest villain in the series would have already lost against a character who hasn't even been hyped that much. If he turns out to be Obito, it'll be pretty hilarious because so many have said that's simply impossible and while it's the most obvious twist there is, it's also more than that and overall pretty well thought out all things considered.
And yeah, Kishimoto said that this year manga is going to focus on Sasuke and after that Kakashi. That's another reason to believe he is Obito. I believe he claims to be Madara so that he could gather people and use them in order to reach his goal, and to conceal his true identity, of course.
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Why would you think that? Pain isn't from Hidden Mist, he's from Rain. Mizukage isn't the leader of Pain's village.
Do you think that Pein is aware that Tobi is the Mizukage?
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hey fillers are done?? I CAN WATCH AGAIn????Yeah^H^H^H^HNo because it's still shit.
LOL, people still watch Shitpuuden? I quit watching it in January of 07 (FACT: Shitpuuden premiered in February of 07)
The new manga chapter was really good too. I'm really surprised that they have introduced like 10 new characters because I was expecting this series to end after a climax at Konoha. Now there's a 3 man team from the Lightning village or whatever, plus the 8 tails seems to be a main character.I bet most of the new characters aren't really all that important, whole part 2 has mostly focused on the main cast and I'm pretty sure it's gonna stay that way. 8-Tails is probably more important though and I think he's going to have a bigger role in the story, possibly teaching Naruto some Bijuu control so he can master the key or whatever it is. I definitely agree with you on this week's chapter though, it was great, especially the Konoha part. The manga is starting to get fresh again after like a year (or more?) of mostly Sasuke. I'm not complaining though, the previous arc was one of the best.
In the beginning of the latest manga chapter
I originally thought the secret with Pein was that since they were the same person they could communicate with each other. The note that Jiraiya left said that the original wasn't with them, probably meaning that they are being controlled, IMO. With this last chapter though, either he's hit a plothole, or that isn't the case, because one of the Peins had to verbally tell the others what formation to attack Konoha in. I would suggest that he only said it verbally because the girl was with them, but she and all the Pein's said they knew what was going on. So I guess my conclusion is, I'm totally confused. I'm looking forward to the next chapters in Konoha though, because they're likely to show the team members we haven't seen, specifically the stronger ones like Neji and Chouji.
im pretty sure they all see what the others see. strange eyes remember????????
the naruto manga tends to be pretty hit and miss but this weeks really nailed it, right on the head.
PS- the note that Jiraiya left was very obvious as soon as they read it! "the real one is not with them"
I'm completely blown away that none of them would figure it out until they test it!
Yea I was praying he would just die. They had like 4 pages of Naruto teaching him how to do the Sexy Jutsu and somehow from that he learns that move? Wtf?
Now of course they're already talking about bringing Kakashi back to life already, and there are so many random Shinobi mixed in with the main characters it's damn near impossible to tell who is in what scene.
I thought One Piece was cool because the number of characters was so complicated, but Naruto had to beat that and it's just this huge mess.
yeah you're terrible
This is MANGA lets not forget.Based on this week's chapter, it seemed like it didn't even do any damage whatsoever.
Also anyone find Konohamaru suddenly busting out Rasengan and knocking out that Pain body a facepalm moment? Like seeeeeriously :rolleyes: The above line applies again.
Based on this week's chapter, it seemed like it didn't even do any damage whatsoever.
Also, this week's chapter was really unexpected. I still can't believe that just happened. Although I have a feeling the strong summon is going to be something like Naruto and the frogs summoning away the villagers who were inside the blast's radius. Or then they managed to do something else to protect them because I have hard time believing so many characters would die just like that. Of course they could be outside the actual blast but it would be weird for everyone to survive the blast wave and collapsing buildings.
Anyway, hopefully it's finally time for Naruto vs Pain.
This is what I thought, since the frogs summoned something like a frame before the blast. I think Naruto is probably going to come back and challenge Pain, but I'm interested in seeing how this affects Sasuke, since he was planning on taking Konoha himself. I'm forgetting the reason why Sasuke was working with Akatsuki, but I'm sure once he finds out what Pain was doing, things will change and maybe Sasuke+Naruto?!?!Why would Sasuke suddenly team up with Naruto because of Pain destroying Konoha? Sasuke told Madara himself that he wants to destroy all of Konoha so unless he was lying and has been putting up an act, there's no reason for him to suddenly start working with Naruto. Besides, there's definitely going to be another Naruto vs Sasuke fight later on. And the reason Sasuke is working with Akatsuki is because Uchiha clan got wiped out by Konoha's order.
Also, I'm confused. I thought this whole time we were told that Pain wasn't Nagato. Didn't Jiraiya say that? IIRC, then Nagato hasn't actually been seen yet, but is hiding somewhere manipulating the bodies?Where did you get that idea? Jiraya didn't really get the secret behind Pain until the last minute and he died before he could tell it to anyone. Who Pain really is has been up in the air for a long while but Nagato all the hints were pointing to Nagato. We knew he was one of Jiraya's students, we knew he has Rinnegan and during Jiraya's fight we learned that he is controlling bodies which Jiraya had already met. Later on we learned that all the bodies he was controlling were already dead.
Also, this week's chapter was really unexpected. I still can't believe that just happened. Although I have a feeling the strong summon is going to be something like Naruto and the frogs summoning away the villagers who were inside the blast's radius. Or then they managed to do something else to protect them because I have hard time believing so many characters would die just like that. Of course they could be outside the actual blast but it would be weird for everyone to survive the blast wave and collapsing buildings.Oh really? *URSUS SHOCK* Oh look everyone's alive!!!!
Oh really? *URSUS SHOCK* Oh look everyone's alive!!!!You got it right.