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Yay new episode is pretty awesome. Loved the animation in a few scenes, can't wait for this to keep moving.
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Yeah, it had some flashbacks but it was much better than last week and at least we got some Kakashi vs. Saskue. I fist pumped at the ending. Brutal cliffhanger, though. Hope this actually plays out a bit instead of just one side retreating right away. Can't wait until next week! "Ready to GET IT ON!"
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Jun 2, 2011 19:27
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I'm pretty sick of this bullshit to be perfectly frank. Yeah it was better than the last couple episodes but that's not saying much. Do we seriously have to settle for episodes where maybe half of it is new content?
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Jun 3, 2011 11:04
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Corte posted:I'm pretty sick of this bullshit to be perfectly frank. Yeah it was better than the last couple episodes but that's not saying much. Do we seriously have to settle for episodes where maybe half of it is new content? There seems to be two philosophies when it comes to not wanting to catch up to a show's manga source: -spread out the content by going really slow and including recap clips in new episodes (what's happening now) -go at a normal pace and have several months-long filler breaks At this point, I think I'd prefer the second option.
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Jun 3, 2011 12:57
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The show has been doing both actually, and to be completely honest this isn't that bad. Yeah it's annoying but it could be much worse.
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Jun 3, 2011 15:42
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Naruto Filler is pretty terrible so it's a toss up between snail's pace vs new content. Never forget making ramen noodles with Rasengan's and Piss Rainbow.
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Jun 3, 2011 15:58
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The pacing has gotten better since the Rescue Gaara and Sai/Saskue arcs, or at the very least, they've learned how to make better filler than endless sloooooow pans across the characters.
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Jun 3, 2011 22:21
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Beautiful Ninja posted:Naruto Filler is pretty terrible so it's a toss up between snail's pace vs new content. Never forget making ramen noodles with Rasengan's and Piss Rainbow. That was awful, but also don't forget the Curry of Life filler arc. Lee gets drunk and eats curry. I want more of that.
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Jun 4, 2011 00:31
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Jaweeeblop posted:That was awful, but also don't forget the Curry of Life filler arc. Lee gets drunk and eats curry. I want more of that. Arcs can be quite good, it's the one-off "ugh I guess we better come up with something to do this week" stories that are terrible. The recent Tenten weapon factory one in particular was just awful in art and story and everything. Even if you ignore the fact that it focused on Tenten.
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Slave posted:Arcs can be quite good, it's the one-off "ugh I guess we better come up with something to do this week" stories that are terrible. The recent Tenten weapon factory one in particular was just awful in art and story and everything. Even if you ignore the fact that it focused on Tenten. I think the worst one recently was 185 "Animal District". It had the boxing kangaroos that fought lee, the ant eater and carnivorous plants that kept foiling Shino and ostrich that randomly started talking halfway through the episode. Some of the jokes were kinda funny but the plot just jumped forward randomly skipping stuff. It felt like it was written via: "Well lets do an episode about ninja animals, anyone have any ideas?" and then they took 6 or 7 of them and taped them together in no particular order and called it an episode. Its so bad it actually starts to be pretty funny so I guess it earns a pass after all, unlike the Tenten episode. Indiana_Krom fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Jun 4, 2011 |
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Jun 4, 2011 03:10
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Don't forget the episode where sasuke-kun~ had to wear cat ears. Also Can I get some Demon Wig love in this filler discussion?
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Kingtheninja posted:Don't forget the episode where sasuke-kun~ had to wear cat ears. Also Can I get some Demon Wig love in this filler discussion?
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Kingtheninja posted:Don't forget the episode where sasuke-kun~ had to wear cat ears. Also Can I get some Demon Wig love in this filler discussion? The dub of that arc was like a VA reunion of Ed, Roy and Lust. It was pretty cool. Also, the dub has reached the first few episodes after Asuma's death. I forgot how well done the opening scene (when Shikamaru tells Kurenai) to 82 was. And those cat ears were adorable 
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Jun 5, 2011 00:21
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you know they had a perfect excuse to show an extended fight between kakashi and sasuke but instead we got more flashbacks 
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Jun 5, 2011 07:57
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^^^ Seems you're not alone in thinking that. This thread doesn't get a lot of traffic so I sometimes head over to NarutoForums after an episode. That's where I recently came across the below. I didn't even know anyone made stuff like this. It's fan made so it's not quite up to par with what we usually see obviously but it does get your point across about missing a great opportunity for a larger Saskue/Kakashi fight. What do you guys think? NarutoForums posted:I do have to say, I enjoyed the fan animation of Sasuke vs Kakashi more than this. If the anime team did things like this then they'd be able to stretch out the episode in more ways than flashbacks, especially since the filler fight in this episode lasted ten seconds. -Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Jun 5, 2011 |
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Jun 5, 2011 18:51
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-Blackadder- posted:^^^
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-Blackadder- posted:^^^ EDIT: (I think everyone wanted to see a Chidori vs. Raikiri, too. I mean, aren't they pretty much the same thing?) JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jun 5, 2011 |
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Jun 5, 2011 20:33
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That was pretty drat good for a fan made video and much more tense than the fight in the actual anime so far. e: Sounds like they got the terrible English voice acting spot on too. razamataza fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jun 6, 2011 |
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Jun 6, 2011 20:41
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razamataza posted:e: Sounds like they got the terrible English voice acting spot on too. Them's fightin' words
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Jun 7, 2011 12:48
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Holy balls the flashbacks in the last several episodes  this poo poo is ridiculous.
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Jun 10, 2011 02:32
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It is starting to approach previous levels of poo poo-tastic. And it doesn't look to be stopping anytime soon.
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Yeah, it's now really messing with my enjoyment of the actual canon material. I was pretty much there before but I now firmly support filler arcs over filler mixed in with canon stuff. I can always (and most of the time do) just skip filler arcs and find something else to do on Thursdays until they're over. But when they mix filler in with the canon material you really don't have much choice except to just sit there and take it. I haven't read the manga so I don't know how close we are to catching up, but if they feel the need to put more distance between the show and the manga I'd much prefer another filler arc than what we're getting now. This is just too much.
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-Blackadder- posted:I haven't read the manga so I don't know how close we are to catching up, but if they feel the need to put more distance between the show and the manga I'd much prefer another filler arc than what we're getting now. This is just too much. This last episode was 3/4 of chapter 485 (yeah, this wasn't even a whole chapter  ), which came out around early march of last year, so the manga's got about 15 months on the anime.
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I really wish I hadn't noticed this but since Silver mentioned this week's episode only being about 3/4ths of a chapter, I realized the only non flashback material I saw from the preview for next week would be the missing 1/4th of the chapter 
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Jun 10, 2011 15:43
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So for those of you who are reading ahead, is it looking like Naruto is gonna get wrapped up anytime soon?
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Koirhor posted:So for those of you who are reading ahead, is it looking like Naruto is gonna get wrapped up anytime soon? hell no. They're getting into the habit of doing flash-back filler, and then stretching -THAT- out across extra pages.
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I'd give it about two more years.
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Koirhor posted:So for those of you who are reading ahead, is it looking like Naruto is gonna get wrapped up anytime soon? The Madara/Sasuke/Kabuto story arc is probably going to be over in the manga in about two years. Kishimoto could probably find someway to extend it after that or he could end it. I have a feeling it ends in about 3 years but who knows. All I really want to see before the series is over is Naruto destroying a Chunnin exam by himself. But that's unlikely. He will probably just get promoted straight to Hokage or something without ever being more than a Genin.
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Definitely looking forward to that Chuunin exam also, like what happened with Killua.
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Four episodes of the same bullshit is my limit I think. I'm with those wishing for filler arcs over these flashbacks with a dash of canon. Guess I'll take a break for a couple months then come back and see if anything has improved.
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Corte posted:Four episodes of the same bullshit is my limit I think. I'm with those wishing for filler arcs over these flashbacks with a dash of canon. Guess I'll take a break for a couple months then come back and see if anything has improved. Edit: although I know I should feel a little guilty about watching the fight scenes knowing that a few were traced from other sources (cowboy bebop the movie, live action Kung Fu movies, etc). JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jun 11, 2011 |
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Jun 11, 2011 19:12
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Just do what I do and read the manga and then watch the episodes of the anime that actually have fluid fight scenes. (This will be easy because those are maybe 1 in 20.)
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"I'm Sasuke and I going to spew out some crazy bullshit!" "I'm Naruto and I love you so much that I understand your crazy bullshit!" "Noooo, you can't truly understand because you're not meeee!"  Has there ever been another Shonen character as wack as Sasuke?
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-Blackadder- posted:Yeah, it's now really messing with my enjoyment of the actual canon material. I was pretty much there before but I now firmly support filler arcs over filler mixed in with canon stuff. I can always (and most of the time do) just skip filler arcs and find something else to do on Thursdays until they're over. But when they mix filler in with the canon material you really don't have much choice except to just sit there and take it. I mean it's still awful, and I'd much rather they take a break than do what they've been doing, but I'm sure they already have a contract they have to fill with whatever stations they're affiliated with. The Japanese game industry is having to deal with a lot of similar stuff currently because of what the disaster did to the amount of money people are willing to spend on the product along with the amount of money businesses are willing to spend on advertising since almost every sector of business there has gone above and beyond donation wise. Aesop Poprock fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jun 12, 2011 |
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CubanMissile posted:"I'm Sasuke and I going to spew out some crazy bullshit!" SHUT Up I am more special then YOU.
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I may be alone but I quite enjoyed this week's episode and the flashbacks even seemed more tolerable with the revamped animation sequences.
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I didn't mind it, the main stuff wasn't really interrupted by flashbacks or anything.
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I am stunned that Karin seems to have accepted reality for what it is; I was convinced she was going to take Inos place in the Ino-Sakura Sasuke Stalker Rivals Society.
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I guess I should be happy that Sasuke is out of the picture for a few episodes (I think?) and that next episode is apparently focusing on Killer Bee, Kisame's sword, and that other ninja village because this will eliminate the flashbacks that Naruto/Sakura/Kakashi/Sasuke have been having. However, since Sasuke just retreats and licks his wounds, it seems like YET AGAIN we've wasted a bunch of episodes getting Naruto to Sasuke and NOTHING HAPPENS. I mean, you could argue that each time they meet, Naruto gets a little bit closer to getting through to Sasuke, but there's really no evidence of that. Had this story been tightened up a bit, this emotional breakthrough could have been covered in a single conversation, not several. When the show is finally over in who-knows-how-many years, I'm sure I'll be happy with everything wrapped up, but being here in the middle period, it's just torture. Don't even focus on Naruto+Sasuke if you're not going to advance their plot in any significant way! Give us insight into some other characters or villages. The opening song shows tons of exciting stuff happening, but it feels like months ago when any of that happened and I'm still waiting for Naruto to be on a friggin' boat with Killer Bee (WHEN IS THAT HAPPENING?). Arg. I'll just continue watching the filler episodes from the first series that I skipped a few years ago, because somehow they're more satisfying than the current storyline. At least they wrap up a story.
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^^^Yeah, I feel your frustration. I felt exhausted over the last few episodes, hoping and straining to squeeze as much actual canon content, out of each episode, as possible. It was like pulling teeth. And even never having read the manga, I KNEW that in the end nothing was really going to come of the Naruto/Sasuke confrontation because Madara was going to show up and portal Sasuke out right when things were about to actually get interesting. Saw that poo poo coming a mile away. We went through all that flashback filler just to get to what amounts to a brief conversation that we've already heard before. Oh well. It is what it is, I guess. It's frustrating as poo poo, but I'm not going to dwell too much on it as there's really nothing to be done. I'd say I'll lay off for a while and come back after a few episodes have piled up but I probably won't have the willpower not to watch next Thursday.
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