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I'm very late to the Naruto train and just began watching (not Shippuuden) last fall. Three episodes from the end, Netflix lost the rights to the final season so I never actually finished the series. So, at the beginning of February, I signed up for Hulu to watch Shippuuden dubbed. 97 episodes in, it switches to subbed only for the next couple hundred episodes or so. I generally don't mind watching subtitled media, but I have been watching it shortly before bed and can still pay attention to the story as I'm falling asleep if I can find the dubbed media. All of that said, I will never finish Shippuuden at this rate. Is there an updated list of filler I can begin skipping? I'm on ~118 of Shippuuden right now (years old spoiler: Sasuke just killed Orochimaru, or so it seems. I'm watching the episodes shortly after the 3-tailed arc. I bought Naruto Ultimate Storm 4 with all of the DLC a while back and am trying to catch up enough so I could play the game without spoiling it for myself, I saw that Naruto is the Toad Sage so that must mean Jiraya dies and while going through DLC unlocked messages I saw a spoiler about Naruto being the seventh Hokage, so now I'm curious about Tsunade and whoever winds up being sixth Hokage but it looks like a lot of UNS4 might not even be covered by the anime at all. I played the first battle just to see how it runs since they updated it to play at 60 FPS and it is one of the coolest looking games I've ever played. I also didn't realize Naruto and Shippuuden were two different series when I started watching, so imagine my surprise when I sat through 217 (ugh) episodes only to find out there are 500 more. That's why I need to start cutting out some of the filler. I've been skimming through the old threads as I go through and I get the impression I should be ditching anime altogether and just buy the manga instead. Bloodplay it again fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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Thanks, everyone, for the input. I don't mind the occasional filler episode (for example, 119-120 [Kakashi's Rasengan story] were completely enjoyable to me because you learn more backstory about a central character and support characters), but there are some episodes that I don't realize are part of a terrible arc until I'm most of the way through it. When watching Naruto, there was an episode about how the Curry of Life saved Rock Lee and I felt completely depleted by the time the episode was finished. I'm up to #123 now and enjoying Shippuuden a lot more than Naruto because I find the amount of time per battle spent explaining what someone has just done or is about to do has been cut down dramatically. I no longer have a PS3 or I'd give the whole UNS series a try and it looks like 3 and 4 are the only two available for PC. Part of the appeal of UNS4 for me was that it was updated to add 60 FPS support recently and looks great, but it was also at a time when I thought I was getting close to the end of Naruto to where it would tie in, not realizing Shippuuden was a thing at all. You'd think I would have tripped over a major piece of information like that sometime over the past decade, but nope. The only exposure to Naruto I've had aside from what I've watched over the past handful of months is accidentally winding up at a Naruto Character Popularity Polls wiki page. I launched the game and played the first mission a few times until I got S rank on it. I definitely can't play beyond that point for another few hundred episodes. I really wish I hadn't played that first mission because now I just want to keep playing. I've also considered trying to find the manga locally at a decent price because I could probably finish the story much faster than cherry picking episodes. re: character popularity polls Sasuke is the third-most popular character by the end of manga #60, 4th most popular by #107, back up to third for the third official poll (through #199), and comes in at first by #245 (Naruto's Homecoming). How??? Sasuke doesn't ooze an ounce of coolness until the manga hits ~#343, which is about 114 episodes into Shippuuden and starts getting a posse. Kakashi's popularity doesn't surprise me and obviously Naruto's popularity makes sense, but Sasuke? It's really sad to see Rock Lee and Gaara ranked so much further below him.
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Mar 28, 2017 07:18
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Dexo posted:Look up Iruka's numbers if you want a laugh. I thought initially he'd play a much bigger role and maybe it was just a huge burst after the first poll but no, he's up there in most of them. 
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Mar 28, 2017 07:54
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