[Anime] Naruto

I really hope the new episode every two weeks doesn't start becoming a habit. Also, have they confirmed a date on the movie yet or is it still Summer 2007?

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Originally Posted by SuperSonic

I really hope the new episode every two weeks doesn't start becoming a habit. Also, have they confirmed a date on the movie yet or is it still Summer 2007?

You know what? If one episode a week is what it takes to avoid filler (again) for good, then I'm all for it. Manga based anime really needs to learn how to pace itself.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SuperSonic

I really hope the new episode every two weeks doesn't start becoming a habit. Also, have they confirmed a date on the movie yet or is it still Summer 2007?

It's only fair that they show it every 2 weeks or even a month sometimes. If they are smart they would air episodes like One Piece. If they are getting too close to the manga (Which they are) , don't air it for a while.

As for the movie. I have no clue. Can anyone shed some kind of light in that?

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Originally Posted by Kaiten

You know what? If one episode a week is what it takes to avoid filler (again) for good, then I'm all for it. Manga based anime really needs to learn how to pace itself.

You mean like Hellsing Ultimate? Forget that.

chato, how is that fair? And so what if it's getting too close to the manga? People like me won't even know if it's close to the manga unless I'm told by other people (spoilers are bad). That's how I even bothered to notice that Naruto was in filler hell.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

They can do a filler. But don't make fillers that take more than a year or so. Sometimes I think they changed the title is because of the garbage they gave to the fans. In the end, there are kids who don't really read the manga and just watch the anime for the fun of it. Another cash cow.

I'm just saying cause they spent more time working on that shit for two years when they could've done much more with the current episodes by making it widescreen and/or fix a few mistakes like when you catch a scene with naruto looking retarded. If you liked the fillers, godbless . But to many people who were impatient for the real deal, they just stuck with the manga until they get news that the anime version is back on track. So they do both. Nowadays, I don't even get the time to watch that many of these new episodes. I still have 4 and 5 to watch. The least I do is try to stick with the manga which I believe is getting better and a little shocking at the moment with the recent spoilers that I read from NF.


As for the hour special. Let's not forget a few things, jouhou. We have the Kankuro vs Sasori fight (hopefully it's not a spoiler for you) to look forward to. The only fight I think will be dragged is

Spoiler:

when Sasori fights Chiyo and Sakura.

If not that then we'll get a shitload of Stare Downs and the "You're Weak and I'm Strong" Conversations.


Chapter 347

Spoiler:

We're given a few laughs back in Konoha Village, blah blah. Scenes change to Sasuke and his partner.Sasuke's mission is making his own group and head to Zabuza and Haku grave where his sword is left behind. Sasuke is held back by lookin at The Great Naruto Bridge. He smiles but Suigetsu says he doesn't care (obviously lol) and takes his "senpai's" sword. Overall a funny but an interesting chapter on Sasuke's part.

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Originally Posted by SuperSonic

You mean like Hellsing Ultimate? Forget that.

chato, how is that fair? And so what if it's getting too close to the manga? People like me won't even know if it's close to the manga unless I'm told by other people (spoilers are bad). That's how I even bothered to notice that Naruto was in filler hell.

You're telling me that if someone didn't tell you that episodes 136-220 would've just seemed just as fine as the Sasuke fight that preceded it?

And you think waiting an extra week for episodes is bad? Try The Venture Bros; it took the better part of two years to start season 2 (with only ~13 episodes per season)!

Edit: In retrospect I should've included this little nugget:

Spoiler:

Chapter 347 was the funniest chapter I've read, yuri and yaoi funservice within three pages of each other?

Beyond that there was actually a good subplot (or main plot if you didn't just pay attention to the gay sex ) between Sasuke and his little traveling freakshow he's starting now that Orochimaru has been offed.

It looks like Kishimoto's been hitting up the various Naruto communities and (heaven forbid) reading some fan-fiction and looking at the art all the teenagers like to make so much

I was speaking idiomatically.

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Wow... not like I download from them anyway, but these guys are idiots. I hope SD uses this chance to win some fans.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by wakarukaya

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Wow... not like I download from them anyway, but these guys are idiots. I hope SD uses this chance to win some fans.

Because you do not download from them, that is why you do not know that they are joking, or have been delayed for some other reasons. Their whole website is an elaborate joke.

EDIT:
Here is the truth behind the joke:
http://yhbt.mine.nu/pr/23

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Chapter 348

Spoiler:

Thought of This Week's Chapter.



And so Sasuke's army grows again with a chick (Karin) falling for him. Strange thing is that she sensed Oro but it wasn't him. Guess there's more to it than meets sasuke's eye. I am glad they're going to keep a few jokes here and there for Sasuke and not including the bullshit angst that is him.

From MH

Quote:

Suigetsu & Sasuke enters some place which looks like a prison, where those Orochimaru imprisoned are put.

They meet Karin, a woman with glasses. At first, she refuses to go with them. Suigetsu leaves the room and as he does, her personality suddenly changes. She locks the door to the room. She then lets out a breath, takes off her glasses and gets close to Sasuke, then says "Well, if it's Sasuke who says it, then I suppose I'll go". Sasuke says "What the? You changed your mind quite fast.". To this she responds "Well, I am assigned to watch-duty here after all, so I had to think a little about it".

She gets closer to Sasuke. Sasuke says "You.. back away a bit". She then says "Say... Why can't it just be you and me? Suigetsu isn't necressarilly... huh?"

Suigetsu apparently returns to the room by destroying the wall. Suigetsu then says "Let's get going, Sasuke. If Karin aren't going to come..." Sauske says: "Nah, she's coming". Karin says "W... Who's going to come! I'm just... happening to go in the same direction as you! Errhrm!".

Scene switches to a man in a prison cell who's mumbling: "No... a woman after all... Yeah, a woman it'll be, no wait... a man after all... yeah, a man it'll be." End.

That last part will definately be interesting

edit : Alright continuing from where we left off. Sasuke and co are doing this and that while the other supporting characters are running their mouths da-ra-ra-ra-Rah!.

This week's chapter

Spoiler:

Juugo will finally join Sasuke's team. By choice and/or by force. END

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2 months later....

It was a mere two months of boredom with the manga and now were given a real chapter tomorrow or friday morning. For now here's an interesting spoiler

300-whatever by Naruto Fan

Spoiler:

Sasuke is attacked by someone/something
Deidara: Rather well voided, un.
Tobi: Is this guy Itachi-sans younger brother?
Deidara: Hmph, seems that way, un.
Sasuke: Since you know of Itachi, I would assume that you bastards are Akatsuki?
Deidara: So what about it?
Sasuke doesn't answer but activates his Sharingan

Scene switches to Naruto.
Hinata: Naruto-kun, wait!
Naruto: You are!
Kabuto: I have something to give you.
Naruto: What!?
Kabuto: This.
He gives a book to Naruto.
Naruto: This is?
Kabuto: Information about akatsuki, including their objective.
Yamato: Objective?
Kabuto: They plan to gather the Bijuu to raise a giantic god-soldier.
Naruto: W-what!?
Yamato: There's a legend about an evil god which will destroy/destroyed the world during seven days.
Kabuto: This is all help you'll get from me, however. I'll live to carry on/inherit Orochimaru's will. Farewell.

Next chapter: King Insect/fly

Not too bad. Im more interested in his whereabouts so things'll get crazy while the others are fighting =]/

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CH.256

Spoiler:

Well, for me, that was unexpected of Kabuto. The last page of him integrated with Orochimaru was pretty freaky.
I'm hoping Sasuke's isn't the only fight that'll be going on.
Also, LMFAO at Tobi running away from Sasuke when he twitches!!

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Originally Posted by jouhou

CH.356

Spoiler:

Well, for me, that was unexpected of Kabuto. The last page of him integrated with Orochimaru was pretty freaky.
I'm hoping Sasuke's isn't the only fight that'll be going on.
Also, LMFAO at Tobi running away from Sasuke when he twitches!!

Spoiler:

Tobi is indeed the comic relief of all villians. That last page was awesome though. Which also means the story will go even more further and not just ending it with Akatsuki. I dont really care much for Karin and Sakura but at least we know that she's a red head.

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I think this week's manga is going to be good(though,

Spoiler:

Kishi has made sasuke strong as a damn kage in this arc).

Despite,

Spoiler:

getting around Deidara's C2 attack, I still think he is going to have a bit more than he can chew when deidara pulls out C3. Remember, sasuke got a wing blew off last week. My prediction is that Naruto will hear the noise and come to his aid with raseshuriken. He will blast Deidara into oblivion and this will bring back repressed memories that sasuke had of naruto outshining him in part 1(i.e. battle with gaara, using the rasengan in the roof battle, etc). And once again, sasuke will cry like a lil biatch and naruto will continue to chase after him again like a gay ass. He should just take jiraiya's advice and let sasuke get his ass pwned by itachi.

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Ch 358

Spoiler:

Short fight so far but I'm a little satisfied with how it's going. I read this chapter while listening to "Naruto OST3 - trk 12 - Sarutobi" and the old music total kicks ass! I really hope they use some of the old music in this season. They still haven't released a few tracks from the first season that I'm still looking forward to.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I think someone was asking about a Shippudan movie. Well there's a trailer on it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/naruto/movie07/01.html


So this is basically Naruto dying. Ha whatever.

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Originally Posted by Kaiten

You know what? If one episode a week is what it takes to avoid filler (again) for good, then I'm all for it. Manga based anime really needs to learn how to pace itself.

I'm of the opinion that monthly manga's are usually better paced when transcribed on-screen to anime, rather than their weekly counterparts. Monthly manga's transcribed to anime seems to have more happening per episode of anime as well... (again, my opinion).

my boring explanation as to why.:

Current monthly manga's released in anime: Nodame Cantabile, NANA, Claymore, Lovely Complex to name a few (usually shojo-type mangas will more likely be released monthly than anything.

Current weekly manga's released in anime: Bleach, ONEPIECE, Naruto Shippuden, etc. You get the idea. These guys follow the sad, sad template of the Dragonball syndrome where it's usually 5-10 minutes of re-cap, 5-10 minutes of something happening, then 5-10 minutes of filler.

REASON BEING: Weekly manga's (typically the action-packed ones) are released every week in 15-16 pages each. A page can be easily covered within anywhere from a split 1/2 second to 4 seconds in anime. Now with that, the typical amount of manga episodes included per anime episode is like 2 or 3 to 1. And if you haven't noticed, such anime like Naruto Shippuden and Bleach almost quite literally follow the manga frame per frame. With the pace of what anime can cover in terms of time where manga can't, it's not hard to see why it takes the anime only a little bit to catch up really quickly. Which is why probably the current animes that have caught up to its manga are starting to get released every other week or just fillers for a while.

FELIPE NO

Hmm, I didn't know there was no new naruto this week. And they were actually going to start fighting. This is why the anime fails. Oh well, I only skim through the episodes anyway.


Now the good shit is the manga.
CH 360

Spoiler:

Woa, the table turned so many times in this chapter. First you think Deidera wins then Sasuke then back to Deidera again. That was crazy, seeing Sasuke disintegrating like that. I wonder if Deidera's C4 is the same thing or something else. I'm going to guess Sasuke's cursed seal weakens him so someone comes to save him and I bet it's going to be Sakura, but who knows? Anything can happen.

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Originally Posted by jouhou

Hmm, I didn't know there was no new naruto this week. And they were actually going to start fighting. This is why the anime fails. Oh well, I only skim through the episodes anyway.

Oh wow, well that explains why DB is tricking everyone with the whole Pokemon Diamond and Pearl thing. I wonder why they didn't announce it on the last episode...unless they've been planning this for a while now. XD

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Its been I'd say well over a year since I watched an episode but in a haze of boredom I finished off the remaining 20 episodes or so of Naruto that I had not watched which was totally pointless, I was worried I might miss something important but alas no.

Regarding Shippuuden I am now up to speed having watched up till episode 19 its rather annoying not showing Naruto in training having fun times with Jiraya, but of course they are doig their very best to draw out each episode. Let me see 3 more episodes to beat Sasori and the clones, then another 3 of endless speeches and showing Naruto training and then 2 actual episodes of Naruto 'fighting' Diedera. I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED. I'll probably give it a miss for another year and let the episodes build up again.

By the way does anybody know of any direct download links for where I can obtain the Manga chapters in medium-high quality?

Also front page numbers updated.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

You can head out to Mangahelpers and go to Naruto's "Latest Discussion" where they talk about spoilers and show pics. For medium- high quality places, It's either them or bludshock. Sometimes Tokyo Toshokan gets the raws early (in chinese though but quality is amazing).

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Oh god huge event in chapter to come this week.

Spoiler:

Akatsuki Leader and Unknown Leader revealed.





Apparently according to the Spoiler the Akatsuki Leader isn't the one pulling the strings if the spoiler is to be believed, but AK leader holy shit.

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Originally Posted by Xexxhoshi

Oh god huge event in chapter to come this week.

Spoiler:

Akatsuki Leader and Unknown Leader revealed.





Apparently according to the Spoiler the Akatsuki Leader isn't the one pulling the strings if the spoiler is to be believed, but AK leader holy shit.

Spoiler:

That was definately a shocker. While the ALeader's name is still unknown, we know that the chick's name is Payne. I dunno about her but who's she going to face? Looks like the leader will be the one to kill Naruto . I swear I thought that was the Fourth Hokage but who am i kidding?

I also heard about Tobi getting killed by Suigetsu. I hope that aint true cause we dont know who he is just yet >.>.

On the States' side, The whole Sannin Battle arc has finally finished. Now we move on into filler central for the next few weeks and I won't care to watch that crap though it was ok for only a one-time watch.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Why does it take so long for them to get their asses into gear pirating us the chapter before we should be getting it.

Spoiler:

"Double release" this week apparently, which means no Naturo manga next week. D:

also another pic from the spoilerthread popped up.


(rain village? >_> wtf)

jesus christ. It really looks like Naruto. >_>;; I'm probably the only one who thinks Pein looks a lil like Sasuke (even though she has blue hair XD)

Also Tobi srsly can't be dead. We still have this Tobi=Obito puzzle to clear up, not to mention what it is he actually does. Kishi must have a reason for hiding it for so long.

Anyone else think he's speeding up the manga a bit recently though? >_>

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Originally Posted by Xexxhoshi

Why does it take so long for them to get their asses into gear pirating us the chapter before we should be getting it.

Spoiler:

"Double release" this week apparently, which means no Naturo manga next week. D:

also another pic from the spoilerthread popped up.


(rain village? >_> wtf)

jesus christ. It really looks like Naruto. >_>;; I'm probably the only one who thinks Pein looks a lil like Sasuke (even though she has blue hair XD)

Also Tobi srsly can't be dead. We still have this Tobi=Obito puzzle to clear up, not to mention what it is he actually does. Kishi must have a reason for hiding it for so long.

Anyone else think he's speeding up the manga a bit recently though? >_>

Spoiler:

My only guess is it probably has something to do with that movie that is coming up. That trailer had Akatsuki in it and pretty much showed his own grave at the cemetary. Who knows. On that other pic, I thought that was the Fourth Hokage but seeing that he has all those fucking piercings.. its impossible ;p.

And you're right about Tobi because I forgot about what Naruto and the team saw in that book. I can't really believe that it's almost over. There is the "Higher Power" that's running the strings,More Akatsuki Recruitment ( with Itachi and Kisame unfortunately... ), What's Sasuke's plans after killing Itachi and Kabuto's whereabouts . Kishi is far from done with this manga unless he rushes all that in the upcoming movie.

btw, Did anyone notice the new ED vid to Naruto ? It has Taison Maeda from Rokudenashi Blues(if that's him..) getting knocked out by Naruto and takes over class lol.

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Originally Posted by El Ray Fernando

Let me see 3 more episodes to beat Sasori and the clones, then another 3 of endless speeches and showing Naruto training and then 2 actual episodes of Naruto 'fighting' Diedera. I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED. I'll probably give it a miss for another year and let the episodes build up again.

You give shippuuden too much credit. You listed 8 episodes. The episodes end almost exactly on the last page of each chapter and there's 11 chapters to the fighting (aftermath not counting). This is going to be a boring long year for Naruto.
I wish it would go back to the way the old episodes were -at least 2 chapters in an episode. The dragging of each episode is so bad. They're trying to make it suspenseful but it's not fooling anyone. It just makes the show anti-climatic and suck.

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