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Toonami |Jul15| Sentai finally noticed us!
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skLaFarebear
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Great night all around. Even KLK kept me pretty interested. Can't freaking wait till next week though.
Schadenfreude
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RIP that guy.
but... that's exactly what happened in Shippuden?
Right, and gear second has significantly more versatility and use.
Gear second = move faster than any opponent and massive attack power increase due to momentum.
Gear third = slower attacks with a wider hit area.
BassForever
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Pretty good night overall, hopefully whatever replaces AoT won't be something I've seen a dozen times by now and I'll want to stay up for the end of the night
American Dad.
My big hopes, Space Dandy Season 2 or Cowboy Bebop HD.
Worst case scenario: Bleach.
This was the last of the build up episodes. Shit gets extremely real next week, episodes 309-312 rank among the best in the series, and episodes 313-316 are classic One Piece of a different sort.
So it's all going to be pretty great for a while now that we're past this little batch
(until you run smack into some especially terrible filler in 317-319)
Naruto training, whatever you think of it, has its role in moving characters into position.
And the attack on the fire temple is literally what sets the events of the arc in motion. If it didn't happen, it really would be just a training arc and nothing else
there'd be no motivation for anything else to happen.For a second-in-the-arc episode, I think it's pretty solid, honestly.
BassForever
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This is like the 4th episodes of Naruto just trying to master wind chakra and it doesn't feel like it's ending anytime soon, and the 2nd episode of Hidan and Kuzan off screening people to hide their power. It's not that Shippuden isn't building towards something but it truly did nothing new this week.
Naruto training, whatever you think of it, has it's role in moving characters into position.
And the attack on the fire temple is literally what sets the events of the arc in motion. If it didn't happen, it really would be just a training arc and nothing else
For a second-in-the-arc episode, I think it's pretty solid, honestly.
There's really no reason why the attack on the two tails and the attack on the fire temple couldn't have been the same attack outside of Naruto needs more time to train and the villains need to be delayed longer. I'll give you that Naruto training is important but it feels overly stretched out because it got bisected by the filler arc.
grandjedi6
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Restarting Bleach from the beginning wouldn't be the worst. Might even be fun!
Worst would be something Adult Swim like family guy followed by IGPX.
Hidan and Kakuzu killing those monks set up like this entire arc
Well I guess they are remastering IGPX currently or something? Touching it up or whatever.
It may show up again, haha.
2 is both speed and power. His punches hit harder due to the momentum and the speed allows him to hit so fast that it's like punching multiple times at the same time. Remember he's able to use it to break even the strongest iron body techniques.
3 is more for hitting a large area with a single attack.
No way, that's even worse! Start at the Arrancar arc at 110 and hopefully skip the fillers afterwards except for the Zanpakuto arc. Maybe air the obligatory beach episode too.
I also demand the 2nd half of Space Dandy immediately or RIOT!
BassForever
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As I said above, there's no reason why the attack on the 2 tails and the attack on the fire temple couldn't have been the same attack.
now's probably a good time to mention that the next two episodes are probably the weakest in this arc
lol
To be honest, this arc and the one after the one that follows it were easily the best in this half of the manga. They showed a marked improvement in the narrative and the pacing and action... It was all downhill from there. Naruto does training arcs pretty well. The arc where he learns rasengan was good, this one was good, and the next training arc is good.
BassForever
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*looks it up*
Yeah, my point stands nothing in this episode was truly necessary,
Tsunade could have dispatched Ninja teams over the fact a Jinchuiki was killed just as easily as a random fire nation temple was attacked, heck the former is really a bigger deal then the latter. Nor does Naruto's training need to be this dragged out
I feel neither the Garrison nor the Military Police would have the balls to try capturing and holding them for research.
skLaFarebear
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Not really since the attack didn't happen in fire nation land, nor was it even a ninja from their village. And the caveat with Gaara was that they have an alliance with the hidden sand and had to send help.
Not to mention the fact that
Kakuzu is looking for a bounty plays into how the eventual encounter is set up
Next week on Toonami:
8:00 - Dragonball Z Kai - 31 - Goku Arrives At Last! Take Down the Ginyu Force!
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12:00 - Dragonball Z Kai - 32 - The Star Player Appears! Ginyu vs. Goku!
12:30 - KILL la KILL - 22 - Tell Me How You Feel
1:00 - Michiko e Hatchin - 4 - Stray Cat Milky Way
1:30 - Sword Art Online II - 15 - The Queen of the Lake
2:00 - Naruto Shippuden - 74 - Under the Starry Sky
2:30 - One Piece - 308 - Wait for Luffy! Mortal Combat on the Bridge of Hesitation!
3:00 - Attack on Titan - 16 - What Needs to be Done Now: Eve of the Counterattack, Part 3
Later.
8:00 - Dragonball Z Kai - 31 - Goku Arrives At Last! Take Down the Ginyu Force!
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12:00 - Dragonball Z Kai - 32 - The Star Player Appears! Ginyu vs. Goku!
12:30 - KILL la KILL - 22 - Tell Me How You Feel
1:00 - Michiko e Hatchin - 4 - Stray Cat Milky Way
1:30 - Sword Art Online II - 15 - The Queen of the Lake
2:00 - Naruto Shippuden - 74 - Under the Starry Sky
2:30 - One Piece - 308 - Wait for Luffy! Mortal Combat on the Bridge of Hesitation!
3:00 - Attack on Titan - 16 - What Needs to be Done Now: Eve of the Counterattack, Part 3
Later.
grandjedi6
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What was he even trying to find out with that question?
RadioHeadAche
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AS is not airing Kill la Kill ova, right? Is it anything substantial?
Cornbread78
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Oh, he is there for the entirety of one of them, but only as a "support" in the final arc really. The show gets "deep" at times towards the end.
MetroidPrimeRib
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It's better then the actual TV ending
ASSauLTxMasTER
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Later guys.
Re-posting a link to the Parasyte Teaser from Pre-Flight for anyone who might have missed it back there.
Gonna point out that they used the Japanese audio in that teaser. ;P
Re-posting a link to the Parasyte Teaser from Pre-Flight for anyone who might have missed it back there.
Gonna point out that they used the Japanese audio in that teaser. ;P
It's just a flashback that goes into detail about Ryuko's relationship with Maria Robotnik on board the space colony and how she ended up in suspended animation.
Chuckles sensibly. "You mean the chaos emeralds?"
BassForever
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Actually its funny you bring up that arc because structurally both arcs begin kind of similar, the akatsuki attack a jinchuriki and we get an idea about one of them, then they attack another powerful foe to get an idea how the other works. The difference is the attack on the sand village is one event where the two battles flow into each other where here we have "we killed a jinchurki, now lets go kill some random monk for money on the way".
Fair enough about that point, though I still feel like the two events should have been combined, or the attack on the two tails should have just been a passing comment and not shown (it wasn't really shown).
Maybe I'm just being overly nitpicky/frustrated, but it felt like this weeks episode was truly spinning its wheels.
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