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[caliph95]

Part of me wonder if that was his intention, but an editor said "no"

It would either have been interesting

 

[Line_HTX]

Jojo is on the Toonami streak this week.

I think I can catch up on my box's On-Demand though for stuff I forgot to record.

*Kars laugh

 

[JadedWriter]

I was talkin about Karin.

Oh, well yeah that description works too.

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That nonsense about her being an Uzumaki with the same chains Kushina has is a bit dumb though.

Part of me wonder if that was his intention, but an editor said "no"

You can only shit on a character but so much I guess, especially a character that's supposed to be modeled after his wife.

 

[Line_HTX]

Which character was the one that has Lightning's voice? Does she have more appearances later?

 

[Man God]

Which character was the one that has Lightning's voice? Does she have more appearances later?

Karin Uzumaki.

 

[JadedWriter]

Which character was the one that has Lightning's voice? Does she have more appearances later?

Karin is voiced by Alli Hillis and yeah she's got more appearances. I can never remember where you guys are at. Is Sasuke in edgelord mode yet with him

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trying to kill Karin?

 

[Crimson_Echidna]

I can understand why you would feel that way just from her personality, but personally i think she has much more to her than that, but Kishimoto just didn't spend enough time on her to let the other aspects of her character shine since every major thing she did in the series involved Naruto. Actually I think her journey in dealing with her clan would've been a good miniseries

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and not just because she's best girl.

That's fair. With the right amount of focus I probably would've ended up liking her but by the end I was more perplexed by her popularity based on what we actually got lol

 

[Chase17]

Karin is voiced by Alli Hillis and yeah she's got more appearances. I can never remember where you guys are at. Is Sasuke in edgelord mode yet with him

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trying to kill Karin?

Still a while away from that

 

[JadedWriter]

That's fair. With the right amount of focus I probably would've ended up liking her but by the end I was more perplexed by her popularity based on what we actually got lol

Yeah I actually think Hinata has the skeleton for a good character, Kishi just opted to not put meat on said skeleton and left her ass anorexic.

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She's fucking stacked though.

Still a while away from that

Can't wait to read the reactions to the "I am the Edge" art style that was used in that ep, though I will admit I do not bother catching up on the Naruto reactions in this thread.

 

[Ray Down]

My biggest complaint from the Pain arc ending comes from fucking Hinata...

It's mainly after since Kishi decides not to resolve or acknowledge what Hinata did outside of it being the catalyst for 6 tailed Naruto.

 

[Man God]

The Sauce is an edgelord but he hasn't reached his final form of idiocy yet and won't until this arc ends.

 

[JadedWriter]

It's mainly after since Kishi decides not to resolve or acknowledge what Hinata did outside of it being the catalyst for 6 tailed Naruto.

There's that and she didn't push that bitch off her man.

 

[Ray Down]

There's that and she didn't push that bitch off her man.

Just grab Sakura by the hair and falcon punch her bitch ass out.

 

[Man God]

Naruto is still nominally in love with Sakura at that point though and that's right around the time she starts getting feelings for him.

 

[Ray Down]

God imagine if Kishi tired to write a serious romance series with the way he did it in Naruto.

 

[JadedWriter]

Naruto is still nominally in love with Sakura at that point though and that's right around the time she starts getting feelings for him.

Sakura didn't

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tank some hits by an OP dude for his ass though.

Just grab Sakura by the hair and falcon punch her bitch ass out.

64 Palms Trigram attack or whatever that shit is called or Mike Tyson punch her ass with the lion fists.

 

[Morlas]

And when you think about it

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god path Pain is a terrible matchup for her since he is able to push and pull people away from him and she's a close range fighter.

 

[Man God]

Remember that Naruto and Hinata at that point have barely interacted in years.

 

[JadedWriter]

And when you think about it

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god path Pain is a terrible matchup for her since he is able to push and pull people away from him and she's a close range fighter.

We don't even know how strong she actually is since she's always matched up against dudes she has no business fighting against. I wouldn't mind seeing her fight Konon, but nope.

Remember that Naruto and Hinata at that point have barely interacted in years.

I blame Kishi for this horse shit since they actually could've became cool friends after the Chunin exam. She fought to impress him and he noticed, nothing about it since.

 

[Line_HTX]

Does it really matter in the long run when it just ends in filler?

 

[JadedWriter]

Does it really matter in the long run when it just ends in filler?

Well there is canon shit they should've animated, but they didn't.

 

[Man God]

We don't even know how strong she actually is since she's always matched up against dudes she has no business fighting against. I wouldn't mind seeing her fight Konon, but nope.

I blame Kishi for this horse shit since they actually could've became cool friends after the Chunin exam. She fought to impress him and he noticed, nothing about it since.

That's because he's awful at developing that stuff for the most part.

Part of the reason people like Shikamaru so much and want him to be Naruto's best friend is because of the excellent work he did with them right before the Chunin exam. Meanwhile everyone else in this interesting cast is pushed aside, and then the people he replaces them with are pushed aside.

I can't imagine anything better than an anthology series of all these people hanging out together and going on missions, which ironically enough is what the filler hell in part 1 attempted to do!

 

[Morlas]

I'm just glad that Kishi saw sense and

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didn't pair Naruto and Sakura together,
and honestly Sasuke and Sakura would be fine if Sakura wasn't creaming herself for him again as soon as he apologized one time, that boy had a lot to make up for and it should've taken years for Sakura to start giving him a chance again.

 

[caliph95]

I'm just glad that Kishi saw sense and

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didn't pair Naruto and Sakura together,
and honestly Sasuke and Sakura would be fine if Sakura wasn't creaming herself for him again as soon as he apologized one time, that boy had a lot to make up for and it should've taken years for Sakura to start giving him a chance again.

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Hey Sasuke said he was sorry

 

[JadedWriter]

That's because he's awful at developing that stuff for the most part.

Part of the reason people like Shikamaru so much and want him to be Naruto's best friend is because of the excellent work he did with them right before the Chunin exam. Meanwhile everyone else in this interesting cast is pushed aside, and then the people he replaces them with are pushed aside.

I can't imagine anything better than an anthology series of all these people hanging out together and going on missions, which ironically enough is what the filler hell in part 1 attempted to do!

I don't even hate all the filler, but nobody got time for that. I honestly do hate that some of my favorite characters are reduced to filler bullshit.

I'm just glad that Kishi saw sense and

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didn't pair Naruto and Sakura together,
and honestly Sasuke and Sakura would be fine if Sakura wasn't creaming herself for him again as soon as he apologized one time, that boy had a lot to make up for and it should've taken years for Sakura to start giving him a chance again.

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After him trying to kill her and then knocking her ass out with a genjutsu,
she should've just left his ass alone, but nope...at least their kid is awesome. Sarada needs more edgelord aesthetics though.

 

[Man God]

Remember that these kids are young ass teens.

I.E. dumb as bricks on matters of the heart.

 

[cntr]

Wasn't the novel adaption filler at the end of Shippuden actually good because it was about all the characters Kishimoto forgot, and mostly well written?

Karin is voiced by Alli Hillis and yeah she's got more appearances. I can never remember where you guys are at. Is Sasuke in edgelord mode yet with him

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trying to kill Karin?

We're at the very beginning of Pain, so we haven't yet gotten to full Sasuke horseshit yet.

At least the actual Pain arc itself's gonna be mostly good!

 

[Man God]

We're at the very beginning of Pain, so we haven't yet gotten to full Sasuke horseshit yet.

At least the actual Pain arc itself's gonna be mostly good!

Technically we don't reach peak Sasuke horseshit until

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After they beat God and he decides to go ahead with an even dumber plan than the one he had.

 

[JadedWriter]

Wasn't the novel adaption filler at the end of Shippuden actually good because it was about all the characters Kishimoto forgot, and mostly well written?

We're at the very beginning of Pain, so we haven't yet gotten to full Sasuke horseshit yet.

At least the actual Pain arc itself's gonna be mostly good!

Yeah the arc does have some hype moments.

Technically we don't reach peak Sasuke horseshit until

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After they beat God and he decides to go ahead with an even dumber plan than the one he had.

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Revolution!!

"Sit your dumb ass down Sasuke."

 

[Ray Down]

We're at the very beginning of Pain, so we haven't yet gotten to full Sasuke horseshit yet.

At least the actual Pain arc itself's gonna be mostly good!

All of it start going down once Deva Pain goes down.

 

[JadedWriter]

This is so accurate...

 

[cntr]

All of it start going down once Deva Pain goes down.

That's pretty much the end of the arc, so that's covered by "mostly".

 

[Hellwarden]

Sasuke's laughing face never fails to crack me up.

I feel the animators knew how silly it is.

 

[caliph95]

I do love Kakashi's face in this

 

[JadedWriter]

I do love Kakashi's face in this

Kakashi's like, "Not another fucking crazy Uchiha."

 

[Man God]

A lot of this is his fault. If he had been a better teacher maybe Sauce wouldn't have ended up so dumb.

 

[Morlas]

Kakashi probably could've kicked his ass right there considering what he just went through.

 

[JadedWriter]

A lot of this is his fault. If he had been a better teacher maybe Sauce wouldn't have ended up so dumb.

Only thing is who are the good teachers in Naruto? Even Sarutobe fucked up a bit with his students...at least he's better than Kurenai.

 

[Man God]

Jiraiya only has wins under his belt. Wins on wins on wins.

 

[Morlas]

Only thing is who are the good teachers in Naruto? Even Sarutobe fucked up a bit with his students...at least he's better than Kurenai.

Whatchu talkin bout all of Kurenai's kids turned out to be pretty well balanced individuals.

 

[caliph95]

Jiraiya only has wins under his belt. Wins on wins on wins.

Jiraya's students formed Ninja Isis/Cobra

 

[cntr]

Jiraiya made kid Naruto proofread his porn.

whether this is an example of him being a good or bad teacher is up to you

 

[BBboy20]

 

[Morlas]

Jiraiya made kid Naruto proofread his porn.

whether this is an example of him being a good or bad teacher is up to you

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i'm sure hinata appreciated it.

 

[JadedWriter]

Whatchu talkin bout all of Kurenai's kids turned out to be pretty well balanced individuals.

They got left in the dust power wise though...doesn't help that they're barely in the damn show. I honestly think she got benched when she got pregnant and they just fended for themselves or something. I like her team as well cause they could actually work together unlike Team 7.

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i'm sure hinata appreciated it.

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Considering how out of touch Naruto is romantically it probably took a bit. Though she does seem to have the most kids...

Jiraya's students formed Ninja Isis/Cobra

Phantom Troupe...

 

[Chase17]

You can't truly appreciate the greatness of Sasuke until you read Black Clover.

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Sasuke at least creates a negative reaction from the reader!

Counterpoint being, boring Yuno doesn't do anything that brings down the series as whole.

 

[cntr]

Black Clover feels like Naruto if it wasn't awful.

Not that it's great either, mind.

 

[caliph95]

Phantom Troupe...

Oh right yeah

Kishimoto was Togashi' student right

 

[Morlas]

I wanna see Minato's genin adventures.

 

[cntr]

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i'm sure hinata appreciated it.

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that depends entirely on how realistic jiraiya's tips actually were