With DBZ Kai we kind of ignoring all the DBZ filler aside from the drivers license episode which was so good it is practically canon.
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With DBZ Kai we kind of ignoring all the DBZ filler aside from the drivers license episode which was so good it is practically canon.
The upcoming arc and the pain arc is a long stretch of pretty good stuff (excluding the filler in between) and even the arc afterwards was pretty decent. OG Naruto never hit that level of quality to me.
BassForever
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The article isn't "15 anime better then DBZ Kai" though
Chunin Exam and Sause Retrieval Arc >>> Everything in Part 2 that isn't upcoming arc and delectably pain arc
The article isn't "15 anime better then DBZ Kai" though
LOL, I guess not. I concede.
Shame anime is going to die. We were about to get to Part 4 of JoJo.
Edit: I do like some miniarcs in Shippuden too but they are pretty spoilerific.
I would rate those arcs lower than the immortals arc and the pain arc, but I never liked them as much as other people. The chunin exam has some good stuff in it for sure, but I felt like it dragged a lot at points. As for the sause retrieval arc... I didn't care about any of the fights with those lame villains. The only memorable bits for me was the drunken Lee fight, and of course the Naruto vs. Sasuke fight.
Imperial Bishop
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Well, there lies the key problem. Toei doesn't have enough talented animators to spread around to all of their IPs.
Less time and little talent are recipes for a mediocre product.
Dragon Ball Super is most likely going to look bad because it's due to air in two months and we haven't seen any promos, art, or previews at all.
Dragon ball Super is going to look great then bad then good then great then mediocre then great ect each week.
that's just how anime works you have mutiple teams rotating each week with different level of skills, time and resources, which is decide based on the importants of the episode or just who is avaliable at the time.
Bring back the Sauce is better than the upcoming Hulk Hogan arc, which is the best arc in Shippuden. Finally I can start making references to
Hulk Hogan arc is better than anything else I've seen in Shippuden, though the next canon arc is great as well. Better than the rest of Naruto OG as well.
making money and praising Jashin.
Hulk Hogan arc is better than anything else I've seen in Shippuden, though the next canon arc is great as well. Better than the rest of Naruto OG as well.
There's nothing the sauce arc has on the upcoming arc. It has better pacing, better writing, more interesting fights, and it's the first time Naruto has managed to actually feel like stakes were involved.
SigmasonicX
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Just joined team My Hero Academia, and I like it a lot. I'm caught up to the latest chapter.
I can already imagine a Toei version of one of the recent fights.
I can already imagine a Toei version of one of the recent fights.
The part of the gravity girl vs. explosion guy (probably won't be able to remember names for a while) fight where the girl keeps getting hit by explosions but gets up will totally be padded out to five minutes as it keeps cutting to people in the crowd reacting, all as the explosion and screaming sounds keep happening, making it seem like this is going on in real time even though that would make no sense at all. And then the next episode recap will play the aforementioned five minute scene again in full.
Bring back the sauce has a better opening! Drunk Lee! Pointing at headbands!
kill me
BassForever
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Dubbed by sentai
In collaboration with 4Kids.
Schadenfreude
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Sold through Aniplex.
BassForever
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To air on Disney XD
Schadenfreude
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That's just too evil.
It feels so disjointed from the rest of the series due to the fact that Zabu didn't tie in at all with the rest of OG naruto, and any connections he had with the swordsmen of the mist amount to a neat tie-in with kisame, and apparently a character later in shippuden that I know very little about.
It's basically a pilot series.
Disney XD or Nicktoons, which was the worse fate?
Naruto Shippuden wasn't super duper edited but it also went to 2am after one season. Kai was big for awhile but was heavily edited. Nicktoons also was the savior of many Nick properties by airing them over and over while XD gave Digimon and Power Rangers a home.
Naruto Shippuden wasn't super duper edited but it also went to 2am after one season. Kai was big for awhile but was heavily edited. Nicktoons also was the savior of many Nick properties by airing them over and over while XD gave Digimon and Power Rangers a home.
Kind of.
The first few chapters set up the world as a grim place where these kids are being raised to be spies/murderers for hire in a brutal world. Then the Chunin exam happens and while the first part of this largely reinforces this idea the second part of this turns it into Naruto, Kid Ninja Jesus versus the forces of evil. Then they slowly forget about the things that made the original idea interesting, aka the Leaf aren't really good ninjas, they're just super heroes for hire and turns it into a tale of white hats/black hats.
No idea of the popularity of the series at that point in its life, but you totally could have ended the series in a satisfying fashion at the end of the Zabuza story. It was a nice hedge to the whims Jump cancellation polices, unlike stuff like Stealth Symphony that just -end- out of nowhere.
Imperial Bishop
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It depends on the director and the amount of talent attached to an anime. There are tons of shows for other studios that have consistent art and animation with a changing rotation of animators because they're usually skilled enough and have enough time and staff to not have jarring art styles clashing with each other.
I don't have enough faith in Toei Animation because they're working on too many projects with very little talent. I'm not usually someone who cares a lot about animation anyway. At the end of the day, I just want Dragon Ball Super to be entertaining with a well-written story.
UltraGunner
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Why wouldn't they tell anyone though? Whoever has it has done all of jack and shit with the rights.
You're just salty because NGE didn't make the cut.
Imperial Bishop
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Eat your veggies!
We didn't find out about Jojo until very recently and even then official PR happened even more recently.
It says Sanageyama. (It's his gym shirt, so)
Schadenfreude
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The new Dragon Ball anime is looking nice.
Ahh. That makes sense. Thanks.
Sounds like it'll be more kick-ass fighting. Sweet!
Ooooh boy.
This should get some interesting reactions. Expect a *lot* of exposition.I expect more unintended comedy to occur.
That title makes it sound like they're going to try and redeem him?
ZZzzz.. More like "Moments of Sleep", I bet.
Full on Luffy vs. Lucci fighting? About time!
TheAbsolution
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Just peeking in here but does anybody know if Andrex is doing OK?
TheAbsolution
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OK cool. I was mainly just wondering if he was doing alright.
His last post was June 17th, 2014 by the way.
Thanks Seda.
Doctor Decimate
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The Actually Great Parts of OG Naruto:
-The last four episodes of the Zabuza arc
-The Forest of Death (minus Sakura's shitty episode)
-Rock Lee's episodes
-Shikamaru's fights
-Bits and pieces of the Chunin finals and the Invasion of Konoha (the Third Hokage vs. Orochimaru in particular)
-Meeting Tsunade up through Tsunade vs.Orochimaru
-The fights with the Sand kids in the Sasuke Retrieval arc
-Sasuke vs. Naruto
-That filler episode about seeing behind Kakashi's mask
-The last four episodes of the Zabuza arc
-The Forest of Death (minus Sakura's shitty episode)
-Rock Lee's episodes
-Shikamaru's fights
-Bits and pieces of the Chunin finals and the Invasion of Konoha (the Third Hokage vs. Orochimaru in particular)
-Meeting Tsunade up through Tsunade vs.Orochimaru
-The fights with the Sand kids in the Sasuke Retrieval arc
-Sasuke vs. Naruto
-That filler episode about seeing behind Kakashi's mask
CrazyDiamond
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I don't know if JoJo would actually be successful on Toonami, I mean Western audiences seem to want to be duped into liking a dumb action series via the series holding up a shallow pretense of grit; it's why AoT does really well despite being a dumb action show whereas JoJo doesn't give a fuck about any pretenses, it doesn't hide what it is.
Doctor Decimate
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JoJo is silly as hell, but I think the fact that it's really violent and looks pretty 80s would be enough to make up for that.
Huge muscles and word of mouth will push Jojo
Also, Western audiences seem to love Dio as a villain which should carry the series well too
I doubt that, the American audience can be very very very fucking shallow. Action series are "no fun allowed" zones over here. Gotta be totally serious and have a super serious art style otherwise you're dead in the water, even then they don't want totally serious they want what they think to be totally serious (basically totally serious for a pre-teen/teenager). If they actually wanted totally serious then Black Lagoon would have been the highest rated show on the block.
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