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[Moaradin]

Not the best line read

 

[Seda]

I feel like, even though this show is titled Naruto, he really really quickly goes from "boy with some potential" to "the only person who can save the Leaf Village"

It doesn't feel like natural progression to me.

 

[BBboy20]

I mean, it's a smart decision all things considered. They don't know how strong Naruto has gotten so calling him into the battle with all the people who want to catch him seems dumb.

As I was trying to say: if your teenager is your only hope in stopping an intruder, you all are of a sad existence.

Wow, this death sure ended up being for nothing.

BUWAHAHAHAHA....I was liking this arc so far.

 

[Grexeno]

"That's cool you're still under arrest."

 

[SparksterMeta0]

The power to Believe It!

 

[Man God]

Jiraiya was far and away the strongest Ninja on the show and Pain demolished him. They're pretty much in hope for a miracle territory.

 

[Xe4]

How many people does Beau Billinglsea voice in this? Or was that the same person?

 

[ckohler]

 

[Crocodile]

Tsunade to the Elders: Do you believe in love Naruto!

 

[Ray Down]

I feel like, even though this show is titled Naruto, he really really quickly goes from "boy with some potential" to "the only person who can save the Leaf Village"

It doesn't feel like natural progression to me.

Well the series just hammered in with no real foreshadowing that Naruto is some prophecy child now.

 

[Raxus]

I would probably go see Alien Covenant if it starred Rick and Morty.

 

[Xe4]

Naruto: Believe it™.

 

[BBboy20]

Well the series just hammered in with no real foreshadowing that Naruto is some prophecy child now.

They haven't? I figured they have all this time now.

 

[Morlas]

spoilers

Spoiler

even though naruto beats pain in the end i don't think he ends up stronger than jiraiya at the end of this arc i think he just ends up being able to defeat pain because of people giving him the knowledge to fight pain and also fox shenanigans.

 

[SAB CA]

Anime version or manga version, this is actually a problem I do have with Hunter X Hunter overall.

I keep making jokes to people about putting literal skeletons in your trash cans.

"Bro? BRO! Do you even put skeletons in your trash can bro?!"

Death is the number one thing that comes to mind when I think of Hunter X Hunter now. When the new chapters came out I'd always be like "Whose gonna die now?" and I'd always be right. It'd always be some new gruesome thing too. Walls of text and gruesome deaths.

That might be another reason why it's hard to be 100% on board like everyone else. I do like the show. I think its good but the problems it has just happen to be things that bother me more than others. I'm weird that way.

It makes me wanna watch YYH again, because I want to see if I feel worse about it's storytelling now. This is just such an... odd departure to me. I wanna love the show, and I wanna feel like the hyped up episodes are going to leave me 100% impressed.

,,,but they just seem to go out of their way to sully my feeling by episodes end. So instead of a "I hate this show! Let's make fun of it!" writeoff, I find myself feeling more like "... stop overdoing this samey stuff, and let me like you!".

 

[Man God]

Yay.

 

[Seda]

Well the series just hammered in with no real foreshadowing that Naruto is some prophecy child now.

Right.

Naruto is literally useless in the first two Shippuden arcs. Then he trains with Kakashi and developed a nuke jutsu to kill Kakuzu (and now he can no longer use it). He fails again trying to get Sasuke, and then goes to train with frogs. Now he is Jesus (?????)

 

[Kaizer]

I feel like, even though this show is titled Naruto, he really really quickly goes from "boy with some potential" to "the only person who can save the Leaf Village"

It doesn't feel like natural progression to me.

It isn't a natural progression by any means, but I remember reading this arc when it first came out & not caring about that fact because I was just happy to finally see Naruto not take another L in his own story & the focus move away from Sasuke for a while.

 

[Grexeno]

"Well damn I guess that's that."

 

[Morlas]

yeah smooth transitions aren't something kishi is very good at.

 

[Man God]

Right.

Naruto is literally useless in the first two Shippuden arcs. Then he trains with Kakashi and developed a nuke jutsu to kill Kakuzu (and now he can no longer use it). He fails again trying to get Sasuke, and then goes to train with frogs. Now he is Jesus (?????)

... accurate but this isn't even his final form.

 

[BBboy20]

Seriously, this is the moment they treat Naruto as Jesus?

 

[Seda]

... accurate but this isn't even his final form.

I am aware

 

[ckohler]

Fuck off old people. Oh and you might want to open your damn eyes.

 

[Raxus]

.

 

[Schadenfreude]

PEOPLE ARE DYING OUTSIDE, TSUNADE

 

[Ray Down]

Ruins any sense of the underdog angle Naruto used to have early one (despite having the 9 tails since he couldn't control it at all really).

Naruto speech about destiny to Neji takes it full in the ass.

Now he's prophecy to save the world...why couldn't he be a simple underdog that just saves the world...

 

[Ultratech]

RIP Frog

 

[Grexeno]

Fuck Danzo

 

[Man God]

Bwahahahaha.

 

[Schadenfreude]

DANZO YOU DUPLICITOUS MOTHERFUCKER

 

[Raxus]

Man, he killed the hell outta that frog.

 

[Morlas]

yep Danzo is a bastard

 

[cntr]

I don't find TG as annoying, honestly. The explanation that a lot of it is off from it's source material is fine, and it doesn't seem as confused for what it wants to be. It's judged pretty fairly.

With HxH, it feels more like "We've seen the future, so this is tolerable!" blinders. Which is fine, I obviously enjoy Gundam more because what it references means something to me, surely more than HxH. Plus the show is held as one in high regard, so that makes these weaknesses one feels week in and out much more glaring and agitating.

Fair, HxH isn't objectively perfect, and I totally understand why someone wouldn't like it. But it's not objectively awful either, and chalking it up to "future blinders" is silly; I remember pretty much nothing about the series, and I'm enjoying what it does. And there's plenty of people watching the series for the first time, and they enjoy it.

It's a matter of taste.

When someone brings up something, does that not potentially make a fan say "huh, that is kinda lame!". It's less a desire to rile anyone up, and more just a "am I really alone in feeling this?" question.

Your HxH posts are pretty confrontational, so I can't swallow that. Even if unintended.

 

[Mizerman]

Ruins any sense of the underdog angle Naruto used to have early one (despite having the 9 tails since he couldn't control it at all really).

Naruto speech about destiny to Neji takes it full in the ass.

Now he's prophecy to save the world...why couldn't he be a simple underdog that just saves the world...

Tell me about it. From Underdog to Ninja Jesus.

 

[Ray Down]

Killed with paper cuts!

 

[BBboy20]

So bad person turned out to be bad guy........uh.....were we suppose to be surprised?

 

[Dr. Chaotix]

This week on Anime's FUNNIEST Anime Deaths.

 

[Man God]

That frog was one day away from retirement!!!

 

[SparksterMeta0]

Read Or Die.

And he chose "die".

 

[Ray Down]

Seriously, this is the moment they treat Naruto as Jesus?

Not yet but we are getting closer to that.

Now our hokage does something....10 minutes later!

 

[BBboy20]

That frog was one day away from retirement!!!

I feel bad for laughing at his.

 

[Morlas]

giant slug!

also this is why tsunade isn't fighting pain because she's tied up healing everyone.

 

[Schadenfreude]

I think i'd be super freaked out if I saw a giant slug coming at me and my wounds.

 

[Grexeno]

"This situation can be improved by the addition of MORE SLUGS"

 

[SigmasonicX]

If I saw those slugs coming, I'd be running toward Pain.

 

[Ray Down]

Yeah Iruka does something for once!

 

[Seda]

dramatic slug dispersion music

 

[BBboy20]

That looks more horrifying then this terrorist attack.

 

[SparksterMeta0]

Iruka!!!