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foxuzamaki
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I remember when naruto was originally airing on toonami, once they ditched the abridged made up OP they finally went with Op3 and went up from there, I fucking fell inlove with fighting dreamers
The fifth Naruto opening is one of my very favorite anime openings. Hype song with some awesome visuals
BassForever
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Honestly it felt like they planned to reveal him the way Digimon S2 revealed the Digi Emperor's identity and make it a known quantity, instead it got stretched out into some big mystery when the answer was obvious from the beginning.
Unspeakable Evil
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Hellsing321
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News for you old school Toonami fans: Crunchyroll has all of Ruronin Kenshin in the original BangZoom dub. For premium members only right now but it will be available to free members in January.
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/12/17-1/crunchyroll-streaming-rurouni-kenshin-anime
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/12/17-1/crunchyroll-streaming-rurouni-kenshin-anime
The first five openings are great.* Very different, very good at hyping up the show. Almost all of the endings during this period are good too.
Then Opening Six happens. Ugly animation, drab colors, awful song. I guess it is the perfect prelude to the filler hell that happens, though the rest of filler hell has great openings and endings.
*Some people don't like 3. I think it fits the mood of the series perfectly.
Then Opening Six happens. Ugly animation, drab colors, awful song. I guess it is the perfect prelude to the filler hell that happens, though the rest of filler hell has great openings and endings.
*Some people don't like 3. I think it fits the mood of the series perfectly.
Doctor Decimate
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Remember when CN characters would interact with each other during commercials? I do.
far and away my favorite era of Cartoon Network ads. reminded me of when they had stuff like this, too
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
If it kept getting pushed back it most likely was on shonen jump/editors and not kishimoto
BassForever
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I saw this pretty cool announcement, glad to see more classic anime being added to CR's library.
Also how did Toonami handle this scene of Jiraya peeping on girls in bathing suits splashing each other with water? Was that censored?
Schadenfreude
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This guy knows what's up.
Huh. I never watched Ruronin Kenshin. I guess I have a new show to get to come January.
Well, it's not obvious from the first time they show him as a bumbling goofball, but your main point is on target.
He is hilarious though early on.
BassForever
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I thought it was obvious right away, what hinted towards it IMO
1- Obito is introduced in the segue story being part 1 and part 2, he "dies" and gives his eye to Kakashi who had just lost his.
Tobi is then introduced shortly afterwards in the present day, wearing a mask that only shows one eye, the same eye Obito would have had if he was still alive. In addition Tobi's name is an anagram for Obito if you removed one of the o's. Obito had 2 eyes and 2 o's, Tobi has 1 eye and 1 o.
Tobi is then introduced shortly afterwards in the present day, wearing a mask that only shows one eye, the same eye Obito would have had if he was still alive. In addition Tobi's name is an anagram for Obito if you removed one of the o's. Obito had 2 eyes and 2 o's, Tobi has 1 eye and 1 o.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Had to remind myself but YES naruto opening 5 is probably my favorite opening of all time, absolutely loved it, the visuals, the song, the hype, amazing.
Doctor Decimate
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BassForever
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I forgot how awesome Jiraya's training was
Schadenfreude
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Even though the reveal itself was obvious, the story behind it was pretty cool. I really liked how it tied up the loose ends about Rin.
BassForever
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You know for all of it's awkward comedy moments, Naruto has some genuinely pretty good ones, the tadpole scene was really well timed.
Schadenfreude
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Now you guys got me listening to the Naruto openings on Youtube. You know, as much as I enjoy myself some salted fries, I really wish we had gotten "Rocks!" Such a cool opening.
foxuzamaki
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foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
BassForever
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I don't really watch EDs unless it's on Toonami, if I'm marathoning I just skip them.
I like that he answered it like a legitimate question, haha.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
D: awful person
lazybones18
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time to continue to my Road to Filler Hell
BassForever
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When I'm watching anime that are 100s of episodes long an extra 90 seconds of song every episode adds up fast
Schadenfreude
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It's just wasted time. I watch the EDs once to get it out of the way and learn where to skip in order to see the next episode preview.
BassForever
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Other fun Naruto facts, the preparation for the
starts on chapter 489 and we're currently on chapter 659, meaning 170 chapters or about 25% of the manga has been 1 arc that is still ongoing.
Shiobi War Arc
foxuzamaki
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thats not entirely how that works, there are arcs inbetween, some pretty important arcs infact inbetween.
grandjedi6
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How many absurd questions must Demarco get daily for him to answer that straight? haha
BassForever
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I'm not going to call character flashbacks separate arcs, it's all been part of this bigger event that's been 1/4 of the story. This also isn't counting the
5 Kage summit arc
preparation/training for the announced war and the war itself with a few character flashbacks involved
grandjedi6
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Aizen reveal = Chapter 169
Aizen defeat = Chapter 422
That's not counting the "negative" chapters and what not that Kubo occasionally did.
BassForever
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Aizen was revealed chapter 169 End of Hypnotism his defeat 422 Decide 23
Edit: Beaten like Renji in every fight
So 253 chapters, about 5 years.
Good lord. Talk about excessive fluff and padding.
foxuzamaki
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im not talking about character flashbacks, i dont actually know what you mean when you refer to character flashbacks
BassForever
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And yet the series has fallen off since Aizen stopped being the villain, funny how that works
BassForever
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Naruto's parent's death flashback during his training with Killer Bee, Obito's flashback to how he survived and became Tobi, Medara's flashback about how he became friends with the 1st and they created the leaf
Those are the only things that really interrupted the constant fighting and training for fighting that's happened in those 170 chapters I've mentioned.
I liked the Aizen stuff until the Fake Town, at that point it felt like a million random characters having battle.
BassForever
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That's because it was million random characters having battle, that wasn't really Aizen's fault though it was Kubo's for making the Gotei 13 so damn big (should have been half the size it was) and for having the Vizored exist at all (should have just been 1 character).
Unspeakable Evil
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Surely Bleach won't pull that again.
*Thinks about current chapters*
Kubo has admitted his flaw of "creating a bunch of characters when he has no idea what to do next".
But yeah, Most of those characters are inconsequential. It should be the Gotei 7.
And Kubo is still doing it with the Wandenreich having at least 26 members, one for each letter of the English alphabet. Draaaaaaagging the arc.
Schadenfreude
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Naruto is nowhere near the worst of the big three when it comes to big arcs.
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