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Toonami |Sep15| You got the edge! You got the power!
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lazybones18
Banned
15 more mins of shogi product placement
zedreamcast
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Looked it up, the only canon part is shikamaru thinking up a plan, he just gets over it in the manga.
Hellwarden
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Shikamaru has such a lust for revenge!
Wow! I take back what I said about Kishi...
UltraGunner
Banned
Shogi metaphors for strategizing. slightly less pretencious than chess metaphors.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
You guys are praising the art and animation when the real praise should go to the Episode Director and the Storyboard Director for the framing, music choice, angle shots, and tone setting.
Probably dropped the mic after it was done too.
THAT is how you fuckers should direct canon episodes!
BassForever
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Yep, Kishi is the George Lucas of manga, he created a really popular and clever world and has decent ideas for it but is himself a hack fraud writer who can't turn his ideas into anything competent.
I'm praising everybody. Everybody who worked on this did a bang up job.
zedreamcast
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70% of this chapter was last episode,the other 30 was this half of this episode.
Hellwarden
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To be fair, I think Kishi struggles with providing a sense of scope to his work.
When it's focused on just the people, preferably just a few, that's when Naruto is at its best.
When it's focused on just the people, preferably just a few, that's when Naruto is at its best.
Which is incredibly ironic considering the pacing, lighting, and tone of this episode would send me into a coma if it wasn't so good.
The crossover Old Spice commercials are still amazing.
Apt comparison. You'd think having editors would have helped...
Then again, those same editors told him to add Sasuke...
Apt comparison. You'd think having editors would have helped...
Then again, those same editors told him to add Sasuke...
BassForever
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The only good thing Kishi has wrote in the past 10 years for the Naruto manga was
The Sarada mini arc that trolled the shit out of Sakura and her fans
From a money making perspective they were 100% right and I'd have given the exact same suggestion
zedreamcast
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The series is at its worst when it does that mainly cause it focuses on the least interesting people.
Hellwarden
Member
Lots of focus on kids playing in this ep.
UltraGunner
Banned
BassForever
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It's to show contrast, a reminder of the "wee we're gonna be ninja" fun that the younger generation/the characters had in the first half of part 1 vs the grim reality of their profession we're seeing now
zedreamcast
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"When do you kill those motherfuckers!?!?"
redmetal86
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Geez, everyone wants to do it.
UltraGunner
Banned
We gonna murder the sons a bitches right
Schadenfreude
Member
Friendly reminder that Choji is voiced by Cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
"We're gonna DO IT."
blitzwolf215
Member
This always confused me, wasn't this show big on pushing the letting go of revenge trope?
I mean that was what the whole Sasuke thing was about.
I mean that was what the whole Sasuke thing was about.
BassForever
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I never thought I'd say this, but Naruto Shippuden just blew every other show on the block out of the water tonight, damn
Hellwarden
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When it avoids the trio then.
zedreamcast
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Just so everyone knows this entire episode was actually 5-6 pages in the manga.
The rest of the chapter was naruto learning his new rasengan
The rest of the chapter was naruto learning his new rasengan
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