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[GaimeGuy]

Is he... doing full simulations using shogi pieces?

Yes.

 

[LOLDSFAN]

The game plan.

 

[Man God]

The game plan.

 

[Moaradin]

This episode is really good yo

 

[lazybones18]

15 more mins of shogi product placement

 

[zedreamcast]

Really?
*looks up the episode on the Naruto wiki* Says it's based on two chapters. 330 and 331. I'll look at those later.

Looked it up, the only canon part is shikamaru thinking up a plan, he just gets over it in the manga.

 

[Hellwarden]

Shikamaru has such a lust for revenge!

 

[BatDan]

Looked it up, the only canon part is shikamaru thinking up a plan, he just gets over it in the manga.

Wow! I take back what I said about Kishi...

 

[UltraGunner]

Shogi metaphors for strategizing. slightly less pretencious than chess metaphors.

 

[Imperial Bishop]

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.

 

[Man God]

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 and tone setting.

 

[Raxus]

Someone came in and was like "I'm directing a filler episode of Naruto Shippuden, but I am going to direct the SHIT out of this filler episode."

Probably dropped the mic after it was done too.

THAT is how you fuckers should direct canon episodes!

 

[BassForever]

Wow! I take back what I said about Kishi...

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.

 

[Crocodile]

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.

I'm praising everybody. Everybody who worked on this did a bang up job.

 

[Regiruler]

Now old spice is parodying itself

 

[zedreamcast]

Wow! I take back what I said about Kishi...

70% of this chapter was last episode,the other 30 was this half of this episode.

 

[Hellwarden]

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.

 

[Raxus]

This is the first Naruto episode in a long time that hasn't lulled me to sleep.

 

[Man God]

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.

 

[Grexeno]

This is the first Naruto episode in a long time that hasn't lulled me to sleep.

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.

 

[BatDan]

The crossover Old Spice commercials are still amazing.

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.

Apt comparison. You'd think having editors would have helped...
Then again, those same editors told him to add Sasuke...

 

[BassForever]

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.

The only good thing Kishi has wrote in the past 10 years for the Naruto manga was

Spoiler

The Sarada mini arc that trolled the shit out of Sakura and her fans

but he loses points for having no back bone

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...

From a money making perspective they were 100% right and I'd have given the exact same suggestion

 

[LOLDSFAN]

Where is this?

 

[zedreamcast]

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.

The series is at its worst when it does that mainly cause it focuses on the least interesting people.

 

[Hellwarden]

Lots of focus on kids playing in this ep.

 

[Seda]

Lots of focus on kids playing in this ep.

Spoilers

Spoiler

there's a reason for that, sorta

 

[UltraGunner]

Lots of focus on kids playing in this ep.

It's a metaphor for


Something

 

[LOLDSFAN]

The hills out back.

 

[Grexeno]

"Just saw your mom."

 

[BassForever]

Lots of focus on kids playing in this ep.

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

 

[Man God]

They need the queen.

 

[Mik317]

the art is kinda busted

 

[zedreamcast]

"When do you kill those motherfuckers!?!?"

 

[LOLDSFAN]

Choji about to get lucky.

 

[GaimeGuy]

L-lewd

 

[Grexeno]

WE'RE GONNA DO IT RIGHT

 

[Raxus]

It's just nice to drink this episode in.

 

[Regiruler]

I HEARD A KILLIN SO I CAME RUNNIN

 

[redmetal86]

Geez, everyone wants to do it.

 

[Crocodile]

Man these guys are blood-thirsty

 

[UltraGunner]

We gonna murder the sons a bitches right

 

[Schadenfreude]

Friendly reminder that Choji is voiced by Cousin Oliver from the Brady Bunch.

 

[ckohler]

Even the sound design is good in this episode.

 

[Imperial Bishop]

"We're gonna DO IT."

 

[blitzwolf215]

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.

 

[BassForever]

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]

The series is at its worst when it does that mainly cause it focuses on the least interesting people.

When it avoids the trio then.

 

[LOLDSFAN]

They need the princess.

FTFY.

 

[BatDan]

REVENNNNNNGE!

 

[zedreamcast]

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