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naruto ramblings entry 379

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i watched road to ninja again and was disappointed with how it doesnt hold up as nearly as well as i expected. i raved about it after i watched it but it really just kinda doesnt work. i commend it for attempting to make the single most thoughtful character-driven story in shonen ive ever seen but in order for it to exist, it has to revert these characters back to a place they had grown out of or put them into a place they never were and is somewhat out of character for them to be. it also has a lame contrived conflict. limited tsuki and menma. what the ****. its not bad but its not as good as it should be. the one thing it manages to get flawlessly i think is sakura. and as a sakura fan i really appreciate that. overall it tries, it fails, but goddamn does it try and rarely do these things try.
movie 1 on the other hand is still just the best thing. it was a huge deal when i was a kid and learned there was a naruto movie. and watching it again as well, there's some actually nice drama going on. a little trite in places, but unlike road to ninja thats ambitious and fails, this one's not trying to reinvent the shonen wheel. it's a simple, fun, naruto movie and judging it on what it's trying to accomplish, it does it spectacularly. what i love so much about this movie is that it gives us another team 7 mission with naruto, sakura, and sasuke acting as a functioning team. because we only got one of those before things went sour and that was one of the major problems of the manga. and i have this weird thing with naruto that i dont have with anything else in that, in my head, everything is canon. maybe thats because when i was into naruto as a kid i still didnt quite have that conception of what anime was. it was just naruto. i knew it was from japan but continuity didnt exist in my brain. the comic, the shows, the games, every story was a story that counted. and i think the setting in naruto is perfect for that. this is probably why there's so much naruto fanfic. the world in this series is one that's ripe for exploration. there are so many corners that were left unexplored and history that we only really scratched the surface of.

so ive been re-reading the manga and one of the chapter covers within the first 20 chapters is a picture of minato's team next to a picture of kakashi's team and that blew my mind for some reason. i forgot that existed. naruto's always been about generations and how one progresses to the next, so its cool to see this kinda stuff right at the beginning.
speaking of kakashi, that's a character i never really liked because i always thought he was stale and boring and typical and just uninteresting in present time. and his character design is a bit of a put-off. its like he's desperate to look like the coolest person to have ever lived. but i think i just realized why he always seemed so uninterestin. kakashi's not interesting because he's already had his character arc. he's already a become a fully-formed character and gotten to that place where everything has been resolved by the time he's introduced, so when we start getting his backstory and learning piece by piece how different he used to be and how his generation mirrors the current one in some respects, it makes sense why present kakashi feels stale. and for a series that's about generations, that's kinda genius. still not sure if i like kakashi, but he's been added to the list of things to keep an eye on as i re-read

goddammit i had this huge thing typed out and was goin back to edit and make things clearer when my cat walked across the keyboard and probably messed some of it up. so im saying **** it as i throw my hands in the air and post it anyway. i love that little creature more than anything but sometimes i want to strangle her.

@Patman boxes

 

Lazarus.

Also on Chrome.

 

I really like it because the character's abilities are the kind you don't usually see in other stories and some can be really weird, but they also have unique weaknesses and rules to each ability. Another thing is how the parts of Jojo are so different. You get slice of life, mystery, adventure, historical, tragedy, horror, and crime, all in one. Ans the good part is that all of they main characters have completely different personalities from each other so you always get something new.

 

sounds interesting

anyone here read gintama? i read like the first ten chapters a couple years ago but fell off. want to try again. im curious why the animes are ranked so highly on mal while the manga isnt. not that mal ratings are at all an indication of quality but the difference is curious

 

I don't know much about the anime since I only watched the recent one but manga probably isn't rated as high since it feels a lot slower than the anime, but it has really started picking up in the last 20 or 30 chapters. So unless you really want to read it all, start at the beginning of the manga and read the intro chapters for the character then start the anime. After that just pick up on the manga where the anime ends. That's just my personal advice though.

 

litten alllll the way. its the first starter ive instantly liked in a while. legends also look pretty sweet too

and okay wtf is going on with gf. new region looks just like hoenn. i fully expect this region to be deeply connected to hoenn and kalos.[DOUBLEPOST=1462907330][/DOUBLEPOST]more naruto ramblings about how it ended and stuff
(dont expect anyone to read these. just like typing out my thoughts for my own purposes. and the lounge is basically the community blog. right? right???)

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in my last ramble i touched on how i would maybe have a new appreciation for kakashi once i finished re-reading the series given that this is a series about generation gaps and how one generation informs the next, and that because kakashi's character arc had already happened by the time the current generation began, his blandness was justifiable and the mark of a matured, fully-formed character. the one major point of contention that i had with how the series ended was making naruto and sasuke descendants of the sage of six paths' sons or whoever they were. it seemed like a super contrived way to make this a larger scale story than it ever was and it kinda undercut all of the character drama that had been building. i'm not sure i agree with that anymore. because, from the very beginning, naruto has been about descending generations, taking it all the way back to the beginning, to the very first relevant generation, seems super appropriate. im anxious to see how i feel about this once i get to it. that last 100 chapter stretch was really hit or miss, mostly miss, as it was coming out. im curious to see how it reads all together with the entire series relatively fresh in my mind. i wonder if kaguya won't actually be the dumbest thing ever.

 

See ? See ? Told ya. xD
Mine did that too, she quickly figured out it was bound to get my attention when all else would fail.
And if I was busy rolling cigarettes for the day ... she' d walk smack on the tobacco. ^^
It seems quoting you brought the whole thing up btw.

 

If anyone watches Bates Motel here

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they finally killed Norma. Oh my God; I've been waiting for this moment since the end of season 2. We can finally start to movie to where Norman is just crazy bonkers and see how he hides everything.

I just want the last season to be an adaptation of Psycho! Sure, it won't be Hitchcock, but I wanna see how they would do that storyline!"

 

They revealed the starters?

 

ye. im not all that hyped for this gen.

 

Leaf bow tie is pretty high tier in the style points department, and those are the only points that matter.

Sorry. Hopefully something perks you up for it!

 

i should be but im not because it seems like they abandoned everything they had set up in gen vi for this gen. i dont need z, i want it, but what i need is some continuation of the kalos and new hoenn mythology that was left unfinished. my guess is that we'll prob get this in gen vii (i speculate theyre trying to blur the lines between gens and this will be like a sequal to vi), but until we know or get some hint that this is happening, i cant be all that excited for it. everything looks really cool tho. so far coolest looking gen since sinnoh imo

 

Also, tfw the shiny Xerneas event starts tomorrow and you didn't save up for that ds yet

 

I'm three eps away from finishing the first season of Stardust Crusaders

Man, when I wanna get through road trip filler I CAN PLOW THROUGH THAT ROAD TRIP FILLER it's been all of two days and i've nearly gotten through those 24 eps... i'm a mess

 

because windows 7 is so superior to windows 10, could i take to ebay and buy a copy of whatever version of windows 7 and just install it over what i have now on my laptop? id prob want to get an external hard drive to put all of stuff on so i dont lose it, of course. i ask this bc the computer at my work has windows 7 and im being reminded how it ran so smoothly and flawlessly and i miss that. also would i be able to use that same copy again on other computers?

also bakuman is way too long. it needs to be long to tell the story its telling, but i stopped enjoying myself like 40 chapters ago.

 

Check the essay sized PM I sent you, I mentioned something about getting legal versions of 7 for cheap

 

Literally me when I watched it lol

 

♛ I have Pokerus if anyone wants me to infect them with my Pokemon aids.