askerian | Naruto anime -- 209

Oh wow, are Dattebayo total cunts or what.

So I went and downloaded the raw, and hey! I don't think I missed all that much.

So five ninja renegade/evil/whatever are entering a compound, kill people and steal shit. Alas! they missed this one kid. Big hulking guy says he'll go and kill the brat. But faced with the kid, he can't do it.

Later, in Konoha, Tsunade gets a mission to help escort a prisoner, but they have no Chuunin left, so they send Sakura, Lee and Naruto instead. The people they're supposed to help aren't too impressed, but it's better than nothing.

They get on a ship, and down a river. The prisonner is the Big Hulking Guy, and he sits in his cage and doesn't say a lot. Naruto sneaks in the hold to take a closer look, and notices that inside the hold is als the captain of the guard, glaring at the prisoner.

Flashback: The captain as a teenager (?), coming back home and seeing his home burning; finding his little brother Akio being held captive by Big Hulking Guy and crying. Then firey stuff falls from the ceiling and end flashback. Apparently he thinks his brother is dead, and wants revenge on the prisoner; Naruto stops him.

Meanwhile, outside, the group of people BHG belonged to is setting up a trap. They dig another riverbed, and then a very gay guy using a ninja version of Cat's Cradle cuts the boat in two, the top floating down the normal river and the bottom turning to the artificial river. Sakura and Lee were on the top and are separated from Naruto, still in the hold.

Evil Ninjas surround the roof-less hold menacingly; meanwhile in the forest, a group of kids watch the scene unfold, with, surprise! Akio watching on.

-Nice to see ninja being ninja, at the beginning -- moving silently, killing people. After so long in Konoha, we'd almost forget that they're not supposed to burst in noisily and destroy more property than targets. XD

-... Since when is Tsunade so... flat-chested. Is her torso difficult to animate or something? D: It just looks like she's fat and saggy. That's so wrong.

-Niiiice. Lee VS Naruto training session. Not the bestest animation, but decent.

-So. So. SO f**in happy to see Sakura DOING SOMETHING for once. (even if so far, it's only playing peacemaker between her teammates and other people.)

-Kinda previsible plot... but still a nice-ish one.

-... oh. Wow. Naruto. What a sneaky ninja you are. =__=;;

...

how come he gets in, he speaks, and then hides behind the bars of a cage, and the guard doesn't notice him? DDD: Makes no sense. I'm gonna assume the guy was too busy with his Random Expository Flashback or something. =__=

-Oh god, Lee, Sakura -- HOW DID YOU FORGET YOU CAN WALK ON WATER?? DDD:

... All in one, I'm not hating this arc yet. Pretty sure it will come, but it's not entirely horrible yet. Probably helps that I don't understand much of what they're saying. XD

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Dattebayo is made of wankers with the menopause, apparently. That's just so wrong. >_

Nnngh. They keep pulling shit like this because they've got a freaking monopoly.

Haven't seen the ep. (I don't watch the anime anymore), but...can Lee walk on water, since he can't mold chakra? I don't remember. (Though I'm positive that Sakura can. >_>)

I think i've seen him walking on water in the anime, but i'm not sure if it was filler or not. Can't remember. In the post-timeskip manga, I think he does walk on water during the fight against false!Kisame, and afterwards when they open the door to the Akatsuki hideout. I'd have to check, though. ^^; After all, he can do the gates stuff, and that's also chakra manipulation.

I figure he can just manipulate it when it's inside his body, or close enough that it counts as his body; since he's standing on the water, it works somehow, but anything that needs to leave his immediat vicinity and/or be more complicated wouldn't.

Sakura definitely can. =__=

Good, then I'm not crazy. I thought I remembered something like that, too. (But then I thought, "Wait, Lee can't mold chakra." Of course, chakra 'manipulation' does seem like a different thing, like you said. >_>) And I haven't watched that many fillers, so it might be in the manga.

XD It's not like Kishi never does things that make no sense for total lack of explanation. *coughkakashi's mangekyoucough*

Yeah, like Naruto being held back for all those years but then conveniently being the same age as everyone else who graduated. x)

Yeah, but at least some things provide nice occasions for fanfic writers to play in the cracks. For example Naruto getting to school younger because no one wanted to keep an eye on him anyway. XD Or the Hyuuga clan promoting cousin/cousin incest. Or things like that. Since there's no word on it in canon... XD

... Others really make no sense. ~~HI KAKASHI'S EYE. yeah, kinda stuck on that. XD;;;~~

Here's how I reasoned it to myself - it's not that he can't mold chakra, it's that he has no talent at ninjitsu or genjitsu.
So, while he can't create illusions or blow shit up, he can still do whatever the hell it is that lets ninjas do all their crazy jumping shit. I mean, he can't be doing that on muscle alone.
At least, I hope he isn't.

OF COURSE HE IS. BECAUSE HE'S ROCK LEE AND AWESOME.

But seriously, I know what you mean. I mean, he has chakra, and I used to think that well, maybe he couldn't control it. But I don't think it's that...I think "molding" chakra has diffrent connotations. While he can probably control and use his chakra, he can't use it in the ways required for ninjutsu and genjutsu, which requires more complicated manipulation of chakra.

I just kind of picture him trying to form a ball of chakra and not being able to, but still being able to use it. If that makes sense. Which it probably doesn't.

And now I'm wondering if this has been explained in more depth elsewhere.

That sounds about right.
I don't think Lee's particular disability has ever been explained as anything more than 'no talent at it'. Which is a shame, because that could provide quite a bit of insight into how chakra works in Narutoverse.

I think it was described as a bit more than "no talent." In the flashbacks, I remember much angst (because I was weeping--Lee is my favorite ^^) about him not being able to do it at all, not just that he was bad at it. And they weren't going to let him graduate from the academy because of that, but then Gai convinced them. Or I could be making that part up.

I think "lacks the ability to mold chakra" is how it's described; but then of course, there's the issue of what exactly "mold" means. *shrug*

*shrugs*
Let's amend that 'no talent' thing to 'no talent whatsoever'. Although, I think he just has trouble using his chakra to cast spells, which is pretty much what jutsus are.
And by 'trouble', I mean he just can't do it.

God I hate when they do things like that... thought I'm sure I can find it on youtube. Hell I download the other show to help get the number up if I could download at college... I wouldn't watch it but I would download it.

Dattebayo total cunts or what.

No. The staff at Dattebayo are not cunts. Cunts are beautiful. They, on the other hand, are manipulative arrogant jerks.

Wtf is that show they're trying to promote anyway? Why do they have a stake in it in the first place?

Wait, quarter earnings? What do they get money from??

Apparently they're just trolling again. Like that's so funny. =_=

O.o Maybe I missed something from all those business classes I took in college, but how is forcibly making people download something they probably won't even watch improve their quarterly earnings? wtf? They suck donkey balls. I'm still pissed about that gaiden shit they pulled a while back.

On the upside, I wasn't going to download the episode anyway, so... :P

Apparently they're just trolling again. NNNGH. Oh yeah, that's just SO FREAKING FUNNY.

...Can Lee walk on water? He's got the whole no-chakra thing going on, after all. Maybe Sakura...wants to keep him company...? Right. Going to stop trying to apply logic to the fillers now. Moving on... XD

At least it's not with Shino, Hinata or Kiba. Love them to death, and all, but the writers seriously need to stop pairing Naruto with the same other-team members. I'm almost positive that, as a team, they'd get more missions together than apart...

Adi

Note to self: read previous comments before commenting myself. *face-palm*

Adi

Have you heard dattebayo update their annoucement to say that if the downloads didn't reach the numbers they want in 24 hours they are going to delay naruto episode 209 a week?

I figured Lee couldn't walk on water with chakra, but he could run on top of the water really fast, like one of those birds whose name I can't remember.

Nah, he can water-walk.
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