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askerian ([personal profile] askerian) wrote2010-05-22 06:52 am
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quick manga + shippuden babble

I know recently i haven't been doing my weekly manga babbles. frankly it's because the current storyline bores me. That motoi guy's flashback was both a cliche summary of what felt like every other backstory ever, AND summarized/hurried up to the point of being ineffectual. I mean, good for the guy for feeling guilty about his little stabby thing but i didn't get any emotional ping.

I was all bwee!darkruto but... well, those "fight your dark side!!" arcs always end with either "beat up your insecurities" or "accept yourself as you are" and since the first didn't seem appropriate I wasn't surprised.

...The hug was hot, woohoo twincest. XD but i still feel like kishimoto glossed over way too many issues. Sasuke being gone. Sakura lying to him and Kakashi managing him like a kid. The village -- more about it would have been neat. Instead he has a little fight, a couple panels of WHOA naruto has a dark, HUMAN side after all!! and immediately after the flashback is gone he goes back to jesusness. Booooring.

But. the hug was hot. and OH MY GOD KYUUBI YES NOW.

... bet your asses kishi will hurry it up too because it's "just a training arc" and the goal there isn't to develop the kyuubiness (kyuubi's been treated as a convenient chakra battery for-freaking-ever in this manga) but to give naruto another boost, so the fight might be cut short. meh. oh well, at worst i'll STILL get a few more panels of Kyuubi out of him. >:(

But anyway. At the moment the anime is just starting the konha invasion arc. The latest ep was about Konohamaru and while some scenes were pretty long it was also nice (i just get all AAA HURRY UP because i want to get to naruto kicking ass and hinata and kyuubi and the happy village and sakura and all of that. Also, karui and omoi! waaant. XD but. yeah.)

But this ep had the best omake ever. sasuke and karin and suigetsu at an onsen! XD ohohohohoho fanservice.

[identity profile] nilladriel.livejournal.com 2010-05-22 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Y HALLO THERE NAKED SASUKE CHEST

*crawls all over*

[identity profile] oo-da-lally.livejournal.com 2010-05-22 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
I agree with you about the last few chapters. I was all excited about dark!naruto and it was only a few panels. Such a let down from than on. And I so don't care about Octo-Guy and his 'of coarse' back story.

And Naruto main-charactering himself, arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

[identity profile] flourite-roses.livejournal.com 2010-05-22 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Whoo hoo! Ok I think I fell in love with Karin's voice. XD Suits her perfectly.

(Anonymous) 2010-05-22 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a teeny tiny towel Sasuke's wearing there :V

[identity profile] venia.livejournal.com 2010-05-22 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I, I wasn't aware the staff made such omake-s o.o but awesome!XD fanservice to the eyes, and pings for the mind huhuhu >///<

[identity profile] venia.livejournal.com 2010-05-22 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
(And I watched it again!XD *gets shot* How can he not care at all?? His tone is not even bothered. Even if gay, he would react to her barging in like that, let aside standing with just a towel in front of her-- ah but he's used to show skin, right? right >.>)

[identity profile] inverts.livejournal.com 2010-05-22 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god that omake. This. Is this Naruto? Did the animators suddenly switch to a different series? XD I'm just so shocked! It's way different from what I remember of Naruto anime, even considering it is an omake.

Wow, Karin and Suigetsu are awesome. =D

[identity profile] rayemars.livejournal.com 2010-05-23 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Dang, Sasuke, you are wearing the shortest towel ever there.

[identity profile] nobody-famous.livejournal.com 2010-05-24 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
I've felt for the past year or so (ever since the Pain arc, pretty much) that Kishi is rushing to get somewhere he wants to get to and it's keeping him from fleshing things out as well as he could. Maybe that's just me, though...

[identity profile] nobody-famous.livejournal.com 2010-05-24 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I prefer to think that he's trying to get somewhere epic so that my forcing myself to keep reading will pay off eventually. >,