askerian: Serious Karkat in a red long-sleeved shirt (Default)
askerian ([personal profile] askerian) wrote2012-06-03 11:38 pm
Entry tags:

Naruto movie 6 - Road to Ninja

It's going to be ages until this movie comes out. AGES. And Naruto movies usually suck; the last Shippuden ones have sucked especially badly. But.

BUT.

Kishimoto sensei - original creator, story, character design, planning
Character Design: Hirofumi Suzuki, Tetsuya Nishio also
(...)

So maybe he's not doing the script itself, but he's given them the big plot, PLUS he was the one who decide what happens with X characters....

... PROCEED.


Sixteen years ago, a gigantic demon beast known as the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox was released from its jinchūriki by an unknown shinobi wearing a mask. The village of Konohagakure was close to destruction by the attack of the Nine-Tails, but the village was saved by its leader. Minato Namikaze and his wife Kushina Uzumaki — who was the jinchūriki at the time of the attack — sealed away the demon inside their new born son: Naruto Uzumaki. However, this act of saving the village cost them their lives and they left the future of the ninja world to Naruto.

With the demon fox sealed away, things continued as normal. However, the peace of the village did not last long, for Pain, Konan, Itachi Uchiha, Kisame Hoshigaki, Sasori, Deidara, Hidan and Kakuzu — members of a dreaded organisation called the Akatsuki — attacked Konohagakure. Naruto narrowly managed to launch a counter-attack but why have these shinobi appeared when all of them were meant to have died? The mystery remains, but the shinobi are praised by their families for completing such a dangerous mission. However, one of them who has never known the faces of his parents, Naruto, cannot help but feel lonely. At that exact time, suddenly, the masked man makes his appearance in Konoha. Naruto and Sakura are both attacked by the man's mysterious new dōjutsu.

This seems to spell HEY NARUTO WANNA VISIT A WORLD WHERE YOUR PARENTS WHO WE HAVE WASTED A HUGE PARAGRAPH ON IN THAT HERE SUMMARY NEVER DIED AND GET TO INTERACT WITH THEM AND STUFF to me, to which I can only answer with NGHYESPLZ.

Also, this

Just look at that poster. Minato! Kushina! Smirky openvest!Hinata! Unsexy Ino! I was already intrigued!

But then this:


!!!!! o.o






The anime concept sketches are also arriving one after another!

Sasuke: A playboy through and through, in expression and stance, in clothes and accessories.
Hinata: A strong-minded Hinata with a wild temperament! Very sexy, she boldly displays her cleavage!
Kakashi: With his eyes wide open and his fists trembling, a somewhat hot-blooded Kakashi.
Shikamaru: With his slovenly expression, he looks like he's not thinking anything at all...

Below the Gai and Kakashi pic:

"The exact opposite of their original characters!? A Gai with no ambitions and a vigorous, enthusiastic Kakashi. In Kishimoto-sensei's notes there is a little explanation about these two!"

... pfffhahaha BIZARRO SASUKE YES PLZ. this promises to be hilarious. And confident!LIPSTICK!Hinata!!!! (anyone slut-shaming her in this journal for confidently owning her sensuality instead of being sexualized against her will I will kick in the nose. Other women in this manga have been seen wearing less.)

I have no idea if the plot will be worth it or anything, but now I am SO CURIOUS about any interactions with bizarro!nontraumatized!Sasuke and Naruto & Sakura (who are from outside the genjutsu!!!!! who probably remember normal!sasuke!!!!) oh god yes please.

Even if it otherwise sucks, it will be hilarious. Plus, Naruto interacting with Kushina and Minato. Hopefully they'll actually get to recognize each other instead of that last movie's irritating "minato is right here but naruto and him keep just existing side by side and having no meaningful contact!" bullcrap. (i never even managed to finish watching that movie, and i watched every single filler until the end of the konoha destruction arc. it's saying everything.) So frustrating. SOOO frustrating. >:/
windandwater: (THIS is Sparta!)

[personal profile] windandwater 2012-06-15 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
smiling!playboy!Sasuke is kind of creeping me out. No matter how much I wanna see it. @___@ sexy!Hinata is awesome though. OH THE THINGS THAT WOULD CHANGE IF MINATO LIVED.
tephra: (fangirl squee)

[personal profile] tephra 2012-06-03 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Smiling!Playboy!Sasuke and Smirky!Confident!Hinata... I must see this!!

[identity profile] saccharinegray.livejournal.com 2012-06-03 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
NGH THE SECOND PIC
SASUKE'S SMILE
ANDAND SASUSAKU?
I NEED A MOMENT.

[identity profile] annwyd.livejournal.com 2012-06-03 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd been talking about this elsewhere and getting pretty excited, but I hadn't seen the last image you link, the summary, or all the personality blurbs. Oh, my God.

The consensus we'd already reached was that some personalities appear to have been swapped, and the images and blurbs for Kakashi and Gai back that up.

I basically have not touched new Naruto canon in six years, but you know what, I think I might watch this movie.

A couple of observations and hopes so far:
- Naruto/Hinata/Sakura/Ino/Sasuke OT5 for this
- I kind of want the (at least, initial) canon romantic dynamics to be reversed? This will probably not actually happen but it would be so great if it did. Naruto, struck dumb by how awesome confident Hinata is, awkwardly fanboys her; excitable, boyish Sasuke flirts eagerly with Sakura while she's wrapped up in her Shippuuden-era angst.

[identity profile] annwyd.livejournal.com 2012-06-03 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the movies are still going to be playing to the existing fans, after all, and they want suave!Sasuke...or at least a lot of them do. But I can at least hope for suave!Sasuke who is secretly way too eager to impress people, including Sakura.

I do figure that whatever happens with Naruto and this Hinata, there'll be at least some token nod by the end of "but original-flavor Hinata is still a great girl who should also believe in herself, no matter what!" because the anime of all things is not going to do something to shoot down canon-universe Naruto/Hinata.
oceanandspace: the silhouette of a ship with the full moon in background (0-main-alice-cheshire cat)

[personal profile] oceanandspace 2012-06-03 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooooh, you got me interested, even if I haven't watched a Naruto episode since the fillers xD

[identity profile] rayemars.livejournal.com 2012-06-04 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
I'm with annwyd on this one--I can't remember the last time I looked into Naruto, but this I think I am gonna have to watch. Because wow.

[identity profile] q99.livejournal.com 2012-06-04 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Ok this is pretty awesome :)

Like you say, even if it sucks, it's hilarious.

[identity profile] ellenel13.livejournal.com 2012-06-04 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
holy shit kishimoto wrote this fanfic before i did

[identity profile] lordryous.livejournal.com 2012-06-04 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yea, the wait for this is gonna be unbearable... oh well, it'll be here in like a year or so >

[identity profile] red-volpe.livejournal.com 2012-06-04 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
...Methinks me smells new Asuka stories in the air. Am I wrong? (Please say no 0^0)

[identity profile] kiwi-socks.livejournal.com 2012-06-04 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
When I saw the first picture I got stuck on Ino. "She looks kinda sad. Why is Ino sad? ):" And then I noticed smirkingconfident Hinata and was even more confused.

I wonder if this is going to be a bizarro world with little explanation because its a mindfuck, or a 'what would it be like if these people hadn't died' alternate timeline. Kushina could have been a positive influence on Hinata, and same re: Minato and Kakashi, but that doesn't explain Ino (All 3/4 single small view of her, but whatever, speculation is fun).

(Anonymous) 2012-06-04 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to wonder what playboysuke means for Itachi... :D:

[identity profile] explodingfrogs.livejournal.com 2012-06-04 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. Apparently Kishi writes AU fanfic too.

Wonder if this is going to tie into manga canon in any way. Obviously not such that anyone who misses the movie is missing out on vital plot points, but maybe a nod to the movie's events here and there? Characters making use of insights gleaned from their AU counterparts? A reference to how much brighter the world could have been?

If nothing else, Naruto would be even more determined to redeem Sasuke and far less vulnerable to "but what if revenge and team-killing is all there is to him"-style mindfucks, now that he KNOWS there's a good person in there under all the trauma and obsession.

[identity profile] tarou.livejournal.com 2012-06-04 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
As a general -cest fan, I really enjoyed The Lost Tower a lot because I felt there was a lot of MinaNaru UST written within that story. Especially when Minato held his kunai on Naruto's throat... Whoah. That was erotic. Talk about genetic attraction!

Anyway, I don't know how I feel about this new movie (or the idea of a playboy!Sasuke wearing all that bling-bling and a cocky grin). On the other hand, I'm curious about how the NaruSasuSaku dynamic will work there. And yes, I wonder whether Itachi will show up and how he will look/act (and how his relationship with Sasuke will be). Personally, I wouldn't mind if he made a move on Naruto while he was at it. *laughter* Hinata... I've never liked her, and I don't think I ever will. I don't like the Hyuugas in general, to be honest. And I'm afraid even a personality switch won't make me change my mind about her/them.

[identity profile] luvsanime02.livejournal.com 2012-06-05 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
skdjhskfnsklfnlkncjendcjsdhlsjahfdgakhfdbfhewhfddlmnl~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Epic keyboard smash!! FLAIL!!

SASUKE!! HINATA!!

Yespleaseomgyesmusthavethisnowdroolsyes!!

Okay, you just made my freakin' day. Coherence is gone.

<3 <3 <3

[identity profile] tanukyle.livejournal.com 2012-06-05 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Is....is INO COVERING UP!? oAo

No! No! Bring my confident badass Ino back! D8

[identity profile] venia.livejournal.com 2012-06-05 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
OMG must see it! I'll never stop thanking Kishimoto sensei for this version of Sasukeh. Minato looks gorgeous on the poster. I wonder what Sakura's personality will be like and if Naruto is the only one "normal" who was swapped in another Konoha dimension. At any case, as you say: EEEEEEEEHHHH!!!eeeeeeeeh!

thanksforsharingthis♥

[identity profile] vesca-viridian.livejournal.com 2012-06-05 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like Ino and Hinata switched personalities in that pic. o.o

[identity profile] yukitsukihana.livejournal.com 2012-06-06 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Everything about this movie makes me go HNNGYESPLZ
Especially Sasuke's kissy-face in the lower-right. VERY MUCH YESPLZ
ext_725085: (Default)

[identity profile] midget-arnold.livejournal.com 2012-06-07 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god. Bizzaro!Flirty!!Sasuke interacting with canon Naruto and Sakura. I must see this. Must.

Sexy!Confident!Hinata reminds me of her sister. So to me the characterizations don't seem that implausible. Granted, Sasuke is radically different but, seriously, he was under a brain breaking amount of trauma in canon. ...except unsexy Ino, who oddly, I find really sexy in that design?

Wondering about the designs/personality for: Neji, Gaara, Itachi, Haku and Zazuba, Anko...oh the possibilities...*_*

Hoping for: Kushina, Minato and Kyuubi interactions. Yes, I'm sailing with that ship and making a pirate flag for it. >:) The fact Kyuubi used Kushina's first name after her being dead for 16 years was kinda of telling to me. ♠

[identity profile] neko-no-yume.livejournal.com 2012-06-26 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
http://www.saiyanisland.com/2012/06/sakuras-parents-in-road-to-ninja-naruto-the-movie/#disqus_thread

Sakura's parents got added, not quite what I had expected... ^^;