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[timepiececlock]

So. Finished episode 68. Have now seen all available episodes of Naruto on the net, fansubbed. Now I have to wait till more get fansubbed. Dang it.

Comments

[bronwenstx.livejournal.com]

So this is definitely better than Dragon Ball Z? I've only read the manga version of Naruto and I love it. But I'm skeptical about the anime version.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's _completely_ better. I've read Volume 2 of the manga, and it seems exactly like the anime to me.

I really like the animation for the fight scenes... it's more detailed that the animation for DBZ, which tended to be cheap, with blurred lines over showing actual movements. This is more detailed, and a lot of it's just damn COOL. At times, especially during the first time Naruto gets possessed while fighting Haku, the fight animation felt like I was watching something with a movie budget, not a tv show.

The pacing can be weird at first... it takes it's time, and events that are fast when reading can be slower watching the anime. But once you get used to it (it took me until the late 20s of the episodes to finally adjust to the pacing), then it's all good. There tends to be a lot of transitional/character-building stuff, and then two or three or four episodes of huge, fast, explosive stuff that happens all at once. But from what I have read of the manga, it's kinda like that in the manga too. And it works in its own way, because all the other stuff had to happen or the big events wouldn't make any sense or have the meaning that they do.

Personally, I'm in love with it. And fighting anime _really_ isn't my thing under most circumstances... though I went through the standard seven phases for DBZ fandom, I was never really in love with the show as a whole so much as liking the characters as they grew on me. And I've watched some other anime shows where it's all about fighting or martial arts competition, and never really cared for them. Rnama I liked because, again, it's characters were more

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Ranma 1/2 I liked because, again, its characters were more the focus than the fighting was. Fighting is very much the focus of Naruto, but for once I love watching the fights equally as I love the characters, so I can't help but be obssessed. I even wrote fanfic. ^-^

If you want to read my reviews of the show up to episode 68 (which is not as far as the manga), you can find them here:

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=rashaka&keyword=anime+reviews&filter=all