Naruto 127-130 - I've got soul but I'm not a soldier

[timepiececlock]

Although my poll results suggested I should watch Last Exile, I finally finished downloading the Naruto movie and watched that, so it left me in a Naruto mood, and I'm catching up.

Just finished 127-128.

Sasuke, you little shithead. Usings that stupid wire & flame thing against my babyninja?! You little shithead.

::sigh:: I suppose next episode is gonna be all about chibiSasuke angst, isn't it? Maybe I'll skip it.

I am digging the music being used for this whole confrontation, though. And the animation is pretty good too.

Hheee. And the "next episode" clip was kind of cute.


EDIT#1: One more thought, halfway into #130. I need a good pre-Akatsuki!Itachi icon that says "Itachy's life philosophy: self improvement through patricide."

EDIT#2: Also, Sasuke's lucky he looks like his mom. Cause Itachi and PapaUchiha aren't that shiny to look at.


EDIT#3: You know, hearing that Itachi graduated at age 7, could use the sharingan at age 8, became a chuunin at age 10, and an ANBU at 12...doesn't really seem right, if he'd only been an ANBU for a little while before things started to go downhill fast. At least not in terms of how they animated it. He looks about 15-16 in these flashbacks, maybe even 17.

And, you know, chuunin with the sharingan at 10 is cool, but it's not as cool as chuunin at 6 without a sharingan.

Yeah... Kakashi rocks. I can't wait till the next manga chapter comes out so Kakashi can rip him a big one.

EDIT#4: Someone should sit Sasuke down and tell him how disappointed his dad would be in his recent life-changing decisions.

As they say in Midworld, Sasuke has forgotten the face of his father.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I just finished 129. I have up to 132.

Like in the manga, I enjoyed the confrontation between Itachi and the cops and his father.

I think I find Itachi more interesting when Sasuke's not invovled, or if he's just shunted off to the side, in a corner.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Do you think that Kishimoto's ever going to redeem that little bastard? I never was a real fan of the character, I simply tolerated him, and was semi-interested in SasuSaku (not lately, though, because of his asshattery) ...but now? Pfft. Rot in hell.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I think Sasuke probably will be redeemed eventually, much the way Gaara was, but I'm with you on the "rot in hell" thing. I think he will eventually because Naruto's philosophy of love & peace & everyone gets a second, third, and 50th chance is such a theme in the series so far.

I'd be interested to see if Naruto at 15-16 has a more realist view on the Sasuke situation than Naruto at 12-13 did, but somehow I doubt Kishimoto's going to take it in that direction. I imagine Naruto will be thinking he can redeem Sasuke for the rest of their lives.

hey

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or does Chibi!Sasuke sound kind of like Lee?

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[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Somewhat. I was mostly taken aback that he sounded like a little boy for once.

On a related note, I dunno if I could ever watch the Bleach anime. The guy who voices Sasuke (Noriaki Sugiyama) does the voice for one of my favorite characters, Ishida. Yeah, that wouldn't go over too well.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I watched two episodes of Bleach and was unimpressed.

I keep trying to get into the manga, but it's stops and starts and I have a powerful disinterest. It's weird, because it should be exactly the kind of show I'd like-- action, humor, supernatural stuff. But for some reason I don't like it and when I watch or read it I just keep seeing all these other series it looks like it ripped off. Like an amalgamation of imitations that, while it may be good as a whole, just bothers me for being too much like stuff I've already seen.

And... you totally didn't need a rant there, sorry.

One of these days I'll get further into the manga, probably. Maybe over the summer.

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[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

The manga's beginning to confuse the hell out of me the last few chapters. Actually, it's pissing me off. Mostly, it's in relation to one character and how perfect and immaculate his "master plan" is. But my full rant wouldn't make sense without a frame of reference. :)

If you're not able to get into it now, I don't know how you're gonna handle 100 chapters of "The Longest Rescue Mission In The History of Rescue Missions". I've said it before and I'll say it again - if I kept with the domestic released, I'd have dropped that manga by about volume ... 8 or 9. And I was digging the series from the start.

It's weird because authenticpoppy had a big discussion today about why she can't "get into" FMA like the rest of us and how, while I like to watch Ghost In The Shell, I'm not as invested in it as she is.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

while I like to watch Ghost In The Shell, I'm not as invested in it as she is.

I don't even "like to watch" it. I don't dislike it either. If it's on tv I might watch it, but I'm just as likely to totally ignore it. GitS just... does nothing for me. I didn't get irritated at it like I did at Bleach, I just find it kind of boring. And...cold. Remote. Vaguely off-putting.

I have only watched about 5 episodes though, all at different points in the show.


It is interesting what some people get into and others don't. For example, I couldn't stand Utena. I watched about 9 or 10 episodes of it and it just did nothing for me. And I had serious issues with the gender themes presented in those early episodes (though I'm told ultimately it's redeeming in that way), and I didn't like the animation.

And yet, lots of people on my flist love it.

Likewise, I adored FB, and some people don't get attached to that at all.

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[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

GitS: SAC is one that I take an episode at a time. I love looking at the animation and the music is fantastic, plus, I can multi-task when I'm watching the DVD as the dub is excellent. Something I like to watch when I'm in the mood, but as for being as involved in the storyline and characters like FMA? Oh, hell no.

Re: hey

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I agree the music is quality. I especially like the ending theme song. I'm amazed by how Yoko Kanno is Japanese but she can write these songs in English with lyrics that sound like they're coming from someone who's not only fluent in English-- but poetically fluent. There's such a difference between understanding a foreign language and being able to write creatively with it.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Mostly, it's in relation to one character and how perfect and immaculate his "master plan" is.

Heh. That made me think of Nakago from Fushigi Yuugi. He didn't irritate me at all-- I respected/hated his character much the way I respected/hated Envy on FMA's character-- but he did have very immaculate, flawless plans. Only it was scary instead of annoying because even when his plans went wrong he could adapt so easily and ruthlessly and he made no mistakes. He just didn't make them. Everything that did go wrong always happened because of outside influences that couldn't possibly have been accounted for, not because of any flaws in his plans.

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[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

This goes far, far beyond anything Nakago did in FY. This guy's plan is so well done, he had not only his own moves planned out, but the moves of about 10 other characters that he didn't know from Adam. "Oh, I did this because I knew you couldn't go here and you'd have to go there. Then, I knew so and so would do this ..." That kind of stuff. It feels way too clean and precise, even for the Captain of a Division.

Re: hey

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

oohh, I see the "I'm so clever I'm practically omnicient" villain. I hate it when characters go past believability like that.

Re: hey

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

That'd be it. It was bad enough when he was just an asshat, now he's transcended shinigami to become a god!