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

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Another thought in watching the anime: Sasuke's lucky he looks like his mom. Cause his dad's not that great and neither is Itachi.

That struck me, too, how much Sasuke favors his mother.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I don't remember noticing that in the manga... they probably emphasized it when doing the character design of his mother for the anime. It's just a nice bit of detail, artistically. I appreciate details like that.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I never noticed it in the manga either. His mother is so ... nice. Obviously the boy took after her until the mass Clan slaughter. That mini-flashback arc (which seemed to last forever when it was in the manga - gah!) was the one time when I wanted to give that poor kid a big hug.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Obviously the boy took after her until the mass Clan slaughter.

He certainly seemed to have a genuinely sweet disposition... until his family started to fall apart. Judging by the way he was acting at the Academy, it looks like the situation in their home was starting to affect Sasuke even before the mass slaughter.