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]

Though, I do think the cruelest thing Sasuke has ever done was the whole "Naruto, I consider you my best friend. ...So I have to kill you" thing. That was just...so, so wrong. Because, Naruto, who spent almost all of his childhood alone, had never heard that from anyone. And Sasuke says it, and then turns it into something ugly. And that bothers me. A lot.

Yeah. That hurt. It's such a perversion of what true friendship is about.

And it's particularly cruel, as you said, because Naruto has never had that before.

I think octopedingenue said something once when reading the manga, something like the whole betrayal hurts so badly because Sasuke doesn't understand that once he jumped in front of Naruto and "died" to save him on the bridge in Wave Country, at that moment Naruto loved Sasuke as a friend/comerade and would forever. That made Sasuke one of Naruto's "precious persons," and after that Naruto would go to the ends of the earth for him. Because Naruto hasn't had anyone do that for him before-- not another kid, one of his peers (Iruka jumped in front of a blade to save Naruto in episode 1, but Iruka is not Naruto's peer). Sasuke doesn't realize that he has Naruto's total loyalty for that one act, and he doesn't understand how powerful Naruto's loyalty is.

And Naruto doesn't understand how someone who could jump in front of dozens of deadly needles to save the life of a teammate could turn around and betray the whole concept of their team and throw away everything it means.

[mildmay.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That hurt. It's such a perversion of what true friendship is about.

*nods* Yes, exactly.

And, yes. That's a good point about Sasuke not understanding the depth of Naruto's loyalty. And Naruto not understanding that someone could betray them all like Sasuke did. I don't know. There are times when I feel so, so bad for Sasuke and his complete lack of understanding of love and loyalty. But then, obviously, I get really angry at him, too. Because GAH! He was just so MEAN.