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]

Itachi was supposed to have been 13 when he killed his clan.

Ahh. Well, that fits with the other stuff. Guess they just didn't really think it through very well when they did the animation.

That is so true!

Three random cheers for Kakashi coolness! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

...Sasuke doesn't appreciate how lucky he was to have Kakashi as his teacher and focusing on him especially.

"You know that clan you want to avenge so bad? They would not like what you're doing right now."

No kidding. His mom doesn't look like she'd approve of him hurting a fly, and his dad... well his dad told him expressly NOT to be like Itachi. And here goes Sasuke, following in his brother's footsteps.

What also sucks is that Sasuke seems to have lost his respect for the clan, as well. He obviously hates Itachi for killing them all, but part of Sasuke's obsession with passing Itachi is wrapped up in the assumption that some part of Itachi's theory that the clan was weak must have been right. Like, in Sasuke's eyes, the fact that Itachi *could* kill them all (and kill their noble, strong father) proves that Itachi was right after all.

And that's sad. To have Sasuke be brainwashed so much that he's not just willing to become evil to hunt evil, but that he's also fallen so far as to partly believe in the evil he's hunting.

[mildmay.livejournal.com]

What also sucks is that Sasuke seems to have lost his respect for the clan, as well. He obviously hates Itachi for killing them all, but part of Sasuke's obsession with passing Itachi is wrapped up in the assumption that some part of Itachi's theory that the clan was weak must have been right. Like, in Sasuke's eyes, the fact that Itachi *could* kill them all (and kill their noble, strong father) proves that Itachi was right after all.

That's a very good point. I totally agree that Sasuke has been brainwashed. I have a theory (another one!) about Itachi wanting to manipulate Sasuke into becoming like himself. I don't know the reason, though...maybe he thinks the only person who could kill him would be someone just like himself. But, anyway, so far he's succeeded with Sasuke. I mean, Sasuke would even have been around the same age as Itachi was when he peformed his act of betrayl. Though Itachi's betrayl was more violent and deadly, Sasuke's had the potential to be deadly as well, since his leaving could have gotten several of his peers killed (and almost did) in their quest to get him back.