Naruto 132 - Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again.

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And that was an even BETTER episode. Daaaayyymmm.



"Maybe I was the only one... that thought ...you were my friend. If that's the case... then I...am so stupid."

:::flashbacks hit::

Oh man. I'm getting teary-eyed. I'm actually on the verge of crying here. It's the stupid music. The Naruto music of angst and pain and loneliness. This music is doing it to me and NOOOOOOOO!!! NARUTO! NOOOO!!!!!

::Naruto glows red and grabs Sasuke's hand::

YES! But still... kinda wanna cry still...

Sasuke: What...is this?

Rashaka to monitor: It's a demon, fuckface. He's got a demon. Like Gaara. Get with the picture.

Rashaka to monitor: Oh, and when you see him again in three years, he'll have had three years to get used to using the demon's power and he'll whoop your ass clean off with it.

Naruto: I will not let Orochimaru have you!

::credits roll::

Rashaka: WHAT?! NO! YOU CAN'T END IT THERE DAMMIT!

...



::deep breath::

Well, I'm very pleased with how this is turning out. I like it better in the anime than the manga for these last few episodes. And I'm glad these eps are getting the star treatment as far as animation goes, and not the C- treatment of some episodes.

For stuff like this I almost wish I hadn't read the manga first, because it would be nice to experience this sort of confrontation unspoiled to get the whole emotional and visual experience out of it.

Parting thoughts: I love Naruto and I think Kakashi's voice is too fucking sexy for this show. And I don't find voices speaking Japanese sexy very often.


EDIT: Upon rewatching certain parts, I have to say that younger!Naruto looks cuter than younger!Sasuke in this episode. And if Sasuke grows up to look like Itachi and Naruto grows up to look like the 4th (you totally know he will!), Naruto's gonna be the one getting the dates.

Also, I'm never ever gonna stop using this icon. Cause it will never not be appropriate.


EDIT: I also had some post-132 thoughts on the Kakashi scenes here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ladyjessamyn/379448.html?view=969016#t969016
Sheesh. Trying to psychoanalyze that guy is hard.


You know what I've really appreciated about the last 4 or 5 episodes? They make better use of silence. Sometimes Naruto, both the anime and the manga, likes to fill up silence with lots of words. Lots of explaining, lots of analyzing.

In the last few eps, though, especially this one and the last one, there's just been a lot heavier use of silence as a mood device.

Thank you. It's working beautifully.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

my email is rashaka_eos@hotmail.com, and that's my MSN name too. :)

Don't worry about the song-- I'm going to try to get it on teh_music. I know there are a couple of covers... what version do you recommend or is the most famous?

[mildmay.livejournal.com]

I know there are a couple of covers... what version do you recommend or is the most famous?

Um...the only version I have ever paid attention to is the one by the Bee Gees. I consider that one that original since they wrote it, but they may have written for someone else and then recorded it themselves later. I'm not sure. But I really like it. And, I should say in case you are unfamiliar with their early work...it's nothing like their disco "Staying Alive" stuff. I've always loved their pre-disco stuff.

[mildmay.livejournal.com]

my email is rashaka_eos@hotmail.com, and that's my MSN name too

I finally got around to figuring out MSN. My name is jessafae@hotmail.com. :)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

added you! I listened the Bee Gees song, and I have to say that sorry, we're thinking about different songs entirely. You're thinking of "How do you mend a broken heart" whereas what's in my head is a little different wording. I'll have to figure it out somehow.

or maybe

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

or maybe I'm thinking of the same song but the version i remember is sung so radically different that I think of them as separate songs.