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Chapter 298 & 299

Sent him to another dimension? The fuck? Is that translated right?

...okay, ignoring how stupid that is given everything we knew about Narutoverse jutsu canon up till now-- YAY CROSSOVERS!

.... okay I forgive you for the alternate dimension business BECAUSE NARUTO IS SCREAMING AT PEOPLE. Awesome. Very awesome to see him lose his cool. And he's putting a lot of blame on the Sand village... is he really that okay with Leaf? Doesn't he know they're basically the same? We'd thought he'd forgiven the villagers for and accepted his demon-holding condition, but maybe as he's gotten older he's gotten more angry about it.


Bring him back to life?

Let me echo a friend and say YOU CHICKENSHIT.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. I mean, I love Gaara because I love his purpose in the story-- I love what he represents to Naruto. And he was cool. But the actual character I'm not terribly attached too, for the same reason I'm not terribly attached to Sasuke or Neji. Cold, solemn, violent people do little for me, as far as characters go. Gaara's storyline has been so interesting though, especially how it wound through with Naruto's, that I love his presence. But because I love his plot presence and not particularly him, I'm okay with him dying (compare this to my love for Kakashi's character-0 I would absolutely shit a brick if he died). In fact, I'd think it better that Gaara died-- because I love what that means for Naruto. I love all the drama that anything with Gaara brings, including character death.

This bringing him back to life stuff is just a cop-out. I'd rather they not say he died at all than say he died then bring him back to life. Besides, Gaara's an important character but he's not a major character. Why can't he die?

Argh. I think Kishimoto was a lot willing to kill and injure people in the earlier volumes. I actually remember being kind of afraid for all the rookie genin in the second chunin exam. I don't feel that fear now.

Hey, have you ever read House of Leaves? Go read it, now. I swear it's awesome.


The alternate dimension thing was weird and random. The bird-riding artist Akatsuki was exploding himself in a last act of self-destruction a la Dragon Ball Z (thankfully without a dramatic speech before hand), but just as he was exploding Kakashi did something and then he just disappeared or something. It was a little hard to follow, visually. But Kakashi then said he sent him and his explosion to an alternate dimension. ....ummmmmmokaysure.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I find Gaara to be an interesting character. He interests me in ways that Sasuke and Neji do not. He had a severely warped world view when he first came into the series, and now here he is, a person who is willing to die for the sake of others. Instead of this BS filler with the other Leaf Village teams, why not create some kind of backstory for what happened with Gaara post-Sasuke-In-A-Barrel? And his brother and sister?

I love the Sand kids, but they deserve to be fleshed out if I'm expected to fully be involved with the current arc, post-time jump. I'd be mad if Kishimoto offed either Temari or Kankurou, yet it wouldn't turn me off of the series entirely. (Not like a certain character's murder in Death Note did.) Watching them interact now that Gaara has connected with a part of himself that had been lost ... that would get me to DL filler episodes.

I hate retcons. Which is exactly what Kishimoto did - he retconned his own canon. Not even twenty some odd chapters after he established the fact that the host cannot exist without the demon. I'd miss Gaara, yeah, but I agree with what you've said - it's important to the progression of the story and the characters AROUND him if Kishimoto didn't pussy out and say, "Oh, well, he didn't really die. I brought him back and he can live without his demon." Bite. Me. I know I shouldn't expect manga-ka folks to be any different than American comic book writers, but ... he was doing so well - all minor flubs aside - you know?

I think Kishimoto was a lot willing to kill and injure people in the earlier volumes.

Ah! You don't feel fear of death for anyone if people don't die. Aren't these kids supposed to be in a dangerous line of work? If shinobi don't die, then where's the feeling of mortality? How the hell did all of those names get onto that monument? Where's the importance of what happened (will happen) with Obito in the Gaiden? That's where FMA's anime worked (as does the manga, too, but the anime milked that for all it was worth). After a couple of episodes, you knew they weren't jacking around. If this trend of "miraculously saving" characters who should, for all intents and purposes, be dead, Naruto might lose me. Yeah, this from the person who keeps reading X-Men comics, where "She's dead! She's alive! No, she's dead! No, she was really alive and everyone THOUGHT she was dead!" is just a way of life.

I hope some of that made sense.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

If this trend of "miraculously saving" characters who should, for all intents and purposes, be dead, Naruto might lose me.

the word "continues" should be in that sentence somewhere.