Wednesday, April 2, 2008

shippuden rant

well i was rather bored yesterday and had the sudden urge to watch a ton of shippuden episodes again. which i must say can be a tad annoying to find sometimes depending on which ones you look for. anyways, while watching them yesterday i recalled something i stumbled across awhile back. it was on narutofan forums and there were people discussing whether the shippuden was better than the first half of naruto or not. to my surprise, it seemed like a lot of people disliked it a lot because "the plot moved along really slowly and the music isn't nearly as good" and stuff like that. omg, are they out of their minds?? i really like the shippuden and i must say it is definitely better. here's why: first of all, i don't think that the shippuden's plot moves along any slower than the first part of naruto. if anything i get the impression that it moves along much faster. think about how long it took for naruto and sasuke's fight in the valley of the end or whatever it's called. even though it wasn't more than 10 episodes long or anything, it gave the impression of going on FOREVER simply because of the annoying flashbacks and the fact that it took naruto 3 or 4 times to realize that "sasuke's really trying to kill me" and that annoyed the hell out me. OMFG, YES NARUTO! for the love of fucking god sasuke wants to kill you! now get over it and fight him already! think about how long it takes for an arc to get done in the first part of naruto. true, most of the arcs aren't actually that long(excluding chunin arc perhaps) but they seem to drag on for an eternity because of it's presentation and waaaay too many flashbacks. hey guys! let's have a flashback of what just happened less than a minute ago! and repeat the process so it takes up half the episode! and the other half is going to be conversation with the enemy! they have to kill or be killed, but we have time to talk about meaningless drivel/glaring at each other dramatically! im not trying to say the shippuden doesn't have that, but it's a tad less noticeable. especially concerning the first arc which is obviously the "rescue gaara" arc. now for the music part. the first half of naruto has many songs to be sure, but hardly any of them are GOOD songs. even if i was to include the opening/ending theme songs of the first part of the series, i can only select a couple that were actually good. but im not talking about opening/ending themes at the moment. for right now, i want to focus on the actual music that plays during the episode itself. at first it is well presented but i start to notice that at some point, they don't put the music in appropriate spots at all and it lessens the effect. for example the "rising spirit" music was well put in kakashi's first fight with zabuza, but then they started putting it in the most boring of scenes that was about the least dramatic scene and i was so disappointed that they had to go and ruin a perfectly good song by putting it with a horrible scene. i gotta agree with my brother, the only truly good background music was when temari comes to shikamaru's rescue in the "sasuke retrieval" arc and that music was amazing. i will post the video of that sometime for you guys to listen to. now the shippuden pros and cons. i agree that after the rescue gaara arc, the plot really does start to go slowly, but i can explain why i don't think it is as annoying as the slow plot in the first half of naruto. but the first arc is anything but slow and they don't actually spend all that much time glaring at each other and i feel as if their conversation while glaring at each other wasn't as tedious for some reason. i gotta say, the first arc was packed with so much action that i can't understand why people would think it goes slowly. kakashi's bell test with naruto and sakura was amazing, specially since the manga skips their fight almost entirely. another thing i enjoy is the graphics of the shippuden. there's a lot more detail and kakashi's eyes were really nice. you would have to watch that particular scene to really understand but i think that everything about kakashi is even more awesome. they don't have his hair messed up and the colors with everything is nothing short of amazing. and things are a little more realistic. which i think brings me to another point i have to make. now the main thing i have to say is that naruto is no longer a little brat having dinky little adventures that don't have any significance no matter how you try to look at it. the shippuden is much more serious and with good reason. the main idea presented in the shippuden, to me anyways, is that naruto has to deal with the kyuubi inside him. it focuses on how he must learn to fight with his own strength and not the fox's because if he continues the way he is, the fox will break free from the seal that binds him to naruto. the akatsuki are all after him and they start making their move. the serious atmosphere is why the music has to change. think about the theme songs in the first part. it is far less serious and the akatsuki haven't been properly introduced. they are still a "shadowy organization" in the first part. i think the shippuden music is not only fitting but it is by no means bad music. the "akatsuki theme" music is especially good and i feel like the fighting music is waaay better than "rising spirit" simply because the fights are a lot more epic in shippuden and in many fights there is almost no conversation with the enemy, it's packed with so much action and there is no time to pause or else you will die. i want to use sakura and chiyo's fight with sasori as an example. i watched these episodes last night as mentioned before and even though i had already seen them i still thought to myself that it had to be the most epic battle i have ever seen. only the shippuden could do something like that. in the first part of the series, the puppeteer fights were boring as hell and i twitched at the mere thought of having to watch it(kankuro vs. shino) it was really boring you know? but in sasori's fight they moved so fast and the weapons dripping with poison and the amazing trap systems that sasori used was so cool and complex that i could hardly wait to see what other tricks his puppets could do. and the music kicked ass. i will also have to upload that video for you guys to watch sometime. no part of that went slowly i can tell you that much. on a random note, i noticed that sasori's puppet crotch was conveniently covered with his cloak or something. you have to wonder if sasori's wooden penis is triggered with traps as well. i mean, sasori turned himself into a human puppet and he has traps and stuff over his whole body, so i wonder if he included any traps down there. X3 wow, i can't believe the thought crossed my mind. im special, but aren't you guys curious too? no? XD and another thing about the shippuden is while it is true after the rescue gaara arc, the plot moves along slowly, the fillers are interesting and funny so i think it makes it better. it would be annoying as hell if the fillers were stupid crap-tastic ones, but that's another thing. i haven't yet run into a shippuden filler that bored me or made me want to destroy something from irritation, rather i couldn't stop laughing about them. and there really aren't that many fillers anyway. but naruto has a hilarious pair of boxers. XD another thing relating to what i said earlier about the more serious atmosphere of shippuden. i think it has a greater sense of realism you know? one example of this realistic setting is the hospitals. in the first half the hospitals aren't particularly interesting or anything. but i think they seem more like actual hospitals in the shippuden rather than magical. my example for this is kakashi. as you may or may not know, when kakashi fought with deidara in the rescue gaara arc, he used his raikiri once and his new mangekyou sharingan 3 times. you could really tell it was causing him a lot of pain to use it and his breathing became a little heavy and sweat dripped down his skin. and after they got home and he was taken to the hospital and btw, i just gotta say, kakashi sounds so sexy when he's in pain. when he tries to sit up and falls back in pain, the sheet NEARLY slips off his face entirely and he didn't have his mask on. kyaah, it was so hot the way the sheet just barely managed to stay on like that. why do they always have to mock us like that? i really wanna see! but at the same time, i think it would ruin the essence of kakashi if they showed his face you know what i mean? then he wouldn't have quite the same air of mysteriousness about him as before. at least that's what i think. is it just me or do the hot anime guys seem even hotter when they make those noises of pain? am i the only one who thinks that? and i think the IV drips are pretty realistic which makes the hospital seem a tad bit more real and kakashi isn't simply going to heal in an instant. and now the last thing i wanted to say... OMG, sasori is so adorable!!! X3 and he looks really girly now that i think about it. have you guys seen sasori as a kid? he's cute! he's the only akatsuki who you see as a kid and he is so huggable! sasori's voice as a kid is so sweet and innocent! i luvs him even more! i feel sorry for him though cuz he always seems so lonely! and i think the puppet workshop that chiyo showed him is a bit scary. i saw that place and thought that's no place to bring a little kid! seriously those freaky puppets on the racks were creepy! and it is also revealed that kakashi's father "konoha's white fang" is the one who killed sasori's parents. and another thing i gotta get out of my system is that sasori and gaara look nothing like each other. people are always saying that but they are completely different. sasori has really long lashes and has eyebrows. his hair is longer and kinda fluffy looking and he has eyelids. gaara's hair is shorter and more spiky and has dark shadows arounds his eyes and his eyes are pale turquoise and sasori's eyes are such a beautiful shade of brown. another thing is sasori's face is longer and more slender and smooth and gaara's seems a bit rounder. i suddenly remembered a few questions i was gonna ask yesterday. not all of 'em, but answer seriously here ok? 1. which akatsuki would be the most awkward one to have sex with: deidara, sasori, zetsu, or kakuzu? if you want to know why deidara is on the list, for those who don't know, deidara not only has a mouth on each hand, but one big one on his chest. i don't know about you but that would be awkward for me. sasori is a wooden puppet(risk of splinters!), zetsu is a cannibal and has multiple personalities and how the hell do have sex with a giant plant. and kakuzu is kinda made of lots of tentacles that come out of his body. 0__o 2. which akatsuki would look most adorable as a kid? true, you only see pein and sasori as little children, but use your imagination. and wouldn't it be cute to see zetsu as a kid? think about it... 3. what do you think the akatsuki do in their free time? seriously, i have been wondering this for a long time. i mean even they have to sleep and eat too right? i wonder if they do chores or are they too lazy? maybe badass villains think chores are beneath them unless it involves jinchuuriki or something?? i wonder who does the cooking and stuff? and what kind of rooms do they have? are they like seriously living under a rock or do they live fairly comfortably? ha ha, i suddenly had the urge to see the akatsuki living like hobos or something. 4. this isn't really a question, but you know how sasuke is in shadows for a long time in shippuden so they can make his appearance all dramatic and stuff and it's kinda of annoying how they make a big deal about keeping his looks secret forever cuz he's not really that good looking and is hardly worth it. well i had a hilarious idea for that where sasuke's in shadows and in his dramatic appearance, sasuke has randomly become a black man or something. wouldn't that be hilarious? it would be like sasuke: hey guys, it's been a while!! naruto: WTF?! sasuke why the hell are you black? when the fuck did that happen?? sasuke: i went through plastic surgery! screw my asian-ness! from now on im gonna be a gangster/basketball player! im a pimp! naruto: fuck no! we are not airing the shippuden with you being black! what will the sasuke fangirls think?! just for that, PAOPU FRUIT NO JUTSU!!! sasuke: gaaah! my eyes! it burns!! DX sakura: -___-'' well this just about ruined the entire rest of the series... im gonna get drunk or something to forget this ever happened.... *doop*

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