Naruto appreciation thread!

[MetalBlade]

Didn't see any Naruto threads! Any one like this one? I really enjoy the manga. The tv series is great too, just wish they would sell the DVDS in America!!!

 

[taboo]

I like Rock lee. He's so cool xD


heh, you didn't see any Naruto threads? (lol)

http://www.christianforums.com/t777512-naruto.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t734...tte-bayo-_.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t731...ike-naruto.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t101509-naruto.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t115...ga-readers.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t920...y-spoilers.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t709...to-more-on.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t67686-naruto.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t106...uto-anyone.html

 

[MetalBlade]

I like Rock lee. He's so cool xD


heh, you didn't see any Naruto threads? (lol)

http://www.christianforums.com/t777512-naruto.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t734...tte-bayo-_.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t731...ike-naruto.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t101509-naruto.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t115...ga-readers.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t920...y-spoilers.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t709...to-more-on.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t67686-naruto.html
http://www.christianforums.com/t106...uto-anyone.html

I looked back like five pages and didn't see any! Oh well heh. Rock Lee is cool though! Bushy Eyebrows! lol

 

[Blessed-one]

no worries, they tend to get pushed back after a while.

Rock Lee, yes! he was such a laugh, excuse me, in the beginning, but now is probably the favourite character of many Naruto fans. Apparently he's going to be stronger after his surgery, from what i heard from people who've read the manga.

 

[Dracil]

I still say people need to die more in this anime. The suspension of disbelief just disappears when characters use self-lethal moves after the nth time without any real consequences.

 

[SpaRkyDX.EXe]

their is such thing as naruto.com, i have found little japanese theme songs of naruto, i would play em', but it wont let me........ i'll show ya later after 15 post

 

[Blessed-one]

Dracil, they might just have died in the most recent anime episodes, but i haven't read the manga so i don't know...

 

[Dracil]

Eh, for some reason I don't believe they're *really* dead. I'll believe it when I see their funerals

 

[Blessed-one]

hehe, same here. I sure hope they aren't dead.....

 

[Dracil]

Yeah, but that just makes it too predictable and goes back to my original gripe about the anime. =/

Authors are just way too reluctant to kill off characters.

It's why I liked reading A Song of Ice and Fire. Every character is about as important as the next (there is no main character, and each chapter continues the story from the point of view of a different major character), so they all have an equal chance to die or suffer serious injury. Both the "heroes" and "villains". Even the kids. After all, it IS war.

 

[Blessed-one]

Yeah, but that just makes it too predictable and goes back to my original gripe about the anime. =/

Authors are just way too reluctant to kill off characters.

It's why I liked reading A Song of Ice and Fire. Every character is about as important as the next (there is no main character, and each chapter continues the story from the point of view of a different major character), so they all have an equal chance to die or suffer serious injury. Both the "heroes" and "villains". Even the kids. After all, it IS war.

um, it'd be interesting to have such an anime...

i haven't read Fire and Ice, but i've read an awesome series that has the same characteristics you listed. Try Steven Erikson's Malazan series, it won't disappoint you.

 

[MetalBlade]

I still say people need to die more in this anime. The suspension of disbelief just disappears when characters use self-lethal moves after the nth time without any real consequences.

Old man Hokage ends up dying later on in the book, when that war is going on. Anyways its not real. Like most people say, "its just a cartoon!" Why doesn't the coyote die after being blown up by pounds of dynamite from the road runner? lol

 

[Dracil]

That's old news, and a spoiler

 

[kwanseemun]

heheh, you might have liked Fullmetal Alchemist, Dracil...

 

[Dracil]

I've seen it all, waiting for the movie. Certain people should've died at the end though. But it's better than Naruto at least. The deaths/episode rate is a lot better.

BTW Blessed-One, a thought occurred to me later about your post. You've also shown that you're losing your suspension of disbelief as well, further proving my point about the problems with Naruto. When an author is reluctant to kill off characters, what happens is that when they try to pull a "death scene," people will just say "Yeah, right" and expect the characters to appear several episodes later nice and alive.

That makes trying to pull emotional strings in their death scenes pointless. Either just skip the emotional stuff (since it's lost its effectiveness) or actually let them die for once and regain the ability to effectively keep your audience guessing about future deaths.

However, I doubt it, since Naruto is, at its heart, still a kids show with a full set of moral lessons, so it's not going to shatter those feel-good illusions about life.

 

[zay]

I love Naruto, unfortunately I'm stuck at ep 97 right now, so I'm sure a lot has happened lol. But my favorites are Naruto, Gaara, Lee, and Kakashi. But wow dracil, that sounds wicked, I'll have to check that out.

 

[Blessed-one]

BTW Blessed-One, a thought occurred to me later about your post. You've also shown that you're losing your suspension of disbelief as well, further proving my point about the problems with Naruto. When an author is reluctant to kill off characters, what happens is that when they try to pull a "death scene," people will just say "Yeah, right" and expect the characters to appear several episodes later nice and alive.

um, good point. I can't comment because i've read the manga up till this point, meaning the anime doesn't affect me at all. (and why i've stopped reading the manga)

if not tear jerking at those scenes, at least a melancholy feeling.