Awesome / Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom

• Hikaru, riding on the back of a tiger and saving Michiru from public execution.
• Regardless of how you might feel about Hikaru and the movie overall, it's immensely satisfying to see him brave a fucking hurricane to save the tiger and the monkey by opening their cage, the implication being that the tiger was proud of him for his bravery. But you already knew that.
• Chamú and Hikaru have become permanent friends at the end of the movie.
• Rock Lee in particular gets more awesome moments than Naruto and Sakura. He is beyond angry when Naruto is beaten by Ishidate in their first fight. The savage beatdown he gives Kongo upon opening the Gates sometime later is quite possibly the saving grace of the movie.
• It's a depressing scene that will make you cry an ocean, but there's something badass about the King's final moments when he asks Michiru to take back the throne.
• The final battles are well animated in general and amazing, but Rock Lee's deserves particular mention for being arguably one of the greatest choreographies in the franchise overall.
• Shabadaba's death. Dick.

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