Naruto

I know I’m a few decades late but I’ve just started watching the original series on Netflix (thanks to my recent interest in Japanese culture).

That's really cool! I hope you enjoy the series! Kishimoto make lots of references to Japanese folk lore and mythology with his character names and attacks which is really fun to spot.

To feel free to share your thoughts about the series if you want.

Thanks, I also had to look up a guide online to tell me which episodes are purely filler and that I should skip without worry.

Yeah, the series does have a major problem with filler arcs, but they can now all be safety skipped. I will say that there are three or four comedy filler arcs that are actually pretty funny like the Kakashi Mask episode. If after getting into the series, you ever want some funny omake-esq stuff, I would recommend looking at some of the lists of best filler arcs.

Shino laughing Filler is glorious.

The filler arc when we see Kakashi's days as an Anbu, is actually quite good, and deserves to be watched along with the main story.

(Shippuden episodes 349–361)

I also think a lot of War Arc Filler Episodes are quite good, like the one where Lee and Sai become friends, or the one focusing on Torune and Shino.

Of course, then there is Yota.....

I watched all of it a couple of years ago when i had a bad time at uni. At the time, the series was just about done. So yea, no harm in being late to the club.

I hope you enjoy it!

Apologies though, i re-read my post and it came off as more confrontational than i intended.

Edited by devak on Feb 23rd 2024 at 4:43:44 PM

x5,

IIRC, the Kakashi's mask episodes are adaptations of omake that Kishimoto wrote and put into the Naruto databooks.

Update on the live action film from Variety: Destin Daniel Cretton is directing and writing now: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/naruto-film-lionsgate-destin-daniel-cretton-1235920799/

Made a separate thread for the film. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=17087215910A51906600&page=1#2

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Feb 23rd 2024 at 4:14:40 AM

I hope they can do the Ho Yay well enough, I know they're still spooked by that stuff.

Anyway Kishimoto's thoughts on his idol akira Toriyma's passing.

Just found this AMV, set to the THE Amv song of Naruto: Silhouette.

Ok. I thought I was doing something wrong, but I think there's a problem with Embedding. Just wanted to point that out.

So Kurama is back.

Of course the writers couldn't commit.

That should really go under a spoiler tag

I mean, it got me to actually read this chapter of Boruto.

But yeah. Spoilers are probably for the best.

Dude, the idea that Tailed Beasts can come back even after being killed was established with the 3 Tails.

Rin died and took it with her when Kakashi killed her, but the Mizukage still became its tailed beast later because it came back.

So I'm not seeing it as the writers not committing so much as being just accurate to how tailed beasts work.

• On the one hand, yeah, it was established the Tailed Beasts never really die.
• On the other hand that was a stupid bit of lore the series never needed, and we see the detriment it poses to lore right here - Kurama dying was just a Death Of Personality. Sad for Naruto but not truly putting him at risk of permanent death in anything but a spiritual sense.

Since the Tailed Beasts were said to be Chakra incarnated, it made sense for them to be indestructible.

It also made the lore about the need for hosts to contain their power make sense, because since the beasts can't be destroyed, there was no other option but to seal them inside a person or thing; otherwise, they could destroy the world.

(The other option is to treat them well, so that they are not hostile to humanity even when free, but well, humans will be humans)

We didn't know they were "chakra incarnate" until a good bit into the series though. The tailed beasts were entities based off of Japanese folklore. The first scene of Kurama had him smashing the village, and this was back before saw ninja throwing nukes and meteors around or had any conceivable defense against kaiju.

The lore about needing hosts didn't require the beasts being invincible to make sense, and that wasn't a thing until they threw that lore in during Part 2. They're demons. Demons/mythological creatures get sealed in things all of the time.

Actually, while you are correct and I AGREE with you, that doesnt necessarily exclude being chakra incarnate... But the real problem here is that we in the beggining DID see chakra as a finite resource. So while there is no contradiction in the Kyubi being chakra incarnate, there IS in saying he's immortal and not even the death of his host with him inside can kill him.

Cross post from the Dragonball Z Thread. The fifth opening of the original series with Dragonball characters (based off the Buu Saga)

This has always been one of my favourite openings, just for the visuals (and the rather desperate tone of it).

I love Seishun Kyosokyoku SO MUCH. It was one of the things that allowed me to get rid of my hatred of the Naruto series and start legit loving it.

Did they draw all of that? That shot of Goku going Super Saiyan 3 was -chef's kiss-