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Faithfully my foot, the book only covered the last loop. 1 episode or 15,498 episodes is faithfully, 8 was just trolling.
Ascendance of a Bookworm publisher confirms season 2 will air as planned.
yeah I do really like Hestia! but Bell is definitely the absolute best character in it by far and I love him
I still want to obliterate Hermes though
hm, well I hadn't heard about this stuff in season 2, and I only just started on it today. Good to have a warning I suppose! I've had it recommended to me by a couple folks whose suggestions I usually trust, though, so I am gonna stick with it by now and see how it goes...
It's probably best to watch the first season, and side story season*, and then pretend nothing else exists.
*Maybe, I liked it. Some people didn't. It's basically the story of the first season from the perspective of someone in Ais' familia. I actually thought she was a new character for that story, but she does show up in a few shots at the end of the first season, and the ending credits.
I feel like paragraph 2 completely invalidates paragraph 1 here. A caveat to satisfy people who would tend towards puritanism (or whatever you'd call that in Japan) that suggests she wouldn't deserve acceptance or placement as a love interest without paragraph 2.
The problem with that line is that it only exists for the audience, particularly the audience that doesn't believe the message that they were trying to get across. And why bother trying to appease them?
Like when setting up a child labor sweatshop is improvement...
ProZD is sponsored by Sakura Wars but like... he's also openly mocking and critiquing the system they're promoting. I love that he did this and they paid for him to do so.
Been reading this since you linked it, I like it, I wish it had a bit more going on than just the one gag repeated over and over but that's not really the kind of comic it's trying to be. But the gags with the demon lord are SO good.
edit: Zoe you can't leave people hanging like that!
I feel like it's so much better in manga form, because the anime suffered from padding and filler something fierce.
Then again, the anime did heighten certain cool moments to the upper echelon of amazing.
IMHO Naruto is a big fucking mess, but there's a lot of neat ideas and cool characters in there. Thankfully, I've found a bunch of fun fanworks that try to unpack the good from the bad and do something more carefully thought out with it than Shonen Jump's schedule would have ever allowed Kishimoto to do.
Some of my complaints off the top of my head
My abbreviated thoughts:
Naruto is the best shonen Shonen protaganist of all the big Shonen stuff I've read (DBZ, One Piece, MHA, etc.) And is a genuinely fantastic character
Sasuke's arc was not well executed at all and his face turn was hilariously awkward and sudden
Sakura had moments of greatness but was largely wasted
The setting is extremely neat and well developed
Top 10 characters:
1) Naruto (and Kurama)
2) Kakashi
3) Gaara
4) Tsunade
5) Shikamaru
6) Sakura
7) Guy
8) Hinata
9) Rock Lee
10) Ino
Killer Bee would have made the list if not for the horrible, fairly racist, rapping gimmick
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Lots of ninjas, so it's kind of a wash considering how the majority of ninja are in that world. They have exams where it's not only permissible for teenagers to murder each other but actively encouraged.
It baffles me, as it is basically my favorite part of the series.
Naruto being this super powerful, excitable ninja prodigy that instead often resolves conflict by finding common ground and empathy with his foes and making them question why they are fighting in the first place is SO MUCH BETTER than fuckin punching everyone who is a bad guy.
Ain't a good combo
multiple characters essentially tried to commit genocide, and then were promptly forgiven with literally no consequence
empathy is good, lack of consequence is not
The idea that trying to kill a lot of folks isn't treated with the same weight as it would be in our world seems right to me
Also basically every big forgiven character that wasn't actively being controlled or manipulated dies sacrificing themselves?
Itachi wasn't actually evil and also sacrificed himself
Pain sacrificed himself to bring back the dead
Obito sacrificed himself to restore Kakashi and help fend off Madara
Even Zabazu dies a heroic death basically immediately after his turn
Kabuto and Orochimaru don't really get consequences but thats just because they aren't really shown? I assume both of them slinked off somewhere when the dust settled.
Of course it helps that death doesn't really matter and you have Buddhist elements
Folk Buddhism has a female demon who ate billions of children, but then converted to Buddhism and became a protector of children instead
Fair criticism, it's pretty lazy worldbuilding/character design that the cloud village is The Black People Village. There's a bit of worldbuilding in the background in Boruto that the leaf village is getting more diverse after the events at the end of Naruto because the villages are all opening up and interacting more, at least.
I mean, it doesn't really even happen in the other two Big 3