[Anime-only] Naruto Shippuden Episode 209 Discussion

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Danzo's Right Arm - ダンゾウの右腕 ~ Danzō no Migiude.

Description:

Animation Supervisor: Masayuki Kouda (194, 180, 181)
Storyboard & Episode Director: Yoshihiro Sugai (196, 189, 179)
Screenplay: Daisuke Watanabe (196, 186, 183)

The Forbidden Ocular Jutsu - 禁じられた瞳術 ~ Kinjirareta Dōjutsu.

[mrShady]

Neat episode though disliked the animation (personally).
There was however one important part that I missed when I read the manga, and that was danzo mentioning that sasuke has the same eye powers as Itachi.... It seems like they are trying to say that not all mangekyou powers are the same for every uchiha person, and sasuke just so happened to have copied his brother. Atleast that is what I understood out of it, this would in turn explain kakashi's different ability.
Then again it could just be me wanting to hear that.

[EoT]

I liked the episode.

It's good to see someone similar with abilities on par to the third Hokage.

The eye thing also was interesting but I figure everyone can use the same ability? After seeing Madara use that dimension move the way it's animated it looks like Kakashi's technique

[Jerseykid]

Cool fight, the crows appearing is always what I imagined itachi did for naruto in that little interaction they had in the woods.

Danzo enraging sasuke to make him waste chakra sounds like a great plan if he even realized that's what he was doing.

I am so pro Naruto that whenever sasuke gets something new I get upset heh

[ReXcore]

epic episode, liked it a lot, looking forward to next one.

[Frenchie]

Great episode, loved the addition of wind-enhanced shuriken.

[Hunter]

Originally Posted by Jerseykid

I am so pro Naruto that whenever sasuke gets something new I get upset heh

Well it could be worse, you could be so pro Sasuke that whenever something bad could happen to him you'd faint. Imagine that.

[miroku2192]

loved the wind shuriken addition as well, pretty nice

[wsheit]

Such amazing animation. I could tell instantly from the animation style in the preview last week that we were in for a high-grade fight. I wish the whole show could be animated this way...with all the money the show must make here in the U.S. now, can showrunners really not afford to use teams like this a little more often?

[Maxtro]

Good episode.

The start was really slow the second half more than made up for it.

It's pretty evident now that Itachi gave a few things to Sasuke during that love tap.

Maybe it was his plan all along for Sasuke to fight Danzo? But he wanted to make sure his little brother had the tools to do so. Either that or he wanted Sasuke to be able to fight Madara.

[Lumir]

Pretty interesting fights. Looks like almost all the eyes on danzo's arm are slowly closing and it makes me wonder if its leading up to something or is it the time he has left to continue using his ninjitsu. Then again he still has that eye in his right socket so hmmm...

Also i find the dialogue between the two about itachi somewhat interesting. Danzo was talking about the shinobi world of shadows, and how the uchiha clan, namely itachi did something for the ninja world. While sasuke is beyond blinded by his hate and rage, he doesnt even try to pull out some serious details from danzo other then the confirmation of his orders. Either way my suspicions about madara's side of the story are still around.

What where those marks on sasuke in the preview o_O? Looked similar to the cursed seal! Wonder what danzo could be planning with all those sharingan's in his arm. And why he wants madara's and sasuke's. And more so why madara is letting sasuke do all the dirty work... i sense serious manipulation...

[sayde]

Screentime being wasted on Naruto actually being reduced to hyperventilating over the same old crap almost killed this episode for me. Thankfully the second half compensated for it. On a side note, I couldn't help but compare the quality of the animation to a certain highly anticipated KL fan animation that came out a few days ago on youtube.

[Pwnago]

Er.. The episode was really good tbh. It had action and it was good ^^. I have no idea what Danzo's arm is for. Looks pretty weird too lol, but it sorts of relates, whenever Sasuke kills Danzo one of the sharingan eye closes and he gets another life, but no one can get another life apart from sacrificing someone's life for another one but that only works for expert healers such as the old granny who healed Gara, so this must have been a illusion in my opinion.

[Jerseykid]

danzo has lots of 1ups!

[octaviahawk]

This episode was pretty sick- I had to say, at the end I groaned- I can't believe we have to wait a whole week to see the end of this fight!

BTW, when did Sasuke get the ability so summon hawks?

[Jerseykid]

I thought it was sad that he didn't talk with his summon or the summon didn't talk with him. That's always one of the coolest parts of summons.

[HayashiTakara]

Naruto freaking out to the point of breaking down over Sasuke is so... gay?

Anyway, great fight animation. I think the anime team actually prefers Sasuke over Naruto. Although one thing bugged me, the eyes on Danzo's arm were so... flat? It's like they weren't eyeballs, more like eyes painted on his arm.

[HasuMasu]

damn,
i wish naruto would learn wind jutsu like that
nice fight,
though i liked the animation of sasuke vs. bee better
anyway, i don't quite think danzo can beat the 3rd hokage
that's ridiculous

now we just have to wait for danzo to summon dumbo :P

[Suika-Esper]

Originally Posted by HayashiTakara

one thing bugged me, the eyes on Danzo's arm were so... flat? It's like they weren't eyeballs, more like eyes painted on his arm.

Same here. The manga made them look the same way, so I was a little disappointed that they didn't do a better job here.

Two theories for how Sasuke got that hawk summon: either it was Itachi's and got passed to him, which doesn't make a lot of sense because summons have nothing to do with the sharingan, or the second theory, and the one I've been convinced of since that happened, is that it was Madara's. I think it was the databook or something that said Madara's hobby was falconry. The "evolving from a snake to a hawk" speech came from Madara as well. Did he steal a summoning scroll from his hideout or something to get this hawk? The world may never know.

Great fight, and the wind shuriken was well done.

[HasuMasu]

or the second theory, and the one I've been convinced of since that happened, is that it was Madara's. I think it was the databook or something that said Madara's hobby was falconry. The "evolving from a snake to a hawk" speech came from Madara as well

crap

i forgot about the falconry thing

it all makes sense now

though i doubt madara knew about it

since he did act surprised