2011-03-28, 12:33 | Link #103 |
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Ah oke thanks.
Guess I missed it. And though you are right it was kabuto who summoned and positioned them. Also the kages summoned would be the 2nd tsuchikage, 3rd raikage, 2nd mizukage and the 4th kazekage.... Yet no mentioning of their predecessors. weird. |
2011-03-28, 13:03 | Link #104 | |
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To me, the Zombies are just blatant and lame plot devices to squeeze a little more juice out of a story with too many characters for Kishi to handle without killing anyone off.
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2011-03-29, 15:53 | Link #105 | |
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Think of how much cooler it would have been if Shikamaru and Temari fought Darui and killed him. Or Ino and Choji fought and killed that blond boyfriend of his. The Raikage vs. Tsunade. Onoki vs. Gaara. Sakura vs Karui. Hinata vs Chojuro in a battle of Moe. Neji vs Juugo. Lee vs Suigestu and so on. They don't have to be complete enemies. Kishi could also teach us boring lessons like with the Hanzou vs. Mifune fight. This would also eliminate so many useless characters. This manga has waaaaaaay too many characters. |
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2011-03-29, 17:16 | Link #106 | |
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2011-03-29, 18:30 | Link #107 | |
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2011-03-29, 18:51 | Link #108 |
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I pretty much agree. Even if this was village-vs.-village war, that would only make the villages against Konoha the bad guys and it would likely be just as one-sided as it is now. The only real difference would be that actual flesh-and-blood characters would die.
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2011-03-29, 19:56 | Link #109 |
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I don't understand how can anyone say that the zombies are "nobodies". The zombies are either the best of the dead ninjas (except the previous hokages) or important characters, or even both (like Nagato and Itachi). The war has both personal battles and emotions (like Sasori vs Kankuro, Hanzo vs Mifune, Zabuza&Haku vs Kakashi, Asuma vs his team) and large scale war scenes (like 7 swordsmen+zetsus vs Kakashi and his division, demon-brothers+zetsus vs 2 divisions).
This war is used to close the story of both living and already dead secondary characters, and of course since this is a shonen manga we expect a happy ending for all of these. The happy ending for zombies means that they achieve some kind of peace of the mind, that is what happened to Sasori, Hanzo, etc. For the living secondary characters it means kind of a "level up", for example Kakuro is now officially The Puppet Master, i think he won't get more of his own screen time in the manga, he will become just one of those who have comments like "thank you Naruto for saving the world". So we just have to wait until Kishimoto is finished with the side characters, and then most of the time goes again to the main characters. |
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Second they are zombies meaning they are already dead... being already dead means that its hard to care if they live or die since we know that as zombies they are all destined to just turn to dust in the end and return to the dead... hell for most of them loosing and dying is a GOOD thing for them as it puts them out of their misery. Frankly i feel like the only emotional investment is just coming from just one side and even then its limited further... with their lack of build up there's a lack of emotional investment in the new characters, so emotional end really only exists for the old characters. Though personally for the old characters i'm not sure how much i really feel for them... For ino, shika, cho i stopped caring after hidan was beaten; avenging asuma felt like what was necessary for them to make peace with Asuma. I think i might be a bit more Tsunade and Dan, but even then i feel like she moved on when she gave up the chance to have him back. in these cases i feel like the characters already got their closure. As for Garra and his father, I also find myself lacking all that much interest since theirs a lack of build up and garra himself is not exactly the most emotional character; never really liked his father in the first place. Sasuke and Itachi would definitely have something going on, but Sasuke's development has been such an utter train wreck i'm really not sure what to think of their encounter
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2011-03-30, 02:05 | Link #111 | |
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Is it better than the Kakashi-like guy we knew nothing about fighting two villains we didn't care about? Or samurai guy vs. beleaguered Hanzou? YES! At least we are seeing characters we care about. It's just that I don't really care about the situations they are put in. |
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And in this war these guys have to work hard, the demon brothers, the 7 swordsmen, etc., these were all hard battles where many minor and unnamed ninjas died. For example Kakashi got cut, it was his luck that he was able to partially avoid the sword so he survived, also they have good healing squads thanks to Tsunade. And we are just at the beginning, we can expect battles that will go much worse than these. There's a group of 4 kages and also the group of the strongest akatsuki members. Also Madara didn't do anything yet, it seems that he just waits for Kabuto and the alliance to weaken each other. Quote:
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Gaara not emotional? On his forehead there's a tatoo "love", you can't get more emotional than that In the current anime episode he has tears in his eyes right before he attacks Sasuke, he is a very emotional guy, but compared to Naruto he is a grown up person who learned how to rule his emotions. |
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2011-03-30, 08:55 | Link #113 |
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Sorry for the delay, Chapter 533 Thread has been started. Please move relevant discussions to the new thread.
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Look at how the Sand and Sound villages were portrayed when they were Konoha's enemies. Nearly all of them were generic no-name ninja who couldn't lay a finger on any of Konoha's elites. They had all the personality and combat effectiveness of the white Zetsus we're seeing now and no one cared when they died. The only ninja who made a real difference for the Sound were Oro and Kabuto (who were originally Konoha nin anyway). For the Sand, Gaara was portrayed as being the only real threat. If Konoha were pitted in a war against say, Kumo, characters like Darui, Omoi, and Karui would likely be portrayed much differently. They'd receive much less personality as antagonists and would be treated as mid-bosses like the Sound 4. So while I can understand what you and Ulq mean, I think it's kind of a "grass is greener on the other side" situation. A war between villages sounds awesome for anyone who's fed up with the zombies, but just based on how such things were handled in the past, I'd doubt it'd be all that much more engaging. Quote:
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not to mention from a fight stand point i have never been interested in what Garra's father was able to do... honestly i stopped caring when we found out that he was easily killed offscreen by orochimaru. I mean even his incredibly plain character design just makes me think that kishi did not care about him
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Sure he was never insteresting, but what makes him interesting is that Gaara is his son. I also don't care about him, but about how will Gaara react when they meet. |
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Though when i say pushed to the edge i mean physically... the only thing at all making this fight against asuma hard is chouji's emotional state; if not for that this fight would have been over even faster than all of the other fights up to this point; sure it makes the fight semi-tough for the good guy but only so long as that emotional state lasts and says nothing about how powerful the enemy is. When characters are push to the physical extreme it results in them being unable to keep on fighting afterward; they either need a long rest or a trip to the emergency room. That's how we know their enemies were truly powerful because it took everything they had to beat them... that's what we got out of the villains before the zombies. But with the zombies the fighters are more than ready to move on to the next not-as-epic-as-it-should-be battle. And that's why i say its been pretty easy for the good guys because they are winning with only minor injuries and have plenty of energy to keep on going Quote:
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As for Sasori... first i thought his fight with Chiyo and Saukra spoke more of their strength rather than his own weakness. i mean Chiyo basically held her own with just 10 puppets what Sasori did with 100... Sasori himself was said to have taken down the third Kazekage... thoguh another thing i do complaing about is asking why sasori DIDN'T have his puppets... afterall the seven swordsman, and the gin/kin bros all got back their weapons why not sasori; no explanation is really given as to why this is. Quote:
AS for Sasori, did we really need him to come back for that closure. Frankly i felt a whole lot better with leaving him off with just the revelation that he LET chiyo and sakura kill him. Frankly i thought that one little moment way back when was much more effective than what we got more recently... i could say similiar for some of the other dead characters; i didn't really need them to come back as i was fine with how things ended for them way back when
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2011-03-30, 19:50 | Link #118 | |
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The battle displayed all of their strengths: Chiyo putting up an epic battle even though she was passed her prime, Sakura having her first epic S-class battle and showing how shes grown, and of course it showed how incredibly powerful Sasori was. To me that fight ended perfectly; and Sasori being brought back to be out-fought by Kankuro just spoiled everything for me. |
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2011-03-31, 04:01 | Link #119 |
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The answer world needs(to Salamanders fish Hanzo)
We never know if a person has a faith just from outside, but we can see that from the battle.That's what I've got from the manga Naruto ch532:Mifune vs. Hanzou, The Conclusion!
Hanzo got unlimited scenery when give name of deception to three endure,been dirty and shameless when he fled along the body while cheating Yahiko,He experienced peak,yet experienced troughs.But,whatever his past changed because of anything,Hanzo is undoubtedly a great ninja leader when he have faith. Basically, whatever the "wicked", there'll be gambling as human dignity conscience, even faith distorted they probably can't escape the fate of heart failure, but "as a person" of the hidden side of human nature still can simply remain. Don't assert someone just by apperance, keep in the good man also reserved misunderstandings and mistrusted, those who look like bad people often also is not such as to what we see as must be bad. This is also the first place Naruto looks wonderful. Whatever the hatred of the wicked, has his side as a person, even though orochimaru also did this, it's mystifying just simply to decide the enemy is evil or not. In this world,we'd not rashly to comment on a person, that's why people always said that bosom friend is hard to find. Even with the enemy, naruto will also try to understand them, his mind will change the world, his love beyond the prejudice, and that's why Naruto would be the first leading man,and this is just the theme of this manga. It seems like that Hanzo was the "Magellanic" from the origin of his title called "Salamanders fish Hanzo".On the one hand, he was regarded as the village secret weapon, on the other hand,however,he was unashamed by the villagers because of gas... Actually, Hanzo has a same fate with one column force and the confines of blood, the pain is ever the exist, so in their desire for peace in the heart is strong, to achieve their ideal faith is strong.So,their desire for peace in the heart is strong,so did their faith to achieve their ideal. Salamanders fish Hanzo not only have the formidable strength,he is also the leader of a broad tolerance,and this figure made the guys like jiraiyu impressive.Small country leader, ninja world huge exist, this is Hanzo we konw.Without confidence and pride we can never be able to recognize our enemies,Hanzo has a firm belief, and therefore has a huge appeal. Everyone can be a hero,this is Hanzo's mind!!!For Hanzo,maybe,people who can implement their faith for peace of the world are the ones should survive.And this is just the answer the world needs. |
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