2011-02-03, 23:21 | Link #41 | |
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It would be pretty easy for Madara to win against each Village, but it's a whole different history now because in this case the 5 villages plus the samurais aren't 6 but much more (Sinergy).
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2011-02-04, 03:20 | Link #43 | |
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there's a reason why kinkaku and ginkaku were called kage-killers, kishi wouldn't hype them up if there isn't. so for them to be defeated easily would be disappointing. personally, i'd like to see them fight. i'm hoping they'd have some interesting techniques to show. hmmm...i'm not too fond by kishi's portrayal of the daimyo though. japanese history tells us that they were quite the bloodthirsty, power-hungry and scheming bunch of war lords. they gathered armies of the best samurai to fight their wars, and employed ninja to do their dirty work. they fought and conquered neighboring daimyo and expanded their domain. some of them were even trained samurai so to have them depicted as silly, brainless idiots is a bit insulting to their legacy. oh well, it's just a fictional series, after all. |
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2011-02-04, 04:05 | Link #44 | |||
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It was A's father that passed down the Black Lightening to him. Nothing about A. Quote:
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2011-02-04, 12:52 | Link #45 | |||
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In terms of power we know the 4th kazekage isn't considered as powerful as the 3rd by the Suna elders. 4th and his bodyguards were killed by Oro (possibly w/ Kimimaro's aid) so I don't think he was ever considered to be a major powerhouse by the readers. But he should be able to go toe-to-toe with Gaara.
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2011-02-04, 13:41 | Link #46 |
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I really wanna see some teamwork and get farther away from all this fan service with 'cool' ninja poses and one liners. Awesome battle choreography and creative jutsu teamups is what I wanna see.
I had assumed the reason Konoha has been superior to other villages is cuz of the variety of jutsu they can use in combination to the teamwork of the ninja using them. So far it's only been 1~2 ninja taking out 1~3 ninja by themselves. Kishi has a real opportunity to get some mass attack team ninja play going on. This is what I'm dying to see. It's been set up, so I hope he spikes it in soon.
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2011-02-04, 15:03 | Link #47 | |
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Besides, Kakashi worked with at least three other ninja to subdue Zabuza. Still, it would be rather amazing to see.
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2011-02-04, 20:41 | Link #49 | |
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It's okay to have strong and weak people, but it's not okay to make characters completely useless. At the moment, everyone seems to have a purpose.
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2011-02-04, 21:16 | Link #50 | |
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2011-02-05, 10:59 | Link #52 | |||||||
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It just means some screen time for the character and that's it. Not to mention the Dragon Ball exploit... Dragon Balls from this and that planet, life exchange and all that weird stuff that was invented in order to let people die for just one sake: influencing other characters. Quote:
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I wonder if Naruto will fight all bosses or if he'll just fight that Uchiha Madara. I still expect Naruto to fight Sasuke, but Madara will somehow interrupt when Sasuke's losing and then Sasuke and Naruto will fight Madara but maybe Sasuke will sacrifice himself and Naruto will visit that grave each morning in the manner of Kakashi. Quote:
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2011-02-05, 21:48 | Link #54 | |||
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Just stick to the real thing, check out Dragon Ball Kai that is being aired right now. Maybe some day a Naruto Kai will be made where all the filler shit will be removed Dragon Ball was more focused on the main characters, also it had less characters. I wouldn't say that it was better or worse, best to say that it was different. I mean we can't compare the two and say that in Naruto the side characters are treated bad, because Naruto has a lot more side characters so Kishimoto's job is a lot harder than Toriayam's was. Whatever Kishimoto does someone will complain Quote:
I think it is clear that the current generation will succeed where the previous generations failed. So for example Naruto will successfully save Sasuke as opposed to Jiraiya failing with Orochimaru. And Naruto's team will not be killed as Kakashi's team was. Sure Kishimoto will go to the extremes to let us believe that we were wrong, but in the end he will just do what we expect and end the story with a happy end. By extreme i mean some events that are impossible, for example Pain not killing Hinata but saying tha he killed her or killing Kakashi but bringing him back to life. |
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2011-02-06, 16:38 | Link #56 |
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Now that Sasuke has Itachi's eyes, Sasuke's eyes are available to Madara. The question is... are they even useful to Madara? Is his current sharingan more powerful than Sasuke's Mangekyou or would Sasuke's eyes(or eye) NOT find a new light in Madara?
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2011-02-06, 18:09 | Link #57 | |
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But you're right. DBZ was a series where a tiny handful of characters were literally thousands of times more powerful than anyone else on the planet. Naruto is a series where basically everyone is a trained warrior with unique powers. There's weaklings and powerhouses certainly, but the different degrees of strength are more varied and the gaps between them aren't so ridiculously huge. In a way, that makes it easier to keep characters relevant, but then that also means there's going to be a lot more characters who can actually fight. Who gets focus then becomes a problem. I think Madara's Rinnegan trumps Sasuke's Sharingan, but we'll see. I'm still puzzled about what his comment mentioning "synching" Sasuke with Gedo Mazo actually means...
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2011-02-06, 20:15 | Link #58 | ||
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But anyway, in my opinion Naruto is the series where it is the easiest to tell if an episode is filler or not, or in other words the fillers in Naruto seem to be much worse than the fillers in One Piece or even DB. Quote:
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2011-02-06, 22:58 | Link #59 | ||||
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First of all, I do miss a lot of people here. What has happened? Where's James? Where are all those who have been writing and commenting on the manga ever since I came here?
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Seriously, I can understand why Kakashi has no son. I mean he had some truble with his father's death and Konoha itself. The way it is, he is independent and we know that behind the scene, evil pulled the strings.
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2011-02-07, 02:35 | Link #60 | |
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When something major happens in the war, like an actual meaningful death, or fighting with characters we care about, then the interest should go up. As for Dragon Ball Kai, I thought I read that it wasn't as much to cut out any non-canon filler, as to trim down the padding. I never saw DBZ, but I read a lot of the criticism was the amount of padding episodes had. Like characters would stare and yap at each other for 10 minutes while they were floating up in the air before fighting. Kai was going to cut out the fat and get to the meat.
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