Naruto 125

[Zeus]

I really hate the useless episodes when I'm in the middle of an arc. They spent most of the episode recapping and very, very little happened. Man, I need to sleep for 4 weeks so I can get SOMEWHERE in this arc....

[SineSwiper]

There was some recapping, but I consider an episode where they basically kill off two of the main enemies that they've been fighting for the past 5 episodes (and hunting for the past 30 episodes) to be pretty fucking major.

But yeah, I sorta know what you're saying: We all want to see the Gaara fight, but we'll have to wait. They just needed to take care of the other two fights, so that there's no interuptions this time. Honestly, I was really surprised how easily they dispatched those two enemies. I guess with Team Kohana weakening the enemy, it gave Team Sand a easy time to kill them.

Also, Gaara sorted acted the way I wanted him, too. He hasn't lost his edge, but he did mention that he was "repaying a debt to Kohana". (This was when it immediately switches to Naruto, so it makes me wonder if Gaara still feels the effects of what Naruto told him.)

[Eric]

Heh, I think the Sand Ninja's established themselves quite nicely. They don't fuckin play.

[M'k'n'zy]

I thought it was a good episode all told. But yeah, I do have to seriously wonder if Kankuro would have won as easily against Sakon/Ukon if Kiba hadnt already worn them out so much that they couldnt sustain level 2.

I think Temari would have had an easy time still even if Tayuya was fresh. As Tayuya said Temari is a more or less natural enemy for her. On the other hand, she did benifit from Shikimaru's experience in knowing what she was up against. If she didnt know that Tayuya used audio genjitsu, it might not have gone as well.

[SineSwiper]

Despite being a long-distance fighter, Temari would have had a bitch of a time with the giant summons. I think that Shikimaru at least covered that much. Level 2, though, just proved to be too much chakra for him to handle.

[Gentz]

Zeus you are such a crybaby! You come in here with your whining each time another episode is released! Just enjoy the show for what it is for god's sake!

[M'k'n'zy]

Despite being a long-distance fighter, Temari would have had a bitch of a time with the giant summons. I think that Shikimaru at least covered that much. Level 2, though, just proved to be too much chakra for him to handle.

I think she could have handled the summons pretty easily. Her new Dai Kamitachi no Jutsu covers a wide enough spread that she wouldnt need full accuracy (yes I am assuming she wouldnt just use the Kuchiosie Kiri Kiri Mai durring that part of the fight.) For sure it wouldn't have been easy, but even if she did completly miss it would probally disrupt Tayuya's commands to the summons, as they were also controled by the flute

[Zeus]

Zeus you are such a crybaby! You come in here with your whining each time another episode is released! Just enjoy the show for what it is for god's sake!

LMAO! It's more of the "I fucking hate having to wait a week for each new ep" thing than anything else. I got to see the entire Chuunin exam consecutively, but if I had to endure that week to week I probably woulda bitched about that too. They just need to get me 5 eps a week instead of one :-)

[M'k'n'zy]

Zeus you are such a crybaby! You come in here with your whining each time another episode is released! Just enjoy the show for what it is for god's sake!

LMAO! It's more of the "I fucking hate having to wait a week for each new ep" thing than anything else. I got to see the entire Chuunin exam consecutively, but if I had to endure that week to week I probably woulda bitched about that too. They just need to get me 5 eps a week instead of one :-)

I wish they could but its just not possible. We are already almost completly caught up to the manga, which means it is almost FILLER TIME *sighs*

[Zeus]

Yeah, that's gonna suck. The last 5 eps they did filler were boring as hell....

[M'k'n'zy]

Yeah I know. They will probally go over the training Naruto does with Jiriya, and Sakura does with Tsunade. And then they will probally try to flesh out the "omake" story arc from the manga.

[SineSwiper]

Wow...so does Sakura stop sucking at one point? She really needs to team up with an illusionist. That's a heavy chakra-based art there.

[Shellie]

She probably goes into Healing

[M'k'n'zy]

I dont want to say anything here because I dont know how to hide my text, but yes, Sakura's character does develop.

[Zeus]

She probably goes into Healing

If you guys remember what happened during the last time they had filler eps...



Forgot the black text code, so stop reading now if you don't want to know what happened in eps 101-105......





I'm not sure if you guys remember, but I posted a new thread at being shocked at Sakura's super-human strength in that arc (ep 104 I think), which is a Tsunade trait. As well, if you follow the Team 7/Legendary Saanin connection, you have Sasuke with Orochimaru and Naruto with Jiraya, so it's not really hard to see who the next Saanin-in-training is and who she'll be training with.

I even have a very nice wallpaper that has each of the Team 7 members done up like their Saanin predecesors, so it's something the Narutards have been talking about for quite a long time

[SineSwiper]

Huh? Sakura in ep 104? I don't even remember her actually fighting in that episode. Hell, was there anything in that episode worth noting?

[Gentz]

LMAO! It's more of the "I fucking hate having to wait a week for each new ep" thing than anything else.

It's understandable. The stress of waiting is what led me to snap at you in the first place! :)

Sine: He's referring to the part where Sakura rips the mast out of the boat and smacks those Rain nin with it. That whole part of the series was just anime filler, though, so I wouldn't treat it as canon.

Sakura does do some improving soon. It's yet to be decided whether she's actually going to be useful though.

[M'k'n'zy]

Of course you have no room to talk, I have been going week to week sience about episode 15

[Zeus]

Man, you had to endure that shit during the Chuunin exam? That's even worse than this arc in terms of having to wait for eps. I was annoying having to wait one day for the next 10 ep set.....

[Eric]

I have you all beat and slaughtered. Been watching since episode 1, AND read the manga on a weekly basis, which during the end of this lil arc we're watching right now went on a 2 week hiatius at one point.

[M'k'n'zy]

Yeah. It was also frustrating when he kept us waiting a month to see what was going to happen after the extra story arc ^_^

I dont know how he could afford to take a break like that tho, with the anime so close to being caught up.

[Zeus]

It's called "a life" :-)

[SineSwiper]

Yeah, well, if the "anime" gets "caught up", then it will "run out of material", and he'll have "no life" when he has to write as "fast as possible".

[Eric]

Heartless fans are so unreasonable. Heh.

[SineSwiper]

Hey, I'm just saying that the guy's (team?) has a licensed property with an ongoing anime that will get pissed off if they run into a problem with lack of material. If the situation doesn't get corrected soon, you may run into another Dragonball GT, where they decide to make shit up, instead of following the manga.

[Eric]

Fillering today is a common practice though, most popular manga DO have the anime catch up, it's inevitable.

In DBGT's case there was no more manga, you just had an ongoing Anime series, which was downright horrible.