Randomness + Naruto 408-415
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So, new layout. 'Bout time. Nothing terribly fancy, but I like it. And if anyone knows where the pic in the banner came from and/or who should be credited for it, I'd love to know. Google Fu has its failings...
...Now, I've not read what anyone else had to say about these chapters, though I did skim one or two of its_game_time's like a week ago, so all thoughts are my own. Though doubtless someone else has drawn the same parallels as I have, because hello, obviousness.
LET'S GET STARTED, SHALL WE.
…So…normal techniques use the chakra that comes from inside you, and “sage” techniques use the energy around you.
…Which means that basically, Naruto is training to become a Quincy.
And also “size matters not”, because Yoda Fukasaku or wtf-ever that little old frog dude's name is can lift the X-wing out of the swamp that huge, heavy-ass stone frog thing.
Though that little pic of 100%frog!Naruto, STILL with the little cheek whiskers, was oddly cute to me. XD
…I nearly DIED laughing when “Killer Bee” started rapping in 410. DUDE, I THINK I LOVE THAT GUY. XDDD And if I were writing Naruto, he’d actually SAY that Juugo and Sui, they be trippin’. And then Sasuke would say, “Hmm, I see that you are gangsta. I’m pretty gangsta myself.” And then they’d have a rapping contest. And Killer Bee would yell at Karin and say, "Bitch, you jus' gon' stand around like that, then you best try makin' yo'self useful an' be a background dancer."
Also, the guitar-pick necklaces on the cover of 411 made me snicker. Because having “BEST FRIENDS” necklaces is one thing, but this is like having a LOCKET with the other dude’s face in it. …And I’m getting this odd feeling, like with each passing chapter, NaruSasu becomes a little more canon...which honestly I would actually prefer to NaruSaku, because ergh.
…Okay Sasuke, it’s all very well and good to SAY that you’re using Akatsuki, not the other way around, but if you don’t know what Tobidara is planning, it’s kinda hard not to do what he wants you to do. And I’m pretty sure you have NO idea what he’s planning, because it seems that for once we’ve got a villain who isn’t overeager to spout his plans for world domination at people at least thus far-DON’T EVER CHANGE THAT, TOBI.
Sasuke’s little pin-Zabuza’s-sword-through-the-hole trick was pretty cool. <3 And then his pissy look of annoyance when Killer Bee just calmly started writing down a new rhyme…LOL. But fighting with seven swords…is really pretty lame. And the POSE/FIGHTING STANCE. OMG, I THINK WE’VE FOUND GAI-SENSEI’S SOULMATE. Technically, I guess he could use chakra to help hold all those blades, but it’s still basically a circus act. And yet Sasuke still gets owned. Go fig.
Still, mad points for the “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” quote. I wonder if that’s REALLY what he said in Japanese? Or were the translators just being cute?
And now in 412, HEY WAIT WHOA, WUT, WHY IS WATER WEAK AGAINST LIGHTNING, TOO. THAT DOESN’T GO WITH YOUR LITTLE CIRCLE FLOW CHART THINGY, KISHI. AND YOU ALREADY MADE ROCK WEAK AGAINST LIGHTNING, WHICH MAKES NO EFFING SENSE, BUT IF YOU’RE GONNA COME UP WITH THAT KINDA BULLSHIT, AT LEAST STICK TO IT.
Also ARGH, SASUKE, WHY DO YOU SUCK SO HARD. And all of the sudden you’re willing to accept help from your teammates? WTF. Team 7 was stronger than these mooks you’re hangin’ with now. Also, Sasuke/Karin moment FTL. Excuse me while I go dry heave.
But HURRAH for Kage Bunshin Whack-a-mole with Naruto!
Killer Bee throwing up the horns…idk if that’s more cause for laughter or “EFF YES”. So I’m kinda going with both. But more of the “EFF YES” side, because after that, he apparently decides that it’s time for some flame-tentacle rape.
Sasuke doing the quadruple backhandsprings with a full layout is pretty and all, but since when is he that much of a gymnast? GO FOR THE GOLD, SASUKINS.
Insert prerequisite awww @ Juugo protecting Karin.
And then LOLEFFYESFINALLY at Sasuke being all UCHIHAH4X on the guy, thinking it’s over, and then getting CLOTHESLINED. But WTF is with Juugo’s goofy melding jutsu? Sasuke doesn’t have the cursed seal anymore, I didn’t think, so how's he still compatible with Juugo? And more WTF at Karin healing Sasuke ONCE and then not having enough chakra to do jack shit. Not that I really CARE since it’s KARIN, but even though I think she’s a skank, she’s still the only kunoichi here, and just how badly she’s sucking simply because she is female annoys me to no end.
…The “bullying” line…no. Just. No.
BUT OH NARUTO, DON’T YOU KNOW THE FROG FOOD IS SLIMY YET SATISFYING? And when the frogs say “time for some grub!” they mean it literally. X’D
So…at the end of 414. Is Sasuke accepting Hebi/Taka as his new family/team thing, or…is he wanting to protect them because they reminded him of Team 7, which he actually DOES miss being a part of?
Also, the whole OMGSAVEKARIN focus of 415… -BARF- Though I lol'd at it a little, because in my mind Killer Bee was all like "BITCH, YOU BE STEPPIN' OUT!" -PIMPSLAP!-
…OH, GREAT TIME TO GO FLASHING YOUR UCHIHA SYMBOL, SASUKE. Now the Raikage will blame Konoha for kidnapping his brother, and think they’re messing with Akatsuki. GENIUS. Not that you really CARE what happens to Konoha anymore.
lolNaruto: “A BOOK? DER, WUZZAT?”
So, overall impressions:
- It seems to me like Sasuke is getting suckier and suckier, while Naruto has become a Quincy/Jedi…thing who has learned to USE THE FORCE. At this rate, when the inevitable Naruto/Sasuke battle finally comes around again, Naruto will absolutely trash Sasuke, though I’m sure Kishi will find a way to use UchihaH4X to tip the scales in Sasuke’s favour.
- Hebi/Taka sucks. Stop hanging out with those lamers and come home, Sasuke. Also, Akatsuki’s recruitment requirements seem to have taken a nosedive, because I definitely wouldn’t classify ANY of those four as S-class. No, not even Sasuke. He had to get his ass saved twice in just that one fight. LAME. Honestly? I really think someone like Deidara would have done SO much better against Killer Bee, and he’d’ve done it on his own. And Kakuzu & Hidan vs. Killer Bee would’ve been fun to watch, too. This fight was just…painfully bad, though UchihaH4X once again saves Sasuke’s ass.
- It really is a lot less frustrating to let myself get behind and then read a bunch of chapters all at once. It makes it easier for me to hold it at arm’s length and get more of a big-picture feel of it.
In other news, I have no idea who made THIS, but whoever it was, it must have been made for me.
So, new layout. 'Bout time. Nothing terribly fancy, but I like it. And if anyone knows where the pic in the banner came from and/or who should be credited for it, I'd love to know. Google Fu has its failings...
...Now, I've not read what anyone else had to say about these chapters, though I did skim one or two of its_game_time's like a week ago, so all thoughts are my own. Though doubtless someone else has drawn the same parallels as I have, because hello, obviousness.
LET'S GET STARTED, SHALL WE.
…So…normal techniques use the chakra that comes from inside you, and “sage” techniques use the energy around you.
…Which means that basically, Naruto is training to become a Quincy.
And also “size matters not”, because Yoda Fukasaku or wtf-ever that little old frog dude's name is can lift the X-wing out of the swamp that huge, heavy-ass stone frog thing.
Though that little pic of 100%frog!Naruto, STILL with the little cheek whiskers, was oddly cute to me. XD
…I nearly DIED laughing when “Killer Bee” started rapping in 410. DUDE, I THINK I LOVE THAT GUY. XDDD And if I were writing Naruto, he’d actually SAY that Juugo and Sui, they be trippin’. And then Sasuke would say, “Hmm, I see that you are gangsta. I’m pretty gangsta myself.” And then they’d have a rapping contest. And Killer Bee would yell at Karin and say, "Bitch, you jus' gon' stand around like that, then you best try makin' yo'self useful an' be a background dancer."
Also, the guitar-pick necklaces on the cover of 411 made me snicker. Because having “BEST FRIENDS” necklaces is one thing, but this is like having a LOCKET with the other dude’s face in it. …And I’m getting this odd feeling, like with each passing chapter, NaruSasu becomes a little more canon...which honestly I would actually prefer to NaruSaku, because ergh.
…Okay Sasuke, it’s all very well and good to SAY that you’re using Akatsuki, not the other way around, but if you don’t know what Tobidara is planning, it’s kinda hard not to do what he wants you to do. And I’m pretty sure you have NO idea what he’s planning, because it seems that for once we’ve got a villain who isn’t overeager to spout his plans for world domination at people at least thus far-DON’T EVER CHANGE THAT, TOBI.
Sasuke’s little pin-Zabuza’s-sword-through-the-hole trick was pretty cool. <3 And then his pissy look of annoyance when Killer Bee just calmly started writing down a new rhyme…LOL. But fighting with seven swords…is really pretty lame. And the POSE/FIGHTING STANCE. OMG, I THINK WE’VE FOUND GAI-SENSEI’S SOULMATE. Technically, I guess he could use chakra to help hold all those blades, but it’s still basically a circus act. And yet Sasuke still gets owned. Go fig.
Still, mad points for the “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” quote. I wonder if that’s REALLY what he said in Japanese? Or were the translators just being cute?
And now in 412, HEY WAIT WHOA, WUT, WHY IS WATER WEAK AGAINST LIGHTNING, TOO. THAT DOESN’T GO WITH YOUR LITTLE CIRCLE FLOW CHART THINGY, KISHI. AND YOU ALREADY MADE ROCK WEAK AGAINST LIGHTNING, WHICH MAKES NO EFFING SENSE, BUT IF YOU’RE GONNA COME UP WITH THAT KINDA BULLSHIT, AT LEAST STICK TO IT.
Also ARGH, SASUKE, WHY DO YOU SUCK SO HARD. And all of the sudden you’re willing to accept help from your teammates? WTF. Team 7 was stronger than these mooks you’re hangin’ with now. Also, Sasuke/Karin moment FTL. Excuse me while I go dry heave.
But HURRAH for Kage Bunshin Whack-a-mole with Naruto!
Killer Bee throwing up the horns…idk if that’s more cause for laughter or “EFF YES”. So I’m kinda going with both. But more of the “EFF YES” side, because after that, he apparently decides that it’s time for some flame-tentacle rape.
Sasuke doing the quadruple backhandsprings with a full layout is pretty and all, but since when is he that much of a gymnast? GO FOR THE GOLD, SASUKINS.
Insert prerequisite awww @ Juugo protecting Karin.
And then LOLEFFYESFINALLY at Sasuke being all UCHIHAH4X on the guy, thinking it’s over, and then getting CLOTHESLINED. But WTF is with Juugo’s goofy melding jutsu? Sasuke doesn’t have the cursed seal anymore, I didn’t think, so how's he still compatible with Juugo? And more WTF at Karin healing Sasuke ONCE and then not having enough chakra to do jack shit. Not that I really CARE since it’s KARIN, but even though I think she’s a skank, she’s still the only kunoichi here, and just how badly she’s sucking simply because she is female annoys me to no end.
…The “bullying” line…no. Just. No.
BUT OH NARUTO, DON’T YOU KNOW THE FROG FOOD IS SLIMY YET SATISFYING? And when the frogs say “time for some grub!” they mean it literally. X’D
So…at the end of 414. Is Sasuke accepting Hebi/Taka as his new family/team thing, or…is he wanting to protect them because they reminded him of Team 7, which he actually DOES miss being a part of?
Also, the whole OMGSAVEKARIN focus of 415… -BARF- Though I lol'd at it a little, because in my mind Killer Bee was all like "BITCH, YOU BE STEPPIN' OUT!" -PIMPSLAP!-
…OH, GREAT TIME TO GO FLASHING YOUR UCHIHA SYMBOL, SASUKE. Now the Raikage will blame Konoha for kidnapping his brother, and think they’re messing with Akatsuki. GENIUS. Not that you really CARE what happens to Konoha anymore.
lolNaruto: “A BOOK? DER, WUZZAT?”
So, overall impressions:
- It seems to me like Sasuke is getting suckier and suckier, while Naruto has become a Quincy/Jedi…thing who has learned to USE THE FORCE. At this rate, when the inevitable Naruto/Sasuke battle finally comes around again, Naruto will absolutely trash Sasuke, though I’m sure Kishi will find a way to use UchihaH4X to tip the scales in Sasuke’s favour.
- Hebi/Taka sucks. Stop hanging out with those lamers and come home, Sasuke. Also, Akatsuki’s recruitment requirements seem to have taken a nosedive, because I definitely wouldn’t classify ANY of those four as S-class. No, not even Sasuke. He had to get his ass saved twice in just that one fight. LAME. Honestly? I really think someone like Deidara would have done SO much better against Killer Bee, and he’d’ve done it on his own. And Kakuzu & Hidan vs. Killer Bee would’ve been fun to watch, too. This fight was just…painfully bad, though UchihaH4X once again saves Sasuke’s ass.
- It really is a lot less frustrating to let myself get behind and then read a bunch of chapters all at once. It makes it easier for me to hold it at arm’s length and get more of a big-picture feel of it.
In other news, I have no idea who made THIS, but whoever it was, it must have been made for me.
