Naruto 515; Kishi, I take back every unflattering thing...
...I ever said about you. :'D
Somebody throw a bucket of water my way because OMG, the Konoha Rookies are all in standard Chuunin vests and fuckkk, all I can think is okay, there is a war going on-I get it-but maybe they should all hook up because they’re all very pretty and that would be extremely nice./shallowww we will see everyoneXeveryone fics one day, mark my words. Fandom hasn’t failed me yet♥
And just because I don’t think I’ll be able to maintain any semblance of coherency if I let my accursed fingers have free reign, I’ll just make a LIST of why I think Kishi is going to go out WITH A BANG Fuck yes, Deidara - you’re baccckkk:
♪ OMG, Gaara - why are you so Gaara. You don’t even have to say anything, COMMANDER GENERAL SIR, and you’d still be the coolest badass ever. Lol, Naruto-you still have a ways to go. That was totally not a PoT moment there >.>;; And-and is it just me, or is Gaara just getting prettier by each chapter?/fangasmmm 8D I love it, yo, but I… asjgdalk, sort of wish he’d fly homicidal rage again and terrify the shit out of his enemies because the other psychos just aren’t doing it right.
…Wat? .__.
♪-You may wish to skip this if you like-
Speaking of other psychos SASUKE <333 Dude, well, hello. You’ve been terribly missed by me and after all this time, Kishi just tosses us a topless man bone/sighhh Kishi you tease But even without that, OMG - why are you so simple and complicated all at once? DX
So much of, well, everything revolves around this guy (he is THE main character, after all. Even in something as petty as this, he just can’t help showing up Naruto♥ Oh fuck, now I want crack!fic for this) I’m a bit… concerned about his reaction to zombie!Itachi (on this note, the zombie apocalypse fever has managed to infect even Kishi, it seems).
About 95% of me hopes he flies into the murderous rage but he’s been having recurring episodes of MUST KILL FOR REVENGE and kill Kakashi and Sakura for totally ridiculous reasons syndrome and there’s only so many psychotic faces à la Light from Death Note that I can take. The remaining 5% just hopes he doesn’t go and do something stupid. I don’t know what, but dear little avenger here has been making such rational decisions lately, don’t you think?
I was a bit outraged/appalled/generally just WTFing and D: noooo when he decided to carve Itachi’s eyes into his skull, but now I’m actually a tiny bit excited to see how he’ll look without the bandages (this reminds of just so many stories, but Blind, a fan-novel, explores it like nothing else). Apart from Naruto, Sasuke is the one of the few characters whose design Kishi has constantly changed - first the black clothes when he makes a flashy entry during the Chuunin Exam Arc, but that was scrapped because apparently it was time-consuming to draw. Then came the gay pirate outfit Orochimaru must have personally picked for him, then his clothes during his fight with Itachi, and afterwards the bangs and the high collar shirt--- and of course, his eyes have always been at the top of the list.
I’m really hoping when all the dust’s settled, and he’s redeemed he has to be or else there’d be NO POINT, we’ll get thought text like, idk, “Brother, now I see through your eyes what you’ve wanted me to see all along” and that is wishful thinking and probably overdramatic, but Sasuke has always been a bit of a dramaqueen when it comes to his big brother. <333 This is why I still love you, you douchebag
So the third/fourth page was totally ♥ for me - it’s just that whenever I get see Naruto and Sasuke together on the same page, it’s just-gah. GAH, I tell you. I don’t even know when my mind automatically started associating words like bonds and promise and best friends with these boys. Clearly, Naruto has taken over my life >.>;;
And how he plans to get to the outdated fossils that ordered his clan killed, I have no clue. He doesn’t even have Karin on his side now lol, you stabbed her, remember? Because there are ways to get revenge without being a douchebag. But maybe Shikamaru can help him with that.♥
-rant end-
♪Speaking of which, how is Shikamaru the General of the Long Range Fighter Division when Temari was right there, ready to kick some ass and a Jounin to boot. For some reason, that was what leapt out at me when I saw that panel. :/
Don’t get me wrong--- I like Shikamaru, but I’ve been hoping he’d have a Strategic Division of his own. Something like, a sudden master plan by him changes the entire course of the battle and has everyone in the battlefield thinking “Nice work, Shikamaru!” or “Shikamaru-you never fail to surprise me” or--- >.>;; that aside, I’m not even going to say how strange I find it that a 16 year old Chuunin is a General and leading an army of shinobi close to his dad’s age into battle. This is, after all, a shounen manga - and for some reason, the kids get to save the day.
What really is important is that I can hear Temari/Shikamaru fans screaming from miles away♥ :D because they’re together, in the same division, and I’m just hoping Temari will get to save Shikamaru again after he risks his life to pull off some ridiculously ingenious plan because gah, that was one of the best fucking moments in the manga - the reverse damsel in distress situation is just so rare. ;__;
♪ Gaara has been mentioned. Temari has been mentioned. Kankurou cannot go unmentioned. Lol, Kankurou and Sai are totally going to become BFFs♥ And Saiii~ Sai will become a convert to facepaint, and he’ll have diplomatic missions to Suna when all this shit is cleared and make inappropriate comments over dinner with the Kazekage. Lol, Sai-I can’t even♥
♪About the divisions: Neji and Hinata are in the same division, which calls for yay! on my part because I’d love to see some Hyuuga angst kickassery<33 Also, poor Gai is out of steam (I anticipate a signature dynamic entry at a crucial moment suring the war :D), Sakura and Lee and Kakashi are in the same squad which is a bit of a DX for me because I fear Sakura having to be SAVED. She’s been saved by them both already, and if it happens again, I swear I’ll take out a mallet and use it to play baseball with Kishi’s brain. It’s still better than her being in the medical squad and being put into a tradiionally feminine role and SHOVED ASIDE, at least >.>;; Lee/Sakura has some (one-sided?) basis in canon, and Kakashi/Sakura is borderline crack because we all know it’s not going to happen WHYYY ;__;, but one can still hope :/
♪Now, the zombies: Fuckkk, Kishimoto. Why can you not let them rest in peace? Not that I’m not happy about it, but when, exactly, did your views change from “Oooh, what’s this? A character that has no further relevance to the plot? Let’s kill him!” to “Ooooh, I’m really lacking in villains, aren’t I? Let’s rouse the dead from their graves and bring TROLLNG BACK IN STYLE!”
Kishimoto just- really wants to go out with a bang, doesn’t he? I can’t blame him - Naruto is his lifelong work after all :)
Zabuza and Haku just bring back So. Many. Memories. ;____; And then there’s… Dan? (And maybe even Jiraiya?!! Oh, Tsunade, Naruto~ ) And--- is it lulzworthy that I wish Chiyo and Sakura/Chiyo and Gaara would meet again? I’m mostly hoping for the former though because Chiyo believed that Sakrua would become even greater than Tsunade-and I don’t think the impression she left on Sakura is something erasable, either.
What I’d really like to see however, is a Hizashi VS. Neji fight - is this really wishful thinking? Because the manga is really big on Father/Son relationships none of them have mothers, remember? Or any combination of Hyuuga angst kickassery, actually. GAH, that family needs more screen time.
And then there’s Asuma. Speaking of which… dear god, Kurenai must be months along now. Don’t tell me she’s going to have the baby during… wartime?! D: D: D:
♫♫ETA:
And regarding this recent post I came across via 000_hester_000 (and I’m glad I did), I had a lot of things to say, the foremost of which is Christopher Pike is officially a Grade A douchebag. No, really. You have to check this link out, because how an author like this even got published I have no idea. Istanbul is not the capital of Turkey, dammit. When you can't even get a country’s capital city right, it's clearly indicative of how much research you've put into the book.
And when you try to paint Turkey, a country with its own history and culture (for reference, see Ottoman Empire and Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red), its own identity on the picture of Arab based on geographical location is something unacceptable.
I say this because:
A. Turkey and Arabia are separate countries, jsut like Japan and China and India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The last of this may have had a common root in the Indus Valley, and may have shared a history of Mughals (see White Mughals, William Dalrymples) before the British conquerors appeared, but for more than 60 decades, we have been living under different identities. I know I would be irritated if someone just assumed that just because people in some parts of India (like Punjab/Ajmer) wears turbans/tupis, Bangladeshis would too. In fact, over here you will not see anyone sporting turbans, or tupis - Friday being the exception for the latter and even then, it's rare, because most people are non-practicing Muslims.
That may sound petty on webpage, but in actuality, I know I would be offended because it shows a clear disrespect for all the muktijoddhas that gave their lives during the 1971 Liberation way for our identities as Bangladeshis. Just because we were once part of the same whole, doesn't mean we still are - and it hurts me on a personal level when I see people so taken aback at this revelation, since my Dad is a freedom fighter himself.
It's like saying "China is a closed economy, so Japan must be too!" or "South African countries? Ah, well, they're all the same" or "The Burmese and the Southern Chakmas look the same - so they must have the same dances!" or "Taliban operates in Pakistan and Afghanistan, so it must operate in Turkey too!"
B. The details of the places provided (e.g. separate cafés for makes and females that do not exist) are not only highly inaccurate, but based on assumption. And to go on to praise the imaginary setting of The Secret of Ka and the book itself, using a sockpuppet behind which hides the author himself, is an insult to all writers who have poured in thought and research to give us fascinating, realistic, images of Turkey, a place most of us will probably never have the chance to visit. It's unfair that hard-working writers who want to master their craft are given less recognition than doucebags like Christopher Pike, who has little regard for the people of Turkey and children, if any.
C. The book apparently has several instances of male/female segragation mentioned on basis of religion. Given my religious views, I'm reluctant to anything further on this- however, as a human being, this is just- I can't even.
What sort of fuckery is this. How was he even allowed to publish this, when he doesn’t know that Turkey’s capital is Ankara, not Istanbul, dammit.
Read it for yourself. I'll go stab a Christopher Pike voodoo doll in the meanwhile and ajklhlksdfh.
But before that, I must sleep. And to my f-list: pending replies will be replied to shortly~ if I'm late, it's only because I'm reading/listening to all the goddamn awesome manga and lovely music you've rec'd. I think I'm addicted DX
Somebody throw a bucket of water my way because OMG, the Konoha Rookies are all in standard Chuunin vests and fuckkk, all I can think is okay, there is a war going on-I get it-but maybe they should all hook up because they’re all very pretty and that would be extremely nice./shallowww we will see everyoneXeveryone fics one day, mark my words. Fandom hasn’t failed me yet♥
And just because I don’t think I’ll be able to maintain any semblance of coherency if I let my accursed fingers have free reign, I’ll just make a LIST of why I think Kishi is going to go out WITH A BANG Fuck yes, Deidara - you’re baccckkk:
♪ OMG, Gaara - why are you so Gaara. You don’t even have to say anything, COMMANDER GENERAL SIR, and you’d still be the coolest badass ever. Lol, Naruto-you still have a ways to go. That was totally not a PoT moment there >.>;; And-and is it just me, or is Gaara just getting prettier by each chapter?/fangasmmm 8D I love it, yo, but I… asjgdalk, sort of wish he’d fly homicidal rage again and terrify the shit out of his enemies because the other psychos just aren’t doing it right.
…Wat? .__.
♪-You may wish to skip this if you like-
Speaking of other psychos SASUKE <333 Dude, well, hello. You’ve been terribly missed by me and after all this time, Kishi just tosses us a topless man bone/sighhh Kishi you tease But even without that, OMG - why are you so simple and complicated all at once? DX
So much of, well, everything revolves around this guy (he is THE main character, after all. Even in something as petty as this, he just can’t help showing up Naruto♥ Oh fuck, now I want crack!fic for this) I’m a bit… concerned about his reaction to zombie!Itachi (on this note, the zombie apocalypse fever has managed to infect even Kishi, it seems).
About 95% of me hopes he flies into the murderous rage but he’s been having recurring episodes of MUST KILL FOR REVENGE and kill Kakashi and Sakura for totally ridiculous reasons syndrome and there’s only so many psychotic faces à la Light from Death Note that I can take. The remaining 5% just hopes he doesn’t go and do something stupid. I don’t know what, but dear little avenger here has been making such rational decisions lately, don’t you think?
I was a bit outraged/appalled/generally just WTFing and D: noooo when he decided to carve Itachi’s eyes into his skull, but now I’m actually a tiny bit excited to see how he’ll look without the bandages (this reminds of just so many stories, but Blind, a fan-novel, explores it like nothing else). Apart from Naruto, Sasuke is the one of the few characters whose design Kishi has constantly changed - first the black clothes when he makes a flashy entry during the Chuunin Exam Arc, but that was scrapped because apparently it was time-consuming to draw. Then came the gay pirate outfit Orochimaru must have personally picked for him, then his clothes during his fight with Itachi, and afterwards the bangs and the high collar shirt--- and of course, his eyes have always been at the top of the list.
I’m really hoping when all the dust’s settled, and he’s redeemed he has to be or else there’d be NO POINT, we’ll get thought text like, idk, “Brother, now I see through your eyes what you’ve wanted me to see all along” and that is wishful thinking and probably overdramatic, but Sasuke has always been a bit of a dramaqueen when it comes to his big brother. <333 This is why I still love you, you douchebag
So the third/fourth page was totally ♥ for me - it’s just that whenever I get see Naruto and Sasuke together on the same page, it’s just-gah. GAH, I tell you. I don’t even know when my mind automatically started associating words like bonds and promise and best friends with these boys. Clearly, Naruto has taken over my life >.>;;
And how he plans to get to the outdated fossils that ordered his clan killed, I have no clue. He doesn’t even have Karin on his side now lol, you stabbed her, remember? Because there are ways to get revenge without being a douchebag. But maybe Shikamaru can help him with that.♥
-rant end-
♪Speaking of which, how is Shikamaru the General of the Long Range Fighter Division when Temari was right there, ready to kick some ass and a Jounin to boot. For some reason, that was what leapt out at me when I saw that panel. :/
Don’t get me wrong--- I like Shikamaru, but I’ve been hoping he’d have a Strategic Division of his own. Something like, a sudden master plan by him changes the entire course of the battle and has everyone in the battlefield thinking “Nice work, Shikamaru!” or “Shikamaru-you never fail to surprise me” or--- >.>;; that aside, I’m not even going to say how strange I find it that a 16 year old Chuunin is a General and leading an army of shinobi close to his dad’s age into battle. This is, after all, a shounen manga - and for some reason, the kids get to save the day.
What really is important is that I can hear Temari/Shikamaru fans screaming from miles away♥ :D because they’re together, in the same division, and I’m just hoping Temari will get to save Shikamaru again after he risks his life to pull off some ridiculously ingenious plan because gah, that was one of the best fucking moments in the manga - the reverse damsel in distress situation is just so rare. ;__;
♪ Gaara has been mentioned. Temari has been mentioned. Kankurou cannot go unmentioned. Lol, Kankurou and Sai are totally going to become BFFs♥ And Saiii~ Sai will become a convert to facepaint, and he’ll have diplomatic missions to Suna when all this shit is cleared and make inappropriate comments over dinner with the Kazekage. Lol, Sai-I can’t even♥
♪About the divisions: Neji and Hinata are in the same division, which calls for yay! on my part because I’d love to see some Hyuuga angst kickassery<33 Also, poor Gai is out of steam (I anticipate a signature dynamic entry at a crucial moment suring the war :D), Sakura and Lee and Kakashi are in the same squad which is a bit of a DX for me because I fear Sakura having to be SAVED. She’s been saved by them both already, and if it happens again, I swear I’ll take out a mallet and use it to play baseball with Kishi’s brain. It’s still better than her being in the medical squad and being put into a tradiionally feminine role and SHOVED ASIDE, at least >.>;; Lee/Sakura has some (one-sided?) basis in canon, and Kakashi/Sakura is borderline crack because we all know it’s not going to happen WHYYY ;__;, but one can still hope :/
♪Now, the zombies: Fuckkk, Kishimoto. Why can you not let them rest in peace? Not that I’m not happy about it, but when, exactly, did your views change from “Oooh, what’s this? A character that has no further relevance to the plot? Let’s kill him!” to “Ooooh, I’m really lacking in villains, aren’t I? Let’s rouse the dead from their graves and bring TROLLNG BACK IN STYLE!”
Kishimoto just- really wants to go out with a bang, doesn’t he? I can’t blame him - Naruto is his lifelong work after all :)
Zabuza and Haku just bring back So. Many. Memories. ;____; And then there’s… Dan? (And maybe even Jiraiya?!! Oh, Tsunade, Naruto~ ) And--- is it lulzworthy that I wish Chiyo and Sakura/Chiyo and Gaara would meet again? I’m mostly hoping for the former though because Chiyo believed that Sakrua would become even greater than Tsunade-and I don’t think the impression she left on Sakura is something erasable, either.
What I’d really like to see however, is a Hizashi VS. Neji fight - is this really wishful thinking? Because the manga is really big on Father/Son relationships none of them have mothers, remember? Or any combination of Hyuuga angst kickassery, actually. GAH, that family needs more screen time.
And then there’s Asuma. Speaking of which… dear god, Kurenai must be months along now. Don’t tell me she’s going to have the baby during… wartime?! D: D: D:
♫♫ETA:
And regarding this recent post I came across via 000_hester_000 (and I’m glad I did), I had a lot of things to say, the foremost of which is Christopher Pike is officially a Grade A douchebag. No, really. You have to check this link out, because how an author like this even got published I have no idea. Istanbul is not the capital of Turkey, dammit. When you can't even get a country’s capital city right, it's clearly indicative of how much research you've put into the book.
And when you try to paint Turkey, a country with its own history and culture (for reference, see Ottoman Empire and Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red), its own identity on the picture of Arab based on geographical location is something unacceptable.
I say this because:
A. Turkey and Arabia are separate countries, jsut like Japan and China and India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The last of this may have had a common root in the Indus Valley, and may have shared a history of Mughals (see White Mughals, William Dalrymples) before the British conquerors appeared, but for more than 60 decades, we have been living under different identities. I know I would be irritated if someone just assumed that just because people in some parts of India (like Punjab/Ajmer) wears turbans/tupis, Bangladeshis would too. In fact, over here you will not see anyone sporting turbans, or tupis - Friday being the exception for the latter and even then, it's rare, because most people are non-practicing Muslims.
That may sound petty on webpage, but in actuality, I know I would be offended because it shows a clear disrespect for all the muktijoddhas that gave their lives during the 1971 Liberation way for our identities as Bangladeshis. Just because we were once part of the same whole, doesn't mean we still are - and it hurts me on a personal level when I see people so taken aback at this revelation, since my Dad is a freedom fighter himself.
It's like saying "China is a closed economy, so Japan must be too!" or "South African countries? Ah, well, they're all the same" or "The Burmese and the Southern Chakmas look the same - so they must have the same dances!" or "Taliban operates in Pakistan and Afghanistan, so it must operate in Turkey too!"
B. The details of the places provided (e.g. separate cafés for makes and females that do not exist) are not only highly inaccurate, but based on assumption. And to go on to praise the imaginary setting of The Secret of Ka and the book itself, using a sockpuppet behind which hides the author himself, is an insult to all writers who have poured in thought and research to give us fascinating, realistic, images of Turkey, a place most of us will probably never have the chance to visit. It's unfair that hard-working writers who want to master their craft are given less recognition than doucebags like Christopher Pike, who has little regard for the people of Turkey and children, if any.
C. The book apparently has several instances of male/female segragation mentioned on basis of religion. Given my religious views, I'm reluctant to anything further on this- however, as a human being, this is just- I can't even.
What sort of fuckery is this. How was he even allowed to publish this, when he doesn’t know that Turkey’s capital is Ankara, not Istanbul, dammit.
Read it for yourself. I'll go stab a Christopher Pike voodoo doll in the meanwhile and ajklhlksdfh.
But before that, I must sleep. And to my f-list: pending replies will be replied to shortly~ if I'm late, it's only because I'm reading/listening to all the goddamn awesome manga and lovely music you've rec'd. I think I'm addicted DX