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There is an execution date, ladies and gentlemen. The day when my soul will, no doubt, fall from the heavens onto glittering, jagged shards of glass. The day that will live in infamy forever for many of my ilk.
September 10th, 2005.
Naruto airs on Cartoon Network.
It is, as I speak, August 23. That gives us approximately 18 days to grit our teeth and await the terror. Or, possibly, the mild greatness if ShoPro, the people who have liscenced Naruto, manage to pull off a good dub. Which is not a very high probability, considering that, in a rather unintelligent move by CN, Naruto is not airing on Adult Swim. They could've put it there, to air alongside other greats such as Full Metal Alchemist, Trigun, Samurai Champloo, and Cowboy Bebop, all of which almost entirely untouched by Censorship. But, alas, t'was not to be. Naruto is airing on Toonami, which happens to also share the One Piece dub - a travesty, in my humble opinion, though it was done by 4Kids, whom we can only hope is not the model of quality ShoPro is aiming for.
In fact, to confirm that this will occur, Cartoon Network has the Naruto Homepage up and running. And already, the pain begins. There is only one thing to look at on the page at the moment - Character profiles, for Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Iruka, and Kakashi. A good group, and little they can do wrong, ne? Wrong. I shall now quote the text, in its entirety, from Naruto's page.
"Naruto is a mischievous troublemaker struggling to develop his ninja skills. Although his village believes him to be cursed and treats him like an outcast (well, no, he is an outcast), Naruto has good intentions and dreams of becoming the leader of his ninja clan someday."
...
You were close, CN, but no cigar. Naruto does not, in fact, dream of leading his clan, because he doesn't have one. He wants to lead the village. *twitches* This is not a good omen!
Ah, well...we can only hope for the best. And, at least, we have Steven Blum as Kakashi to look forward to...even if Sasuke seems like his voice was mis-cast, and I have no idea who the people playing Hinata and the Hokage are.
Right, going to bed now...maybe.
September 10th, 2005.
Naruto airs on Cartoon Network.
It is, as I speak, August 23. That gives us approximately 18 days to grit our teeth and await the terror. Or, possibly, the mild greatness if ShoPro, the people who have liscenced Naruto, manage to pull off a good dub. Which is not a very high probability, considering that, in a rather unintelligent move by CN, Naruto is not airing on Adult Swim. They could've put it there, to air alongside other greats such as Full Metal Alchemist, Trigun, Samurai Champloo, and Cowboy Bebop, all of which almost entirely untouched by Censorship. But, alas, t'was not to be. Naruto is airing on Toonami, which happens to also share the One Piece dub - a travesty, in my humble opinion, though it was done by 4Kids, whom we can only hope is not the model of quality ShoPro is aiming for.
In fact, to confirm that this will occur, Cartoon Network has the Naruto Homepage up and running. And already, the pain begins. There is only one thing to look at on the page at the moment - Character profiles, for Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Iruka, and Kakashi. A good group, and little they can do wrong, ne? Wrong. I shall now quote the text, in its entirety, from Naruto's page.
"Naruto is a mischievous troublemaker struggling to develop his ninja skills. Although his village believes him to be cursed and treats him like an outcast (well, no, he is an outcast), Naruto has good intentions and dreams of becoming the leader of his ninja clan someday."
...
You were close, CN, but no cigar. Naruto does not, in fact, dream of leading his clan, because he doesn't have one. He wants to lead the village. *twitches* This is not a good omen!
Ah, well...we can only hope for the best. And, at least, we have Steven Blum as Kakashi to look forward to...even if Sasuke seems like his voice was mis-cast, and I have no idea who the people playing Hinata and the Hokage are.
Right, going to bed now...maybe.