hello smogon. i have recently began watching Naruto Kai, a poorly subtitled fan project of the classic chinese cartoon "Naruto" that aims to remove the show of all filler. joining me on this journey have been my friends and resident naruto experts az, xzern, and Albatr0ss. i will be using this thread to document my experiences and thoughts on the show. so far, i have watched about 3 hours of content, and according to wikipedia I would be on episode 10 if i were watching the show normally. this indicates the creator is doing a very poor job of removing filler, but alas, here we are. occasionally, i jot down notes of things that stand out to me or feelings i have.
in this thread, you will get to experience my thoughts as i continue this epic series.
episode 1-10 notes:
- naruto has been shown running in the non-naruto running style a few times. i have only witnessed the classic naruto-run once, sometime during episode 4. i hope this is alleviated quickly.
- the backyard swing is shown many times. i believe the current count is 7.
- sakura is fucking insufferable, holy shit. what a god awful character. i do not understand why anyone would make her their avatar.
- naruto has multiplied himself into shadow clones a few times now but he never makes the 1 million clones he did the first time he used this power when he was stealing the dead sea scrolls.
- naruto just kissed sasuke. perhaps they really are gay? not sure why korra gets all the credit for breaking the glass ceiling when this exists.
- kakashi seems pretty cool. i now understand why he was a popular avatar on the forums circa 2008.
- i am worried i will not care when a character dies as right now whenever someone dies it turns out it was actually a bunch of logs
- the intro has the best animation i have seen so far
- they seem to use the same sound effect to indicate both diarrhea and hunger
- a man in a cow uniform is standing on top of a giant sword lol. he reminds me of mizaistom from HxH
- it appears this show does have some animation budget. kakashi just fought zabuza and it was a pretty cool fight
- this show really loves replaying the exact same scene in black and white just in case you missed it the first time. there is usually no additional content - it is just a literal replay.
- why is naruto upset that zabuza died? he just tried to kill him and his friends...
that's all i have for now. may watch more tonight.
in this thread, you will get to experience my thoughts as i continue this epic series.
episode 1-10 notes:
- naruto has been shown running in the non-naruto running style a few times. i have only witnessed the classic naruto-run once, sometime during episode 4. i hope this is alleviated quickly.
- the backyard swing is shown many times. i believe the current count is 7.
- sakura is fucking insufferable, holy shit. what a god awful character. i do not understand why anyone would make her their avatar.
- naruto has multiplied himself into shadow clones a few times now but he never makes the 1 million clones he did the first time he used this power when he was stealing the dead sea scrolls.
- naruto just kissed sasuke. perhaps they really are gay? not sure why korra gets all the credit for breaking the glass ceiling when this exists.
- kakashi seems pretty cool. i now understand why he was a popular avatar on the forums circa 2008.
- i am worried i will not care when a character dies as right now whenever someone dies it turns out it was actually a bunch of logs
- the intro has the best animation i have seen so far
- they seem to use the same sound effect to indicate both diarrhea and hunger
- a man in a cow uniform is standing on top of a giant sword lol. he reminds me of mizaistom from HxH
- it appears this show does have some animation budget. kakashi just fought zabuza and it was a pretty cool fight
- this show really loves replaying the exact same scene in black and white just in case you missed it the first time. there is usually no additional content - it is just a literal replay.
- why is naruto upset that zabuza died? he just tried to kill him and his friends...
that's all i have for now. may watch more tonight.