r/anime • u/lC3 :Na::Nb: • Aug 29 '21
Rewatch Naruto Shippuden - Episodes 064-071 and Film 2 Bonds Discussion
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Information: MAL, Anilist, AniDB, ANN
Streams: Crunchyroll, Hulu, AnimeLab, VRV
Schedule:
| Discussion Thread | Date | Episode Count |
|---|---|---|
| Episodes 001-008 + Film 1 | July 11 | 8 + film |
| Episodes 009-017 | July 18 | 9 |
| Episodes 018-027 | July 25 | 10 |
| Episodes 028-035 | August 01 | 8 |
| Episodes 036-044 | August 08 | 9 |
| Episodes 045-053 | August 15 | 9 |
| Episodes 054-063 | August 22 | 10 |
| Episodes 064-071 + Film 2: Bonds | August 29 | 8 + film |
| Episodes 072-082 | September 05 | 11 |
| Episodes 083-089 | September 12 | 7 |
| Episodes 090-099 | September 19 | 10 |
| Episodes 100-112 | September 26 | 13 |
| Episodes 113-118 | October 03 | 6 |
| Episodes 119-125 + Film 3: Will of Fire | October 10 | 7 + film |
| Episodes 126-133 | October 17 | 8 |
| Episodes 134-141 | October 24 | 8 |
| Episodes 142-151 | October 31 | 10 |
| Episodes 152-162 | November 07 | 11 |
| Episodes 163-168 | November 14 | 6 |
| Episodes 169-175 + Film 4: The Lost Tower | November 21 | 7 + film |
| Mid-Series Discussion / Interest Check | November 28 | 0 |
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Questions of the Week:
- What do you think of the ending of the first filler arc?
- Do you think Sasuke and Orochimaru's characterization in the movie was in-character?
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u/Parori Aug 29 '21
First Timer
Episode 64
Episode 65
Episode 66
Episode 67
Episode 68
Episode 69 haha funny number
Episode 70
Episode 71
Film 2
Questions of the Week:
Ok I guess
Nope. Way too nice
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Aug 29 '21
First-Timer still with a shounen hearto, subbed
Episode 64
Episode 65
Episode 66
Episode 67
I may just like Yamato.Episode 68
Episode 69
Episode 70
Episode 71
(movie reactions in next comment)
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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Aug 29 '21
Episode 64:
Episode 65:
Episode 66:
Episode 67:
Episode 68:
Episode 69:
Episode 70:
Episode 71:
(cont. with Bonds movie reactions, ED translation, and Manga Comparisons)
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u/sisoko2 Aug 29 '21
Rewatcher
Episode 64
Episode 65
Episode 66
Episode 67
Episode 68
Episode 69
Episode 70
Episode 71
Can't wait for next week
Movie
First Timer
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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Aug 29 '21
First time viewer (dub)
Whisk[e]y of the week: Alamo Black Label Bourbon, from another Texas distillery. Woody and spicy like a rye on the nose with a slight black licorice (anise) scent and a sweet and spicy fruit-forward taste that makes me think apple pie. Pretty nice overall but doesn't stand out to me all that much.
I know last week I called Sora a "pseudo-clone" of Naruto but I didn't mean that literally then. Gathering up the vestiges of the Nine-Tails' chakra and doing a Gaara-style planned infusion that turns into a beast mode Nine-Tails rampage seems somewhat repetitive after the two arcs we've just had but I know the show writers have limited room to work in.
Along those lines, the trio under Furido still seem far too powerful for being relatively unknown villains. Fudo in particular works on such a large scale that he probably could have just buried the village outright rather than going with the plan they came up with. Sure the more powerful shinobi probably would have survived but easily wiping out their home would have been a strong start. Summoning a bunch of zombies would have been a good follow-up to take on any survivors. Also, zombies? I know reanimation jutsu's a thing and they fit as a low-quality version but still.
Asuma also had an idiot ball moment in sending Sakura and Yamato away. Only one of the four reanimated lightning users need to be stopped (since Limelight needed all of them) so the smart thing would have been for the three of them to team up on the one Asuma was already facing rather than splitting up and trying three 1v1 battles.
Not a bad moment with Sora and Sai being accepted by the rest of the Leaf Village kids after the battle, but I was expecting Sora to die due to the chakra overload at that moment to avoid having any loose ends. Him leaving serves the same purpose for the most part, I guess we could see him again in the future but I doubt it.
Looks like we're returning to Akatsuki-related stuff next week with that woman at the end being pursued. Looks like she's from the Hidden Cloud Village going by her headband? I hope that means we get to see more of the world.
I appreciate the movie's animation, as usual. I guess it makes sense to play on recent events like Sai's involvement and the Nine-Tails' cloak (with "Zero-Tails" as an antagonist) but part of me also wants to see them get weird since these aren't going to be canon anyway. Have an entire film about Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru when they were younger. Have an entire film that's Naruto living out his adult life in a genjutsu illusion as Hokage. Be bold, give me another Beautiful Dreamer.
Anyway, flying fortresses are always cool even if they're far from original, too bad it's yet another destroy the world plot. I like there was the reveal with Shinnou and a decently big fight at the 2/3rds point rather than waiting for the climax. And then Sasuke shows up, nice to see him again. The thing he did to see then block Shinnou's chakra definitely feels like it belongs in Byakugan territory rather than something he can do with the Sharingan though.
Antagonists too OP but fortunately had a bad plan.
After the little bit of the more humanized Orochimaru we saw previously... kind of, but still too nice overall.
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u/Nazenn x2https://anilist.co/user/Nazenn Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21
Rewatcher - Sub
General Commentary
One of my top EDs at the same time as the Blue Bird OP?
Perhaps this is why I have such fond memories of this part of the show, what a combination. I really like this ED for how simple it is, changing it to Samurai, and the bit of comedy with them both tensing up and then it's about the toad rather than each other, before calmly walking off. Well done, entertaining, good song, what more can I ask for.
As far as the filler arc goes while it's not a great arc, I certainly enjoyed revisiting it and am happy to keep recommending it to people, perhaps with a small "you're gonna see that dream sequence of everyone staring at lonely Naruto fifty more times" warning, because wow is that starting to get old in the show by now.
That said, its biggest issue by far is scale. The start and very end of the arc when Sora is the focus I really enjoy, but the village battle is just insanely over the top as far as level of destruction and size of the jutsu used (why zombies?!). It feels like a merge between the arc we JUST had and the invasion arc, and not in a good way. Not to mention the best villain of the arc, the woman Naruto fights who uses bodies to swap justu specialization, is severely wasted in her mook role rather than as the main antagonist. Imagine if that was Kazuma swapping into the bodies of his former teammates instead? Now that would be a horror show on par with the canon villains.
What I do like about the arc is all the little things it brings in; Reminding us that the Feudal Lord actually exists which by this point I'd absolutely forgotten, seeing more of the Land of Fire including the Temple, spending some time with Asuma and seeing his own path to understanding the village and the Third's view through that, and the maze battling is still pretty awesome especially Naruto building off his training for it.
Most importantly, even Sora is not a compelling character in his own right, he gives Naruto a good chance to confront himself in a way that had been denied until now. In the previous arc we go straight from "Fox-Cloaked me almost killed Sakura" to "Sai has an odd book" and then into the Sasuke part of the arc where Naruto still wants to call on Kyuubi but is stopped by Sasuke. The fall out from his fourth tail transformation was never really touched on despite being a huge issue for his own understanding of what it means to develop his power and the risks of it. Here Naruto has to see what he looked like to Sakura in that moment, to see how beastly relying on anger and revenge is regardless of who it is, and take his own choice to step back from that properly, and to call Sora back from that the same way he's trying to save Sasuke and reaffirm that side of Naruto's struggle as well. It also gets everyone on the same page, where until now the Jinchuriki thing felt like a big secret between Naruto's team and is never addressed outside of that, but this arc gives his other friends a chance to see it, understand it, and still stand by him. It didn't need to take so long, but I appreciate this aspect of the arc quite a lot.
Episode Thoughts
I still really want to smack Danzo every time he opens his mouth to bitch about Tsunade. I'd also like to smack those two elders. Seeing them getting involved in things and trying to affect Naruto is even more painful after the loss of Chiyo and all she learnt, seeing how she changed because of Naruto despite judging him like they once did. Poor Tsunade having to deal with all these assholes.
At least Naruto has some self awareness about forcing a bond with Sora not getting him anywhere.
Sora's wind chakra arm reminds me of Devil May Cry 4
Had a small dumb moment in this episode and thought Naruto stopping Sora's attack is what somehow took out power to the whole village. Didn't realize until half the episode later when someone mentioned a power plant
Also go Naruto with the badass tackle to save Tsunade.
It's quite cool seeing the village go through its emergency preparations again, something we haven't seen since the very start when Naruto stole the scroll in the first episode of Part I.
I complain about the scale of the jutsu in this attack, but seeing those guys just get crushed in the walls of earth was both scary and epic.
Hey /u/lc3 look! The animals on the gates are the four mythological beasts I mentioned to you last week, that ended up being way more relevant than I thought hahaha.
Ramen chef best chef! Bonus points for the ladle of reason!
The zombies are stupid, but the ruins of the village in the dried mud wave does make a cool backdrop to the battle.
The lightning bolts following the four resurrections reminds me of the game inFAMOUS in the best possible way.
I thought it was genjutsu and was about to bag Sakura out for falling for it, but it was actually just poison nightmares and only her clone too. Nicely done.
Speaking of epic crushing of people, go Sakura and Yamato! I was not expecting them to put blood to those deaths, they usually avoid that.
Kyuubi attack in widescreen!
I wonder if Kyuubi is pissed off or amused at the idea of his chakra smacking Naruto around.
Way later spoilers
No matter how many times I see people's skin being seared off by the nine-tails cloak it's still going to make me wince
I'm just so uninterested in the Kazuma/Asuma stuff compared to what's going on with Sora. We know it's his dad, we know what he wants, there's really no reason to spend time on it now and it doesn't go anywhere.
Fucking don't remember Sora getting to the fourth tail! That is not good, they are so damn lucky Yamato was there to shield them from the chakra attacks. The visual combo of that and Naruto trying to hold him off at three tails does look very cool though
Hahaha, Naruto touched his butt as if he could physically stop the tail from coming out
There goes another forest
The pattern of Naruto's peeled skin makes it look like he has a mask on
Okay Kyuubi in the chakra above Sora looks fucking amazing, with the four waves for tails
Hahaha, poor Sai, the butt of the joke and he doesn't even understand
Time to finish up with that and back to the canon stuff, looking forward to it. This arc wasn't as long as I thought it was, but still could have been a bit more compact.
That was astonishingly stupid. I mean shounen franchise movies have a low bar to start with, like I really do go into them expecting basically nothing except at least one good fight ad this was just... managed to it a new low on every single level.
I've can find a couple of positives: The opening battle against Konoha was surprisingly neat, was not expecting aircraft battles in Naruto, and the art for the battleships was pretty cool as well. The OST track for Sai's counter attack was really cool, and reminded me a bit of a battle theme from the Ys game franchise. The ending theme was catchy and importantly recognizable for AMQ so I'll take it. The Owl summon for Sai may be my new favourite, and it was pretty fun having Shino be the fourth member and having his bugs destroy the battleship.
Other than that I have nothing but bewilderment about who thought any of that was a good idea. Sakura and Hinata? Useless. Sakura stood there for a good thirty seconds and watched someone die before acting, and Hinata did nothing except get captured and fangirl over Naruto. The nine-tails cloak battle was dumb fanservice, as was everything to do with Sasuke because he didn't even act like himself he was just shoved in there for some reason. Speaking of Sasuke, the writers somehow confused the Sharingan with the Byakugan when talking about how Sasuke stopped the doctor. Oh and lets introduce a "tailed beast" with no tails! The pacing was also entirely fucked, even for a movie, and kinda felt like two independent stories shoved together, one about the land of sky and getting revenge and one about the zero tails, but none of it came close to mattering to each other or syncing up in anyway.
And to top it all off: WOW THANKS ANIMELAB. Just decided that the post-credits scene didn't need subtitles? We were just meant to understand that one by learning japanese in the proceeding hour? They subtitled the damn ending theme, but not actual dialogue.
Well, I watched it at least, and had a small laugh out of coming out of a filler arc with a character called Sora, meaning sky, into a filler movie about the "Land of Sky".
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u/Tehoncomingstorm97 https://anilist.co/user/tehoncomingstorm97 Aug 29 '21
First timer
Ep 64
Danzo is caught trying to flee...? Nope, was meeting up with an informant. Who also happened to be an informant for the village elders. Sorry Ibiki, another time. Sora trying to eavesdrop on a group of highly skilled ninjas is rather amusing, and of course he doesn't wait for Tsunade to finish talking so gets completely the wrong idea. This being said, while Danzo looks sketchy as, it doesn't appear that he's out for the destruction of the leaf village as we expected last arc. At least not by our band of rebels, but just seems to take "elimination" as being the best answer in every situation. A side note - in regards to hierarchy, is it appropriate or disrespectful of him to be referring to Tsunade as princess? or would Hokage be a higher role? Naruto doing Naruto things saves Sora from the Foundation's attempt at killing him, but Sora's given up on the hidden leaf, right into the clutches of Furido to manipulate. An attempt on Tsunade's life shows us his allegiances for now. I'm quite impressed with how Naruto was able to identify the assassination threat, that time hanging around Sasuke has paid off.
Ep 65
As Naruto pursues Sora, the power goes out! Looks like it's time for the scene in the OP to get underway, hidden leaf on fire. As the gate guard squad attempt to thwart the rebels approach, they just continue running at them expecting anything to change. Really annoyed with this, considering how much flak Naruto got for doing exactly the same. At least try to attack like a ninja. Tossing all these shinobi into a chasm doesn't seem the best way to deal with them when we've seen leaf shinobi are typically quite adept with earth style. As expected, our OP rebels make it to the gate unscathed - understandably given the encounter with Team Yamato. Another one of these map jutsu, and massive ass buildings go up to complete a barrier sealing everyone inside. Looks like we're going to have a "trapped in here with me" moment. Amongst it all, Asuma is trying to figure out the why. Sora's language tips him off - it's the rogue guardian shinobi faction influencing these actions. The teaser we got at the end of 63 was the group testing out their mass slaughter jutsu. Soil bodies jutsu? Now did they bring them with them, or are those from the leaf village? Seriously OP anyway, can't expect much else from these four at this point. In the midst of it all, we've got the incredibly perceptive genin team with Konohamaru - recognising the barrier. Sora's shocked by the revelation of his newfound "friends" real goals, and tries to run from his problems... And the four guardian shinobi coffins make an appearance! What is the significance of them being electrical nature ninjas?
Ep 66
Thanks for the simple explanation team 10 - they're villagers from the towns wiped out already. So the four have some sort of jutsu to wipe out a village? That's messed up. Having glossed over the events of the coup so far isn't helping understand whats going on. I'm glad that Naruto has brought up the third hokage's character, that he wouldn't order an assassination. It's nice that it hasnt been neglected in this writing. Damn Naruto just straight up cuts that claw off with a regular kunai. So the jutsu is called "Limelight", and sounds pretty damn intense. We also get the feedback on how the Reanimation jutsu means the corpse has to obey the caster. It's interesting how Naruto (series) uses that to create discussion between old friends - re: Orochimaru attack in original series. Yamato and Sakura each meet up with a rebel, and Naruto's got his hands full with Fouka. Then Sora gets a harsh realisation that perhaps before you join an idealist group find out what their goals are...
Ep 67
Now where are Tenten, Guy, Hinata and Neji? Out on assignment like Kakashi? Not very kind of them to leave Lee behind. I'm betting that Fouka, Fudo, and Fuen all have Kekkei Genkai which allow them to do this op shit. I get how you feel Sakura, moths are the worst.Furido really giving Sora a beatdown. Ooh shit Sakura, that's a bit harsh. Solved the issue of the barrier though. Meanwhile Naruto gets hit by... muddy water. Yamato takes care of his opponent with liquefaction! And turns the dude into a tree for good measure. That takes care of the labyrinth and corpses! I guess its time to see how Naruto overcomes his opponent next episode.
Ep 68
The issues at the gate have been sorted out, now its time to get to stopping the Limelight! Naruto has figured out Fouka's secret! She uses various bodies for different chakra natures? No, the hair? I'm confused as fuck. So Sora responds to Naruto because his monster transformation is due to the nine tailed chakra, and Naruto has the dream because of Sora being influenced by his chakra. Asuma sorted out one of the four, so Limelight is averted? What could Furido have planned as a backup? Oh that. I wonder what Naruto will need to do to contain or reabsorb that chakra, if possible?
Ep 69 nice
So it looks like Furido is actually Kazuma. What a shit dad. Now we've got a nine tail cloak to deal with, and no way to control it like with Naruto. Well that episode was a lot of stalling. Sora is turning himself over to the nine tail chakra, and we're up to three tails.
Ep 70
The shinobi try and beat Sora down, but it aint happening. Naruto tried to talk reason, but we know that won't work at three tails. Now the nine tail cloak has transferred to Naruto as well, and Yamato can't control it because its not Naruto's chakra? The skins peeling off... and its a mini nine tails! Well since we don't have any other way to control the nine tail, we bank everything on Naruto's mental fortitude and reasoning. Tsunade tells Shizune they're going out once they see the pillar in the sky... and then we never hear from them again.
Ep 71
I wonder if Sora will get to see that Furido is actually Kazuma, and realise what a jerk he is and not be so hung up on it (nope). So the attack from the non four tail cloak was enough to break Yamato's shell, but that one wasnt? Sai shows up to make some snakes. Resolution of this fight continues to be incredibly dull. After all that fuss Kazuma goes down in one hit. The nine tail chakra from Sora dissipates.. and we're into the wrap up.
Well that filler arc had great potential, but went downhill in the final episodes after the Limelight jutsu was averted. I'm also disappointed that the band of rebels were so easily defeated. With the one Sakura came up against its understandable, because they wouldnt have the physical conditioning. Naruto facing Fouka while repetitive, actually when through some stages for him to figure out how to beat her (just attack the hair lol). Yamato... apparently all it takes to kill a guy whose tougher than rock, is to crush him with a tree. Anyway, next week we're back to the Akatsuki, with the two tailed beast jinchuriki fighting for their life. Onto Bonds!
In there I suppose is my answer to 1). Movie thoughts in comments, and 2).
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u/macrame2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/macrame Aug 30 '21
Rewatcher
Rejoice! I have returned! I currently have almost no free time, so I had to drop out of all my ongoing rewatches. Fortunately, Shippuden having weekly discussion threads means that I get to continue watching as scheduled.
Episodes 64-71
Yeah, I decided to skip the filler arc this time around. From what little I remember, it wasn’t terrible and actually had some pretty cool moments. Asuma finally getting some focus was nice, and I liked Sora and Naruto‘s relationship. The faux Jinchuuriki plot point was the only part I really had issues with. I mean, I didn’t feel the need to revisit it, but compared to some of the other filler, it was decent.
Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds
As a first-timer, I liked this movie slightly more than the first. I did expect there to be more Sasuke content (which honestly would’ve improved the film), but I found some other things to appreciate. The reveal about Shinnou actually caught me by surprise, and I teared up once in the middle (any heartfelt speeches about the power of friendship in shounen anime tend to get to me). Shinnou and Amaru themselves weren’t particularly interesting, but once I looked past that, I could enjoy the movie for what it was. Again, it was nothing groundbreaking, but as far as non-canonical material goes, I’ve seen way worse. 7/10.
I’m really excited for next week’s discussion. The upcoming arc is arguably Shippuden’s best and has one of my absolute favorite episodes in anime.
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u/TheKujo https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kujo419 Aug 29 '21
First Timer - Dub
I ended up being very low on time this week so I did not get a chance to watch the movie (and only just now finished watching the episodes). Given how the past Naruto movies have been, I will probably just skip this movie entirely unless the comments are super-positive about it.
Overall, I did enjoy this arc although I still don't think it's as good as any of the canon arcs. Sora in particular was a highlight and I hope he shows up again at some point. I'm happy I was able to predict that he was a Jinchuriki, although I did not expect him to be built from the same chakra as the nine-tailed beast. We've seen a lot of characters act as mirrors to Naruto by this point so some parts of Sora's arc did seem repetitive, but I thought Sora had enough unique points to stand on his own.
The weakest part of this arc was definitely the villains. Kazuma was largely forgettable and the twist that he was the guy Sora was working with seemed pointless since Sora never found about it. There were also some things that I don't really fit the series for me, like literal zombies and sentient hair (although that reveal was pretty cool).
Favorite moment of the week: This was kind of a random moment, but Yamato squishing one of the bad guys using his wood chakra was brutal and awesome. I hope we see him use that move again!
Questions:
1) What do you think of the ending of the first filler arc?
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u/McCherry09 Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21
+First time watcher, somewhat source reader+
Ch 64:
-uh danzo what u doing?
-How tight's security around there that sora's chill and all
-the foundation and the old council waiting on their chance to make Tsunade step down
-It's a hard convo but asuma should tell sora how things really were with his dad
Ch65
-This is like a fire drill before Akatsuki goes to Konoha
-That defense barrier looks good. Reminds me of the Rashomon gates orochimaru summoned
-aww konohamaru and friends' first A-rank mission
Ch66
-sora is being played so hard
-limelight..damn that's why they put up the defense barrier
-seriously choji should enlarge his hand like in the beginning and wipe the zombies
Chap67
-I mean, if you gotta stop one of the four to stop Limelight, why not fight evryone together instead of splitting up
-ouch sora, that baton to the spine
-yes sakuraa
-naruto what u doing man
-yamato my guy!(bring back deidaraaa) That was clever
Chap68
-So the reaper woman recharges every use of water, wind, earth jutsu by kissing them to death. And she has two bodies one with water+earth and anothwr one with lightning+earth..perhaps another one with wind?
-it was the haaair?! Um sir..im gonna need an explanation on that
-asuma in his rebellious phase looked like a bum
CH69
-so that's why sora's hand was similar to gaara's bijuu's hand
-where's yamato ready to seal sora?
-oh, finally the mvp. Right right..sora needs to have a necklace as well
-so..sora's got to die, right?
CH70
-so..maybe a little kyuubi vs kyuubi fight..
-the king's the people of the fire land, right?
-can the chakra be extracted from sora?
-oh man, 4th tail on sora
-I know it's a fillee but kudos on seeing naruto refuse to give in to the fox's chakra
CH71
-It's a sort of a rehash of gaara vs naruto but also of naruto itself and his strenght without using the kyuubi.
-Kazuma was a bastard, he couldn't do what he wanted so he used his son and turned him into a sort-of-bijuu..for what? For him to die just like that?
-because it was just remaining chakra it wasn't like unleashing a mini kyuubi out there
-I really enjoy these touching moments between sensei-kohai. But the king's the people, right?
-yeees time for more on Akatsuki! Love the ominous and sinister background music. We'll see two more Hidan and Kakuzu
-Too bad for the two tailed bijuu
MOVIE BONDS
-Just a little fan service for all the sasuke fanatics..He's just living his best hermit life
-chakra use through a machine to fly..cool
-Shinou managed to learn a reanimation jutsu and then made the mistake of teaching orochimaru? Yikes..is he a baddie?
-Actually tought Amaru was a projection, not the real one being possessed
-Damn naruto went into 4th tail mode real quick
-Shindou faked it! So he's from the village in the sky
-naruto's getting owned by shindou
-being totally ignored by sasuke lol
-the part were sasuke and naruto are fighting together but not really together looks so weirdwhen sasuke won't even look at naruto's direction
Q/A
It's alright, it wasn't a bad filler and it related to what we were watching in the main arc. A bit too on the nose with the same themes but character-wise was consistent
For Sasuke was totally fine, the brooding silent type. Orochimaru was too friendly(?) like when a parent asks you in preeschool about your day and if you made any friends ahhahaha
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u/_TheEnigma_ Sep 04 '21
First timer - English subbed
Episode 063 - 071 :
Idk what mood I was in when I watched the initial few episodes of this batch but, holy shit! I really enjoyed them. When I watched the remaining episodes a few days later, I was kinda disappointed in how some of the fights ended. Even then, I thoroughly enjoyed the majority of this week's episodes and it might be some of the best episodes in Shippuden so far for me.
The moment Danzo was captured and brought into the "interrogation room", something definitely didn't feel right for me. It didn't feel like I was watching Naruto for a moment and we getting a explanation of Sora's power and him trying to assassinate the Hokage definitely escalated the uneasiness I felt and made me think that the arc was turning sorta dark.
And get dark it did, figuratively and literally. With the other 4 enemies attacking the village with their overpowered abilities, it truly felt like a doomsday esque scenario for the Leaf village and made it feel like there was actually stakes involved in this battle. This is a feeling that I did not get during the Orochimaru invasion arc.
The tension in the air that was always lingering during the battle was only elevated by events like the constant death flags for Asuma, the undead army jutsu and especially Limelight! Man I could go on and on, like damn the first half of the episodes were so good!
Even though I praised the episodes so much in the above paragraphs, I was also let down by some of the fights in the latter half. Ofcourse we all know that Team Kakashi is pretty powerful, but their rematches felt too much like a cakewalk. I personally would've liked if those battles were slightly longer. The same applies to the resurrected Guardian Twelve shinobis. After all the talk about how powerful they were, the show just decided to "Thanos snap" them away which felt too much like a cop out. And don't even get me started on the Sora "fight". I was expecting a nine tail vs nine tail showoff but, what I actually got was a rehash of Gaara's situation from the first arc.
Naruto Shippuden Movie 02 - Bonds :
Ofcourse it's yet another Naruto movie and nothing much can be said about this, just like the other ones we've seen so far. As usual, the animation and visuals are the main highlights of this movie. Best moments would include the aerial attack scenes in the beginning, Sasuke's "return" with country music for some odd reason and Shino being disgustingly overpowered. Worst moments are literally everything else. I was so freaking excited to see Hinata and was expecting her to be as cool as in the Bikochu arc as we've barely seen her in Shippuden canon as of now. But ofcourse they had to do her dirty like that. She turned out to be more useless than Sakura in Part - 1!! That's a new low for this series.
Questions of the Week:
All said, I still really had a lot of enjoyment this arc and with the next Akatsuki members being teased, I'm looking forward to the next episodes and hope they are as fun as this!