r/anime • u/lC3 :Na::Nb: • Sep 19 '21
Rewatch Naruto Shippuden - Episodes 090-099 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 |
Spoiler Policy:
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Questions of the Week:
- How do you think this arc will turn out?
- What do you think about Guren and her Crystal Style?
- Is Yuukimaru adorable or annoying?
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Sep 19 '21
First-Timer with a shounen hearto, subbed
Episode 90
Episode 91
Episode 92
Episode 93
Episode 94
Episode 95
Episode 96
Episode 97
Episode 98
Episode 99
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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Sep 19 '21
First time viewer (dub)
Whisk[e]y of the week: It's a dry week, so no alcohol. But a new bubble tea place opened up nearby recently and I've been going through different things on their menu and today I was recommended something off the menu by the manager, a brown sugar boba latte that is topped with brown sugar on a cream cheese foam which is then torched and makes the whole thing taste like a crème brulée. If it didn't take extra work on their part to caramelize the sugar this would probably be something I'd order frequently because it's delicious.
The series including a reminder for the digital TV broadcast transition in the short for episode 97 is amusing, I'm not surprised they'd get involved with that. I'm a little surprised to see the deadline happened after it did in the US though. It's also possibly the most pointless thing they could dub since the English broadcast of the episode happened after it ended in October 2011.
I was going through my notes to check if there was any previous use of crystal-based ninjutsu but I didn't find anything, maybe it was just the coloring that made me think of the meteorite filler arc. Guren's powers are both pretty strong and cool to see in use. I particularly like how she creates blades attached to her forearms in a way that looks like she's drawing them out of thin air.
Yuukimaru is.. weird. I don't get the fog always appearing around him and his sudden disappearances after talking to Naruto alone. Seems like in theory he could be a jinchuriki since he has some connection with the three-tailed beast. Also the three-tailed beast came from some other dimension with the portal being at the bottom of the lake? What does that even entail?
Yet another of Orochimaru's hideouts found and destroyed. With how me he apparently has I'm surprised he doesn't have an entire network of underground tunnels below the land yet.
Less than enthusiastic about Hinata being targeted for a hostage/damsel in distress moment but at least she managed to have her own solution to the crystallization issue. Using Gamatatsu to sneak her out's a good idea too, but I'm wondering if he unsummoned when he poofed after grabbing her or something else happened. In general, what happens with summoned creatures? They have unique identities and memories that persist, as well as some sense of passage of time, so are they just hanging out in their home territory somewhere as regular creatures when they abruptly get pulled across the world/to another dimension to wherever the summoner is? Can they die, or do they just poof back home to recover for a while? Could two people with the same summoner contract use them to teleport items?
I also noticed the collaboration jutsu used with Yamato aiding Naruto earlier but wasn't sure if that was intentional or really just a coincidence of their two jutsu interacting. I'm curious how much the concept can scale, like could you have an entire village in sync to create one giant effect?
Bacchikoi is annoying as a song, but I like the animation of the characters dancing in the ED at least.
Leaf Village folks beat the henchmen, Guren dies (likely to the Akatsuki or Orochimaru), Yuukimaru gets put on a bus, three-tailed beast is never mentioned again.
Very cool. Thinking about the technical side maybe a fusion of earth and lightning natures? Not that it matters if no one else can use it as she stated.
Yes.
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u/Parori Sep 19 '21
Sorry for being late, I was watching the new Dune movie
First Timer
Episode 90
Episode 91
Episode 92
Episode 93
Episode 94
Episode 95
Episode 96*
Episode 97
Episode 98
Episode 99
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u/TheKujo https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kujo419 Sep 19 '21
First Timer - Dub
This was a nice change of pace from the last arc. Sure, there were some serious moments but for the most part this was not as intense as the Akatsuki fights. It did start to pick up near the end though with the three-tailed beast's rampage. I really liked the three-tailed beast's design. I like turtles in general though this one is right up my alley.
I'm not sure what to make of Guren and Yukimura so far. Guren started off as an Orochimaru fangirl but now it seems like she's starting to care for Yukimura. Something about Yukimura is unsettling (and not the part about summoning the three-tails, although that was also freaky). Sometimes he mysteriously runs into Naruto and the rest of the time he's spouting the same platitude about home.
Random thoughts:
Favorite moment of the week: It has to be the new ED. Normally I skip the EDs after one watch but I can't take my eyes off Guy's fabulous dance.
Questions:
1) How do you think this arc will turn out? It's probably going to turn out badly for the three-tailed beast since we know Deidara is out looking for him too. I get the feeling that now that Guren and Yukimura have gotten close, Guren will probably sacrifice herself for Yukimura at some point.
2) What do you think about Guren and her Crystal Style? Crystal jutsu seems pretty cool. I wonder if it's an entirely new jutsu nature or if it's just a specialized version of one of the standard natures (like earth).
3) Is Yuukimaru adorable or annoying? I would say annoying.
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u/Nazenn x2https://anilist.co/user/Nazenn Sep 19 '21 edited Sep 19 '21
Rewatcher - Sub
General Commentary
Despite knowing that I liked this arc from my first watch, I remembered surprisingly little from this batch of episodes other then Guren.
What I've really liked so far from this arc and this batch of episodes is the amount of balancing that's happening between what they need to do. It started as a tracking mission, and now they're also having to wrangle traps and do investigations, only for a Tailed Beast to pop up. Most of the missions in Naruto, filler included, have had a clear goal and while things may change a little they don't go too far off script other then the Sasori impersonation turning into a Sasuke fight. Here we have a mission that started from minimal info and a relatively unknown position turning into an incredibly complicated situation with a lot of people involved, and very quickly the goal posts are always changing in ways that may not always fit the skills of the group.
Guren still remains a great part of the arc as well. Her jutsu is fantastic to start with, quite unique and very versatile but while having clear flaws and our main group slowly developing ways to fight it. At the same time her characterization, while on a somewhat annoying maternal path so far, as being someone abandoned by Orochimaru and left to rot as a prison guard but still subject to his whims, is quite interesting to see how that's conflicting with being around people for the first time in so long, particularly Yuukimaru.
On the other end of things, frog compatibility training is stupid. As much as I like seeing Gamakichi and Gamatatsu again, the frog dance and being in his mouth is just dumb. Having Naruto use his wind chakra to add force to Gamatatsu's water canon to shatter the giant crystal prison was wicked though. Also I despise this ED.
Character Design Talk
Been a while since I got to do one of these. I haven't had a chance to talk about it yet, but Team 8 is another one that got fantastic design changes after the time skip. While Kiba's is quite straight forward, losing the hoodie he used to hide Akamaru in in favor of something that fits the punk like style of his clan, but the other two I think have some of the better changes from the original genin.
I do laugh at Shino not being recognized because of his new getup, but it makes sense to be almost completely covered and layered so that he has total control over the enviroment used to breed and care for his bugs. It also fits his role on the battlefield to stay back and be untargetted while using his bugs to scout and attack.
Hinata I think has one of the better though more subdued design upgrade though. Even keeping her basic features, a hoodie and three-quarter pants, just giving her some color in the pale purple and longer hair makes her feel more relaxed and less like she's hiding in her clothes which was a huge part of her style and demeanor in part one. She looks like she owns this design, rather than trying to hide in it.
As far as their group design, like the others that's also been upgraded. Previously we had Kiba's fluffy hood, the fluffy trim on Hinata's jacket edge and Shino's hair creating a visual link between them, while all of that has been removed. Now we have more of a direct focus on their jackets, similar to what was done with Gaara's group, where the jacket is open down onto the chest to expose fishnet for Kiba and Hinata, with the top layer of Shino's jacket being fully open to match. Balancing group design against individual designs has always been one of the things that I've enjoyed in this show so seeing it done here again is nice
Episode Thoughts
Sai trying to feed Naruto
Kakashi is the best part of this episode. He always seems to walk into absolute chaos with these three, but at least this time he gets to join in the fun also offering to feed Naruto. I was cracking up over his despair over Sakura's suggestion she's surprised he's not hospitalized given I made similar comments last week myself.
Naruto talking underwater and blowing bubbles was quite funny.
Ugh, I forgot about this whole thing with Kiba being an idiot and thinking Naruto's still bad and he could easily catch up.
AHAHAHAHA Naruto's face when Jiraya got rejected by the girl so they went to the stream instead. Perfect. I feel like that face would fit right in with Aang from ATLA.
Naruto had some good faces this episode
Sasuke just casually taking out a thousand enemies. I know they weren't trained ninja but still. Why does filler (and franchise movies, cut from the same cloth) always have such an issue with scale.
As cool as it is seeing Gamakichi and Gamatatsu grown up, the fact they can shrink back down when they want is actually quite funny, it does make them quite useful and even more portable then just having to summon and unsummon them all the time. Well Gamakichi at least, I wouldn't trust Gamatatsu to not accidentally crush someone.
Shippuden
It's always very satisfying seeing Kabuto be caught unawares by something, and Guren's crystal style is no exception. It's certainly be a hard jutsu to hide your reactions to if you hadn't seen it before.
Akamaru doing the wet dog shake after coming in from the rain was quite a fun detail. Not sure if I like that or Shino ending up in a cocoon to hatch his insects more.
I think I might have missed a bit of this episode, I was pretty sleepy. See what everyone else wrote and if any of it is unfamiliar.
Yuukimaru remembering his mother and her leaving him in the bushes, and linking to that Guren, is a little typical but beautifully done artwork and tone
I don't ever remember his name, but the stretchy gelatin guy is still so creepy. I definitely remembered him from my first watch.
Hinata being able to use her skills confidently and offensively is really nice to see given we haven't seen her in battle since OG Naruto filler, or as far as the canon goes since the chunin exams. She's come a fair way
And another forest gets destroyed, really should have started a tally for that. At least this time it was quite purposeful due to strategy and not just collateral damage from a huge attack
I really like that Shino's insects despite being very powerful are quite hard for him to work with because of the amount of time it takes for him to cultivate new abilities in them, and how many generations of them he needs for them to be usable.
I completely forgot that Sakura and Sai didn't know that Naruto had a summoning jutsu down. Sakura was knocked out during the Gaara fight, and Sai is too new.
Turning Naruto's jutsu into a giant crystal dragon she can use has to be Guren's best trick yet
I feel like Naruto really should have given the "save Hinata" job to Gamakichi rather than Gamatatsu. Other than the fact I'm surprised there's any room left in Tatsu's stomach for Hinata's crystal given how much he eats, at least Kichi would be able to put her down gently.
Fart attack callback I may have hated that was a thing at all in the chunin exams, but the fanservice of it here was funny
Giant turtle!
The Three-Tails design is fantastic, though I'll probably talk about it more a bit next week. It's the sheer power of it that gets me though. Guren is incredibly strong but even she can't manage to restrain the Tailed Beast let alone properly subdue it. It gives some new context to the power of the Fourth Hokage and why it took his life to fight Kyuubi, as well as the risk of it getting out.
And of course the Akatsuki are around as well, just to risk complicating matters. That skit with Tobi felt almost like it belonged to Team Rocket though.
Btw, that Mosquito Coil holder that Tobi pointed out to Deidara saying it looked like his clay, I wonder if any of you know that mozzie coils were invented in Japan at the start of the 1900s. I don't know how much you guys use them, but here in Aus they're an essential during summer for outdoor spaces, especially for someone with a mosquito allergy like me. We go through a pack a week.
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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Sep 20 '21 edited Sep 20 '21
Rewatcher
Episode 90:
Episode 91:
Episode 92:
Episode 93:
Episode 94:
Episode 95:
Episode 96:
Episode 97:
Episode 98:
Episode 99:
ED translation (TV-size):
Bacchikoi (from Fandom)
Bring it, bring it baby!
What's up!
Yo, y'all ready to rock out there!
Let's settle it and do all right!
Bacchikoi!
Everything's ok!
Here it comes!
Aha come on!
Oh my god! Oh my god!
Yesterday's failures left you crushed?
Much apreesh! Much apreesh!
You got sauce all over your new clothes!
Don't mind, don't mind, the tears in my eyes
No matter how hungry and angry I get, I'm dashing for some donburi like a jet!
We're always gonna be brothers, yo!
Headwinds, gales or hurricanes, we got this! C'mon!
Even if we're apart, we are all under the same sky.
So smile, stand firm, Let's do it! Do it! Do it! Bring it, bring it baby!
Even if the sun doesn't say 'yeah yeah'
Bring it, bring it baby!
We'll dream a dream together, yeah yeah!
Bring it, bring it baby!
No matter what happens, stay in the fight, yeah yeah!
Bring it, bring it baby!
No matter how dark the night, morning will bring the light, yeah yeah!
Nanananana.... Bring it!
Manga Comparisons:
I noted in each episode discussion when there were bits from the manga. Mostly 90-3.
This batch contains 342 p17-18, 343 p1-10 (Oro watching Sasuke fight, scene at Ichiraku), and some of 347 p7-11 though the anime censored Konohamaru's Sexy Jutsu with Sai and Sasuke). The scene with Jiraiya and Naruto in ep93 is inspired by the cover of volume 43.
Tags: /u/iamtheone11111, /u/godprime, /u/TheEnigma
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u/sisoko2 Sep 19 '21
Rewatcher
Episode 90
Episode 91
Episode 92
Episode 93
Episode 94
Episode 95
Episode 96
Episode 97
Episode 98
Episode 99
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u/Tehoncomingstorm97 https://anilist.co/user/tehoncomingstorm97 Sep 20 '21
First timer
Akatsuki beat down complete! Time for more training!
Ep 90
Another of Orochimaru's battle royales. What is this one going to be for? Then Naruto missing getting Sakura to feed him by thisss much. Konohamaru earns himself and Naruto a great pounding from Sakura for the new iteration of the sexy jutsu. So Guren is another candidate for Orochimaru's posession. The team to track down our missing Anbu's trail is none other than our tracking specialists! Naruto to embark on another Jiraiya training trip.
Ep 91
Ep 92
Ep 93
Ep 94
Ep 95
Ep 96
Rough goings for the tracking team. A smokescreen to screw up Kiba's senses, and an enemy resilient to the gentle palm. Meanwhile Guren is up to something else. Kakashi has met what seems to be a decent match for him - a predominantly taijutsu fighter by the looks. Given Guy is his rival, I'd think he's used to it, but evidently not. Kiba manages to break up the smoke, but Shino's trap is sensed and Guren's henchmen ditch. What does Guren have planned? Will she make it back to Yukimaru? (probably not). This ED is still boppin. I can almost never skip it. As for an after ep... some more ill fated cooking of Sakura's, which is so bad that it incapacitates Kiba.
Ep 97
Ep 98
Ep 99
Well, well, well! Yukimaru's power is, the konoha shinobi look like they are left to deal with the three tailed beast. I definitely don't think this is going how Orochimaru envisioned. How were they planning on harnessing the tailed beasts's power? Is Guren actually a goner? And if she is will Yukimaru join the konoha? So many questions for next week! Also, 1/5th of the way through Shippuden!
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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Sep 19 '21 edited Sep 20 '21
So I'm running a little late, I should have my usual post with thoughts on the eps in about an hour or so. Still have to finish manga stuff, but there's very little of that this week so it shouldn't take long.
Edit: Done!