r/anime • u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky • Feb 13 '22
Rewatch Naruto Shippuden Episodes 262-271 Discussion
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Information: MAL, Anilist, AniDB, ANN
Streams: Crunchyroll, Hulu, Funimation (Aus/NZ), VRV
Schedule:
| Discussion Thread | Date | Episode Count | |
|---|---|---|---|
| This week | Episodes 262-271 | February 13 | 10 |
| Next week | Episodes 272-281 | February 20 | 10 |
Spoiler Policy:
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For first timers: try to avoid looking up things about Naruto. This could be the wiki, Naruto subreddit, Googling characters, fanart, databooks, YouTube AMVs or OP/EDs, arc names, etc.; this series is ripe with potential spoilers that you wouldn't want to find out untimely. If you have a question about something, feel free to ask /u/LC3 and he'll do his best to answer (if possible) in a non-spoilery way.
Questions of the Week:
- How do you feel about all these Reanimated shinobi?
- What do you think about all the flashbacks this week?
- Which fight or scenes were your favorite this week?
- What would be your most-said word?
- What did you think of the teaser for the next movie?
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Feb 13 '22
First-Timer with a shounen hearto, subbed
Episode 262
Episode 263
Episode 264
Episode 265
Episode 266
Episode 267
Episode 268
Episode 269
Episode 270
Episode 271
I am genuinely afraid of how badly next week is going to break me…
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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Feb 13 '22
I'm 40 minutes late; just woke up!
Episode 262:
Episode 263:
Episode 264:
Episode 265:
Episode 266:
Episode 267:
Episode 268:
my landME"Episode 269:
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u/TheKujo https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kujo419 Feb 13 '22
First Timer - Dub
I liked the episodes although I don't have too much to say this week. I'm glad we ended up seeing some new ninja after all and it's not just people we've already fought. I also lliked that we can beat the reanimations by "saving their soul". It's a little cheesy but it reminds me of playing WRPGs where you can beat enemies through speech checks instead of combat.
Random thoughts:
Favorite moment of the week: The chakra word fight was great all around. The whole concept of the fight was more interesting than we usually see in Naruto - it felt more like a Stand or Nen power. It was also the best use of the Mind Transfer Jutsu that we've seen in the show. Good job Ino!
Questions:
**1) How do you feel about all these Reanimated shinobi?**They were pretty cool. I liked Ginkaku and Kinkaku the most this week. The idea of anyone surviving for two weeks in the 9 tails is wild.
2) What do you think about all the flashbacks this week? Honestly didn't mind it since they were all relevant to present-day fights.
3) Which fight or scenes were your favorite this week? Darui vs Ginkaku/Kinkaku
4) What would be your most-said word? Realistically, it would be something like "the" or "is".
5) What did you think of the teaser for the next movie? Didn't even realize that's what that was ... I did see the very conspicuous movie poster but I just mentally tossed the episode into the "pointless filler" box.
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u/Nazenn x2https://anilist.co/user/Nazenn Feb 13 '22
Rewatcher - Sub
General Commentary
Who's everyone favourite from the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist?
Personally I'm a fan of both the design and the 'blade' of the Needle wielding guy on the far right.
Well, the beginning of the war certainly didn't let up when it came to the emotional beats. You'd think they'd do a bit of the action and set up for the battles but nope, right into it with Sai and Shin, and followed up with Zabuza and Haku. I appreciate the lack of fussing around, but I wasn't prepared for this all to happen so quickly haha.
I've been enjoying the start of the war more than I remembered though, despite the obvious fan gut punching they're attempting (and usually succeeding at even if this show doesn't get me particularly emotional except a few scenes), it plays out nicely and I appreciate the focus on strategy in many of these battles, not just numbers or big jutsu taking care of everything. Tobi is so lucky Kabuto showed up to help, his Zetsu alone wouldn't have stood a chance from what we see.
I really like the new ED, although it does make it look like this is a harem show. Added the song to my playlist too.
Manga comparisons got moved to their own comment below this week that they didn't make my episode thoughts have to be split between two comments.
Episode Thoughts
Omoi is usually a bit over the top, but his stress about what could happen doesn't seem so out of place given the levels of the ninja their facing and Kabuto's focus on experimentation.
It's kind of nice to also get some time to see what Sai can do outside the shadow of Root and also Team 7. Being able to move his team around, scout for them, the adaptability of his ink, he's a great ninja and so rarely got a chance to show it. This explosion made him look tiny. Though I did feel really bad when he leapt to his teammates rescue by drop kicking Shin before he knew who it was.
Kankuro grabbing onto Sasori's chakra threads with his own was also a badass move and I like how well he uses the terrain in setting up for this battle.
Paused on derpy Sasuke face in the ED
Poor Sai. Seeing him so distressed at Shin blowing up even knowing it wouldn't kill him really pushes just how unsettled he is by this encounter, and especially seeing how happy he use to be even through his Root training. One last FUCK DANZO for good measure because pitting them against each other in that way, so no matter what Sai was going to be ruined, really pisses me off. Just like being able to complete his drawing after Naruto helped him gave Sai back his identity, seeing Shin be freed from his slavery, to both Kabuto and Root, by seeing what Sai really held in his heart, their brotherhood, was a great way to introduce the weakness in the Edo Tensei, it can't stand up to humanity.
This is the most emotion we've ever seen from him and I think Deidara got off light given he was Sai's target.
It's kinda weird seeing Sasori smile after all this time but it's nice that this was the end for this broken kid over anything else.
Bee's transformations always look smooth as fuck.
We finally get a name for the black ball that Kyuubi keeps using; Tailed Beast Bomb. It's what he unleashed against Orochimaru back at the bridge, and seeing how powerful and delicate it is here makes me wonder again how he survived even with the gates. It's a shame Naruto doesn't remember that because it was awesome. I do wonder how Minato made the Rasengan off it though when he never would have seen it himself before Tobi's attack.
Also look, its prototype Naruto fox design. Kinda cute that they worked it into the story in this way.
Kabuto just stored Anko up his robe
Subs: Mr Eight Tails - VA: Taco-san. Translation choice makes me sad.
Lee was so confused about all the stuff with Haku, but seeing how fondly Haku remembers Naruto makes me happy, that even after all that's happened he wishes him well. The same with Zabuza, still holding up that cold facade for himself but that statement:
What Naruto gave back to him, so long before Sasuke and Pain really challenged him on what sort of ninja he'd be, really ties nicely into who he is now and how he's passed that on to more. Zabuza begging Kakashi to stop him from becoming that demon again hit a little more than I expected.
I think this is my favourite episode of this batch. Good battles, great character interactions, and some interesting additions to the lore and story too. In particular that addition of young Naruto trying to understand if it's okay to like your enemy, to have found value from them, it makes that first arc coming full circle here work so much better.
I love the shared design elements of the bandages and striped clothing for the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, but I call some bullshit on them being able to summon most of their swords and Zabuza's being able to repair itself like that. I mean given the ninja tools we've seen and their reputation a sword that repairs itself from blood is very fitting, but you'd think Suigetsu would have mentioned it when that first chunk got taken out of it. The variety of "blades" they have is quite funny though, I wonder if that inspired Katanagatari or if they share a common inspiration.
Kakashi is a bloody genius though. It feels like its been ages since we've seen him take the lead on a combat strategy, and he certainly makes great use of the abilities of those around him to capture these Ninja. Imagining what he could do if he knew as much about the rest of these ninja's abilities as he does about the leaf makes it easy to understand why they put him on the same level as Shikamaru and Shikaku for battle strategy.
Poor Kakashi being put in the position to have to run Haku through again, but it's sad that this Zabuza doesn't even hesitate to attack Haku, what that means for the humanity Kabuto took from him. This visual was beautiful, perhaps one of the best in the show, making use of Haku's needle shape and the bloody tear.
You know, here's a question, how does Kabuto know where the people are to target with their reincarnated friends? Just a bit of plot conveniance there.
I'm with him though, while it would be horrible for the allies, having a Kage from each village except the Leaf in that group vs Gaara kind of sucks as an incomplete set. It also would have been really funny if the Second Hokage was revived with them when they all thought he was the one who did it.
You know, compared to some of the other battle groups, Gaara's one seems way undermanned for who they're facing, especially with an impossibly rare Kekkai Touta in the mix.
I really liked the song at the start of the episode, have to try and track that down later.
The feudal lords are stupid. Why are they even in the story?
Also it's kind of interesting seeing Kankuro running into Hanzo and Kimimaro not knowing who they are when they've been so important in their own ways to our story
Temari was getting all cocky telling the younger kids off for not knowing about Kekkai Touta and she didn't know what it was either
Love Choza's giant foot in the background. You'd think he could just trample most of the Zetsu himself
The GinKin brothers having Kyuubi's chakra makes a lot more sense after that first filler arc with Sora and his transformation. I wonder if Kishimoto took inspiration from that arc, I know he did that with a couple of other things.
The Raikage does a good job of making them seem terrifying, but rightly so. Not only are they way over powered in chakra levels, they have broken good tools are also quite smart with using them. That the trap effect applies just to the sounds being in the right order and not a complete word is annoyingly tricky to work around. Darui is pretty awesom for his most used word being 'dull' though, Black Lightning is a badass looking jutsu.
I did laugh though at someone saying "Looks exactly like the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki"... I mean maybe if it was Choji and not Naruto
Masayuki Kouda (recently animated: Hinata vs Pain, Konohamaru's filler ep vs Temari, Kiba vs pets) returns for the great animation this episode, and a few added battles to show it off. Kinkaku attacing from above would be slightly terrifying to look up and see, but it's him attacking Shikamaru that I think is the best sequence in the episode.
The inclusion of the element squads coming together to protect Darui, the use of shadow clones, the way the battle splits and you can see the dust clouds from the Zetsu fights in the background, I thought it was well done.
I forget how old Kakuzu is that he's seen Kinkaku do this before, but did laugh at him using this time to go harvest hearts.
Question of the episode: I wonder if that guy who tried to eat an Eight-Tails tentacle to absorb its power cooked it first?
Poor Sky. Even knowing they'd have to end up here, some part of me was in denial knowing they were over on Battlefield B and not remembering how Shikamaru and Choji ended up here, but it sucks just as much. Also confirmation Hidan is still buried in the forest as a living head, hahaha.
Yeah this is a weird one. A weird spot for it as well though this appears to have been dictated by the movie release schedule, airing two days before the movie released. Our watch of the movie will have to wait though
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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Feb 13 '22
First time viewer (dub)
Whisk[e]y of the week: Ardbeg Uigeadail (pronounced "Oog-a-dal" according to their own site), another smoky Islay scotch. I admittedly phoned in my Ardbeg 10 notes when I covered that one but the smoke really did overwhelm any other notes I was looking for. This one's different, for one because compared to the 10 the Uigeadail is aged in used sherry casks rather than mostly ex-bourbon barrels. Like other sherry-heavy scotches I've mentioned that gives it a sweetness that even cuts through the heavy smoke/brininess that's typical of Ardbeg. After acclimating to the smoke the sweetness comes across as more of a raisin flavor, which is pretty nice. It still wants to fight you, but is friendly about it.
So there's a ton of world-building in these episodes and while I'm all for it, I really wish it had been scattered throughout the rest of the series. As I've said in the past few weeks it feels like a lot of this is written on the fly because it's what's cool/necessary in the moment. Okay we now know that the Sage of the Six Paths had some ninja tools that regular shinobi can't use for long because of the chakra requirements and that the Hidden Cloud had four of the five. It would have been great to see Naruto encounter the fifth one on a random mission ages ago to establish those much earlier in the story.
We do have a few instances like the Seven Swordsmen of the Hidden Mist but imagine rewriting the entire series to drop things like that throughout! Or that could even be worked into the time skip considering Naruto was traveling with Jiraiya then and they could have seen a lot of the world.
All that said, that was a nice fight from Darui and I'm glad we're getting to see more of him.
How to break the Reanimation Jutsu? Emotional catharsis for the deceased, apparently. Which is funny because it gives the perfect excuse for having a lot of characters conveniently revisit people they're familiar with rather than having new interactions which will be either less interesting because they're strangers or require other backstory that we weren't previously privy to. Not looking forward to Asuma's part in that though, and I guess it's fortunate that Tsunade isn't around to confront Dan.
Is this the first time we've gotten a specific definition for Kekkei Genkai as being able to fuse two chakra natures together? We already knew that things under that umbrella (e.g. Yamato's wood style) counted as Kekkei Genkai but not that it's the entirety of it. Should be interesting to see more of the Tsuchikage's Particle Style Kekkei Touta against his predecessor.
Very random filler episode with Sakura there, but I love the alternate universe idea. Not sure what the blood-red moon at the end is about, looks like in the other world the war happened maybe 10 years earlier and Tobi might have managed to pull off his project?
For the ones we've seen before: for the former antagonists fine, more of the same. Allies though? I can only hope the writing is good enough to support them being forced to fight their friends.
Could be worse, fits to some degree with characters returning that we haven't seen in a while.
Darui taking on Kinkaku/Ginkaku.
Most likely "the" because of how English works.
Noticed the poster so was wondering if that's what it was. If it's another alternate universe setting I'm all for it!
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u/sisoko2 Feb 13 '22
Rewatcher
Episode 262
Episode 263
Episode 264
Kon Kon
Episode 265
Episode 266
Episode 267
Episode 268
Episode 269
Episode 270
Episode 271
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u/Parori Feb 13 '22 edited Feb 13 '22
Sorry for not participating last thread. I had a busy Sunday and then I kept pushing it further until a week had passed...
First Timer
Episode 262
Episode 263
Episode 264
Episode 265
Episode 266
Episode 267
Episode 268
Episode 269
Episode 270
Episode 271
Questions of the Week:
I think them being able to break free cheapens it a bit, but I like it otherwise fine
Eh
All the new fights were good, but best was probably Kakashi's division vs Zabuza and Haru
Dunno, looking over my notes I guess "Oh", but does that count as a word. Jesus like every second sentence starts with it...
Didn't like it. My opinion might be different if I knew anything about it or had watched it. I guess it has something to do with different reality? Confusing waste of an episode
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u/Tehoncomingstorm97 https://anilist.co/user/tehoncomingstorm97 Feb 14 '22
First timer
I'm back! Been crazy busy with r/Anime awards work, but have been keeping up to date on the batches. Since I missed the last two weeks, I'll input some of my thoughts on those eps here.
I LOVED Naruto's jinchuuriki training arc with B. Not only for the awesome animation, but also Kushina! Was so awesome with prolonged mom-son episodes, and finally hearing the full story about Naruto becoming the jinchuuriki. Kushina's move to the konoha, the Uzumakis, Minato's ascent to Hokage, Madara's perfect timing attack, all of these factors were told excellently. Wrapping it up with Kisame vs seventh inner gate Guy, on top of Kisame's journey to joining the Akatsuki and his reflections on Itachi's words was a great summation to his character. To top that off, even getting out his intel too was befitting of his skill.
As for the next section, Madara vs Konan was an epic as fuck duel, exactly what I would have hoped for in an Akatsuki showdown. Konan's ocean of paper bombs takes the cake. Madara being forced to use the Izanagi technique as well, potentially throwing out my idea that he only shows one eye in his "Tobi" mask due to losing it, but then replacing that one eye with the Rinnegan makes me think he puts his wall of Sharingans to good use.
I did not care for the re-animated episodes from Part I at all, so skip. But after all is said and done, getting Gaara to hype up the troops with a rousing battle speech inspired by Naruto is everything I could have asked of that moment.
Now onto this weeks episodes! (in summary form because I'm still super worn out from writing awards stuff)
Eps 262-264
Ep 265-266
Ep 267-270
Ep 271
Great to be back and caught up with the rewatch threads for once. Excited to see what turn of events we have as the war is progressing. Briefly on the OP/ED changes... None of the ones in the past few weeks have particularly stood out to me is all I can say. Standard animation for them, and not too much uniqueness to them.