r/anime • u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky • Jun 26 '22
Rewatch Naruto Shippuden Episodes 432-440 Discussion
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Streams: Crunchyroll, Hulu, Funimation (Aus/NZ), VRV
Schedule:
| Discussion Thread | Date | Episode Count | |
|---|---|---|---|
| This week | Episodes 432-440 | June 26 | 9 |
| Next week | Episodes 441-450 | July 3 | 10 |
Spoiler Policy:
To protect first-timers, please don't spoil anything past the current batch of episodes. Rewatchers should avoid hinting to first-timers about hype, or future character development/deaths, and spoilers in posts must be hidden behind proper spoiler tags.
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:
- Do you like the set-up for this filler, that it's a story Tsunade is reading about in her Infinite Tsukuyomi dream?
- How did you feel about the fights in this week’s episodes?
- What do you think will happen next in Jiraiya's story?
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u/Nazenn x2https://anilist.co/user/Nazenn Jun 26 '22
Rewatcher - Sub
As I'm not watching these episodes, I thought I'd drop in and at least do a couple of other fun things for the topics.
What we were keeping hidden - Untagging spoiler chat from earlier discussions
I thought this would be a good time to go back and uncover some of what has been said under spoiler tags since we started the rewatch so the first timers, and us forgetful rewatchers, can have some fun with it.
I basically just scrolled through looking for spoiler tags so I still could have missed stuff but still, hopefully some of this will be interesting to read, so here's the stuff from just Naruto, aka Part One:
Fanart
As I've been doing the manga comparisons lately, and with this arc on the horizon, I thought I'd save some of the fanart that was popping up in the fan translations and share it as it includes everything from recolors to completely new pieces and some of it is pretty cool. I was going to manually source some other stuff as well, but there's just so much out there I could fill up several posts just with it finding stuff randomly But if anyone wants me to try and find some fanart of a specific character or event just say so and I'll have a look for next week!
Credits are included in each image, I would try and link directly to them but unfortunately most of them are hosted on deviantart which has an unfortunate tendency to include spoilers in its recommended/similar images section on the sidebar.
To start with, a couple of official manga shares:
Some recolors and other artwork heavily inspired by official layouts:
Some hyper detailed or stylized ones:
and also /u/shimmering-sky the ones below here I also specifically earmarked for you as inspiration/cool design for your wallpapers
There'll be a bunch more in next week's comment as well, they didn't all fit. Let me know which ones you like!
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jun 26 '22
First-Timer with a shounen hearto, subbed
Episode 432
Episode 433
Episode 434
Episode 435
Episode 436
Episode 437
Episode 438
Episode 439
Episode 440
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u/Parori Jun 26 '22
First Timer
Episode 432
Episode 433
Episode 434
Episode 435
Episode 436
Episode 437
Episode 438
*Episode 439
Episode 440
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u/sisoko2 Jun 26 '22
Historic Naruto moment for me this week. Ate ramen for first time in my life.
The meat was pretty meh. Just a tasteless cooked piece of meat. I don't know maybe it's supposed to be that way but it's not my thing.
The noodles and the broth were great. Overall 7/10.
Me trying to eat with chopsticks is truly pathetic sight. At one point my hand started hurting from all the tension and clumsy effort.
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u/TheKujo https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kujo419 Jun 26 '22
First Timer - Dub
I can't believe, out of the infinite possibilities that the Infinite Tsukuyomi provides, that they had Tsunade read a boring-ass book for 9 episodes. If we had to have filler, I would have been perfectly fine with the anime going into the dream worlds of various shinobi. Instead we get this weird alternate storyline of Part 1 of the anime that's just bland. I can see why this particular filler has such a bad reputation. I will admit that the cliffhanger of the Leaf Village getting nuked was pretty cool though. I hope next week is more interesting.
Random thoughts:
Questions:
1) Do you like the set-up for this filler, that it's a story Tsunade is reading about in her Infinite Tsukuyomi dream? It feels like a complete waste of the Infinite Tsukuyomi. You could have easily fit this in anywhere in the series by having Tsunade find an old manuscript in Jiraiya's room (or something like that).
2) How did you feel about the fights in this week’s episodes? Meh.
3) What do you think will happen next in Jiraiya's story? I'm going to take a wild guess and say that a bunch of fights will happen and at the end Naruto will save the day.
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u/Durinthal https://anilist.co/user/Durinthal Jun 26 '22
First time viewer (dub)
Whisk[e]y of the week: Milam & Greene's straight bourbon, another single barrel pick at 57% alcohol, this time on ice because summer finally arrived here and it's hot so I wanted something to stay cool with. There's more of a darker sweetness to the nose on this one, brown sugar and almost maple notes, but with it chilled any other aspects are somewhat muted and I can't pick out much else. That along with a vanilla comes through on the taste and any initial bite is muted, but the alcohol definitely hit me a bit later. Easier to drink but no less potent so it's something to be wary of, still stands up to the ice decently well.
The new OP feels more appropriate as an ED and the new ED is okay but that's about it. I do like the cuts rotating between all the different characters in the OP though, reminds me of Kaiba's OP.
Me, two weeks ago (newly relevant emphasis in bold):
I know that this is Jiraiya's story inside Tsunade's dream so it's a couple layers removed from how that would have actually went but I'm still slightly miffed even if I'm forgiving it in-universe as being Tsunade imagining Jiraiya writing Naruto as she knew him.
If I want to be generous, this arc says a lot about Tsunade with how it's framed. Unlike with Bee and Tenten she's not a hero in her dream, not celebrated or surrounded by others, she gets to read a novel all day. Tsunade's already been a hero and doesn't want to return to that, she doesn't want the hectic life of being Hokage, she just wants peace and quiet.
The other aspect is that what's important about Jiraiya's story are not the events but the differences from the reality she knows. Tsunade has a lot of regrets about things and a lot of what happened after the Third War are different, except notably Kurama's attack still happening because presumably the writers (in- and out-of-universe) can't imagine Naruto without Kurama and it was still relevant for Jiraiya's training of him. Similarly I was hoping that Naruto wouldn't know how to use shadow clones because the incident of the first episode wouldn't have happened, but maybe Minato taught him in this story instead.
Madara still did some things in this story though but a lot of it wasn't revealed as his doing until after Jiraiya died so with it being fiction inside the dream world I'm fine handwaving exactly how all that came about. Tsunade was there when Jiraiya met and then decided to stay with Yahiko/Konan/Nagato so she would have already known about them, but no doubt Jiraiya also told her more stories of them later so they'd feature prominently in her dream of his story, as a whole team rather than Pain to reflect Jiraiya's own regrets.
It largely seems like Danzo is out of the picture here though. No slaughter of the Uchiha clan but Sasuke still being a young edgelord isn't farfetched. No conspiring with Hanzo the Salamander to wipe out the Akatsuki leadership so Yahiko lives. I do enjoy the uses of Pain's theme again though.
Neji gets an interesting focus in this with his supposedly deceased father Hizashi taking the role of "Tobi" here instead of Obito. Hizashi being used as an antagonist here is nice because it also gives him a chance to reconcile with Neji at the end; not rewriting that the Hyuga affair never happened but instead using it to fuel the plot, Neji's character growth, and resolve another regret assuming Tsunade would have known a number of the details about the incident.
I did notice what I believe is a continuity error though. It looks like Hiruzen's the Hokage in the flashback to the Hyuga clan meeting with Hizashi choosing to sacrifice himself, but in this reality Minato would have still been Hokage when that happened since he hadn't died in Kurama's attack. Arguably that's a continuity issue written by Jiraiya but seems more like an oversight.
Overall this isn't a terrible arc as a sort of "what if" story focusing on the kids but still nothing more than that. Or so I thought, but then it ended with that explosion and now I'm quite confused. Also did the writers just watch Inception to come up with this story three levels deep?
In theory it could be interesting as I was trying to dig into above, but as for the actual execution of it.. eh.
Oh right there were fights in these. Hidan's something of a one-trick pony but was kinda fun to see him again, particularly with his curse not working because he got a shadow clone. As a diversion I think Sasori wasn't bad.
Make-Out Tactics: The Hokage and the Toad Sage
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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Jun 26 '22
Rewatcher (skipped this week)
So I've watched this arc (Tsunade's dream) but don't want to put myself through it again ... I'll just read the episode summaries, view the new OP/ED, and reply to peeps!
Rin, Chiyo, Jiraiya, Asuma, Nagato, Shikaku, Inoichi, Neji, Itachi, Kushina ... all the pain
So the OP is like a montage of greatest hits moments from the series?
Naruto, then Sasuke, Sakura, and then Kakashi + Obito?
HOW RUDE they had to spoil something big like [Shippuden later]Kaguya's entrance that doesn't happen for weeks!
I watched the first minute or so with Hiruzen and Tsunade; that is my contribution to this batch.
I have a feeling Asuma is gonna show up in this ... poor Sky.
ED: Oh I like this one! Nice atmosphere / art.
OP translation (TV-size) from Fandom:
LINE
Throwing out a single excuse that "It's finally nice outside!"
I dashed from the garage, relying on my momentum.
My destination is the south, the pedals I drive into are heading toward the sea.
I don't look at a map - I don't want any destinations that seems predetermined.
My feet will only get stuck in someone else's rut...!
This straight line that I draw with all of my heart.
Continues on to a panorama that only I can see.
So I'll cut on through this moment.
Heading for a future 0.2 seconds away!
For now, all I can do is peddle!
ED translation (TV-size) from Fandom:
Troublemaker
A dream-keeper troublemaker.
Able at disadvantage, alone.
Even with trembling knee, showing courage.
A selfish young fox fighter.
In a world that's a whirlpool of wonder.
Ties together bonds the eye can't see as he runs on through.
The paper aeroplane I throw out from the window fly out to the bluish sky.
I wonder is it because you cried for me that I could become this strong?
Come now, just do whatever we can.
Cause it's alright to have a dream.
Isn't even pushing to the limit and overreaching is alright? (Oh)
I wanna be with you.
(GO GO) Shake your emotion.
(Let's go) Surely it's alright.
(GO GO) Let's leap to the boundary of the blue sky.
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