first big series of punches thrown, and they bring out the bad animators for this one..?? >.<
Though for whatever weird crane stance they're showing Gai doing in the air there, hopefully it'll be one of the quality animated episodes they have reserved.
I really thought they should've shown some variety to Gai. Sure the nunchuks were nice, but him initiating the Gate Releases was something we've already seen, and were kind of expecting. Oh well, him openning the 6th gate allowed the ability to free his pupils.
I really liked seeing gai in action although i expected it to go a little further. I want to see him own kisame. Animus : I dont think gai has released aside from in the one filler ep where they were fighting the wooden things and he and rock lee both released at same time.
anyhow...I also noticed that i seemed a little short, i dunno why. I looked @ 18:30 to see how far into it i was since naruto doesn't have any mid point break like bleach does. awesome ep though, and next week hopefully we get to see gai finish owning kisame.
Ugh are you serious? I really liked this part in the manga since it was the first time seeing Gai unlock gates for us.Originally Posted by bbaucom
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
I haven't seen a good animated episode of Naruto since Gaara vs Rock Lee.
The Naruto vs Sasuke fight was cool but a different style.
Sadly, I won't keep my hopes up of seeing an awesome fight scene in the near future =/.
I had a feeling it was very short episode, this only meand I was so intrigued because it was quite an interesting ep.
Gai hitting (tapping) the mizu bunshin, lol. Found it kinda funny, much better than the, who are you bits. By the way, didn't Gai release 1 more gate than Lee? Can't remember Lee doing more then 5.
And the Kai (release) of Naruto is frickin big one. Whilst Sakura or any other shinobi just puts there hands together and focus whil saying kai, Naruto has to do it big.
Hakke Rokujūyon Shō!
I would have thought getting rid of the training weights would come before releasing the gates. Maybe Gai figured it would be quicker to release the gates than to get his socks off.
I the episode was good overall. Again the cut between two fights is annoying. They should build up to one fight and then finish it off before moving on to the next one. I can't see how this is extending the life of the anime vis a vis the manga, its just irritating.
Oh well, seems despite Naruto's release he still hasn't fully shaken off Itachi's genjutsu.
Pretty good episode. The filler elaboration of Naruto's training during the time skip is perfect and very well done (it is filler, isn't it?). Naruto finally being able to dispel genjutsu really shows some development of the character. Looks like Itachi turns it up a notch in the next episode.
The fight between Gai and Kisame was ok, but it was cool to see how many techniques Kisame (or any Akatsuki) has, and his (their) ability to perform so many of them in one battle.
Once again, Tenten shows how useless she is. And why didn't Gai attack the water clones sooner to free his teammates? And why did Neji have to wait so long to free them?
bbaucom: I hope you are disappointed because there should be no way Gai owns Kisame. He might be able to force him to retreat, but not own him.
Episode rating: B-
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I also wondered, it remember distinctly that during the Hokage battle (The first and the second hokage fighting the third) they said that only the first or the second could make water appear form nowhere. Creating water was a huge jutsu that the first or the second could only do.
As I don't seem to see any lake or river nearby and seeing that there's water coming from Kisame's mouth. Must mean he has mastered that jutsu?
EDIT: It was the second hokage who could do that.
Hakke Rokujūyon Shō!
HAHA! The guy who doesn't want people to tell the differences from Manga/Anime asks if the training was filler.
No, it wasn't filler.
The animation of Gai's fight was atrocious. The whole stabbing attacks with a set of nunchukus thing was ridiculous.
It bugged me that Lee was yelling in the bubble wasting his breath.
I'm starting to agree with everyone that shippuuden is dragging in a very bad way. They could drag it out so much better.
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