Naruto Shippuuden Episode 16

[masamuneehs]

Word up to Kisame for perfectly explaining what happened with Zero's Shapeshifting jutsu and the infusing the “sacrifices” with chakra. Sasori brings some interesting attitude, asking for gratitude towards him, when it was these two poor fools that took the bullet instead. That's pretty cold... Zero, on the same note, is just a real icy motherfucker. If I were Sasori, and my grandma was coming to whoop my ass for committing desertion and high treason, I would be shitting my wooden pants, or whatever the hell puppets have. Oh, that makes me think of a horrible question about Sasori's Ken-doll anatomy...

I think this episode was bombing. Much love for the music, especially the eerie funeral for Puppet and Anon at the very start and the sad string track when Old Sand Vag was explaining what Jinchuuriki are to Sakura (i thought she said she'd read Tsunade's files, the dumb bitch... didn't she just say that Gaara's ass is gonna be toast if you wait around too long?). I really liked how Old Sand Vag just stood there calmly filling out her report while giving it.

That's Ikuko Tani. I think she's proven to be one of the strongest new characters in these past three episodes. Her VA really is fucking amazing. Thinking back, I remember that she was Sally in the Hard Luck Woman episode of Cowboy Bebop, and she's an old lady who appears at the climax. I remember watching that episode and it being one of the first non-action related moment of an anime that I really enjoyed.


Why do the Sand never summon live creatures? Naruto gets a frog, Kakashi dogs, but all the Sand seem to have are puppets...


Kakashi's face at 8:31 (DB version) is priceless. He seems to always know these things, yet he almost always lets other people explain them to Naruto if somebody else is around who can...


Sakura's right to worry, it was a mistake to send Naruto out on this mission. It makes him far too vulnerable, especially cuz he's such a hothead...


Does that one council leader from the Sand have a name? He's the one who talks about making Gaara Kazekage so he could be kept under wraps, who obviously doesn't see the enormous power as something to be utilized. He seems to be a leftover loyalists from the Fourth Kazekage's era... Would be interesting to know more about this strategically important weak spot that Temari is deployed to... We really don't know jack shit about the geographical makeup of the five villages.


Gai's George of the Jungle re-enactment made me lol, and i'd already seen the screenshot of it.


Okay. I officially apologize for making fun of Zetsu. I only saw him and thought, “that guy looks fuckin silly!”, how was I to know that he's instead some split-personality, motherfucking cannibal badass? Seriously, that's some Destroyer of Elru shit right there, crazy splitster. I still don't get why he looks like a bug/plant. But that scene was perfect, how they showed the tattered cloth of Yuura's cloak, then Zetsu in that big green moon glow. When he started to eat Anon I almost lost it. Really has been awhile since i appreciated a Naruto episode like this one.

edit to above- good theory on Zetsu there

edit about the preview. I thoroughly enjoyed the off-focus horse race commentary over the preview, especially as it was followed disturbingly succintly by Naruto telling us that Gaara is worm food next week.

[DarthEnderX]

Why do the Sand never summon live creatures? Naruto gets a frog, Kakashi dogs, but all the Sand seem to have are puppets...

Temari summons ferrets.

[ASSpirine]

Very big possibility that The third kazekage has something to do with akatsuki. Maybe the founder of the akatsuki.

Now, who of you thought that Gaara would still be alive when they've fully extracted Shukaku? You think Zero would go like: Ok, thanks Gaara for your Bijuu. That's all we needed from you, you can go along now. We'll see you around in the sand village. Have a nice day?...

[DarthEnderX]

Well, I didn't think he'd die.

I was honestly expecting them to pull the Shukaku out, then, he'd be rescued before he'd be disposed of. And he'd have to learn to use his own chakra instead of shukaku's.

Now I guess they'll just rescue him before he loses Shukaku, since I doubt they're gonna kill him off.

[Nintendo]

it was the worst episode ever. all the details and the explanations were useless and we already knew it like what chiyoba-sama said.i'm starting to hate NS and its director or staff.in bleach even if there was no events in the episode u feel progress in the story but here it became so boring and i think that the episodes became much smaller with so minimal details as if there were no fillers for 2 and ahalf years

[Animeniax]

Pretty weak episode, even with the character building. It was like the Bleach 127 episode except without the humor and excitement of new developments. They just rehashed stuff we already know, like how weak the Sand Village is and what the bijuu are for.

How does one of the most powerful ninja in the history of your village go missing?? And they want to pick another Kazekage? You have a choice of Temari or Kankurou. Really this village should have been destroyed already.

Once again, the basic tactic of not rushing into battle when you're hurt or tired has to be explained to our buddy Naruto. Also as others have said, we're in a hurry, but let's stand around and talk about stuff we already discussed.

The best parts of the episode are the preview and tourism scenes.

Animation was bad, but not the worse we've seen. Background music was great at times, lacking at others.

Episode rating: C-

[LobsterMagnet]

I'm surprised there talking about the third sand's kaze kage so early in the series. It's an interesting choice seeing how the in the manga it was something that wasn't mentioned until much latter.

I'm not going to spoiler anything but I can say that these piece of info Shouldn't be discussed here, even vaguely. My guess is that Seriously, I'm getting a little tired of manga prophesizing here, when there's two separate sections to do it in. If it hasn't come up yet in the anime, DON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

Warned.
masa