Why did i saw that one coming..
i liked this episode. not a lot of action, but they advanced the plot pretty well. the name of the next episode doesn't bode to well for gaara.
so is 'zero' possibly the missing kage from the sand village?
Good job Sakura, right after Kakashi states you guys need to hurry you should ask a bunch of unnecessary questions that'll take a third of the episode to explain.
Last edited by Yukimura; Thu, 05-31-2007 at 08:47 PM.
By far the most worthless ep of the new series. Absolutely nothing happened. And all that shit in the Sand village? Come on now! I get it, you dont like Gaara. BLAH BLAH BLAH. Didnt like it.
assertnfailure (7:40:03 PM): dude....your posts are a bunch of nonsense
Originally Posted by iMUSTbeTHEdevil
the stuff at the sand village was a little drawn out but they also revealed some good stuff. like one of the kages (regarded as the most powerful ninja in the history of the village) had gone missing and they never found him. also, for some reason they sent temari and some other ninjas to protect a building that none of them have any reason why they should protect it. but it was important enough in the past to have enemies try to take it over. and it looks like they are planning to appoint a new kage to take over in gaara's absence. maybe the old guy will fill in until a better replacement can be found.
Though there wasn't any action i thought it was a good ep at the very least it answered some questions and opened up some new plot possibilities. Apparently the "meat puppet" technique was infact Zero's and the 30% of their chakra needed was infact for use in that technique rather than for the extraction of the Bijuu. On top of that the possibility that the Sands Third Kazekage is the leader of Akatsuki. A much more likely possibility than some previous guesses that it was the dead and buried Fourth Hokage. And to top it all off we learned that if they extract shuukaku Gaara is going to die. Personally i like the fact that they took the time to explain/present these things to us and enjoyed the ep.
So, who thinks Gaara is actually going to die next episode? I can't really see them actually killing him off, but on the other hand i kind of hope they do since that would be much more interesting to the over all plot than Naruto and the gang charging in just in the nick of time to save him.
i heard maaya sakamoto in this episode! and she's in the next episode too, by the looks of it! (edit) i didn't realize since i didn't watch that filler arc, but apparently it's the girl in the filler arc with gaara. matsuri, i believe. i just heard maaya sakamoto and got all excited(/edit)
hopefully next episode will be a little more exciting than this one.
Last edited by saman; Thu, 05-31-2007 at 10:38 PM.
Yes. That is Matsuri. So far the only character presented in the fillers that was kept. And I'm glad, cause since her filler arc I've liked her character. Heck... I think even fanfictioners are using her.
Anyway... great episode. A lot of info revealed, and a change of pace from full fight episodes.
Was Zetsu eating the dead guys? o_O
Cannibal Akatsuki o_O
Decent episode I guess. The story is moving along.
The best part of the episode was seeing Temari in the hot springs.
Too bad i really dont think they will get far into developing / giving a back story to each akatsuki member... zetsu is now very intriguing, having seen him what... 80-90 eps ago when sasuke and naruto fought and now he's eating bodies... and has a split personality thing going on... interesting.
I think Zetsu's "split personality" might actually be one of the demons.
They did say a couple of Akatsuki members already caught their demons. And Zetsu looks pretty inhuman. I think he's got his already and we just heard it speak at the end of the episode.
Anyway, liked the episode. Drank in all the information.
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.
Last edited by masamuneehs; Fri, 06-01-2007 at 11:17 AM.
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
Temari summons ferrets.
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?...
Hakke Rokujūyon Shō!
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.
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
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-
“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'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
Last edited by masamuneehs; Fri, 06-01-2007 at 09:17 AM.
Okay episode, pros and cons balanced out I think.
Previous speculation was that Itachi couldn't use his M. Sharingan because of the clone's normal eyes. If these clones of Zero's are "perfect" replicas, with every bit of anatomical detail mimicked, then the M.Sharingan should work, leaving the only real limit being the chakra sacificed, as they put it.
But in the case where it can't be replicated, then the same should apply to the regular sharingan, shouldn't it? Bloodline Limit- Can't be learnt or copied. Genetic.
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