Naruto Shippuuden Episode 46

[KrayZ33]

hmmm do you understand what sakura was brabbling about in the end "so... when you open it in the middle.... sai... and his brother..." <------- ???????? yaaaa sai and his brother????okaaay......what?

at first i thought she was going to say you could start reading it in the middle, but that doesn't make any sense..

edit: ah btw about kabuto being sai's brother, thats actually a pretty good guess.. hmm if you look at 15:10 isn't sai is focussing on kabuto there?... hmm maybe in episode 45 he does the same, i ll take a look

[Killa-Eyez]

Had to boot my laptop again for the ep. Don't think too far ahead. Seeing how slow they're all acting, she probably noticed that Sai's brother is supposed to be there in the middle and she sees he's not and from the flashback remembers that Sai's brother is dead.

"So... when you open it in the middle.... Sai... and his brother..."

"...are supposed to be holding hands"?
Then they just soke in the drama that is Sai's story.

[KrayZ33]

hmmmm
another thing

sai is dressed as a ninja on the last page (probably ANBU without mask)
when i recognized it as such something came into my mind.

"in Root, you have no name. You have no emotions. You have no past and no future"

so when he joined root he had to forget everything about it and maybe that book is the remaining thing which reminds him of his old dream? xD

so he's faceless because he is not allowed to show emotions (since the only way to express emotions is with the face in such a book and its a way to identify a person [no name] )

[Janusz]

The odd thing, in my opinion, was that Sai had two swords in the picture book. Now he has only one. What happend to the other one?
Agree with the good start, good ending, rest crap like everyone else.

[Assertn]

Sai's brother died and Sai didn't know what type of facial expression should be conveyed as a result, therefore he left his face blank.

[SilentSnake]

One of the "You study at a nursery school, right?" eps

I was completely surprised by the thing with the book, I'm glad they had to explain everything... NOT.

Sasuke at the end -> he should slip on a banana or something to stop this foolish try of being cool, but "you're late" said to Oro (?) was still fun, it's as if he was a baby tyrant waiting for his dad to come back with a toy.

Anyway -> I mentioned this a long time ago and it's not an unknown fact, but for those who don't know:

Every ep is made by different studio, so expect crappy eps to have crappy animation and good eps to have cool animation, that's all there is to it really.

IMHO best 2 studios are those that made Naruto ep 30 (lots of fight scenes marvelously animated, but image quality was well... does anyone remember those f*ucked up sasuke's face sigs and avatars? :P ) and special sasuke vs gaara ep 66-67 IIRC (helluva good image quality COMBINED with helluva good animation, BUT the amount of fight scenes is cut in half, don't blame the fight itself cause it's just being naive).

[Archangel]

Argh everytime i come to these threads u guys r always bitching about the episodes XD Just enjoy the good parts and screw the bad ones i say. Nice sasuke is back, but in narutos condition it isnt really gonna b much of a fight. Cant w8 to see how this ends.

[SilentSnake]

Naruto farts and Sasuke goes wacko just like Kiba, but not because of the smell but because of the nasty view of Naruto's gases incoming(sharingan sees it all!).

Sorry if I spoiled it for you

[Board of Command]

Beyond the Clouds and 5 cm are both leaps and bounds better than Spirited Away in terms of animation. Spirited Away's colorfulness makes it look better than it is.

I'd say 5 cm has the best animation I've seen in any non-CG movie or series.

[DarthEnderX]

Steamboy!


Wait, why are we talking about this?

[Bread-sama]

I don't even bother to watch this shit anymore. Manga is so freaking much better.

[DarthEnderX]

I like when people complain about animation and then talk about how much they love the manga(not referring to the above poster). I find that deliciously ironic.

[Abdula]

No Irony there. I think most manga readers who watch the anime do so specially to see their favorite characters, fights, etc animated so when the animation is bad it pretty much defeats the whole purpose and its completely disappointing. In any case I still don't see the point what does reading the manga have to do with complaining about the bad animation in the anime. Bad animation is bad animation.

[DarthEnderX]

Because no animation is worse than bad animation? You may not agree but I thought my point was pretty clear.

[KrayZ33]

i don't get your point...

edit: uh nm i just read it in a weird way, sry

however no animation can be better than bad animation... it pretty much destroys everthing when you read the manga and imagine the fight in your mind and then watch it in a bad animated anime.

Which is exactly the point I made, smartass.

not at all...

[Chiodos]

What you just wrote can be compared to when you read a...fantasy book or some sort and then watch in on film.

[KrayZ33]

well it possible happens from time to time, but normally thats not the case when its a movie with real-people and persons...

take lord of the rings for example or even Harry potter... they are pretty good, actually i don't know a single person who was not satisfied even the ones who read the books.. with anime and manga however, ... thats a different case.... most animes trie to be very close to the manga so there are "key pictures" (for example battlestance -> first attack move) very often and the character simply moves from one "key picture" to another... thats simply not worth it.

[Idealistic]

I see where Darth is coming from, but I have to take KrayZ's side.

Like he said, when you read a book, you can sort of picture what is going on. Then when it gets made into a film, specifically the ones who try to stay as close to the book as possible, it just completely wows you. The successful ones at least... such as LotR and Harry Potter like KrayZ mentioned.

Mangas are pretty much the same, except they also have pictures which gives you a more specific look at what's going on. So when the animation doesn't meet your standards, you complain about how shitty the animation is.