Help Out a Noob

[Astronopolis]

Hey everyone, im new to the forum, so please be gentle [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

Ive started watching naruto around ep 118(?) and would like to know what has led up to the current events surrounding the characters right now. I dont men for you guys to get me transcripts or anything, just like a few bits and peices of info that is important for me to know about the series.

Actually you know what, all i really want to know is how did sasuke get in that barrel? (lol looking for pickles) why were the sound (was it sound? i might be wrong) ppl carrying him off? was he to be the next body for orochimaru? why was "bone boy" on life support one minute and then all out kicking ass the next? why is saskue evil now since emerging from the barrel? Hopefully you guys can give me a clue. Thanks!

[Terracosmo]

Damn man, watch the series! But okay...

Sasuke got in that barrel because he must do that in order to reach curse seal level 2 (the mode when you start lookin' like a demon).
The sound people were carrying him off because yes he's the next body for Oro.
Bone boy was on life support but used sheer will-power in order to make sure the barrel reaches Oro, whom he worships.
Sasuke is now "evil" because he has left his old friends of the leaf village behind in order to go to Orochimaru. From him he is hoping to gain power, power he needs to kill his elder brother Itachi. He believes that killing him is his only purpose for existing and thus it's all that matters to him. He is not necessarily evil though, just obsessed. He doesn't want to go back at all.

[Astronopolis]

Hahaha! i knew somebody was going to tell me to watch the series, i am such an easy mark for flamers(not that i think youre flaming me). The only reason i dont watch the series from the beginning is nobody is seeding it anymore, and although i have a fair amount of free time, i dont have THAT much free time, haha although it very well may be free time well spent...

Anyway, thanks for the info! I was suspending my disbeleif for so long that I had started to make up my own backstories for the characters (for a while i was telling myself that sasuke fell into a barrel of pickles, and everyone knows how much the sound guys love pickles, so they stole them, and our heroes were just defending the pickle supply. However! Being in such close quarters with pickles for an extended amount of time drives you insane, hence all of sasukes giggling and running around like a loony).

so was he still with the good guys when he was put in that barrel? and do the good guys have level 2 seals? (god i hope this doesnt turn into DragonBall Z with the level baloney) how much time must one spend in a barrel (lol) before you get level 2?

[woofcat]

Hmm. This is woofcats version. Yes its crappy but I am also bored so her it comes.

In the start of the series Naruto and Saskue are rivals and they still are to current day. Saskue is way better than Naruto and well anything, but Naruto has his extreme will and huge amounts of Chakra from the Daemon Nine Tails Fox that lives inside of him.

Naruto became a Ninja by mastering one of the skills in the scroll of forbidden technices.

His Sensi is Kaskashi. Kakashi is one cool cat. He became a jounin (Highest rank you can get before leader of the village) at age 6.

Itachi (Saskues older brother) killed his entire family and all there relatives excluding Saskue because he wanted to test himself as a ninja, Itachi was a ANBU (special Tactics and Assassination squad) Captain at age 13 i think. This is why Saskue wants to kill Itatchi.

Itatchi is INSANYLY strong. Oro who saskue is seeking power from is scared of Itatchi and knows that he is to powerful for him.

Umm, Anything else you want to know. That is just a very very thin crust of an outline. I hope it kinda explains things.

Ohh an yes i know about my horrible spelling no need to point it out.

[Assertn]

also, in terms of jutsus.....there are..

taijutsu = hand to hand combat
genjutsu = illusions
ninjutsu = pretty much anything else (fire, summons, kage bunshin....)

there are also advanced bloodlines, special abilities passed down genetically within certain clans (like kimimaro's bone ability)

then there's the curse seals, those black marks that orochimaru gives to his minions, which increase a person's abilities greatly, but wears on their body.

then there's also demon seals.....where a demon is actually sealed into a person's body. Both Naruto and Gaara have demons sealed inside them, and these tend to provide the greatest amount of power of all, if a person can control those demon powers, anyway.

[Terracosmo]

Flaming? It's advice. If you like a series, watch it, because our summaries can never do it justice. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

BTW, are you obsessed with pickles?

[jing]

Watch the series, the better part of the series is at the beginning anyway.

[frexeze]

you'll enjoy it so much more if you watch from the beginning
try irc or something

i share the whole series when i'm at school, but thats only on the network within the university so it doesnt count against my bandwidth

[Astronopolis]

Thanks guys, I thought maybe if i knew a bit more about the series that i would be satisfied, but nope, just more questions arise!

I think ill try irc like frexeze said, but shit, i gotta whole lot of work ahead of me with 117 eps! maybe i can get by with watching flashback eps? i think that comes down to like 54 hours or so to catch up, not counting dl time lol.

Well anyway, thanks for your time and thoughts! maybe some other posters would like to post questions about the series while were at it?

[Terracosmo]

Well, it's 54 wonderful hours. And you don't have to watch it all at once.

It's nice to see a newbie with manners and proper grammar, by the way. And the pickle obsession is a cute touch. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

[basey44]

Originally posted by: Astronopolis
The only reason i dont watch the series from the beginning is nobody is seeding it anymore

u can get it from this site, its the best quality naruto around, just got to the torrents section and scroll down, they come in batches of 25

[Dezalanel]

Watch the series, thats stupid as all hell to start watching the series from some point other than the beginning....wtf is the point in that. Thats like watching the last part of a movie and never watching the other parts. And your excuse of no one seeding it is pathetic. You can dl most of the series from www.boxtorrents.com and the rest is on here.

[frexeze]

Originally posted by: Dezalanel
Watch the series, thats stupid as all hell to start watching the series from some point other than the beginning....wtf is the point in that. Thats like watching the last part of a movie and never watching the other parts. And your excuse of no one seeding it is pathetic. You can dl most of the series from www.boxtorrents.com and the rest is on here.

wow someone's pms'ing

[Xollence]

You should be able to download the whole series in a day.

There's a lot of sites that offer Naruto direct dowloads, so you might even be able to finish downloading in a few hours. http://www.xenogenesis.com/browse/en...animemanga/dd/

[Astronopolis]

Originally posted by: Dezalanel
Watch the series, thats stupid as all hell to start watching the series from some point other than the beginning....wtf is the point in that. Thats like watching the last part of a movie and never watching the other parts. And your excuse of no one seeding it is pathetic. You can dl most of the series from www.boxtorrents.com and the rest is on here.

you know, youre right, what was i thinking?







fuck you

anyway, to the people here with brains, i forgot to mention the puny size of my hard drive (4 gigs) im lucky if i can fit 7 eps at a time in there, not to mention im trying to watch a bunch of other series simultaneously, so i only really have enough room for like 3 naruto eps at a time, so batch torrents are a no go[img]i/expressions/brokenheart.gif[/img]

is it feasible that irc will have them all individually (ive never dled off irc before)?

oh yeah and thanks again guys, im gonna be a full-fledged Narutard by next weekend!

P.S. Is there some sort of way to give you guys some sort of renoun points? if not i hope you guys would be satisfied with a round of free beer!! [img]i/expressions/beer.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/beer.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/beer.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/beer.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/beer.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/beer.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/beer.gif[/img]

[frexeze]

Originally posted by: Astronopolis
is it feasible that irc will have them all individually (ive never dled off irc before)?

yeah, in IRC they are all individual episodes via xdcc

/server irc.rizon.net
#animeone

[Assertn]

well, some people's profiles have rating systems set up [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

[HokageSama]

Let me be the first to say "Welcome to the forums!!"

There are many sites that still have torrents for the earlier episodes. www.toriyamaworld.com might still have some torrents (if they haven't taken them down because of the licensing). But it pays to look around.

Also if you are not in any hurry to get the anime, I suggest some light reading of a spin-off series called "The New Adventures of Sakon" right here in this very forum.

Enjoy!

[saeadeb]

If dling them proves too difficult, after you tried stuff like DC++ and those sites and torrents, you could try to get someone to mail them as a last resort. If you can find someone that nice, and organized. I tried to save some but I keep misplacing them and deleting some.

[Assertn]

whoa, hokagesama....despite being a member for so long......i have absolutely no idea who you are