Naruto, is it good?

Krypton-Knight · Post by **Krypton-Knight** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 9:24 pm

errrr...I have no clue, I don't think any single anime can. Either way its all good. Oh and the new Naruto theme sounds great!. I like the way the guy singing delievers the lines, and it just seems a better fit for naruto.

Daio Kaji · Post by **Daio Kaji** » Thu Apr 10, 2003 11:32 pm

grrrr i haven't seen the anime naruto yet!!

and i wanna hear the theme song!!, does anyone by any chance know what the name of the theme song is called, the old and the new one please so that i may compare and contrast

i didn't think the animation is different in the manga form the anime, maybe i just haven't seen enough of 'em

in anime - only seen a cool amv using limp bizkit's my generation surprisingly well i might add
in manga - Number 7: Kakashi's Decision, sweet ep. i might add

Meksikanfude · Post by **Meksikanfude** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:00 am

According to Naruto, the new song is called "Haruka Kanata" or something... well, it is kinda knew so you wont find it. The first one is called "Rocks" i think, but the ending song is called "wind", which i really like. Reminds me of Bob Marley

TheRealNeoHentaiMaster · Post by **TheRealNeoHentaiMaster** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:08 pm

Sorry, but Naruto sucks. The animation is pretty good for a TV show NOW, but is bad compared to anime of the past. Japanese economy is really in the dumps and killing everything. I mean, dont tell me im the only one whose noticed the huge drop in animation quality of anime recently? Anyway, oh yeah, Naruto also uses enough animation short cuts to make teh last two eps of Eva look like Macross Plus. Basically, the first 5 minutes of ever show, is the EXACT SAME 5 minutes of footage from the last 5 minutes of the previous ep. Its the most annoying thing ive ever seen. The fights can be tense, but then they just kind of end and never go anywhere. I cant really explain it, but they never seem satisfying. OK, Ive only seen up to ep 15, maybe things get better after that, but I have to say, if a series doesnt rope you in by 15 eps, something is wrong.

SentosKarum · Post by **SentosKarum** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 3:23 pm

@TheRealNeoHentaiMaster
Have you watched Ghost in the Shell : Stand Alone Complex ?
If not, well maybe you should do it and then talk about dropping quality in anime.
Or Hikaru no Go, which also doesn't look too bad.

I give you the point that Naruto looks somewhat... flat in terms of Hairstyle, trees and so on.
But unlike other series, whose drawing styles are close to the manga, this isn't the case with Naruto, you didn't say that you actually read the manga so I just assume you did not, since the drawing style of the manga can't be copied within an animation.

You also hacked on Naruto for unsatisfying fights, you should have seen just three more episodes during which you would have seen an very interesting fight.

For anyone who doesn't want to wait till they release the next episode I would suggest to get the manga series which is out to around Vol16/17.
If you do this you wil also notice that the Anime is censored in some sort of way :

*SPOILER* [Doesn't count if you already watched Eps18]

When Haku [The girl-like boy] escapes Narutos killing blow saying "I can't die yet" he teleports himself in front of Zabuza.
When Kakashi used his attack [This Lighting thing], in the Anime you can see his [Kakashi's] hand in front of Haku's chest, who dies.
In the manga, this is displayed : Kakashi's hand in front of Zabuza's chest [So Kakashi thrusted his hand through Haku's body, which made his [Haku's] death much more logical]

Meksikanfude · Post by **Meksikanfude** » Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:21 pm

Well, since Naruto is prime time over there, its logical that they changed that.

And I like the animation, very fluid and vivid.

Very colorful

Ooh, the colors.

Daio Kaji · Post by **Daio Kaji** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 12:23 am

i agree with the people that say the animation is cool (most ppl here, nothing personal HentaiMaster) i like that the animation is so colorful and vivid, i see that as a sort of style, not a lack of it.

one of my favorite quotes i heard from the movie Vanilla Sky where Tom Cruise's (tom the actor, that's not the character's name, i think it's david or sumtin) friend who's a writer says, "You can't appreciate the sweet, without the sour."

if every anime had the quality of animation of the greatest and most detailed, then after a while we would take that quality for granted and begin to demand it as a standard of quality and say anything below that quality is crap

in my opinion, naruto is cool

Art of Substitution! (vanishes and leaves a tree stump in his wake)

Meksikanfude · Post by **Meksikanfude** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 2:53 pm

I just watched episode 27... and its torture having to wait a week

Daio Kaji · Post by **Daio Kaji** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 6:33 pm

imagine my suffering, i haven't seen any of the anime, just the manga

MJ · Post by MJ » Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:39 am

i think the show is good, it's funny

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=43857

AnimeMusicVideos.org

Naruto, is it good?

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