Naruto

[SinHarvest24]

What, Naruto is awesome what are you talking about?

what's your definition of awesome?

 

[Coltonamore]

what's your definition of awesome?

It's kick *** good.

 

[Gahars]

It's kick *** good.

I was not aware you could describe something as "Kick ass good".

 

[nryn99]

I was not aware you could describe something as "Kick ass good".

It's something you pretend to be good but in actuality, hurts.


Though, Naruto did teach me some things. Like how vengeance from both sides just keep on forever. Both sides could justify themselves.
Like for example, Naruto didn't kill Nagato even when Nagato attacked Konoha and killed many of it's people. Because he understood the pain Nagato felt and his reasons for wanting vengeance. He knew it wouldn't feel better forgiving Nagato, but he still did regardless.

There was also the event where one Konoha member, forgot who exactly it was, probably Sasuke attacking Bee/Thunder/Lightning country. Bee's friends came to konoha, and when they saw Naruto they punched him/beat him up for being Sasuke's friend. Though Naruto's friends never did retaliate because they knew that if they did, it would only bring more vengeance from the other side.


Though I know most people in this age does probably know that revenge would do more harm than good.
I still managed to learn to understand both sides and learn their reasons no matter how twisted they are before acting.

 

[Rydian]

Dragon Ball Z gets a pass because it's old-school it's something I liked, so obviously it's magically exempt because what I like is good so therefore it cannot be bad

 

[Foxi4]

Dragon Ball Z gets a pass because it's old-school it's something I liked, so obviously it's magically exempt because what I like is good so therefore it cannot be bad

Oh hell no - I fully realize that DBZ is horrid story-wise and the editing doesn't do it any favours - I simply enjoyed it... as a child.


I never let my personal preferences cloud my judgement, the anime's considered a classic, even though it's a "Slugger" and makes me fall asleep these days... I mean, if you cut out the padding, all those "3-4 episodes long" fights really take up to 15 minutes.

"I will kill you, Kakarot!", "NO!", "YES!", "No!"...

It's scary... but this is really not that far off from the original...

 

[Rydian]

Don't get me wrong, I grew up with DBZ as well... but I also read Naruto, and I find it more entertaining.

 

[Foxi4]

Don't get me wrong, I grew up with DBZ as well... but I also read Naruto, and I find it more entertaining.

Read =/= Watched - the anime equivalents are usually more padded and... well... more "ugh!" compared to the manga originals.

 

[Rydian]

DBZ without the filler is still meh. Too many ret-somethings (BTW you're an alien, oh I was collecting your cells your whole life, etc.), the focus of the series changed almost entirely as it went on (Dragon Ball was more slapstick and growth-focused for it's first half, then it went into pure martial arts then dropped most of the original concepts some time into Z), etc. Naruto's not exactly a gold standard, but it doesn't take much to be better than DBZ.

... but I still have good memories of it and find DBZ Abridged highly entertaining, because DBZ was part of my childhood.

 

[Foxi4]

DBZ without the filler is still meh. Too many ret-somethings (BTW you're an alien, oh I was collecting your cells your whole life, etc.), the focus of the series changed almost entirely as it went on (Dragon Ball was more slapstick and growth-focused for it's first half, then it went into pure martial arts then dropped most of the original concepts some time into Z), etc. Naruto's not exactly a gold standard, but it doesn't take much to be better than DBZ.

... but I still have good memories of it and find DBZ Abridged highly entertaining, because DBZ was part of my childhood.

Well, yeah - in those respects, DBZ is kinda meh compared to Naruto... which is not necessarily a crown worth wearing just yet.

As long as it has the fun factor, eh?

 

[Rydian]

Yup, that's the important point. These series that lots of people don't think much of can thrive because lots of people find them entertaining.

 

[Foxi4]

Srs in EoF...

 

[Castiel]

Srs in EoF...

It actually seems to be happening more and more every day.

 

[Rydian]

Hi, I'm Rydian.

 

[Foxi4]

Hi, I'm Rydian.

I'm not so grump.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Saying "Naruto is better than DBZ" is like saying colon cancer is better than lung cancer.

You could just say "Fuck all that noise" and watch something which isn't utterly terrible.

 

[Foxi4]

GITS: SAC > All y'all Anime's.

 

[Rydian]

Fuck yeah GITS.

It's like the NCIS of anime, except without the romantic subplots until the last two episodes.

 

[Foxi4]

Fuck yeah GITS.

It's like the NCIS of anime, except without the romantic subplots until the last two episodes.

I like how the crators managed to craft seemingly unrelated or barely related episodes and ALWAYS manage to string them together at the end of the story arc in a "This is gonna blow your F*CKING MIND, KID!" kind of way. Hardly any event, both in SAC, SAC 2nd GIG or even the SAC full lenght feature is without relevance - they interconnect seemlessly by the end, when you get the bigger picture.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Is this turning into... The Anime Club?