LOVE it!

Written by xXArchSageXx on May 30, 2010 at 2:44 PM

When I first heard about Naruto (the 1st show), I thought it was kiddy and just completely ignored it. I missed out on a freakin' awesome show... for a whole year and 1/2. I eventually started realizing persons around me always talking about Naruto, and from the fight scenes they described, it didn't seem the least bit "kiddy". So I began to watch it, and I freakin' loved it. Then here comes Shippuuden, taking place 3 years after the end of the first Naruto, where their all 15 or 16 I believe. Shippuuden is one of the best anime out there. This thing has twists, and plenty of em'! Characters even die!! (I'm looking at you Bleach....) For a few episodes, you'd be thinking... "Blehh... it's the same as the rest..." then BAM the next episode it's like: "WTF?!" . This thing can do a complete u-turn and twist the whole plot up SENSIBLY. It's not just like, oh let's include a twist here... that doesn't make any sense... Naruto is the main character (as you can tell by the name) who is similar to Ichigo in that he wants to protect everyone he cares about. Unlike with Ichigo though, it works for Naruto. In Bleach, Ichigo would suddenly get like a gazillion times stronger in the span of an episode. In Shippuuden on the other hand, Naruto actually undergoes training! 3 years of training before Shippuuden, and even more during Shippuuden!! The training pays off well, and it scales reasonably! The other characters in this are all freakin' awesome too. There's Sakura (but she's can get SERIOUSLY annoying), the beast of a girl. Hinata, shy all the time (aww). Sasuke, really bada**! Jiraiya, the pervy sage >.> and plenty more, but I just named those mostly involved in the story. All the characters work, and you get seriously attached to some. As I mentioned above, characters actually die in this anime. They die and never come back (yes... it's possible Bleach) and it drastically affects the whole series. When you see them die, you actually feel a bit sad... because you've gotten quite accustomed to them =[ Never once has my interest/hype in upcoming episodes decreased. It's done everything but decrease, heck it's increased after every episode, even fillers. Sure fillers make you go BLEH, but Shippuuden's fillers actually deal with the main-plot, but it's called a "filler" because it was never shown in the manga. All those who have watched the fillers dealing with Akatsuki know what I mean. Lastly, the fight scenes. Oh my god the fight scenes... Fight scenes in Shippuuden are FREAKIN' AWESOME! Anyone remember Sasuke versus Ki**** B** (avoiding spoilers)? The guys behind Shippuuden REALLY know how to animate cut scenes. And the enemies themselves are so... unique! (Hid** anyone!?) And right now, with the current arc, Naruto versus P***, it is going to get SO freaking GOOD! WATCH THIS ANIME! It is DEFINITELY worth it!