Another layer it often broadened them in lovely ways even if some plot points would forget that Scully was kind of Christian and Fox was sort of bad at dating, possibly an insufferable nerd who may have been into porn in ways that Dana would not approve of even if she would be the last to judge.
Naruto does not settle into that style because that was what even then meant you were writing a cosy, slice-of-life manga and not one telling the greatest story ever told. And the only manga that would sell like Dragon Ball would tell that kind of story. (Eventually I will explain the genius of One
Piece, but the short story is that is just is not Just One Story, it is a cavalcade. Anyone truly interested in what the blank slate shonen hero Luffy thinks is at the end of the Rainbow is Projecting a Bit Much.) So Naruto takes off shakily but with some genuine highs,
Occasional stumbles in characterization, plot wobbles but the tournament arc is very good and then that becomes a war which is rather soon, why are these Children Having to Fight a War, does the Hidden Leaf Village not have any adult Ninjas making sure the kids survive, and not very good
At being Ninja if they cannot foresee an attack of someone like Pain no matter how good he is at Ninjaing, though that may have something to do with what happened to Sasuke's clan. I realize what is being done is definitely a homage to Hunter x Hunter but the simpler the better ethos of #Naruto
Can make it seem like clan is destiny which is close to racism, at least that of, well Sand Ninjas are sandy people variety, and it eventually feels like yes, this clan good and that clan bad
So yup it is simple. Sometimes like a balloon that gets puffed up again while it dwindles the animé has good bits even in the two times as long Shippuden series. Yeah, #Naruto is 220 episodes but its sequel I think has #500. They are half hours but the X-Files which has lingered on for over 20 years
is just over 200 episodes. That amount of time devoted to that amount of plot guarantees no serious person analyzing animé is going to take Naruto seriously. It is an obstacle to watching One Piece but I have a suspicion that like Bleach you can watch the decent arcs and get a sense
Whereas you kinda have to watch at least three hundred of #Naruto to know how mid it is. Well you know pretty soon in the first few seasons but some skipping ahead makes one see just how American saturday morning cartoon the writing and fucking art can get in the anime. And that was what was most
ANNOYING having to power animé review and explanation because even folk who know film theory and history of animation kind felt the need to allude to #theBigThree when that has NOTHING to do with the quality of the shows and EVERYTHING to do with how Shonen Jump marketed first to Japan and
Then the US and what is most ANNOYING is how it caters to the eternal US fourteen-year-old boy tendency to rank EVERYTHING. Ranking Art is, if not a War Crime, is silly. Picasso is not Matisse is not Michelangelo, you are choosing Worlds when you choose Woolf or Austen over Joyce and I do not blame
That sure was a number of points only to be so radically off-base.
Glad to see the Twitter habit of the incoherent but brief and dismissive reply to a long thread that did involve much thought and much writing still obtains. If you do not have ANYTHING TO SAY, then JUST DON'T SAY IT. 'Kay? Or explain what this means because it means NOTHING to me. Peace.
I never posted on Twitter, but alright.