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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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People who prefer Austen or Woolf-world but there is no good way of comparing them. Even trusty things like character and plot simply are irrelevant if within the world of the Art, what is conveyed makes internal sense. Just do not rank things if you think they are. If you are picking something
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Based on its ability to sell deodorant, admit you like COMMERCIAL ART and just deal. It is not Selling Out to like Crap and some great work of course can sell the shit out deodorant but that is accidental not fundamental aspect of the work. Hunter x Hunter is a work, #Naruto is one very long
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Commercial to sell merch to kids. Fun and artistic stuff happens in it, but oh it is so mid and by the end mediocre that really should be stuck in a bin somewhere. Even SoA at least does not overstay its welcome, and gorgeous animation helps the shit go down. Naruto to a noob will make people
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Think animé is stupid, basically the Justice League with martial arts stylings. But of course I prefer Gundam and Fate to shonen battle animé and only am even considering watching Dragon Ball Zero because it influenced JJK and Chainsaw Man which are both exquisitely elegiac and quite funny to boot.
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So I thot I guess I should watch Naruto because it is in the family tree. I should have just watched Hunter x Hunter first. I would have stopped at the first Naruto arc inoculated by Togashi. But #theneedtofindoutwhathappens locked in and I did watch all 220 episodes. Never again. Peace!
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That sure was a number of points only to be so radically off-base.
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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.
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I never posted on Twitter, but alright.
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