Anime (Bleach 117, Naruto)

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Allow me to flail over episode 117 of Bleach, OMG. *__* Too much time spent referring back to the filler arc (XD always in such a token way, it amuses me) but otherwise, OMG OMG OMG. Rukia. How damn awesome is Rukia? Rukia is AWESOME. Guh. Sword. I. *flail* (Hi, people who might previously have commented on my coherency. It all breaks down in the face of new episodes of Bleach, yes.)

The anime is still a source of much excitement as I haven't got beyond the point the anime is at in the manga yet. *g* And oh how I am coming to hate that "to be continued..." message. Again. Just as in Soul Society. Can't wait to see more of Ikkaku and Yumichika... 11th division are batshit insane and I love them.


Oh, heh heh, I saw part of an episode of post-filler Naruto the other day. Not convinced. But I am bitter about how much of my life that show stole, so it would take a lot of convincing... sure. Sasuke actually is sort of hot now. I never thought he was before, but his older self looks decent. I do hear Ishida when I hear him speak now, though. For quite a while it was the other way 'round because I watched a lot of Naruto before I watched much Bleach, but I have so much more love for Ishida than for Sasuke that... well. ;) But the fact that they managed to get flashbacks in before the opening credits even got there doesn't really bode well. I guess I can forgive them after the hundred episodes of filler or whatever the hell it was, as everyone has probably forgotten that there ever was a plot, but it's Naruto. I think it should be given a restraining order regarding flashbacks. Or the director should have to write an essay justifying his use of flashbacks every time more than a certain percentage of the episode is old material, and submit it for approval before flashback permission is granted.

The pacing is still kind of crap too but that goes along with the above complaint, really. Naruto could have been maybe eighty episodes long, at the same point in the plot, and something approaching a decent series. But. It isn't.

Sigh.

Maybe the manga is decent. I don't really care enough any more to go and find out. ;)

The one high point of the episode for me, really, was the presence of Gaara. The tourist information village (XD) has long been the coolest thing about Naruto. Which... isn't saying much?

Won't be following this one, I guess. Syl will probably tell me approximately what happens. *g*


And I re-downloaded episode 33 of Saiunkoku, and it worked. Phew. *stares happily at it* Mmmm... :)

Comments

[obsessed-love.livejournal.com]

I need to watch Bleach one day.

I kinda hated the fact that they put that first part in Naruto at the very beginning. D= But I love it. XD *reads the manga more though, which is better than the anime, in my opinion. XD*

Gaara <3

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Bleach is currently my main anime love, though the fandom rather alarms me. But the series itself makes me very, very happy. :D (well, if we discount episodes 64 to 109 or so, which sucked... >_> )

XD I followed Naruto with dedication from pretty early on in the life of the anime, but never read the manga. Even before the filler began the pacing was killing me, but eh. I'm guessing the manga probably would be a lot better if I could get over my bias (which is unlikely to happen *g* ).

[obsessed-love.livejournal.com]

I was suppose to watch Bleach soon, I read the first 10 chapters or so of the manga and liked it. And then I heard they had fillers so I feared watching the anime, after Naruto fillers and all. So, are 64-109 fillers? o__o

Yea, the pacing sucks. XD Naruto Shippuuden 4 reminded me of this fact. D8

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

I don't remember exactly, actually... it's somewhere around there, though. I mean, you can basically watch up to the end of Soul Society and uh, whenever that stops, skip on to episode 110. The filler is at least better than the Naruto filler, which... isn't to say that it's good, but it is a single plot arc, and so far it doesn't seem to have fucked up the continuity of the proper plot too much. They're mostly just ignoring it now it's over, with occasional tiny references which you could blink and miss. XD

[obsessed-love.livejournal.com]

Ah I see. *notes this down* Lol, Naruto fillers have to be the worst thing ever. XD But yay, I will probably skip the fillers and save my brain.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Yeah. At that point I just really, really wanted to know what was going to happen next with the real plot, and uh... the new characters they introduced for the filler were pretty bad. As were some of the things they did to existing characters. *grumbles* Well. Usual filler issues, basically. Could have cried for joy when I downloaded an episode and they were talking about Hollows and [spoiler] again... ;D