Naruto Shippuuden in English
Michael Haney
their website and expect the English Dubbed DVDs to start selling
soon.
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Kiran Aravapalli
of it. I think I will stick to the manga.
Kiran Aravapalli
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actresses for the Naruto Shippuuden series. It's most likely not going
to happen, but it's always good to hope for it.
Skanks
eps around the place.
I'm one for supporting anime when it comes out on dvd but.. I don't
know with anime's like Bleach and Naruto. Theres just too many
fillers. Naruto Shippuuden I've been grabbing in batches of 20
eposides ore more and fast fowarding thru the crap to get perhaps
45mins of story in the whole lot.
Bleach was getting the same way when I stopped watching that..
Michael Haney
A lot of great shows on TV have fillers. They're there to keep the
story from advancing too fast. Stargate SG-1 was notorious for doing
this, but what made that series great is that often they'll reference
back to those filler episodes in later episodes thus making them
relevant to the main storyline (sometimes referencing a filler from
two or three seasons back). I don't think Naruto does this and I
haven't watched enough Bleach to know if it does this either. It
would be great, it would give the filler episodes a real reason for
being there other than just as a way to keep the story from
progressing too quickly.
What both series needs I think is a new writing staff. If the story
is starting to stagnate like that its a sign the writers are running
out of material and its time to cycle them out onto a new project and
bring in new blood. Not enough shows do this and when they don't it
shows big time. The creator of manga, forgot his name, is mostly
likely not directly involved with the anime series of Naruto nor is
the manga creator of Bleach directly involved in the making of that
series. Its rare for that to happen actually. Rumiko Takahashi was
not directly involved in the making of any of the anime series based
on her manga (Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2, InuYasha).
Min
Michael Haney
> Stargate doesn't do 50 episodes of filler. Stargate filler are also good.
>
That's true, the writers of Stargate SG1 and Atlantis have a habit of
taking filler episodes and making them relevant to future storyline
episodes. Like Daniel finding a certain artifact on some planet and
in another episode a few seasons later that artifact get used for
something important.
Min
Roachguy
As much as I enjoyed Naruto it was becoming a bit too long. The
series has a tendency to drag on pointlessly, and because of Naruto I
hate flash backs now. Honestly whats the point of flashing back to
something that just happened in the series. (or the same episode for
that matter)
It's becoming to much like Dragon Ball, 5 minutes worth of action
taking 5 episodes worth of time. I used to be ok with anime series
that did this, I was a fan of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, I was
also a fan of Bleach ,One Piece, and Naruto. But these series are long
just for the sake of being long, it's becoming less about the anime
and its quality and more about how long a company can milk a
franchise; for example Naruto is well over 300 episodes at this point
yet the DVDs that contain 4 to 5 episodes still sell for over $20 each
and that is the dubbed only versions, not to mention there are over
100 episodes of FILLER that was produced just to keep the series on
the air for 2 years while the story was being developed and I've read
BAD fanfiction better then the best episodes of that filler. I have
put far to much money into series like this to continue to do so. I
have gone to reading the Manga for series of this size now, not only
is it cheaper 8 dollars opposed to 20-30 dollars, the quality tends to
be much higher.
Anyways the point I'm trying to make is if we keep eating up series
like this even when they are becoming garbage we will just be given
more of the same crap over and over.
On a side note I am still a big fan of the Naruto manga I've just
given up on the show.
Michael Haney
nowadays, but they're often few and far between. I've watched a show
recently I've never heard of before called "Kamichu!" Its about an
adorable middle school student who wakes up one day and realizes she's
become a God. The production quality of both the animation and the
music are on par with a Hayeo Miyazaki Studio Ghibli film. The
attention to detail in the animation of a TV series is amazing. The
English dub is also awesome. The main character actually sounds LIKE
a real little girl rather than an adult trying to sound like a little
girl. The story was sweet, funny and totally new and fresh. I think
its one of Geneon's last releases and was came in a box set that looks
like a wooden box. The series was only 16 episodes long.