Adventures with Naruto Part 3: Ninja tests take a long time

This adventure is from episodes 27-59. Basically about 4 arcs. I got happily surprised with a new OP. I hated the first one and would cringe if I heard even 10 seconds of it. Glad I'll never have to listen to it again.

The second exam ends and the third begins. But before it can start people need to be eliminated because there are too many that actually made it to the third round. So we get to sit around for 20 episodes while they do this. It's no wonder that the show is 220 because it takes them forever to do anything which is almost as bad as fillers. Luckily I haven't come up to those yet but I'm dreading it greatly.

41-42 bitch fight tie
43 another bitch fight
44-45 Naruto dog fight
46-47 clan fight
48-50 weird green man against emo dude

Those are the ones I remember XD I think there was 2 other fights before that but I can't remember cause... I watched them like 2 months ago and it wasn't very memorable. There is one last fight with Sasuke but my notes on it don't overly make sense yet again.

While they wait for exam 3 to begin Naruto starts a standing on water training. A weird dude that goes by the names, mountain monk, king of frogs or something will be training Naruto to learn summoning techniques. After many episodes Nartuo finally summons a giant frog who turns out to be a giant douche. Rather funny since the toad couldn't really believe that a kid like Naruto could summon him which is why he gave off so much attitude.

Since the summon technique is so difficult, Naruto ends up in the hospital because he used too much of his chakra. He slept for a long 3 days. During that time the sand boy gets all in their face (the teachers) and threatens to kill them all eventually as he runs off before he ends up dead because in fact the teacher had him cornered. Very odd thing to say as you are fleeing for your own life I must say.

The last episode I watched was the day before the third exam. I figured this was the perfect time to stop and take a rest. With more ninja tests to come I can only imagine how much longer it's going to take. I'm still not hating or even liking Naruto. Although I am leaning more towards disappointment because I find the pacing to be very icky.

Adventures with Naruto Part 2: 2 Recap Episodes

Watching this show it's better to think of it as episodic with hidden plot here and there. Very little gets relieved (if ever). I can't say I'm enjoying this series but I don't hate it either. I'll take a shounen action over a shoujo magical girl anyday. I don't really have a favourite character but if I had to choose someone who irritated me the least it would be their leader of team 7 Kakashi Hatake. His carefree badass attitude is pretty awesome.

The music has grown on me a lot more than I though it would. I still hate the OP with a passion but the rest is super cool. I have yet to run into much filler unless people consider long battles as that. (I personally don't) Tad irritating that they take so long but whatever. If Dragon Ball can get away with it (kinda), Naruto can too. One thing that drives me crazy is recap episodes. I would understand if they did it at like episode 50 or something. But to have not only 1 but 2 in 26 episodes is a little too much for me. I know recaps help when the show is current airing and whatnot but actually watching a bunch in a row just to be told what you watched 2 hours ago is a little silly to me.

This batch I watched episodes 5-26. I have no desire to go through what happened in each episode in detail so I'll do it the quick way. Yay note form.

Episode 5

Nothing happened. More training basically.

Episodes 6 - 9 (teehehe)

Ninja missions: Protect a drunk man who builds brigdes. We find out that Kakashi Hatake has some weird eyeball power which is why he wears his

headband the way he does. A battle begins with some dude from the water clan.

Episode 10-13

Ninjas are healing after their battle. They run up trees (more ninja practice). They meet a little boy with his mom.

Episodes 14-16

Recap.... for half the episode then battle with a person that controls ice begins plus the water clan dude is back.

Episode 17

The ice person tells their sad story. Naruto, because he is so enrages, brings out the power of the nine-tailed demon fox that he has been the host of since birth. (that explains the whiskers on his face... sadly I just put that together this episode...)

Episodes 18 - 19

*Spoiler* Death of the baddies *Spoiler*

Episodes 20-23

(Filler?) I actually don't know what happened in these episodes.

Episodes 24-25

Start ninja written test part 1.

Episode 26 (Special 45 minute episode)

Recap.... for first half. Second part of the ninja test begins.

First of all that eye thing of Kakashi Hatake's is pretty cool! Second, I enjoyed the battle with the ice dude very much. His story actually made me feel a little sad. Other than those 2 points I really don't have much more to say. The story is moving along slowly and so far this just seems to be about a boy learning to become a ninja with his friends. Which is fine and dandy but I need a little more awesome to be satisfied.

P.S. that's right I blogged about Naruto on my Birthday XD

Adventures with Naruto Part 1: Restart from the Beginning

I've been procrastinating with this show since it pretty much came out. It's childish ways just doesn't suit me when it comes to ninja's. I started the show up last year around November or so and watched about 15 episodes. I can honestly say I don't remember a thing about the show from those episodes. Which is never a good sign. Even if the show is a long running one (220 episodes), I should know what's happening in the show by the 15th episode at least.

So today with a lack of anything else of interest I wanted to start I decided to follow up on this journey through Naruto episodes. I have lots of people telling me not to bother and beware of fillers and so on. But honestly I kinda want to know what all the fuss is about. I truly know nothing about this series other than kids (young anime fans) love it, there's a lot of episodes to it (still airing), and it's about a ninja boy (in training). Oh yes, the manga is apparently way better than the anime but I don't care for manga that are super long (49 volumes and counting). Give me a one shot over that anyday.

First of all I notice the music... The first OP I consider to be one of the worst ever in anime. It makes my ears bleed... At least the ED is listenable but still weird in it's own way. The music during the show is pretty enjoyable though which is good. Intense power rock with flutes and drummers is really weird but pretty entertaining. Reminds me of Dynasty Warriors almost. The animation doesn't bother me. Animation *almost* NEVER bothers me. Hell I love Naked Woves and Kemonozume.

Episodes 1

Training is taking place and apparently it's important to know how to turn into a girl? O.o While this is a little funny and all it's still pretty weird. We then are thrown into a random fight over some scroll that is important... I don't really know why it's important but maybe I still wasn't paying enough attention. Something about revenge... Overall I dunno how anyone would want to watch more after that pretty crappy introduction episode.

Episode 2

Naruto takes on randomly training a little kid in his neighborhood. Boring and pretty pointless episode with more transforming into a girl. Filler starts here? O.o

Episode 3

Love is in the air... already and potty humour. From first kisses to broken hearts I'm not sure what happened.

Episode 4

I rather enjoy this ninja school they go to. It's so interesting for some reason. Especially the classroom it's self. Their teacher is pretty funny as well saying he hates then all. In this episode we also see the first "Thousand years of pain" joke done as well. It's going to be a long series. XD