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Naruto author: Naruto’s Story is at Final Phase

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Oh, Bleach. It can't come to a conclusion soon enough.

Every Bleach battle for the last 8 years:

"This is my ultimate power! You will be defeated!"
"Surprise, I'm not dead! Now watch my true power which is stronger than yours!"
"Ha! That didn't even scratch me! Now I'll use my secret ultimate power!"
"That was but a minor inconvenience! Witness my hidden supreme power!"
...and so on.
 
Dang. This thread is making me want to go back and read Bleach and Naruto.

So for Bleach the last thing I remember is
Main guy getting some badass mask and turning full demon or something. It was against someone really powerful, I remember. During some huge battle.
does that sound right? How much have I missed.

Naruto I have no idea what the last part is that I read.
Sasuke was a bad guy and Naruto was in the process of fighting that organization that Sasuke's brother was part of. I'm sure a LOT has happened. Some guy had a mask with a bunch of swirls on it. Toby? Does thay sound right?
 
Erigu said:
Oh you card. But then again, I do have "a history"... of doing something both completely unrelated and benign.

Missing so many opportunities to not act like a prick and now trying to weasel your way out like this is not being "argumentative", Angry Grimace...
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I've edited that post to reflect that I don't want to talk to you. Just stop. You were already told by a mod to fucking stop.
 
Pyscho_Mantis said:
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Do the right thing Kishi
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If you think the Manga is bad don't even bother with the anime right now. Shippuden is almost offensive in how low budget it is and the amount of terrible filler will make a grown man cry. The last time I enjoy it was the Kabuto filler, because it had sick animation and was pretty much a movie divided in a couple of parts.

now I'll just watch the odd episode that has crazy animation. I wish it had a more focused quality like Bleach and One Piece, instead of all over the place.
 
Zee-Row said:
Hopefully they make a Naruto Kai-like anime so I can avoid all the filler and watch it properly.
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THIS needs to happen. The first 130 episodes or so of the original Naruto are fantastic. When the fillers started the quality of the anime decreased significantly and never seemed to recover. Cut those episodes out, and the flashback episodes during the cannon part of PTS, and there's a damn fine shonen anime underneath it all.
 
8bitDevil said:
All of the animal/bijuu hacks stuff ruined it, imo.

I miss the series that was about badass ninjas and willpower. Oh well, we better at least get Naruto/Sasuke Round 2 so we can see Sasuke get his ass handed to him.
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bloody edo tensei made the whole series unbearable.

most shonen mangas are only fun to read during their early inception.
 
Poetic.Injustice said:
How about you be a bit patient?
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Why is that the same answer i get when i ask a question. Wait for answers is not an answer.
Angry Grimace said:
PV/Beam loves Bleach and retaliates against people who hate it by explaining why One Piece sucks in exacting detail since people tend to like One Piece. Don't take the bait.
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Nothing invalidates what I said.
Poetic.Injustice said:
Ah, really?

Stopped going over to Manga-gaf recently, so don't know everyone's shtick anymore.
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It's not a shtick. I am entitled to my opinion like anyone else.
 
Phoenician_Viking said:
Why is that the same answer i get when i ask a question. Wait for answers is not an answer.

Nothing invalidates what I said.

It's not a shtick. I am entitled to my opinion like anyone else.
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Kubo's inking is top notch, no doubt.

Angry Grimace said:
I don't read One Piece, so I couldn't tell you if it did. But you go out of your way to denigrate one and praise the other. The connection isn't hard to make.
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I stopped reading bleach ages ago, then naruto. i may read the last chapter of these series. One piece, I nearly stop but the pre-time skip arc was not bad. The fishman island was a mess. The current arch is not much better...

I've been reading kingdom.
 
Phoenician_Viking said:
Why is that the same answer i get when i ask a question. Wait for answers is not an answer.
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Shonen manga in general is not known for tying off loose ends in a pretty little bow. Bleach has a way of delivering fatal blows to characters only to show them having fun in throwaway panels after months of wondering if they're still alive. If we're looking for fulfilling closure to characters we've read about and followed for years in power fantasy manga, we're all better served looking away from WSJ titles entirely.
 
Angry Grimace said:
I don't read One Piece, so I couldn't tell you if it did. But you go out of your way to denigrate one and praise the other. The connection isn't hard to make.
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I mean, One Piece being good or bad doesn't exactly have anything to do with the quality of the other series, nor does it do anything to salvage the messes their plots have devolved into. Maybe there's some sort of shounen zero sum game I'm not privy to.
 
Necromanti said:
I mean, One Piece being good or bad doesn't exactly have anything to do with the quality of the other series, nor does it do anything to salvage the messes their plots have devolved into. Maybe there's some sort of shounen zero sum game I'm not privy to.
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It's just the way Beam is. Ignore it.
 
I'm confident that Kishi has the ability to come up with a very good ending, as long as he doesn't try to force a 'deep' meaning into it. That's been the problem with this latest arc: just way too much shounen philosophy, repeated every single chapter, by every single character. Philosophy in manga such as this should either be implied through the actions of the characters or be unique so as to make exposition concerning it actually interesting.
Hopefully his editor will steer him onto the right path during the break.
Sorry if I came off as very aggressive. It's my first post.
 
Rafa=FedKilla said:
Soul Catcher(s) time to shine. We are just one step closer to Mario and I cant wait!
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All we need is an impassioned DTL argument for Sasuke x Naruto and we're just migrating the manga thread into OT-mothership.
 
Huh. As a very passive follower of manga, I thought it already finished up. The last thing I remember reading in Naruto was
Pain sacrificing himself and all those people he killed in the village coming back to life. Or something like that.
Never had any drive to go back and read the remaining chapters though.
 
Frustrated_Grunt said:
Huh. As a very passive follower of manga, I thought it already finished up. The last thing I remember reading in Naruto was
Pain sacrificing himself and all those people he killed in the village coming back to life. Or something like that.
Never had any drive to go back and read the remaining chapters though.
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That was way way back.
 
FlyingTeacup said:
my bet is shokugeki no soma.
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Not a chance. Not enough fighting and too much fanservice, although I might have said the same thing about Fairy Tail, which is hugely popular despite having nothing but fanservice as content. But there's at least hot-blooded shonen fighting there.
 
Yonafunu said:
I love how this thread is turning into ManGAF outside of ManGAF. Good going guys. And it's not even Wednesday yet!
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Reason I stopped browsing over there was because every one was too focused on their own niche titles and discussion never really goes anywhere as a result.
Plus I got tired of smut-gaf posting shitty NSFW pics from their awful choice of mangas. Screw you guys.
 
Angry Grimace said:
Not a chance. Not enough fighting and too much fanservice, although I might have said the same thing about Fairy Tail, which is hugely popular despite having nothing but fanservice as content. But there's at least hot-blooded shonen fighting there.
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which leaves us gintama.

Village said:
Cooking Manga

NOPE.


The big 3 make that Television Rules the nation around the world money.

Emphasis on that last part.
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sadly, that cooking manga is more interesting than the three pillars.
 
As much as I dog on the manga for some of its recent developments, I'm gonna miss the hell out of it when its over. It's been a part of my weekly schedule for years now. I hope Kishi ends it on a good note and with a bang.

I don't want any "WTF, Why!?" moments but I guess that varies with the individual on what exactly those are. Good luck to Kishi for a smooth end to his most successful work. I guess Mario is next for him?
 
Assassination Classroom is also the most popular series since One Piece, so Shonen Jump'll still be good to go even after Bleach/Naruto end.
 
Phoenician_Viking said:
Why is that the same answer i get when i ask a question. Wait for answers is not an answer.
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What's wrong with waiting for a big reveal? They've clearly implied that there's some history between
Law and Doflamingo.
Is it so necessary that you're told immediately? Hell, Kubo waits a fucking eternity to tell you anything in Bleach.
Who's that guy with Urahara, Orihime, and Chad? It's obviously Grimmjow but Kubo's being so unnecessarily secretive about it. Hey look Isshin's about to tell Ichigo his backstory. Awesome. Oh wait, Ichigo's a dickhead and decides that the time isn't right. Why is did Uryu join the Wandenreich? We've yet to find out and we probably won't know for a while.
 
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