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cosmo (#51028)
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  Naruto fans rejoice.
Filler is suppose to end with episode 199.
Kakashi Gaiden begins 200, ends 204.
205 begins Naruto 2...
Not 100% confirmed yet, but still pretty likely.

Ofcourse, this is like the 3rd time I've heard that it's going to end in the last year.

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 ..what the hell are you talking about?
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 He's saying that the filler episodes of Naruto are about to end, and that we're finally getting to see the Naruto II story arc begin. But before that, they're going to do Kakashi Gaiden, which is Kakashi's own back story (and how he got that sharigan) that preceded the Naruto II arc in the manga.

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Ofcourse, this is like the 3rd time I've heard that it's going to end in the last year.


But it sounds about right. Originally I heard it was going to end in the 150-160s, then the 180s. But they've just started the new season and the episode titles for 197-199 seem to begin "bridging" the storyline. Naruto II would then begin roughly into mid-season.

Now, what is the appeal of Naruto II? Toward the end of Naruto I, the story suddenly turned into something out of Berserk. So, finally, we're going to vicariously see the Femto vs. Gutts matchup that we'll never in anime form through Naruto. Or, uhm, at least I am. I think this is the only reason why I'm kept going with Naruto.
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 BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Naruto BOOOOOO Overated BOOOOOOO TO long BOOOOOO
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 naruto fans -_-
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Cody (#102298) wrote:
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Naruto BOOOOOO Overated BOOOOOOO TO long BOOOOOO


Seriously, man, you're doing it wrong. It is not kind of cool.


Slippy: it is sad to see that a person as intelligent as you has irretrievably wasted 40 hours of his life watching this Sad.
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 It takes about 65 hours of running time to watch 196 episodes of Naruto. So, yeah, if you really did a Naruto marathon, you could die. Wink
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 actually, according to my calculations, it should be closer to 80 hours, assuming each episode is nearly 25min long XD

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Naruto fans rejoice.
Filler is suppose to end with episode 199.
Kakashi Gaiden begins 200, ends 204.
205 begins Naruto 2...
Not 100% confirmed yet, but still pretty likely.



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slippy (#46880)
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 Yes, but I'm assuming that you're skipping the OP/ED. And the recap of previous episodes which sometimes goes for another 5 minutes . . . Wow, this show is long. Sad

Really, it's fascinating how long . . .

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they took to kill off the 3rd Hokage. It took 10 episodes for him to die from the time the blade was plunged into his chest!! Bleh!! I think the Konoha insurrection-to-Gaara vs. Naruto fight took an entire season to finish. Double bleh!!

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 well the sad thing is i've just wasted several minutes of my life watching the o rly owls in charn's post.... and it still hadn't gone through all the clips yet....

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slippy (#46880) wrote:
Yes, but I'm assuming that you're skipping the OP/ED. And the recap of previous episodes which sometimes goes for another 5 minutes . . . Wow, this show is long. Sad

Really, it's fascinating how long . . .

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they took to kill off the 3rd Hokage. It took 10 episodes for him to die from the time the blade was plunged into his chest!! Bleh!! I think the Konoha insurrection-to-Gaara vs. Naruto fight took an entire season to finish. Double bleh!!


I admire your endurance, slippy; I stopped Naruto within the 150s, not only because it was licensed, but also because it was too much for me to finish the series. Sad I agree with you on the spoiler points though. I tried, I really did, and I consider myself rather patient; I think the pacing and recaps finally took their toll on me. *shakes head*

Now, Detective Conan on the other hand, I can withstand, though that's a long series as well.
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Kaj (#32327) wrote:
well the sad thing is i've just wasted several minutes of my life watching the o rly owls in charn's post.... and it still hadn't gone through all the clips yet....



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rosepetals19 (#42525) wrote:
I admire your endurance, slippy; I stopped Naruto within the 150s, not only because it was licensed, but also because it was too much for me to finish the series. Sad I agree with you on the spoiler points though. I tried, I really did, and I consider myself rather patient; I think the pacing and recaps finally took their toll on me. *shakes head*

Now, Detective Conan on the other hand, I can withstand, though that's a long series as well.


Ten episodes just for that trivial matter ? (Yeah, I read the spoilers part, coz Naruto is one anime which I will never watch anyway, so I don't care about being spoiled) No thank you !

As for Detective Conan, I stopped watching it after episode nine and just watch the movies. Rose, have you seen Movie 2004 (Magician of The Silver Sky) yet ? It is awesome ! Best Conan movie ever. It's Conan + Kaito Kid + Turbulence. Movie 2005 is good too, but nowhere as good as the 2004. (And considering that you hated Titanic, you might hate Movie 2005, because the beginning seems like another Titanic, and there's one scene which conan has to save Ran which is very very Titanic-like Laughing)
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 Narutards rejoice! beh! there's more?! beh! >.< Just page me if the episode contains 'Hinata' then I'll watch it, and if not then nvfm.

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I admire your endurance, slippy; I stopped Naruto within the 150s, not only because it was licensed, but also because it was too much for me to finish the series


Naruto's the only show I've ever watched on the Internet and even then, through a streaming service. I don't have cable, so I make do . . . If I had to actually DL each episode, I wouldn't have bothered.

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Ten episodes just for that trivial matter ? (Yeah, I read the spoilers part, coz Naruto is one anime which I will never watch anyway, so I don't care about being spoiled) No thank you !


Yeah, and see, Naruto is actually the kind of show that makes buying DVDs in the current format a difficult sell, precisely because the show takes too long for simple, important things to resolve itself. Now if they were putting 6-8 episodes into the format (which is just possible), then it makes more sense. Also, because Pierrot is animating the show, the right studio for a long-term show, the wrong studio for anything requiring difficult animation, the quality of many of the fights are often pedestrian quality, lots of speed lines and generic magic stuff.

Eventually, though, the sprawl of the show does work to its advantage. Imagine if you lived with the Band of Hawks for 75 episodes, *really* got to know everybody and their backstories, kind of in your head worked out scenarios between different members that you wanted to see happen, etc. And *then* you had the Berserk ending dropped in your lap. That's the setup Naruto I gave their audience before the filler arc.

General thoughts about the sprawl . . .

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I really got interested in Naruto when the main villain shows up in the Chuunin story arc. Because, at that point, I started to pick up that the Naruto storyline was turning into Berserk. Even that particular villian was tangential to the overriding story arc, you could sense that a much bigger story was being told and it sort of diminished that story arc, just as you knew the Band of Hawks's rise was merely a very small part of the greater, foreboding destiny ahead.

I was really happy when my hunch came true. Over episode 50 through 120, it plays a lot like a shounen jump versoin of Berserk. Sasuke is Femto/Griffith; Naruto is Gutts; Sakura is Caska. The fact that it was done SO SO SO slow made it both extremely tedious and yet effective at creating a snowball effect.

Naruto becomes accepted in his group, but most of all, he (like Gutts) is seeking validation from the one person who refuses to have equals. Everytime Naruto saves Sasuke (even when Sasuke originally intended to bail out Naruto), it eats Sasuke alive because he has improved nothing. Naruto's growing authority scares Sasuke, who seems to be falling behind. At the same time, he doesn't fully understand how much Naruto actually looks up to him and how much he wanted to be seen as a valuable peer, no better or worse. Therefore, he gives in to his destiny in order to exceed himself and betrays everybody to become more powerful. And Sakura, in the Caska role, actually loves both of them in spite of herself.

And, so, even in the filler arc, there's an overriding pathos that pervades for their fallen comrade. Naruto II takes place 2 years after Sasuke's departure . . . meaning, it's just long enough that whatever memories they had of their closest friend feels like another time, a more innocenct period in their life. In other words, the entire shounen generation has already come of age, they've already taken their lessons in becoming responsible members of their society, but now they inherit the burden of the past. It's the same thing with Berserk. Whatever memories between Gutts, Caska, Griffith was another time, another world entirely different then the absurd hell Gutts lives in now. And what I like is that, in Naruto II, it begins with that pathos, that sad distance of a nostalgic, but broken heart.

And, so, even though the 80 episodes of filler arc was incredibly tedious, but it did mark time. It brought the details of how Naruto I ends further back into your consciousness, but it also increases the anticipation for Sasuke's return, vaguely but very strongly, for the impending growth between the main characters. That also happens to be the same sensation that Naruto and Sakura go through; in that sense, you and the characters are meant to experience the same passage of time, so when they come back to you older and wiser, you have also moved on as well.

It also helps that the sprawl is marked by very well-done and changing op/ed animation sequences, that kinda keep Sasuke's memory in tow as well as firmly establish the Konoha group within the context of workers and so on. Those sequences work like the bits you see in harem -- ingratiating different friendships and relationship combinations into your head in order to reprove their status as a family, their growth as characters. Everybody about the show marks time well, showing how they're growing up as well as Naruto's increasing importance within their clan.

That pushes the storyline, just as in Full Metal Alchemist, toward second stage or mature shounen level, where you're trying to reconcile the pressures of adulthood with whatever lingers from your childhood (or in this case, their friendship.) Here, romance and complex friendships can be brought out. Here, regret and conspiracy theories can be developed without confusing the viewer. The tournament story structure, the bread and butter of shounen jump, is no longer necessary or even desirable.

Finally . . . I just dug the J-rock tunes. Naruto has some of the best OP/ED themes in all of anime! Very Happy




And, so, I accepted that Naruto is Naruto because it's so dang long. If Love Hina took 200 episodes to finish, I could see myself liking Keitaro. If Evangelion took 300 episodes to finish, I'd probably conclude that Shinji is an inspiration role model. When you get to know characters SO well in spite of whether you caring about them or not, it makes you like the show no matter what critical faults it has.
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 Frankly, I don't really care. Naruto is one of those shows that I tried for the first time then got tired of it. Why the fillers anyway? Wouldn't the staff kill themselves if they just move the story. I bet they didn't watched this monstrosity to make them come to their senses. I admire the fact that they're one of the only few shows left in the 2000's that has 100+ episodes, but if 3/4 of them contain fillers, no thanks.

@ Slippy

I salute you for still having your sanity after watching the deathtrap.
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 The manga is excellent though. Kishimoto is juggling plot-threads like a maniac. Let's see how he ties them together....

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Yes, they'd die. Because they get paid for making those fillers. Without payment they starve to death :p
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 I think this is about right. Saw a commercial in japan when i was there this summer, they said something about the 200's there, didn't really get all of it... Anways, if this is true.. awesome.
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Wouldn't the staff kill themselves if they just move the story.


Yeah, the problem with the fillers was that the studio couldn't make any assumptions about how the characters progressed in any way. And, so, the filler arc became, well, Hinata x Naruto fanfiction! Very Happy
Naruto II is essentially a different manga. You can almost see Naruto I as backstory, because as Arilou pointed out, the plot and relationship complexity goes up a magnitude.

This is not unusual; usually when there's a lengthy breaks, the intermission storyline signals the thematic direction of the series. For example, Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances) turns into a mature-shoujo/josei family saga from about Volume 13. Prior to this, there were about 3-4 volumes -- or about 1-2 years of material -- of side story material suggesting the darker psychological themes the manga would take on, as well as give everybody time to age ~2 years in the background. The visual style changed drastically as well.

With the Naruto manga, I haven't made up my mind because it's still very much a shounen jump story. Even my beloved Kenshin, through the Jinchuu arc, occasionally falls back on limiting, if not annoying, shounen conventions that I wish weren't necessary.
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charn (#40191) wrote:

Ten episodes just for that trivial matter ? (Yeah, I read the spoilers part, coz Naruto is one anime which I will never watch anyway, so I don't care about being spoiled) No thank you !

As for Detective Conan, I stopped watching it after episode nine and just watch the movies. Rose, have you seen Movie 2004 (Magician of The Silver Sky) yet ? It is awesome ! Best Conan movie ever. It's Conan + Kaito Kid + Turbulence. Movie 2005 is good too, but nowhere as good as the 2004. (And considering that you hated Titanic, you might hate Movie 2005, because the beginning seems like another Titanic, and there's one scene which conan has to save Ran which is very very Titanic-like Laughing)


@Charn, there are only two Conan movies to date I haven't seen: Magician of the Silver Sky and Movie 2005. Everyone I've talked to who loves the Conan movies has urged me to watch the former Laughing They say it's one of the best Detective Conan movies to date. If you're giving this movie top notches, then I'd better see it for sure! Very Happy

In all seriousness, I'll definitely keep it in mind, I haven't watched any anime for the past few days, but I'm almost finished with a rewatch of Brother Dear Brother. On another good note, I'll going to be watching a few series very soon, one of which is G-Gundam Razz I'm not sure if I'm going to watch another series aside from that (I don't really have the time), but if I do, I'm leaning towards X/1999 TV. A lot of people told me this series was very good. I wanted to see City Hunter, and I was able to see a few preview episodes of the series, but it will be a while before I can order the DVDs for that.

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The manga is excellent though. Kishimoto is juggling plot-threads like a maniac. Let's see how he ties them together....

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Yes, they'd die. Because they get paid for making those fillers. Without payment they starve to death :p


Haha Laughing Well said Arilou, well said.

I will say that while I don't care for the anime series to Naruto and Bleach, the manga for both I actually like. It seems contradictory for some people, but that's just a personal perspective I have. Wink
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 wow, so many people posted just to take cheap shots at the show.
If you didn't/don't like the show...
Why even bother looking in a thread that was obviously about it?
I haven't watched the filler eps, but that doesn't mean anything...
Just that filler sucks, which everyone knows... now that it's over -
HURRAY!
The purpose of the thread was to let the people who enjoy the show, know about the fillers ending (obviously).

I've noticed a nifty little trend - people tend to rip on whatever's popular,
It's called getting attention through negative acts.
Lots of children do it.

~Thankful that Naruto story is moving on,
pissed that so many people are closet naruto fans, because they think hatin' makes them cool.

Very Happy

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cosmo (#51028) wrote:
wow, so many people posted just to take cheap shots at the show.
If you didn't/don't like the show...
Why even bother looking in a thread that was obviously about it?
I haven't watched the filler eps, but that doesn't mean anything...
Just that filler sucks, which everyone knows... now that it's over -
HURRAY!
The purpose of the thread was to let the people who enjoy the show, know about the fillers ending (obviously).

I've noticed a nifty little trend - people tend to rip on whatever's popular,
It's called getting attention through negative acts.
Lots of children do it.

~Thankful that Naruto story is moving on,
pissed that so many people are closet naruto fans, because they think hatin' makes them cool.

Very Happy

Behehehe Very Happy No dude, we don't want to look cool at all, it's just that 'Naruto' sucks, that's all. This forum is full of cynics you know Confused Wink

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 Yea Naruto does suck even if it easn't as popilar as it is, though popularity adds annoyance with all the headbands and action figures they have. I mean it brainwashed a few ofg my friends Crying or Very sad . Anyway I saw like 86 episodes and I reviewed it and it ended up as as a total score of 5.8. So therefore in my opinion Naruto sucks and is annoying because of the merchandise that a lot of the other highschoolers wear.
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Behehehe Very Happy No dude, we don't want to look cool at all, it's just that 'Naruto' sucks, that's all. This forum is full of cynics you know Confused Wink


well everyone is entitled to their opinion on things.

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 Naruto backlash was similar to the DBZ backlash 10 years ago. Back in college, my friends and those at our local anime club would gripe about perfectly intelligent 20-something students watching what was essentially a show for 8-11 year old boys. If you were a hardcore DBZ or Akira fan (manga Akira fans exempt), you were kind of seen as a poseur. Of course, we -- i.e. the Gainax elitists raised on Hideaki Anno and Mamoru Oshii-- felt like this weird DBZ craze was setting the appreciation of anime back among the general audience.

But, you know what, DBZ ain't that bad. And Naruto, while neither being a great anime (manga exempt) nor a truly awful one, kinda hovers into the consciousness as the common experience of this generation of anime fans. All I ask is to be humble. In another 5-10 years, there will be another craze and you will look fondly on all the Narutards who went onto school and careers without watching another anime program. After all, half of us are grown adults still watching cartoons. What does that say about us Wink
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 I'm glad to hear this. I've decided to stop watching the fillers. Naruto is long but it's still good... if you omit all those fillers.

That's what I'm doing. Hehe... Very Happy
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 I do not care for the anime anymore. It's too slow (and oh.. the recaps!) and it will be quite a while until it can catch up with the manga. So for me - I will be reading with the manga ONLY. Of course, I will watch the episodes if someone gives em to me on a silver platter... but otherwise I'm too bored to see them or download them.

As for the manga - Arilou hit the nail on the head. It is getting amazing by the passing of each chapter. Things are moving quite fast now. He's (the manga-ka) is juggling plots like a maniac. Amazing is all I can say. The only problem? Its just 20 pages a week. Evil or Very Mad

And last week was a no issue week due to oban. Sad
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I think Naruto is a decent show for the time being. I have the first 50 episodes sitting on my new extra harddrive (fansubs) I find its a good show to watch when I having nothing to do. But it will probobly end up like Inuyasha in my eyes. I like it now but will end up getting bored with it when a certain plot chain takes to long.

But you have to love GeiSensei

Come on just look at that picture and say he is not the sexiest anime character of all time Wink

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 Heh, seems that is time for me to pick up Naruto again if this is true.
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slippy (#46880)
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 Just updating on the Naruto situation. This looks official:

9/13 Episode 200
9/20 Episode 201 (the last filler epi!)
9/27 Episode 202 (Recap show. Natch.)

10/5 Kakashi Gaiden / Episode 203
10/12 Episode 204

Kakashi Gaiden will be a 90 episode special, so I'm not sure if Kakashi Gaiden will in effect be a mini-movie rather than multiple episodes.

In any case, Naruto II starts in October. Oh happy day?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:27 pm
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 To tell you the truth this is all nice and dandy, but I stopped watching Naruto for over a year. In total i've only seen about 30 episodes. The anime seems like a waste of time right now, and i've found a number of other series that are far more interesting than this. The only way I keep track with this series is through the manga.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:12 pm
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dhep16 (#109426)
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Cody (#102298) wrote:
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Naruto BOOOOOO Overated BOOOOOOO TO long BOOOOOO


(T-T) That hurts!

Yes, finally it has arrived! ^^
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No_Soul (#97666)
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 holy **** how many ep it there? It really really long and i dont even know what they're doing now... it was a great anime tit they make it that long -_- damn go find sasuke aready!!!

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Genki Itsumo (#14471)
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 I'm only going to bother with the fillers my friends feel like burning for me...

I've been waiting for this day a long time Cool
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angel (#111641)
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 It's funny how much people complain about the fillers I acually don't mind then at all.I really love naruto sometimes I can't stand them but all I really care about now is if Sasuke going to be all right.
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Radi$ (#115547)
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 ive watched all 215 episodes and yeah.. i can say it got boring XD
But i have a friend who has read all of the mangas and he said there will be a time skip..



so naruto won't be a kid anymore and then he will learn a new technique.. so it should get more interesting Very Happy hopefully!
oh yea also gara will be back and thats all I know.. + the kakashi story

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Daizengar (#99576)
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Radi$ (#115547) wrote:
iso naruto won't be a kid anymore and then he will learn a new technique.. so it should get more interesting Very Happy hopefully!
oh yea also gara will be back and thats all I know.. + the kakashi story
Naruto won't learn a new technique. He merely masters a technique that is incomplete. I'm upto chapter 336, maybe your friend is further tham me >.<

I think Kakashi Gaiden will be better made as an OVA series as it doesn't tie-in the story between season 1 and season 2.

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Radi$ (#115547)
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 he will learn a new technique when the TIME SKIP has happened.. he will be older like in my picture... well thats what my friend told me... hes crazy about naruto! XD

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Daizengar (#99576)
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Radi$ (#115547) wrote:
he will learn a new technique when the TIME SKIP has happened.. he will be older like in my picture... well thats what my friend told me... hes crazy about naruto! XD
I think your friend is referring to the
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big rasengan naruto used against Itachi's bunshin. I don't consider that a new technique as it is just a variation of an incomplete technique (rasengan). Naruto will complete rasengan at the end of chapter 337
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Radi$ (#115547)
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 refering to what/?

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Daizengar (#99576)
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Radi$ (#115547) wrote:
refering to what/?
Have you read the quote box? If not highlight the text inside the box. It's a potential spoiler so that is why i used white text to cover it.

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digital (#118430)
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 @ those who critisize naruto
honestly who care if u don't liked it or not, first of all u r bitching about naruto sux and wastes ppls life ,yet u waste other ppl's with ur irrelevant comments to the topic!!

second,if u r not naruto fan go and spam somewhere else Evil or Very Mad

(i personally really into this ninja and super power stuff so .... )

p.s : don't bother to continue this argue, i don't care who is right and who is wrong ,just pissed off to see ppl going off topic too much yet acting so high and almighty

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from episode 220 the fillers ends and second arc will begins

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Ch1pPy™ (#106014)
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 Re: @ those who critisize naruto
digital (#118430) wrote:
honestly who care if u don't liked it or not, first of all u r bitching about naruto sux and wastes ppls life ,yet u waste other ppl's with ur irrelevant comments to the topic!!

second,if u r not naruto fan go and spam somewhere else Evil or Very Mad

(i personally really into this ninja and super power stuff so .... )

p.s : don't bother to continue this argue, i don't care who is right and who is wrong ,just pissed off to see ppl going off topic too much yet acting so high and almighty

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so any news about when the fillers end!!! (i watched up to ep 208 ,still in the fillers)

Please read the rules newcomer-kun. It's stickied so it won't be much trouble to find, actually here's the link to save you the trouble.

Our rules include:

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__k. This is an English forum not a chat-room, instant message, or a cell phone. We expect members to use the proper English words. (Other languages are permissible in proper threads, or if you don't over take an entire thread with it.)

Abbreviations are acceptable. eg: lol, iirc, imho, imo, etc.
Slang abbreviations are not. eg: da, fo, needa, dess, 4, dis, n, etc.


So please don't type like you did in your post next time.

Second, why are you so pissed about us bitching about Naruto, when you are also bitching about us bitching about it. A little hypocritical don't you think?

Ah-ah, so much bitching going around. This day's a bitch, really. >.>

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digital (#118430)
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 Sir,yes sir Smile ,i will keep your advise in mind overlord-kun,
well , bad old habits won't go away so easily but i'll try harder

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i simply wanted to put an end to this bitching,and emphasis on topic

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