People, especially writers, should know the limits of their own intelligence, yes.
That was the funniest fucking shit.
Danzo in theory could have been fun and a better character if wasn’t a scapegoat. He was the only guy who did assassin shit in the series. Him jobbing to Sasuke was gay.
Everything Danzo said was true though: the Uchiha tried to destroy the entire world.
Kakashi basically tells Sasuke,”Don’t put yourself and others in danger for the sake of revenge”.
Definitely, though it also generates a pseudo "parasocial" relationship where you are up to date with the retardation so you keep reading weekly to see how bad the train flips and how many bystanders are devastated in it's wake. Naruto, Bleach and Fairy Tail (and stuff like Hitman Reborn were shit much earlier and I still don't understand how I stuck with it) had been shit for a very very long time before they ended so it was just a read to shit on it scenario which I usually avoid, but I justify with it being "a quick read".
Pretty sure Demon Slayer was popular enough to hit that peak, at least in Japan. It dropped down faster though.
Chainsaw man has been in a pretty dry streak the last couple of months and I got the impression that the anime was not well received. Also, wasn't it adapted by one of those CGI studios?
The big issue in my opinion is that no one is willing to take the risk of a continuous adaption. We still stick to individual seasons which kill momentum, and like I said in a previous post, the filler those shows had sometimes works to their benefit. So even if a good shonen comes along, the talk about it ends once the current season ends.
The perils of being a mangaka. They have to sacrifice their lives just to not have their story axed a volume or two in and then sacrifice their family to keep it going all while the magazine gleefully gives them mandates to keep going. How many times in the last year or so has one of the popular series released a sub double digit chapter or ones with unfinished art?
The last on-going series I knew of was Black Clover and that got plagued by iffy pacing, characters being reduced down to tropes, and the director having to move heaven and earth just to get episodes done in with decent animation. But very few fillers, minus a long stretch made to fill a time skip/covid screwing everything up.
Sakura is so useless she couldn't stab that Rinnegan and make their lives easy.
Careful what you wish for. The Dragonball Super manga did a Frieza revenge arc and that was literal garbage. There was a whole lot of not killing Frieza and it erased Goku's efforts and success to being due to a wish on the dragon by once again ruining Bardock.
MHA's fall was MUCH worse than Naruto's ever was. Two years ago, almost three, we started our final fight against Dabi, Toga, AFO, and Shigaraki. Two years later up until very recently, we were STILL fighting Dabi. There's just no excuse for that. That bastard gave his audience two years of NOTHING. Say what you want about Naruto but at its worst during the war and Ten Tails, at least stuff HAPPENED. Dabi was just...nothing.
The anime was not well received even by the fandom. It's just missing something. CSM we were warned by Fujimoto via a one shot would be a little strange but to give it time. We've given it time and it's not as good as part one. Instead of high highs and low lows, it's very much plateaued as a 'Yeah it's aight'. Propping up Asa really came at Denji's expense.
That's what hilarious about the war arc. It SHOULD'VE been a royal rumble. We don't get that. We start out good, Sasori vs Kankuro was a decent idea. Kakashi vs. Haku and Zabuza redux was great. But afterwards, Kakashi says he's going to go berserk out of anger and use all of his jitsu and it's something the audience would love to see. AND WE DON'T FUCKING SEE IT. Instead of getting fun match ups we get....Mifune vs. Hanzo the Salamander. Two characters we give zero shits about. Then we get Darui vs. Kinkaku and Ginkaku. The fuck was Kishimoto smoking? You know, people would've loved a true Hashirama vs. Madara fight. We don't fucking get one! I swear to God, Kishimoto wrote a check to milk at least years of content on stuff people ACTUALLY want to see, and we waste it on garbage.
I never saw its appeal. Just felt purposely generic and didn't really try to do it well enough. It swirling down the drain as every series tends to by the end was super obvious.
Better than most sequel series, let's be honest. Even if it isn't technically a sequel.
I think the best comparison between the two was how much time it took for the protagonist to be considered not a waste of space by their class. MHA was episode 8? Barely the end of the first season. Naruto it was the very end of the Chunnin exam, around episode 60. And even then he wasn't seen as the top dog until he learned the Rasengan, around episode 90. MHA just skips character development for the power fantasy, which works in isekai but not in shonen. There is a reason why the spinoff is more popular.
It was just low energy adaption of a series who's entire point was being balls to the wall. It's like the director just adapted it without understanding why people like it at the first place. The fight scenes were also trash.
What I always found a shame was how they did a new ending for every episode but never found a spot for Fujimoto's beautiful cover arts. He did wonderful splash pages and cover arts that just never got created into stills for these endings. Maybe it was a licensing thing, but you'd think in 10 episodes at least one of them would show up.
Same here. Naruto was a legitimate cultural phenomenon and most importantly for me, stayed VERY good for a VERY long time. It's no coincidence that the vast majority of highly regarded series are either short or have the authors take frequent health breaks (name your pick), abandon them (Vagabond) or straight up just die working on them.
Nice. I don't see a lot of Samurai Deeper Kyo mentions. I really enjoyed reading it and noting the similarities between it and Naruto as it ran pretty much concurrently with Part 1.
Because Naruto was already trash halfway through its story. And its anime had ludicrous amounts of filler to the point where the actual manga story might as well have been ten percent of the show. It was also beyond obvious what the ending would be. That everyone would survive and that there would be a sequel. That none of the main characters were going to die because that might hurt toy sales.
Impossible. Naruto sells more merchandise than Boruto still. And probably more copies of the anime and manga on a yearly basis.
Yeah, unlike Naruto.
