Naruto V: Eye See Your Sharingan and Raise You a Rinnegan

[AtlanteanTroll]

I completely misread what you said I thought you meant the "without gender" word, not "without sex" word

Turns out it can be either, so it doesn't much matter. Though I'd suspect the Kyuubi of being uninterested in the pleasure of the flesh as being just as likely as him not having a gender himself.

[Drolyt]

I was thinking that the bijuu probably aren't interested in sex or romance, but honestly I'd be surprised if they had a biological sex*, although they might consider themselves to have a gender*.

* Here sex refers to what kind of naughty bits you are born with (or perhaps your genes, it depends on who you ask) while gender refers to some sort of cultural identity. This is actually a recent and somewhat arbitrary distinction (although not one without value), but it is the closest thing to standard terminology.

[LaZodiac]

I was thinking that the bijuu probably aren't interested in sex or romance, but honestly I'd be surprised if they had a biological sex*, although they might consider themselves to have a gender*.

* Here sex refers to what kind of naughty bits you are born with (or perhaps your genes, it depends on who you ask) while gender refers to some sort of cultural identity. This is actually a recent and somewhat arbitrary distinction (although not one without value), but it is the closest thing to standard terminology.

I feel like recalling that the Hacibe has made overt male gestures, but then he's a tenticle beast in a Japanese medium controlled by a raping black man so maybe Killer Bee just rubbed off on him. Personality wise.

Also I'm likely recalling incorrectly.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I feel like recalling that the Hacibe has made overt male gestures, but then he's a tenticle beast in a Japanese medium controlled by a raping black man so maybe Killer Bee just rubbed off on him. Personality wise.

Also I'm likely recalling incorrectly.

Rapping. Killer Bee is not a rapist, LaZ.

[Kato]

While it is theoretically likely that manifstations of chakra are genderless I'd assume Kishi pictures them with some kind of gender, knowing him most probably male. Not that it matters that much... fanfiction writers will change that around as they see fit anyway. Whether they have a sex drive in canon... I don't think we will ever know. So probably we can assume: no.

[LaZodiac]

Rapping. Killer Bee is not a rapist, LaZ.

I always make that mistake. I really shouldn't.

[darksolitaire]

Awesomeness. Awesomeness everywhere, especially in Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth manga.

Know pain!

[Sotharsyl]

Rapping. Killer Bee is not a rapist, LaZ.

Well tentacle beast inside of him ...

*Rimshot* thank thank you I'll be here the entire night!

[Silverraptor]

Hey guys, the website I was using to read the new episodes has apparently been removed. Anyone got a new site for me to re-catch up on episodes of the manga?

[masterjoda99]

Well, for the manga, i'm fond of mangahere.com...

[Silverraptor]

Well, for the manga, i'm fond of mangahere.com...

Huh. That actually was the website. For some reason my shortcut has broken...

[Socratov]

..... by now, Naruto has to know that. Impossible for him to not get that by now, right?

Sakura

• still likes another man
• lied dirrectly to Naruto's face about one of his core issues (and he called her out on lying)
• almost got her team killed over said man
• and is destined to be with Rock Lee anyway.

Hinata

• has loved Naruto since the day she met him
• was technically -the- first girl, since Naruto had that bit of filler involving him fighting some of her bullies
• has endlessly supported Naruto enough for him to speak out on her behalf
• and, of course, came to his aid even when the entire rest of the village just watched, even if it would have cost her her life, confessing her love and putting said life on the line to defend it.

Someone's getting assassinated if Hinata doesn't end up with Naruto.

yeah I knwo I'm late, but busy during NYE/D. ehm, this post made me think of a song by the Rolling Stones: You can't always get what you want

[Grimsage Matt]

On the whole "What could be worse then the I-Hax clan and the Tentecle Nuke" for the movie..... Personally, it'd be intresting to see a Naruto VS Hulk movie. Worldbreaker Hulk in perticluar. Just me two cents.

[Aotrs Commander]

Oh.

My.

Lichemaster.

Shippudden Will of Fire is the

BEST NARUTO MOVIE EVER!!!!!!

It's... it's... it's pretty much nearly perfect!

A clear-cut villain, with nice, sensible world-domination, motives, everybody in it - no extraneous protagonist characters, just using the character we know and love, everyone fighting as a team!!, a message that actually really works, for once, EPIC music, and using the character development of the anime to sharpen the conflict, and provide credible reasons for Shika and Naruto to be at odds...

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Naruto verses Gaara, round 2! Giant Ninja spike missile launchers - they SO better be using them in the whole Forth Ninja War gubbins! Epic team giant monster beat-downs! (Ye gods, Tenten!)

I REALLY like the message, that was "screw self-sacrifice, and screw the odds, as a team we're unbeatable!"

And rounding it out with that trademark Naruto humour - and for once, and ending that didn't feel rushed and closed nicely!

HUZZAAAAAAAAH!

That, THAT is how the series should end, on that sort of note. Frag all this character death and one-on-one stuff, an epic beatdown with every major character pummeling the Ten-Tails/Madara/Obito/Sasuke into bloody powder with stupendous jutsu so fast thyey can't do anything but shriek and get discombulated hit after hit after hit, THAT is what the climax of the series should be!



I think that was the best Naruto story I've ever watched or read in any medium!

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Okay, I think I'm calm now, I just needed HUZZAAAAAH!

No, no, I'm going to be hyped for freaking hours!!

That.

Was.

AWESOME!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Drolyt]

BEST NARUTO MOVIE EVER!!!!!!

I haven't seen all of them, but from what I remember this wouldn't be terribly hard. Is it really worth watching for someone who doesn't normally watch the anime?

[Morph Bark]

Was that the one with

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the guy who tried to steal some bloodlines?

If so, then I'd say yes, it's worth it (though this comes from someone who doesn't watch the anime, but does watch the movies, generally). I liked the second Shippuuden movie (Bonds) more in its tone and pacing, but it has a premise that kind of breaks suspension of disbelief due to including things that tie in heavily to canon stuff, but isn't canon. The third one had great fights and a wicked, great villain.

[Aotrs Commander]

Was that the one with

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the guy who tried to steal some bloodlines?

Yes. Yes it is.

(And yes, umpteen hours later and I'm still that pumped!)

[Morph Bark]

That villain was great, even though I saw a lot of points where he could've been better. I thought the fight was a bit short, not primarily because it's shounen, but because it made the villain seem so easily defeated.

I really liked it though. If only because the villain was largely an exact copy of my main Naruto RP character from five years ago, before the movie was even in production.

[Silverraptor]

That villain was great, even though I saw a lot of points where he could've been better. I thought the fight was a bit short, not primarily because it's shounen, but because it made the villain seem so easily defeated.

I really liked it though. If only because the villain was largely an exact copy of my main Naruto RP character from five years ago, before the movie was even in production.

From Narutoitp? If so, which character was this?

[Morph Bark]

I haven't ever participated in a Naruto RP on GitP, sadly, because I never bothered to learn the mechanics of Naruto d20.

I played the character on several Proboards RP forums though. The character was named Shinekai Urukihara.

[Silverraptor]

I haven't ever participated in a Naruto RP on GitP, sadly, because I never bothered to learn the mechanics of Naruto d20.

I played the character on several Proboards RP forums though. The character was named Shinekai Urukihara.

Oh no. Back when we did a FFRP game. There was no dice rolling involved.

[Morph Bark]

Huh. I see. Guess it is a shame then that it's no longer running, might've been interesting to hop in with Uru.

[Morph Bark]

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Writing seemed a bit sloppy here, at least the translations. I mean what the characters say, overall the way the chapter played out it looked pretty good following the last few chapters and setting up for the next.

Nice to see that they're using an upscaled Ino-Shika-Chou too.

[Kato]

Yeah, translation really seems sloppy this time... (So it's not just me)

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Okay, Maximized Ino-Shika-Cho is neat and Kyubi fueled ninja alliance is pretty badass but... WTF IS UP WITH THE FIRST PAGES? That's what we get from Sasuke? Do you think we forgot about him or what? Do we really need that stupid teaser?

[LaZodiac]

Yeah, translation really seems sloppy this time... (So it's not just me)

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Okay, Maximized Ino-Shika-Cho is neat and Kyubi fueled ninja alliance is pretty badass but... WTF IS UP WITH THE FIRST PAGES? That's what we get from Sasuke? Do you think we forgot about him or what? Do we really need that stupid teaser?

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Yes. Yes we do. Because SASUKE. I am curious what he's planning though.

[Morph Bark]

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Yes. Yes we do. Because SASUKE. I am curious what he's planning though.

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[LaZodiac]

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....That's ingenius and I really hope that's his plan.

[Morph Bark]

You and me both, LaZodiac. You and me both.

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Figured that if the Hokages weren't resurrectable, at least they could still use their heads.

[Togath]

This seemed like a good place to ask a lore question.
Would merchants heading to a hidden village vanishing, and sightings of foreign shinobi be enough to cause a village to start getting more of it's low rank shinobi into teams?
In a campaign I'm running(set in Kaminari no Kiri) I started it with the players(all starting as mid rank genins) by having them at a meeting where team pairings were being announced(just by having one of the jounin of the village read the pairings off of a scroll, rather then anything fancy).
from a gm perspective, I decided that it might make the village wary, as some of the sightings reported one of the foreign shinobi being a missing-nin, though the village leaders decided to keep that part secret from the populace.

[Traab]

This seemed like a good place to ask a lore question.
Would merchants heading to a hidden village vanishing, and sightings of foreign shinobi be enough to cause a village to start getting more of it's low rank shinobi into teams?
In a campaign I'm running(set in Kaminari no Kiri) I started it with the players(all starting as mid rank genins) by having them at a meeting where team pairings were being announced(just by having one of the jounin of the village read the pairings off of a scroll, rather then anything fancy).
from a gm perspective, I decided that it might make the village wary, as some of the sightings reported one of the foreign shinobi being a missing-nin, though the village leaders decided to keep that part secret from the populace.

Missing merchants would likely be cause for patrols searching for bandit forces. Spotting foreign nin, not missing nin though, that would be reason to raise an alert. Not a full scale war alert, but enough to send out patrols of higher ranked ninja to see what they can figure out, trigger a letter of protest if the kage is feeling diplomatic. Basically a more polite version of, "Why the hell do you have troops inside MY borders? Remove them and explain yourself or else." And yes, I would say making sure you dont have any ninja wandering around on their own would make sense. Especially if there have been any attacks on shinobi in the area.