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cerusee ([personal profile] cerusee) wrote2005-05-16 02:00 am
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Naruto 132-134

132:

1) Naruto chibi flashback angst makes me cry. Always.
2) OMFG.
3) Kakashi, you suck! So much!

133:

1) OMFG! OMFG!
2) Did...uh...did he break his neck?
2) Who knew Kyuubi was a flying fox?
3) Stage Two does not look good on Sasuke. It looks butt-ugly.

134:

1) HOLY SHIT.
2) ::cries like a baby::
3) Okay, I hate Sasuke somewhat less. Not trying to kill Naruto is a good step. He still needs to get off the revenge kick, and he's still an ass for what he's doing, but I appreciate that he's chosen not to murder his best friend in the process.
4) Kakashi, you still suck. But at least you have the grace to realize it.

Next up--everybody angsts like whoa. I'd like to state for the record that if Sakura spends more time wangsting about Sasuke than about Naruto getting the shit beaten out of him--not to mention everybody else getting injured/killed--I will strangle her with her own forehead protector.

Does anybody know where I'd need to start in the manga to pick up after 134?
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[identity profile] chibipoe.livejournal.com 2005-05-16 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
*nod* The manga's just odd there. In the manga, the bit where Naruto gets knocked into the water and muses "I can't beat him." is the moment when he goes Kyuubi Lvl 2. Here... he gets beat some more(there was definitely shock after the Bunshin-Whip and Sasuke roasting them and then finding that Naruto was STILL ALIVE. That, IMO, freaked Sasuke out in the 'I hit you that hard and you're still alive?' sense and he lost it as naruto was again moving to try and stop him, so Sasuke snaps, probably thinking: "What will it TAKE?" and hits with the piledriver and breaks his neck. (the way Naruto DOESN'T move or anything and his head lays tilted back makes me think that were he anyone else? He'd have been dead.

And then Kyuubi SPEAKS and there's the "Be grateful to me, brat."

[identity profile] cerusee.livejournal.com 2005-05-16 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
That scene was incredible. And bizarre. Because Sasuke was so shocked and scared that he forgot to be an asshole, and he was just Sasuke trying really hard to do something that happened to be stupid and wrong. When he broke Naruto's neck, I think he didn't know how to feel--and then Naruto got up again.

If it wasn't in the manga, I think it was a good addition--it's a scene I'll never forget. (And they left it so ambiguous that if it turns out that Kyuubi's not supposed to be able to heal a broken neck, they're not held to it.)

[identity profile] windandwater.livejournal.com 2005-05-17 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Pffff... as long as Naruto isn't hit through the heart (or maybe through the stomach since that's where the seal is), Kyuubi can always do something. That's why Kabuto was able to nearly kill Naruto. Though, I think if anyone KNOWS who Naruto is, they wouldn't aim for the stomach. Mucking around with a seal would be too dangerous, especially since Kyuubi is uncontrollable if he gets free.

[identity profile] chibipoe.livejournal.com 2005-05-16 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
argh! -_- Tabbed and hit enter. Oh well. Anyway. Yeah. The Be grateful bit, as I said, was implying that Kyuubi was doing MORE than just powering him up.

(the manga & anime versions of Sasuke's descent are really quite different. In the manga, Sasuke spends about a month in a COMA and then wakes up and goes off on a rampage to Orochimaru, (after the rooftop skirmish with Naruto). So he's just -reacting- out of bitterness and jealousy and having things slammed on him left and right.

In the anime? Sasuke's not reacting so much as ACTING, from having things build up left and right and just multiple things driving home that he's Not As Badass as he thought. There's festering resentment and it's less of him just storming off half-cocked as it is him CHOOSING to do this. He's going in eyes wide open, IMO, in the anime. I, personally, filler notwithstanding, like the way the anime's handling this. (but I like a lot of the manga. The Tsunade episodes right before Naruto pwns Kabuto remain some of the most heartwrenching stuff I've seen in it (I can't feel bad for Sasuke. I really can't. He's had these people trying to be his friend(whether worshipful like Ino/Sakura or what have you, like Naruto) and he craps over all of that. His closed-mindedness has crapped all over that. And he got almost everyone killed. So, no, I really can't feel sorry for him and I honestly want Naruto to administer a beatdown that makes what happened to Gaara look like NOTHING.
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