I know it's a little late to annouce this 'cause this Challenge has already been initiated since quite a while ago, but right now I have a very strong urge to publicise this and this is something I just. Can't. Overlook! *eyes flame on*
For those who don't know what a Challenge is, it's a new feature on theO launched by founder Adam. Visit the Official Updates World for more details.
The title of this E-card Challenge is "Harass Sasuke"... I need not say this actually, cuz the theme of this World reveals everything >_> The awesome guy who initiated this is none other than Aceburner! You guys should go check out his World called Mystery Naruto Theatre 3000, some of the earlier posts there contain decent amounts of Sasuke-bashing, I'm sure it'll be a good read.
I may not have time to take part in this because of darn college *shakesfist* but you guys should give it a try.
Click on the link below and unleash your fury!
http://www.theotaku.com/cards/challenges/view/28/harass_sasuke
now i know what you're thinking. wtf right? this is a sasuke bashing site after all, but i just can't take it any more. today settled this feeling for sure. after watching naruto shippuden episode 85 and reading the latest naruto chapter 425, i am now 100% positive that i have lost all respect for this series. and now i really hate kishimoto right now for numerous reasons. the steadily declining plot was something that i have been trying so hard to put up with, but now it's breaking point. for those of you who keep up to date with both, you understand. first off, sasuke should be dead, courtesy of Killer Bee, but he too should not be alive either, so fact that sasuke 'defeated' KB in such an anticlimactic ending was stupid, however, the fact that Killer Bee didn't die is even worse. but then i was kind of happy that kakashi was getting a more active role by fighting Pein. now i know, despite deluding myself, that kakashi isn't stronger than pein, but holy shit, i wasn't expecting... SPOILER ALERT ............................................................................................................
kishimoto to end kakashi's life so suddenly.
but before i get to that, i have also lost respect for the art style as well because it has gotten decidedly more lazy and each manga chapter grows ever more disappointing because nothing interesting happens in them, so they appear to be getting shorter with each passing week. kishimoto should not be doing this. i know manga artists are always hard-pressed for time, but he shouldn't be making them only 17 pages long and ending at illogical points. gone are the days when the chapters used to end on cliffhangers. i don't give jack about sasuke, but when it concerns kakashi, the series is suddenly more interesting, which is probably one of the few reasons i still keep up with it. i hate kishimoto a ton right now for several EXTREMELY annoying parts to the manga. first off, i was pissed for weeks, and still am actually, that tobi's face was never revealed. we all know he is madara, but im sure we were all excited to wonder what he looks like NOW. from the inadequate sliver of his face we have seen, he seems to be a little like obito. he ends a chapter with tobi about to remove his mask. then for the whole week, i was practically hyperventilating with excitement, but then we don't see it! and to make it worse, after that, tobi takes off the mask again but we also don't see it.
other annoying things in shippuden(manga): Kisame vs. Suigetsu never occurred as far as we know, itachi vs. sasuke was an really disappointing battle that got REALLY old REALLY fast, deidara doesn't take sasuke with him to the grave, team hebi's magical ability to bring sasuke back from what should have been his (second) death, we still don't know what happened to nagato(pein) and konan after jiraiya left, the number of types of sharingan that keep popping up, why does itachi poking sasuke's forehead transfer mangekyou powers, why sasuke and itachi having only their very 'last reserves of chakra' were able to continue fighting that long, why the hell danzou doesn't just give up already about becoming the hokage(i don't know about you, but his failed attempts at overthrowing tsunade to be in power is REALLY annoying, specially cuz he's so old), jokes that used to be hilarious are so overused it's just a nuisance(like naruto getting punched by sakura), naruto and sakura vs. kakashi in the 2nd bell test was never in the manga because it cuts right to the end of the fight, not showing anything in between, what karin did to sasuke has never been explained, and random really minor characters show up when nobody cares what they are doing.
and now, i can't even look forward to the anime because now they both suck. i cannot express just how disappointed i am in the decline of the shippuden anime. the first Rescue Gaara arc was kickass, the very reason i always said it was 100X better than first half of naruto. even if there were those "stand and glare for a long time" scenes, it wasn't very noticeable at all because it was so epic for me to watch. the shippuden filler was what i thought was the breaking point, and that the anime quality would get better once the filler was over(still don't know for the life of me why they made the filler when they could have done kakashi gaiden or something), but that was naive. the animation got worse and worse, everything was out of proportion, and the expressions are beyond annoying to look at.
in Shippuden episode 85, i confirmed the feeling that they were doing the Hidan-Kakuzu arc all wrong. at the beginning of it, there were A LOT of unnecessary and stupid scenes added in that were a.) not even part of the manga b.) about things nobody in their right mind could possibly care about and c.) completely changing the plot to that arc. this Hidan-Kakuzu arc is the most not-cannon-to-manga thing i have ever seen and it is gross. the fight scene with team 10+kakashi vs. Hidan and Kakuzu is COMPLETELY different, animation is hideous, especially for Hidan. his "insane laughter" and personality is way overdone and it got really old.
i liked how the anime seemed to be hinting at the fact that Hidan and Kakuzu are gay though, cuz hidan said stuff like "kakuzu-chan" and "aw you picked up my headband for me. that's so sweet. you really do care![kakuzu acts indifferent to this statement to which hidan says] come on now, don't be shy" but still, the fighting between asuma and hidan seemed different, and while hidan has a good seiyuu(voice actor), the laughter makes me want to shoot something. obviously some stuff has to be added to the fight to make it more interesting(like how kakashi vs. naruto/sakura had to be) but there was no need for 10 minutes of things that never even happened. the episode didn't use transition to make the fight more clear, it completely changed all but the first part of the battle before hidan gets separated.
back to the manga chapter, i am so pissed off at kishimoto because it seems like he is really is serious about kakashi dying in such a sudden manner. it keeps jumping from person to person in the manga, so nothing is happening. instead of devoting an entire long chapter to kakashi vs pein, it cuts back to naruto in sage training, then some stuff with tsunade, then some interrogation thing, etc. that's why the plot isn't advancing very far, there's too many characters in different places trying to be all in one chapter which is never over 17 pages these days. but even more enraging is that today's chapter was entitled "Hatake Kakashi", but only a small bit of it is actually about kakashi!! after a few pages, it suddenly goes to naruto in sage training! WTF?? if you entitle it "Hatake Kakashi" why the hell is it mainly about naruto? im sick of seeing bits and pieces of sage training!
and kakashi's dad is completely different than how i thought he might look. some have said the White Fang looked like Inoichi(ino's dad), and the "strong resemblance" between kakashi and Sakumo is not as big as i thought it would be either. and to make matters even worse, the end of the chapter shows a completely random panel of konohamaru.
on a random note, apparently the english voice of Pein is Dave Wittenberg who also voices kakashi which was surprising to me. that's weird. i mean, when the shippuden(no, make that if) comes to pein vs. kakashi, Dave Wittenberg will be conversing with himself, which i have only seen done by LittleKuriboh creator of Yugioh the Abridged Series. i hope to whatever deity might exist out there to let this be a "main character" syndrome things where impossible odds are negated and kakashi doesn't die. it feels like a real person is dying because of how obsessed i am with him. not sure if anyone else is THAT obsessed with a character, but i am definitely sad about these chapters. next time, i promise it will be a true sasuke bashing post. it's actually a comic someone made so look forward to it.
today i think im just gonna rant about Naruto Shippuden: Kizuna, or the 5th naruto movie or if you prefer, naruto shippuden movie 2. but in other news i just love how naruto manga chapter 413 ended. if sasuke lives, it will prove my point that he only wins battles because he's a main character. and also, i still believe that itachi is definitely stronger than sasuke because he wasn't trying to kill sasuke, he wanted to die and lost on purpose.
well anyways, im sure that im not the only one who is rather excited for the latest installment of movies, the 2nd one to take place in shippuden time-skip. it bugs me how the focus is on sasuke. and honestly i can't believe how completely moronic some people are about it. i couldn't help but read people's comments on youtube about the 5th movie that has yet to be subbed. first off, why would ANYONE honestly be stupid enough to believe that there's going to be sasunaru action? from the way some were talking, they seemed to believe sasuke and naruto are going to be making out in this movie. WHAT is wrong with those people, what could possibly lead them to believe there's any room for that in the movie?? there's too much chaos going on, you can just see it in the trailers! and besides, what would be the point in having a scene like that in the movie? just because it said sasukeXnaruto in the trailer, doesn't mean yaoi! i think the point is that the 2 of 'em are going to work together like in the old days when they were still "friends", and that's the message people should be getting! if you were one of those people, i slap you with a fish.
i also feel like laughing long and hard at the naive people who actually think that maybe sasuke will return to the village after the battle is over. um, hell no he won't! who do they think he is? it's obvious that he's only working together with naruto because he knows that the enemy can't be defeated alone, and that necessity calls for it, or die. the movies aren't keeping true to the actual storyline, which many people seem confused on. however, if sasuke returned home, how the hell would they have any more episodes?? he's gonna come back alright... to destroy the village like the moron he is. and i also feel confusion as to why some people came to the conclusion that itachi might be dead. some of the comments said "wait so is itachi dead already?" first off, nothing in any of the trailers would indicate that. and plus sasuke still has his curse mark in the movie. if you recall, itachi removed it in the manga. and also, the sasuke fanservice in the movie is already revolting to look at, i mean just from the trailers i wouldn't be surprised if half the screen-time was just that. seriously what's with getting under a waterfall with his shirt off? -__-'
still, this movie excites me a lot more than the last one. i also laugh the idiocy of those who were stupid enough to think naruto would ACTUALLY die in the movie. first off, he's a main character, second, the rest of the storyline couldn't happen if he did, and third, even he really did die, i would bet anything that somehow he'd be magically brought back to life. whereas a ton of people were all like ZOMGS NARUTO'S GONNA DIE??!!! ZOMG HOW COULD THEY TT__TT, i just calmly waited till the movie came out. i was more interested in how he would beat that prediction(by doing what he always does, be stubborn what a surprise). i still think it's kinda false advertising to make kakashi appear in the trailers like he was gonna be in the movie for more than a minute. though it makes me happy that it appears he is gonna play a bigger role in movie 5. there's so much action that is gonna be happening in this movie too! just look at all that it's gonna have! i feel more confident that not a minute of it will be that boring. i sure hope kakashi will get at least one good fight scene, though i know it focuses on sasuke and naruto, so i won't get hopes up. i like the design and color the movie is gonna have, and the architecture of that clearly evil building thing. and on a random note, i thought that the red head boy that shows up in the trailer might just turn out to be a girl. do any of you ever notice a really popular theme in anime is a young girl disguised as a young rough around the edges bad-mannered boy or something? and then they always have some sort of hat on so you can't tell, and then when you find out, they suddenly seem to have a much more feminine voice? you can hardly blame me, i mean that boy was already kinda girly looking to begin with, but i guess i was wrong. according to wikipedia anyway. i such an idiot, cuz i was accidentally reading the story of what happens in the movie cuz i forgot that it was already aired in japan. but luckily i had the sense to stop before ruining the whole thing for myself(now that's a rare sight to see)
i can't wait for it, but i have patience enough for it unlike most others. there's no point hyperventilating about it when it won't change the day we can watch it in subs. it amuses me how people insist they wish that they could watch it in japanese when they don't understand any, claiming they don't care if they can't. now that's just the stupidest thing i ever heard. sure you might get the gist of it by watching, but what the hell's so exciting about that? isn't a joke more funny when you can understand it? all people will understand is "dattebayo" and nothing else(sad but probably true). there's no pleasure to be had in that, it's maddeningly infuriating not to be able understand on the contrary. boggles the mind it does. on another random note, anybody else can't wait to watch Diamond Dust Rebellion? it's centered around one of my favorite characters(and i have lots of 'em in bleach). although i must say im surprised that there's gonna be so much bombing and guns in this movie. i think i remember in some interview, kishimoto said he didn't like guns in naruto, and one would think the people in charge of the movie might consider that because they're probably different people. although i find it amusing how in the trailers when one of the flying ninja tries to shoot shikamaru, who is standing motionless on an empty beach, misses. lol.
and as one last thought, in a way, it might be a good thing that sasuke is the focus in that maybe the whole "naruto meets person who is a rude jerk and then changes them into a better person by defeating some tough enemy through sheer stubbornness" won't be the major theme here. i mean, every naruto movie is like that, and most episodes that have other characters in them whom naruto doesn't know. it can be a little tiresome, and i still sense they might have it again, but there won't be as much focus on it if they do(hopefully). just once, it would be refreshing if naruto doesn't do that whole magical change you into a good person by becoming your friend thing, or if it didn't work. that would be an interesting story, but the minor character would continue to be annoying. most of those people naruto changes are unbearably spoiled and annoying that makes one want to punch them in the face or something, even after "improving" themselves. with exception of gaara of course. and any character that actually matters/isn't in a filler. naturally i would prefer this theme rather than have sasuke, since we all know which is more annoying to have around. and if any of you happen to have seen Naruto Shippuden: Kizuna already because you live in japan or whatever, please no spoilers cuz everyone else will hate you. and i hope i haven't inadvertently offended anyone either(which sometimes happens even when i don't realize it could be).
*doop*
wow, maybe i should make shorter posts, cuz nobody really read my last post here. if anyone reads this, i think i have a simple idea to get more people to join S.H.I.T. i can't submit fanart since i have no scanner, but for those of you who can, submit some sasuke drawing. just draw him mutilated or flame him in a obvious way and title it "sasuke sucks" or something. of course naturally, all sorts of sasuke haters will flock to it like they did with Iruka Sensei's drawing(which i loved). the only drawback is obviously the annoying fangirls, but you should probably say in the author's comments something like "if you don't like this drawing, then don't bother commenting because nobody gives a damn"(who would??). of course, your drawing should be a good one, after all, if nobody can tell that it's sasuke you drew, less comments show up. if you can't draw then start by trying to recruit the people who loved Iruka Sensei's fanart. though it kinda bugs me about how practically everyone who commented seemed to be under the impression that Iruka Sensei was the one who mutilated the drawing of sasuke. i mean seriously, one would think that none of 'em had even read the volume 1 of the manga. perhaps it's because the only thing people have seen is the anime, which edits even the least bit of violence that shows up.
now then, on to the sasuke hating. now then, i still can't fully express my rage at sasuke being a complete fucktard by destroying the village. i find it annoying how he could manipulated by tobi(madara) so easily. for sasuke in particular, i find it annoying how he gets out of EVERY bad situation even though he shouldn't.
but today im not talking about that, but rather a focus on what just plain irritates me a LOT. it bugs me how all the anime girls in naruto(with a few exceptions) were/still are in love with sasuke. have any of you watched the naruto abridged series? well, i think something that shikamaru said in the 2nd episode sums it up. "I don't get it. why do anime girls always like the emo guys who treat them like crap?" i can't see what sakura sees in a guy like that. since when has his presence ever been wanted. i truly wish that sasuke really had died back in the very first arc. or why naruto thinks that dragging sasuke back to the village will make things all hunky dory dandy again? it's hardly worth it to bring sasuke back. he's only gonna be a jerk to everyone and it's not like anybody will trust him after being orochimaru's for so long. i know i wouldn't. anko is trusted, but she didn't know any better. i know this is all about sasuke bashing, but let me just take this moment to point you to a character most worthy of respect. who else but sai? you should praise him for speaking what everyone thinks of him out loud. a traitor and a homo. something like that, but i haven't watched that episode for a while. plus sai has got such a sexy waistline. XD
this is random and maybe this is just me, but i think sasuke brings shame to the name of "emo". it just bugs me because he's so loud and disrespectful towards everyone, kakashi included(big fan of kakashi if you can't tell). i mean, think of all the "emo" anime characters you know and compare how much less annoying they are than sasuke. some of these might be debatable, but this is my opinion, feel free to throw any out there or whatever. there's ulquiorra(he's even got those lines under his eyes for god's sake), vincent valentine, hatori, byakuya, jun-kun, kanda.. well i suppose vincent stands out the most as being truly emo, but i can't really think of any more at the moment. but do you see vincent running around mouthing off to everyone and yelling at them or saying crap like 'you don't understand me, why don't i kill someone you love?' and picking fights with everyone in his own self-centered attempts to "become strong" and crap. for some reason, with virtually any other character than sasuke, that whole "i want to become stronger" thing doesn't annoy me. i mean, damn, do any of you notice how whenever sasuke challenges someone, or goes charging at them like a complete idiot, he gets his ass kicked? or when someone actually thinks he has talent to face them? challenges kakashi, lost big time, challenged by rock lee, got his ass kicked, attempts to challenge his cooler-in-every-way brother itachi and gets pwned, challenged kabuto(i bet you anything he would have lost, kabuto is noted to be at least as good as kakashi). now this is stretching things but i think at least in the first part of naruto, neji could also have beat him to a pulp. he challenges gaara right before their match, and we all know that gaara would have killed him. it's only naruto's arrival that saved him. and although this didn't truly happen, i liked in the anime how temari appears to kill sasuke during Operation Destroy Konoha, though i still don't understand why that's in the anime when there's nothing in the manga about that. now i would also be willing to bet temari could defeat sasuke at least in the first half of naruto. do you remember her kuchiyose no jutsu, in which kamatari, the most badass summoned animal, destroys the whole forest? i would bet with a destruction range that wide, it'd be pretty hard to get out of even with a sharingan to aid you. like rock lee said to sasuke, being able to see the movement and dodging are 2 different things entirely. this is also off topic, but do any of you feel like kamatari ought to be in the anime/manga more? that's the weasel's name btw, not the jutsu used, i know it's called kamaitachi so don't correct me. other than the ninken, the other summons aren't really badass, maybe slightly cool and that's it. now because i have possibly forgot what i was gonna type(this happens to me all the time, which sucks), let's go to my favorite part of blogging. question time!
1. when and why did you start hating sasuke? and to what extent? it's interesting to hear these stories.
2. which would be/was most appealing to you:
a. itachi pwning sasuke
b. seeing sasuke blow up
c. seeing sasuke being forced to wear girly clothing/a sailor fuku
d. when naruto punched sasuke in the face
e. that time when sasuke's mind snapped and he jumped into the lake
f. watching sasuke hurt himself/fail miserably at something
g. sasuke getting pushed off a cliff(to his inevitable doom)
h. his first kiss with naruto(and probably last too)
i. sasuke being savaged to bloody shreds by rabid animals of some sort
i personally would have to say A, E, and I
*doop*
I'm feeling in the mood for ranting about all the reasons why i hate sasuke. this is probably gonna go on forever... also if you haven't read all the current chapters, then you might not want to read cuz this will have spoilers. first of all, sasuke is a arrogant, stupid, jerk who thinks he's so awesome and treats everyone around him like absolute crap and doesn't appreciate anything. he's never shuts up about getting his damn revenge and part of the reason why i get so annoyed is that every stupid flashback is all sasuke these days and quite frankly i am sick of it. i mean, WE GET IT ALREADY! it's hardly about naruto anymore, it's all focus on sasuke and the same flashbacks repeated over and over. i hate how he seems to think he's the only one who's got problems. there are other people in the world of Naruto who have it so much worse off than him! the bastard thinks he's the center of the universe. people who have had a more tragic life than him(in my opinion) include gaara, kakashi, sasori, haku, tsunade, kimimaro, and neji. but you don't see them acting like complete jerks towards everybody! kakashi lost all those who were precious to him and he blames himself to this very day. if you ask me, that kind of suffering is worse than your older brother killing off the whole clan. having your whole village hate your very existence and to be feared as a monster and having people try to assassinate you all the time is much worse! being locked up in a dark cell most of your childhood and then only seeing the light of day to be used as a tool to kill people is worse! being an orphan because you killed your parents cuz your father tries to kill you for being different is worse! and having everyone you care about killed and developing a severe case of hemophobia is worse! sasuke's a spoiled brat who whines about how miserable his childhood is because his father ignores him and pays attention to his older more important brother who DOESN'T suck at life. that is NOT a sad childhood or a reason to be depressed! and yet sasuke acts like that's the worse thing ever. he's just upset cuz nobody pays attention to him. and sasuke was too stupid to realize that all along, itachi did it all because he loved him, but sasuke is a complete moron and wants to destroy konoha, and do precisely what itachi hoped he would avoid(probably since itachi is loyal to konoha even to the end). if sasuke weren't so busy cursing and angsting about his stupid "path of the avenger" crap, he might have realized itachi really cared about him.
another thing already mentioned is his annoying superiority complex cuz he thinks everyone's a lowlife loser and that he's too good to work with them(like in the first bell test). he's acts so cool and brags to naruto about how much better he his. but almost immediately after the zabuza arc ends, it becomes increasingly more obvious that he's a fucking weakling. i was telling mizukage about this too, but i feel like going into a bit more detail. let's take a look at the number of people who can kick his ass/have kicked his ass/are able to at some point in the series. kakashi, haku, zabuza, yoroi, gaara, rock lee, orochimaru, the sound 4, deidara, itachi, naruto, that aoi guy from the land of tea race filler arc, the main villain in the first naruto movie, those villains from the 2nd naruto OVA, the hachi-bi(eight-tails jinchuuriki), and probably sasori too.
now some of these names listed may seem a bit confusing to you, but i will explain them. now for the first part of the series, kakashi is definitely able to(and does), no questions there. haku definitely was strong enough to kill sasuke, and it was only his kind nature that saved sasuke, not because sasuke could have defeated haku. the fight with yoroi bugs me a little. i mean, he sucks out all of sasuke's chakra right? enough to have sasuke become limp and that would have been the end. of course he won, but i feel like he only won because he's a main character. that's the problem with most anime is that the main character always tends to win despite ridiculous odds, when in reality they probably would have been killed. gaara is particularly awesome because he can beat the shit out of sasuke in both the first half of the series and shippuden as well. now as for the sound 4, some people might argue that that doesn't count because it was 4 to 1, but haku has fought outnumbered by a lot and still able to kill them all, at a younger age than sasuke. and that goes for others as well. there are probably many who could kill the sound 4 by themselves like itachi for one. the fight with deidara is yet another one of those annoying "won only cuz he's a main character" fights. now deidara definitely should have killed sasuke without a doubt. he only got away cuz he's a main character. seriously, if sasuke was "out of chakra" like he obviously was, then how does he summon a giant snake?? there's no way that could have been possible in his condition. itachi is the best for all those times he's kicked sasuke's ass. you may also wonder why i put naruto here. i simply used some logic. now we know that gaara defeated sasuke during the destroy konoha arc, and naruto in turn was able to defeat gaara. that's all there is to that. plus, it's not the first time that naruto has defeated people who can easily kick sasuke's ass. now as for that aoi guy, that has to be the saddest defeat sasuke ever suffered. i mean, it was a generic random villain from a FILLER. now that's plain sad. and same goes for the villains in the OVA and the movie. i enjoyed one of the more recent manga chapters in which the last panel in the chapter shows the hachi-bi having just kicked sasuke's ass with his sword technique and sasuke's bleeding. but like always, he's gonna magically defeat the hachi-bi because he's a main character. and i say sasori because in the anime deidara notes that sasori is probably stronger than he is. and probably uchiha madara too now that i think about it. this might be stretching it, but tsunade also has the potential. of the three sannin, she's probably the strongest, judging by the sannin's conversations. i don't have specific evidence that i can point you to, but it seems implied. that's more people who have/can kick his ass than the times sakura's been defeated btw. ouch. he acts like such an asshole about how he's better, and then can't even back up his own damn words.
as hilarious as it is to have seen itachi beat the shit out of sasuke(when he's trying to kidnap naruto) it also pisses me off at the same time. seriously sasuke, YOU SUCK. after all that shit, and looking down on others, you can't even fight and you're nothing but talk. kakashi used to look down on others as a kid, but he doesn't do that anymore. the characters i mentioned having it worse off than sasuke(some of them) might have acted like jerks at some point in their lives because of the tragedies they suffered, but at least they improved character later and could appreciate things better! whereas sasuke is the same arrogant jerk through and through. now for me personally, it actually took me a while to sort out what i thought of the characters in naruto. when i first started getting into anime(pretty late actually) it took me longer to figure out who i had that fangirl crush on and those who annoyed me, etc. so when starting off with naruto, i didn't really have a clear idea of what i thought of any of them. for example, i think it was only until itachi died that i realized i really did have a crush on him(used to hate him before, but that was before i realized just how much i hated sasuke). on a random note, sasuke is extremely stupid as a child because he's always running forward like an idiot to get his forehead poked a billion times. even as a kid he's such a loser(he's seen playing with toy dinosaurs in one manga panel as a kid), plus sasuke's got a stupid hairstyle. i think what started my hatred of sasuke is owed in part to his domination in the series and how ridiculous it becomes. it's probably also because he was an insensitive jerk towards kakashi. it's a definite sign of his self-centered arrogance when he says he could kill the ones kakashi loves most, too stupid to stop and think that there are others who suffer in the world besides him, but he's clearly never thought of that possibility. i am also extremely annoyed at the blatant sasuke fanservice that gets tossed around. i for one, prefer subtle and natural fanservice. like seeing kakashi naked in the hotsprings during the only filler that didn't suck(101). this fanservice topic brings me to another point...
what i hate a lot is when shippuden came along. what the fuck? seriously not cool for sasuke to be having that open shirt. he's not sexy enough to deserve that. itachi is so much cooler and sexier than his foolish little brother. i grow weary of this. all the fanservice i see these days in naruto is sasuke sasuke sasuke!! it's never kakashi or itachi or deidara or gaara. and another extremely irritating factor is sasuke's strength in the shippuden. seriously, it's fucking ridiculous!! to make up for what a retarded sad-excuse-for-a-shinobi weakling he is in the first half, he's suddenly becomes like a god! and his way of speaking is even more annoying than ever. i find it hard to accept that he could have kicked yamato's ass that easily in the anime. with shodaime's genes? pretty damn hard to believe.
and his ninjutsu techniques just annoy the hell out of me. he completely destroys all that is cool about the raikiri(for some reason the name chidori bugs me, especially when talking about kakashi using it. in fact it's probably because sasuke calls it chidori that i hate it). i mean, the chidori sword? what the hell?? it's just stupid compared to when kakashi uses the raikiri, cuz it actually looks cool. and don't even get me started on the chidori current move that sasuke uses. i don't even want to remember what it's called exactly. and i also hate the whole "transfer of power" thing. somehow itachi managed to give sasuke jutsu by poking his forehead before he dies. so what the hell? now sasuke has the power of amaterasu and the complete mangekyo because itachi pokes him??? he doesn't even deserve those powers! he didn't even have to DO anthing to get 'em! no hard work involved there! and now he has some sort of fucked up sharingan!! i mean, how many fucking sharingans ARE there anyways? there's just no end to them! and this is taking things waaaay too far! it doesn't even look like a sharingan anymore! now sasuke's got some retarded looking sharingan that looks like a messed up star thing!! and it's completely invincible and shit. gasp, now all team hebi's problems can be solved by that! and his speed is practically like minato's(4th) teleportation jutsu. it feels like sasuke barely had to do ANYTHING to get so strong. i mean, kakashi and naruto and everyone else had to work hard to be so much stronger in shippuden, but sasuke practically has all his power handed to him on a platter. he wouldn't have been able to defeat naruto in the valley of the end without the curse mark, he couldn't have defeated deidara without it, he wouldn't have scared off the sound ninjas dosu, zaku, and kin without the curse mark, he couldn't have finished off orochimaru without the curse mark, he has to resort to using dirty tricks to kill itachi(stabs him in back while itachi was sitting talking to sasuke. granted that was a genjutsu, but he'd sink to any depths to kill itachi and that kind of bugs me), he uses it to fight gaara, he couldn't have protected himself from juugo without it, and he couldn't have won against yoroi if his sharingan hadn't copied rock lee's taijutsu, he can't fight without the sharingan, he gets an undeserved bunch of powers from itachi without working, and it takes him eternities to realize that itachi really did love him. convincing him of something is by far one of the most annoying things about sasuke. he just plain doesn't get it, or stubbornly refuses to believe the truth right in front of him or says he doesn't care. like when naruto tries to tell him orochimaru wants to take over his body, it annoys the hell out of me to no end how he says "i don't care. i'll do whatever it takes to have revenge!" blah blah blah! that's another thing too! if he didn't have some extra power that he got from absorbing orochimaru's powers, he wouldn't have been able to defeat itachi. hell, why doesn't kishimoto just have sasuke take steroids?? we'd get the same damn results! the moment sasuke doesn't have his stupid curse mark anymore, itachi replaces it with something that seems to be even MORE powerful. for god's sake... i just long for somebody to just shoot sasuke. though i believe kishimoto said somewhere that he prefers not to have things like guns in the series. but im sure the feeling's mutual here. i hope, though the chance of it happening is extremely slim, that kishimoto will kill sasuke off. a manga artist should be willing to do that. there has to be a line to sasuke's strength. like most shonen manga, the main characters never stop becoming stronger and then it gets too ridiculous and readers lose interest. that is the viewpoint a friend of mine has. and i have to say, i am pretty damn tired of sasuke's power that never stops growing. now then, i suppose i need to stop ranting now. i get the feeling like im forgetting something that ought to be included, but i can't recall what it is at the moment, and i've been thinking about it for a while. so, until next time then.
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