Rediscovering Shonen Jump anime
Watching anime, I go through peaks and troughs. The start of the year was a peak, but throughout February, I’ve been in a bit of a trough trying to find somethi...
Tag: Naruto
All ends with beginnings; Naruto's swansong
Naruto is making me cry with each chapter it releases. The rebloggables are suddenly through the charts on my tumblr dashboard. Open Facebook or Twitter on a Ju...
Special Edition
I’m a perfectionist. Being a perfectionist isn’t about being perfect, it’s about being unhappy with your work when it isn’t. Sometimes you have to ignor...
Childhood's end: Naruto and Pain
To compare Naruto now to the naive kid he was when this series began tells us of how much he's grown since. He's now the person he always dreamed of becoming, a...
This is the Naruto I remember
There were times when I considered dropping Naruto.
Naruto & child soldiers / The thrilling tragedy of Kakashi Gaiden
Does Masashi Kishimoto think about how children are depicted in Naruto? Ninja are tools of war, after all, and Konoha trains its children to become ninja; isn’t...
Naruto Shippuuden episode 82 is a masterpiece
After all these years, I still love watching Naruto. I’ll place it on hiatus every now and then, but it still is, and always will be, one of my biggest fa...
About an anime fan
I’ve been an anime fan for no more than 5 years and already I’m starting to feel like I’ve been around forever, yet the truth is that my mere ...
Naruto Shippuuden: The return of Orochimaru, stuff happens
There is perhaps no anime I want to love more than Naruto. I've been following this story since 2003 and even if it drags on for another decade, I'll still be c...
Naruto Shippuuden rises from the ashes! A dramatic return to form!
I relapsed like a hungry junkie and gobbled up the last dozen episodes of Shippuuden… Why does it feel so wrong, yet taste so good? My name is bateszi and...