Friday, April 23, 2004
New day, new topic!
I've been watching an anime called "Naruto".
It's a story about a ninja boy who graduates from ninja school in his ninja town and goes on ninja missions with his ninja friends and ninja mentors. They fight many a ninja during these adeventures, and there are a LOT of flashbacks.
EVERY character in the series is oooooooozing with backstory and depth, and for a show about ninjas, there's an insane amount of variety with the characters. Ofcourse, with all this character, the 'main' story gets easily bogged down, and several episodes can pass without any plot advancement (but ya sure as hell know why characters are doing what they're doing....all of them have backstory).
Besides giving me flashbacks to DBZ in the slower parts, the animation ranges from JAWSOME to The Janitor Did It Because All the Animators Were Sick. Additionally, I find that they portray the females of the series as being all but useless in combat. There are some good opportunities for a smackdown with Girl vs Guy, but then suddenly something happens to dodge it. All the deadly female battles occur against other females...I'm not sure this is something anyone else would notice, or maybe something spawned from watching 79 episodes in under a week.
Here's another parallel for people who watch anime: they keep adding characters and plot webs...much like Ranma.
BUT
They actually advance those plots, or kill characters. Ingeneous.
I've been watching an anime called "Naruto".
It's a story about a ninja boy who graduates from ninja school in his ninja town and goes on ninja missions with his ninja friends and ninja mentors. They fight many a ninja during these adeventures, and there are a LOT of flashbacks.
EVERY character in the series is oooooooozing with backstory and depth, and for a show about ninjas, there's an insane amount of variety with the characters. Ofcourse, with all this character, the 'main' story gets easily bogged down, and several episodes can pass without any plot advancement (but ya sure as hell know why characters are doing what they're doing....all of them have backstory).
Besides giving me flashbacks to DBZ in the slower parts, the animation ranges from JAWSOME to The Janitor Did It Because All the Animators Were Sick. Additionally, I find that they portray the females of the series as being all but useless in combat. There are some good opportunities for a smackdown with Girl vs Guy, but then suddenly something happens to dodge it. All the deadly female battles occur against other females...I'm not sure this is something anyone else would notice, or maybe something spawned from watching 79 episodes in under a week.
Here's another parallel for people who watch anime: they keep adding characters and plot webs...much like Ranma.
BUT
They actually advance those plots, or kill characters. Ingeneous.
