Naruto is BACK!

[Jintor]

You got me wrong, I love some anime, but Naruto and otehr sword-waving anime never appealed to me. Inuyasha? Ok, some parts were good, but I never really could get into it. The setting and story was all too... for lack of a better word, bad. You think Naruto has blood, violence, and swearing? Try watching Elfen Lied. Try watching .... er, forgot name, but there was this anime about war, and it had people getting blown up by tanks. (Btw, baka and chiksho(?) are both heavy swears in Japan (and prolly the only heavy insults used in animes), but literally traslating, they mean: "Fool" and "Animal".)

But that's not the point. Naruto never had this quality, this something, that made it art, and not just entertainment. Stop the swrod waving, and start blasting.

Dude, Naruto is Shonen. Targeted at the... oh, I don't know, I'll say 7 - 18 age bracket group, although it appeals to people outside the age bracket it's meant to. Elfen Lied is Seinen, university student level anime. It's targeted at different audiences. And there's no way in hell Elfen Lied was art, not entertainment (And for my money, it wasn't even that. )

You're right though. Only parts of Naruto really ever appealed to me, never all of it.

Mind you, guns does not automatically mean AWESOME.

 

[Darkside55]

Naruto's definately for kids. It's serialized in Shounen Jump; the kanji still have furigana above them (furigana are the katakana/hiragana symbols above kanji, since most children don't know the symbols yet). Good indicator that it's still for kids. Japan's just really lenient about blood and violence.

(Btw, baka and chiksho(?) are both heavy swears in Japan (and prolly the only heavy insults used in animes), but literally traslating, they mean: "Fool" and "Animal".)

Baka means stupid but it's not really a curse word. If you want to be more derogatory and call someone a fool, use "oroka"; e.g., orokamono me! (Damn fool!)

Also, chikuso is more like "random expletive." It's closer to "shit" than "animal." Just like how in English we say, "Ah, shit!" it'd be, "Ah, kuso!"

 

[15357]

Dude, Naruto is Shonen. Targeted at the... oh, I don't know, I'll say 7 - 18 age bracket group, although it appeals to people outside the age bracket it's meant to. Elfen Lied is Seinen, university student level anime. It's targeted at different audiences. And there's no way in hell Elfen Lied was art, not entertainment (And for my money, it wasn't even that. )

Aw, man, you should really look into the irony of sadistically inhuman humans 'protecting' themselves from the more-human diclonii. Seriously, Elfen Lied was one of the best anime I've ever watched, although perhaps not as philosophical as Ghost In The Shell, but it still made you think, and made you feel all sad inside (Lucy, you b*tch! ).

You're right though. Only parts of Naruto really ever appealed to me, never all of it.

Mind you, guns does not automatically mean AWESOME.

Of course. I just dislike the fantasy-magic type anime. Not all though. I remember a anime movie I watched, it was one of my fovorites, but I forgot the title.

Naruto's definately for kids. It's serialized in Shounen Jump; the kanji still have furigana above them (furigana are the katakana/hiragana symbols above kanji, since most children don't know the symbols yet). Good indicator that it's still for kids. Japan's just really lenient about blood and violence.


Baka means stupid but it's not really a curse word. If you want to be more derogatory and call someone a fool, use "oroka"; e.g., orokamono me! (Damn fool!)

Also, chikuso is more like "random expletive." It's closer to "shit" than "animal." Just like how in English we say, "Ah, shit!" it'd be, "Ah, kuso!"

Er, If you emphasize the b in baka, it does become a curse word. Anyway, I was telling what my grandmother told me about the Japanese language.

 

[Dekstar]

I watched Elfen Lied, and thought it was really good. Other animes like that which I've seen are Gunslinger girl, which isn't as much over the top gory (I think the animators at EL studios had too much red ink), it showed gore when it needed to.

Naruto, with it's new series where everyone's more grown up, certainly in my mind has the ability to become great. I think a lot of it was that they were children and it was holding the series back.

 

[AKIRA]

you guys should definately watch Monster.