lathspel June 22, 2014 Share June 22, 2014 (edited) Just realized I misnumbered last week's thread. I type these on a device and sometimes typos happen, sorry.This week: Nothing on Team Gai. (At this point, my bet is that they show up to save the day at the end off this fight, with a flashback about how their doubles were defeated.)Kekkashi manages to catch up and talk some sense into Naruto, after showing off his own Shadow Clone skills. (I always forget that he's my favorite ninja, at least until he's back on screen.) Maybe now that Daedara's out of clay, we get to see what other tricks he has - maybe involving his eyepiece?Meanwhile, Sakura shows in a montage that she can kick, punch, and heal - including two extra doses of antidote. Unfortunately, she learns that with Sasori, it's puppets all the way down. He's made a puppet of himself, and unlike the almost simultaneous Franky storyline from One Piece, Sasori was able to reach his back. I'm guessing we won't get to see how he did it.You'd think that having ones' own body marinating in poison would be problematic, but I suspect Sasori has spent his lifetime building up an immunity to Iocaine powder.My only complaint about this episode is that it relies on the Shonen time dilation effect - the total time of the episode was about one minute, by Sakura's count. Even ignoring the time spent with Naruto, that seems quite optimistic. Why not just say the antidote lasts for only ten minutes, and roughly approximate real time as aired? Edited June 28, 2014 by radishcake Link to comment
Sandman87 June 25, 2014 Share June 25, 2014 If I have this right, Sasori was a puppet who was riding inside another puppet that he manipulated with his Creepy Puppet jutsu, and that puppet was able to manipulate other things using the same jutsu. Look up "recursion" in the dictionary and I bet his picture is next to it. To put that in perspective, that's like building yourself a remote-control robot, and then remotely controlling it to operate the controller for another remote control robot and having it fight. That takes some serious skill. I was amused by all the references to the Iron Sand jutsu of Sasori's favorite puppet in the various episodes. My grandfather used to use "sand" as a euphemism for "balls", so it added something to the dialog for me. How do you know when a fight in a manga-based show is going to take forever? When you have six separate fights going on at the same time. Honestly, stuff like this makes me appreciate the shows where fights are over in two minutes or less, or where the action is nonstop during a fight. Link to comment
lathspel June 26, 2014 Author Share June 26, 2014 Yep, I was complaining about the multiple simultaneous battles a couple episodes ago. I'd rather they show just one battle all the way through, to cut down on recap time. I suppose the down side of that is that if you are a Rock Lee fan, you'd just tune out for a whole month. So maybe that's the whole reason? Link to comment
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