Naruto: The Xtreme Review (Part 1: Pre-Time Skip)

But you know we gotta talk about the big three . So let's go ahead and talk about naruto right now . So I'm gonna start it with part one , well , season one of part one , and we'll just do a season by season because , you know , I just think that's for the best for the time being .

But once we get to shippuden , then I I'm thinking , yeah , that's probably going to be like , but uh , let's go ahead and talk about the land of waves and maybe a little bit of the tuning exam , like I mean not the whole thing , but uh , I'm going to say the Turner , part four , part two . But uh , naruto , what can I say ?

Man , it deserves to be in the big three . Four reason , because not only do the fights do pop off , but they just have that emotional value to where you just kind of feel something for these characters .

Like , I don't know , not all of them , but like for the most part , yeah , you kind of feel something for these characters and you know Naruto with his talk no , jutsu kind of serves as that bridge of empathy . You know naruto with his talk no , jutsu kind of serves as that bridge of empathy . You know what I'm saying , but , uh , you know what ?

Let me just open this up to the panel . Let's start it off with playboy here . Uh , how you feel about naruto ?

You know what I'm saying and being where it's at right now , naruto kind of grew up with us so it was always one of my favorite animes back then . So it just , you know know , stayed that as I grew up and then there's not been an anime that I watch as long I know one piece and bleach been out since . It's just that and that's the crazy part I watch .

I've actually watched one piece first , but I don't know . It was just I'd rather be a ninja than a pirate . You know what I'm saying running up ? throwing shurikens , and you know what I'm saying . I was always into martial arts anyway .

So , of course , when they came out with a show about kids who were ninjas and then on top of that the shit was actually animated great , like this shit was almost ahead of its time I didn't even realize what I was watching . Like I didn't realize how great . I didn't realize I was watching Pete at this moment Because I was great .

Like we had those nerdy nerds that be like no to running through the um hallway trying to get the lunch . I'm like man , y'all calm that down .

We were definitely naruto , running back to the house when that new episode was popping off , though oh yeah , sometimes I do it when I got off the bus to school .

Like I'm not gonna say to , I mean , you know it's not really spoilers at this point anymore , but you know , naruto ended up going off , be doing big things to a point to where he's now hokage like he's finally living the dream , but like before all that , you know he was just a troublemaking kid that was just trying to , you know , get some love .

You know , uh , you remember on swings , uh , set street . I'm watching naruto , a british series . I'm sorry , but um , essentially he was just that kid , uh , sitting on that swing watching all the other kids have fun . But then he was getting ostracized because , you know , he was a non-touching shuriken .

Nobody didn't want to fuck with him except um , shikamaru and chojin . That was the day ones for real , though . I see that's that's the thing that that's so very important about having day ones where it's like you got dudes that never folded on you , like never all switched up on you and shit , I like that .

Uh , yeah , like it was hard for naruto , especially trying to become a ninja , and he was trying to do the clone jutsu but he was failing at it . But then mizuki fuck ass wanted to pop up , be like , hey , yo , like it's real tough that they be treating you like that man . But hey , check this out , I got a plan that'll make you respect you .

So I'm gonna need to steal this scroll to have the Shadow Clone Jutsu um technique down . I'm gonna take that and , yeah , you know , learn that and all that shit . But you know , mizuki planned on like betraying Naruto and like , if anybody says anything , he was just gonna make Naruto be the all-fall guy .

But Iruka looking out for Naruto , naruto um followed them and it was a whole tussle there . And when iruka um defended naruto from that giant shuriken , from um musiki , uh , naruto was like , oh hell , no , let me go and pop out like a thousand shadow clothes and start whooping his ass .

And then that just pretty much how it started for naruto , like , hey , man , you , you know what you did . My boy , here's your headband . You're a ninja now . But uh , before I keep babbling on koki .

Y'all know my favorite one has been yu yu haka show for a long time , so I was already deep into anime by the time naruto even came out . Um , like understand when it came and I say when it came out , so not when it came to the us , because it came out , came out a couple months before it hit the US .

But the thing about it is that it was one of the few anime that I watched that wasn't on 4Kids and didn't get completely screwed up , thankfully .

It's funny how Playboy you talked about , you wanted to be a ninja versus a pirate . That was actually a weird thing for me is the fact that before even joining the zone , I actually attempted to start my own little group day , because we had anime club back in my high school and I had tried to create a group called the united otaku of altosta .

I still have the page and the banner is literally Ninjas vs Pirates . That's great . So , yeah , it's funny that you mentioned that , because I'm just sitting here like good lord , you're making me go back to things I forgot about a long time ago . You know what's up , I don't remember a lot , right , but here we are now . Like here we are in the zone .

You know got so many different things going on . Like you said , we did bleach review coming out on the patreon . Um even got this art competition that we're doing . It's just , it's a lot like we had so much growth . But yeah , naruto was a staple one .

You y'all , uh , made me feel embarrassed because y'all sitting here talking about how it was a time and place for everything . Yeah , a time and place was wherever I wanted it to be at . I popped up a shadow clone . I'm talking about why y'all was sitting here saying , oh , it was a time and place for this .

I was that person that was having competitions of who could do the best , who could do the hand signs most accurately .

Like it wasn't like a big thing is that ? Like you , as long as you know the people , they know the difference and you just go up to some random people who don't really know you like that ? Yeah , most definitely . But no , I never got caught up like that , but definitely . This is one of those ones of it was just a lot of insanity . It was just fun .

It was just fun . The kids , the teachers , absolutely hated us . They absolutely hated us . I literally almost got ISS for that too . It was like you're throwing up signs and I think the real saving was that somebody had actually brought . It was . It was a show , it wasn't even a shonen jump magazine .

They had went and actually bought like the actual naruto magazine where they explain all the characters and stuff . And it's funny , they went land of waves because it was just the one with the land of waves to the beginning of the tuning exams . That was as far as it went onto this magazine .

But it wound up showing every single hand sign , exactly what they meant , and this person would bring this book every single day . So we would get in trouble . But then this person brought the book , showed it to the teacher , showed it to the principal , because we actually actually actually had to go to the principal and then .

So that's what it was and was like oh , here we go hey , you know what .

Because you know , in this world it's like all you got to do is just slip on a headband . Well , he's a ninja .

Ninja run was well known for having one arm , primarily the right arm , but some people had left . If you're left-handed , it was your dominant arm , was in front of you and it was used to be able to deflect everything and you would have . Your other arm wasn't flying behind you .

You had it stiff and firm , where you would be able to hold your weapons , to have quick access to your weapons . So your right hand was your right arm , was used to either catch or deflect . Your left arm was used to go ahead and actually throw weapons and stuff to either catch or deflect .

Your left arm was used to go ahead and actually throw weapons and stuff . When Naruto came out , naruto said nah , forget that , we're not going to put the right arm in front , we're going to throw both arms behind us . And that became the staple ninja run ever since .

This is literally when this anime came out and hit the world completely changed what people thought the ninja run was Nearly . If you look up Ninja Run right now , naruto Ninja Run pops up . That was not what the Ninja Run originally was .

But literally , like we've talked about anime influences , I'm talking about literally nowadays , if you watch a ninja run or even live action movies and stuff like that , and it has nothing to do with Naruto , nothing to do with anime that's literally the ninja run that they do , both arms thrown behind the back . That is how ninjas now run . It is now the staple .

Nope , this is how ninjas are supposed to run . It's just like that's not how they did it , but it made that big of an influence . It's insane as much people are like oh , it was just a cartoon . Like you said , you know people start to say , oh , it's just a cartoon . It's just a cartoon .

It's a cartoon that literally changed how people see things almost permanently . That cartoon is a cultural icon at this point . Yeah , exactly , you're not going to see anything else but this .

When people think of ninja , they're immediately going to think of you're either like the old school people like us are really going to think of ninja gaiden , but otherwise other people is mostly going to think that's just what it is . That's .

They have all these different posters and all different types of stuff there , so it's like , yeah , this is definitely cool .

Like , okay , we always got Naruto , the number one hyperactive knucklehead ninja , of course , and he's not exactly the brightest bull , but he's not completely stupid . Sometimes you just gotta dumb it down for him a little bit . But you know , he got heart and that's what matters .

And then we have these other two and I want to get kind of to kakashi in just a moment but , um , then we have these two , sasuke and sakura .

Now we know sasuke being this little cool edge lord that wants to one day murder a certain someone For a certain reason that we're probably going to get into in , maybe part two , maybe part three , but for the most part he got his mission .

He's like focused on that and he ain't really studying these hoes , but of course the hoes want to be on his dick , especially Sakura . Now , in this team you would say that there's a love triangle , because Naruto likes Sakura but Sakura ain't feeling Naruto , but Sakura likes Sasuke .

It's not really a love triangle , it's more like a love L , and I think it's kind of funny , like even though yeah , yeah , let's just be honest like Sakura kind of oh , you know what , you know what I'm kind of jumping a little bit , but then again I'm probably not gonna mention it when we get there .

But what pissed me off a little bit , because part of what I gotta say does happen in season one of part one , where in shippuden , when uh sakura had an issue with their , with her parents , and she was like outside late at night with naruto and then she was like complaining to naruto about man I can't stand my parents sometimes .

and then naruto like , hey , man , they're still your parents . Like , at least you got parents down . Sakura was like man shut up With . Sasuke was here , you will understand . And then meanwhile you flashback to this season and you're sitting there like she was picking on Naruto for not having parents or anything . He's like , oh , he's all alone and whatnot .

And then Sasuke was just standing there like alone I'm very familiar With that . And then he was like , oh , I didn't , sorry . I'm like Now see , funny thing is that Both Naruto and Sasuke Are both orphans and yet Sakura had no problem picking on Naruto For not having parents .

But then as soon as Sasuke Like said anything he was , he was like , oh well , my bad , I didn't mean to be disrespectful . But then again you go back to Shippuden and you're thinking like , oh well , sasuke wasn't a dad , like bitch , hold on , hold on . Did you not forget the conversation you had way back ?

It's okay , sasuke doesn't really mess up , it was on purpose , it was like mercy .

I'm like , look here at the end of the day that you're not his wife , you're his baby mama . That's the way I see it because , like , for the most part , he's just going for the most part . And then I just I think it's kind of sad and almost ironic how , uh , sasuke has this kid and sarah does like dad , you're so annoying . And I was like what ?

And it was like , oh man , that instant karma flash and back when he called his mom , he called her mom . Is this what karma feels like ? But , um , yeah , and then we got Kakashi man , that boy nice , where he got the shuriken of .

But also , to be fair , he didn't really needed the shuriken if you saw the backstory , but you know there was a whole thing going on there .

But I just like how , for the most part , uh , kakashi's like this , laid back perfectly capable ninja to where he's like , well , you know , before shippuden and sasuke , you know all those things going on , kakashi was like the best person to make sure that naruto's kept it checked . But , um , yeah , I like his teaching style .

I kind of like how he's like a low-key pervert like uh , jiraiya , and I like how , even though there's like way later but um , people like make a whole fuss about hey , what's under that mask ? Oh , like , um , what's he hiding underneath there ? And I'm like , honestly , I kind of expect him to be like a normal guy .

I was like he just has to be good looking , you know , like kind of like on gojo level , you know , uh , well , you know the copy ?

Like you mentioned , one of the best things for me and kakashi was that you do actually eventually understand his background and you understand the significance it has for him is the fact of he always kept failing students and it was literally like you gave him to kakashi and it was like , oh my goodness , akashi fails everyone .

He never passes anyone like how is this never going to work out ? And then it's that point of understanding oh yeah , kakashi failed them because everyone was so to the point , always following the rules , and it's like you need to understand to look out for your teammates and sometimes you have to break the rules .

And it's like you need to understand to look out for your teammates and sometimes you have to break the rules . If you can't understand that you need to break the rules sometimes in order to make sure that you can pass the mission , to make sure that everyone can survive the best way possible , I don't need you . You're not going to be a good ninja , okay ?

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We're understand because it's like , oh , you know what what happened in his past . Like we're not talking about that yet , but when we do understand what happened in his past and it's like how much that affected him and how much it's like there can always be some type of difference .

You need to always look out for your teammates because , in the end of the day , one person returning back from a mission that's completed the mission may have got completed , but what was the cost ?

You know , he just reminded me of Maverick from Top Gun , because he had the same thing going on to where , like back in the day , like oh , he was like more of a hot head back there , but then when he lost his boy goose , then he had to be real careful from that point on , because I'm like , hey , man , I'm going to make sure all y'all make it out ,

yeah .

Most definitely he took that to heart . So I'm like , yeah , I feel that now , yeah , he kind of reminds me of Maverick a little bit .

It's literally as far as the same ideals into it too , because Gojo feels the same way . He says like fuck the system , fuck everyone else into this . It's about my people , my team . It's like we're going to try to accomplish the mission , but we need to accomplish the mission with everyone surviving as much as possible .

If we accomplish the mission but it costs all these survivors , then we have no , then we have , we're left with no people and it's like , was it really worth the cost ? And in most cases , like no , it really wasn't . It's like . No , it really wasn't .

Plus , I think thinking about that , like each curse technique was just just the same , as like each family has your own special jutsu that they like .

Yeah , yeah , even some of them have kagakien kai too , and this is like yeah , just it's the same , and kekegenka means there's's a kekkei genkai when you think about it one of the other things and I'm happy that we get a chance to talk about this in Naruto too is that it was fully admitted that literally the kekkei genkai the Naruto system was also very much

based on , again on Hunter x Hunter . Hunter x Hunter again was proving itself to being a major staple in anime that most power systems are usually derived from either nin or ki and it wound up being technically a form of both .

By using um she , by using the chakra , was literally based in the , the flow of chakra and chakra in the body was actually a mix from both key um from the original dragon ball , not as much in dragon ball Z , but from the OG dragon ball , based upon um master Roshi's teachings .

I'm gonna go ahead and put that out there . This is alchemy . So we're gonna tag in some formal alchemists in there too . But alchemy has been around for a very , very long time , and one of the biggest belief in alchemy especially in chinese alchemy , um , not just the egyptian but chinese um belief , is that alchemy and ki goes correlates together .

It matters into the body and the spirit , and it's the same way with chakra , because it's one of those ones like .

Medical jutsu is about putting that chakra , that inner , that inner energy and the outer energy together , like whenever they make the medicines , when they make the enhancement medicines , the food pills , and um , as far as like the healing medicine , it's the same thing . It's the fact of like .

I can put this on you this will help your body , but your spirit needs to heal from the inside as well too . The healing will not stick if the spirit still feels that it's hurt .

So you still need to be able to do your inner healing along with the outer healing and as long as you can get that balance in both , it feels like you can recover from anything . A lot of that Chinese alchemy , a lot of that healing jutsus is really based into strongly believing that you're going to be okay .

Like having a moment where you feel like you have a bad cold . You're laying down , you constantly feel sick , but the minute you get up you start exercising , it kind of helps a little bit . You're like , damn , I don't really have energy for it .

But the minute you get past that mental mindset of I'm going to give myself energy to do this , I'm going to help sweat this out , I'm going to help push it through and stuff , and you push through that mindset , you start to feel better because your body believes it feels better . That is your inner chakra . Here I am going into a tangent , I'm sorry .

Here I am going into a tangent . I'm sorry , but no , that's it . But it is one of those things into . It's like yeah , like you say , feels into it . Yeah , you can technically still try it . The hand symbols is one of the ones that's connecting the body together . It's like imagine you're .

It says the flow of chakra flows out of your body through your feet , through your fingers , through your head , but by connecting your hands together , you're creating a circle of chakra throughout .

You're creating the inner circle and weaving your fingers in different ways weaves the chakra flow to create different things to happen , and that's what causes you to create jutsu .

The one thing that I will say that I really , as as much as we get it later on we don't get at the beginning with land of waves , but we get it later on is the fact that I still want to know what was in that scroll , how the hell it is that naruto went from not being able to make a single shadow clone whatsoever all his shadow clones it does to

being able to make a mass amount . The only explanation that we get and it's not even from this is kind of from shippuden , so , forgive me , it's a quick jump into it is that he's dividing his own life energy , his own life chakra , into each of these clones , and that's how he kind of does it , and I'm just sitting here like that doesn't answer my question .

He goes from not being able to do it before . It's now all of a sudden he can . I'm just reading the scroll .

You get it , so it was almost like kind of like a quick burst of energy to where I'm like , okay , I don't got time to really think about it . It was like , alright , you're trying to learn something , you apply it right away . That's usually like the best window to actually learn something when you're able to apply it like immediately .

So it was like I don't got time to really think about it or like second guess it , I'm just gonna have to do it right here , right now , with one shot . You know , I'm gonna take it . You know that type of shit . But I don't do it um , why are you saying all that crazy thing is ?

I'm now flashing back to the days where keep in mind this anime was I'm rolling out . At the same time , I was taking , uh , martial arts with a playboy here . So I would think it's kind of funny how , like at that time , I was thinking like , okay , well , I'm learning martial arts , I also can learn chakra and be like doing some of those techniques .

You know what I'm saying oh , yeah , yeah .

So , yeah , like you be learning Taijutsu and shit I'm like , oh hell , yeah , like I'm going to be bad , especially when you learn how to unlock those 8 energy that's insane .

Okay , people was talking about , oh , you know , zabuza . He was one of the earlier fighters , so he was one . He was weak . No , zabuza was one of the seven swords . He was extremely powerful , ninja , and they're like well , no , think about he was taken down by by naruto . No , he was not . And he was not taken down by kakashi .

He did that and it's like , keep in mind too , for things like , well , that was kakashi was weaker at the time too . No , kakashi's strength never changed until shippuden . His strength , kakashi strength and his abilities stayed the same all throughout the original naruto series . It never changed .

So the same kakashi that went up against itachi , that literally went up against um , that , yeah , went up against itachi and stuff and got trapped inside of itachi's uh jutsu , his genjutsu , and forgive me , I'm not going to jump too far ahead , but just saying it's the same kakashi that fought zabuza , and understand that .

So it's like , no , his strength didn't change . Zabuza was not a weak opponent . We got hit early on to understand that going against ninja . They're going on the mission with ninja and going on a high level because they kept pushing so bad .

They needed a high level mission and , like I want a higher level mission and this one was one that started off like a c rank . It was found out it was secretly an s rank mission . This thing was actually dangerous .

If they knew they were going up against zabuza , they literally said , no , we would have charged a whole lot more money and sent well stronger ninja after this . There was no reason for us to send any type of genin after this whatsoever . And even when kakashi as a jounin would not have gone by himself , kakashi struggled against zabuza .

Zabuza was not a weak opponent . So when people literally talk about that and it's like those cousins at the very beginning , no , you're missing the point of him being at the beginning . It was to showcase that there was a huge power scale into that . Naruto and sasuke did not defeat zapuza . They got the jump on him .

They got the jump to make him drop the water prison . It was not gonna hurt him . He was not gonna get hurt by no genin .

Comparison law but say , for instance , we were doing the dragon ball um stream review all over again and we're talking about it's just seem like , oh well , they're being downplayed . Comparison look . But say , for instance , we were doing the dragon ball um stream review all over again and we're talking about raditz .

Well , keep in mind that , yeah , like , compared to all the fighters that we see nowadays , like you could say that raditz don't hold a candle , but he's still strong , he's not weak . It's just , you know , um , they just go up against stronger opponents the more they . You know , that's just kind of how it goes .

Like you beat this guy , he's pretty strong , like you could have lost but you pretty much won by the skin of your teeth and then you end up fighting on even stronger opponents . So it's like , just because they were like the first few opponents you ever fought , doesn't mean that they're weak .

Like , say , for instance , like we were just talking about the one piece of streaming feud to where you have guys like Don Krieg and Arlong , to where , like , yeah , there may not be one of the Yonko or anything , but that doesn't mean they're weak , it just they just happen to be the first opponents that they fought .

It was one anime oh , tale of the Cautious Warrior is the English translation for it but um , literally that one was one where the main character , he , gets isekai into another world . But he was like I'm not ready to go into this world yet and it was like they were getting mad at him because it's like you got to come save this world .

It's like it's just a level one village , you'll be fine . He's like , no , I'm not ready yet . He didn't jump into into level two , he was at least level 50 or something . And then when he jumped in level 50 , he found out the final boss knew that the hero was coming to the world . So he sent literally a level 50 enemy into the level one village .

And so he was actually smart by being prepared . It's like similar to that to me . And Nat Dude , it's the same thing , you got to be to me , and that Dude , it's the same thing . You gotta be very cautious and be prepared . You think it's like , oh , it was the first Boston Music Awards week . No , not at all .

Sometimes , like there's literally this one anime where I promise you I can't remember the name of it , but it's the same thing where the main well , not one of the main characters , she looks like a very beautiful guy , like super pretty male type thing , and so when you see the character , you're always wondering , you're just like , oh , oh , okay .

So this person has , I guess , either trans or something , or maybe just someone who's queer is what I'm assuming , because it's like , oh , it's a pretty guy who's wearing a skirt . So I'm like , okay , I guess . But then you find out in the story no , that's a woman , she just has eight cups and she just has a strong jawline .

Where I'm like bro , I keep telling you I'm a boy , I'm like man , you ain't fooling nobody . You can say it all you want , but to where I'm like bro , I keep telling you I'm a boy , I'm like man , you ain't fooling nobody .

And then when he was trying to run out , um , with not like okay , he was like bare chested , right , and you know he's a boy , so that's cool , right . But then some lifeguard just ran out like hey , you can't be doing that . This is not a top with these . I'm a boy , what are you doing ? I thought that was funny as shit .

But watch Bakken Ted's Nerds and Nerdettes on Check out Bakken Ted's . It's funny as hell . But yeah , haku is all a character man . I kind of felt . But yeah , haku , solid character man . I kind of felt bad for Haku Because you know the relationship he and Zabuza had to , where Haku Witnessed his mother Getting killed by his father .

He just wanted someone to love him . And then here comes Zabuza , pretty much using Haku as a tool and he just wanted somebody to love him . And then here comes zabaza , pretty much using haku as a tool and he just wanted somebody to love him , and then do it at the end , um , in the very end , kakashi ends up on killing kaku .

You know , not on purpose , but more like he was trying . Haku was trying to protect zabaza from getting killed , so he kind of sacrificed himself , and then Zabuza was lying next to him being like damn , I never admitted that I needed you and I loved you . You know that type of thing and I'm like , yeah , I kind of feel for him at the end .

That's what I'm talking about , that emotional weight when I was like you kind of feel something for these characters by the end of the tussle .

He was a strong ass water ninja . But not even just that . Going even a step further , we get our real understanding and breakdown of keke genkai . So we get to see a keke genkai for the first beginning , understanding haku's absolute control of ice and getting a full understanding that it's just a bloodline trait .

This is not just a normal jutsu that anyone can do . Only I can do it . It's my own special thing . And that moment of Haku being able to hide himself in these mirrors into like a mirror palace and it's like , aside from being cool , it made you scared because you was like dang , sasuke is about to die .

Then Naruto is dumbass , decides I'm gonna jump in and help you , and then jumps in and literally Sasuke is like you , dumb motherfucker , why the hell did you jump into this ?

So we get an introduction for Keke Genkai and understanding a bloodline trait with Haku and then getting a chance to see Sasuke awaken his own Keke Genkai because understanding that the Sharingan first awakens not because of anger and rage but because of the will to protect and that becomes a very important staple later on , because the Sharingan awakens from that .

But every different emotional change causes different evolutions of the . I was about to mention that how emotional change is causes different evolutions of the of the of the um about the city .

The dragon ball franchise you know , you had toriyama was trying to switch from goku to gohan , trying to switch characters and stuff . But people was like , no , we love that , we love goku so much we want to just keep and stick this , stick with him throughout the entire story . Um , that same thing happened with the shuriken gun .

The shuriken gun wound up becoming the most popular kekegenkai and they wound up retconning something . Originally . They a story wound up saying that the shuriken gun was a derived form of the byaku gun .

That was actually what they originally said and it might even have been a mistranslation , but that's what they originally said was , the Sharingan was a weaker version of the Byakugan and was a derived version from it .

And then it's like just forgot about it . No , I'm saying seriously , you forgot about all the other keke genkais . It's like , yeah , that's why these other characters went to the back burner , because we only focused on just the Shoryugan and that was it . And then we made an entire storyline on it .

I know it's like different and it's not exactly , but I always thought it was like the same realm , like Shoryugan , Byakugan and Renegon just like shit had like this Relationship going on , when I thought it was like Shoryugan and Byakugan were just Derivative of the Renegon .

When the bloodline was broken , somebody went outside the bloodline and married someone else , and that's where the Uchiha's wound up coming from , and that's where the Shurin Gun came from , and it wound up being the Byakugan pure as white , but the shrine gun being red for blood is .

It was supposed to be a sign of broken blood and that was kind of what it was , and then the story wound up changing no , no , hold on , hold on , hold on , wait a minute .

So you're telling me that essentially well , even though the Yuga clan probably didn't feel that way Towards the Uchiha At least it wasn't that obvious to me . But I just like how there was like this discrimination Towards the Uchiha clan and I'm sitting here like Y'all treating them like they're fucking half blood , like oh man .

They massacred for throwing a coup but the , but the people who pulled out the um , the massacre originally wasn't supposed to be itachi , it was supposed to be the people who who actually massacred and wiped out the chiha clan , though it was still kind of putting a stone that itachi was a big point into it . That was all .

That was the beginning of sasuke's backstory , of him going after a certain person and trying to like hit into this . But it was supposed to be that the , the hyuga clan , were the ones who ordered it . This was before they changed . This was before it got changed to donzo being the one to do it . So it was well before that . I'm sorry I'm name dropping .

If you guys have never seen naruto , forgive me . Donzo is a character for later , much , much later on um . But there was change before .

Before it was supposed to be that they were wiped out because the , the hyuga clan and the uchiha clan were not getting along and the coup was supposed to be them also being very upset with the Hyugas and then like kind of rebelling against them type of thing , because they were always considered inferior , because I don't know , I'm just making a D&D reference .

The Hyuga clan were like the elves . They thought of themselves above everyone else . They were the hierarchy , like you had a Hokage but you had the Hyuga like they were the rich .

But that was , I remember this because and that book that I had mentioned earlier , that book that kind of got me and my friends out of detention uh , well , actually as a teacher , for being expelled from school . But that book also talked about it and I remember literally it changing , like in that same school year when the story had changed and I was confused .

I'm like , wait , don't you still have that book ? And he's like , yeah , and I looked at it . I'm like , yeah , it literally says here that the byakugan was the improved , was like the original version of the shuranga .

Shuranga was like a derived form of it per se , something that was like an off-beating of that , and it was like , oh now , but then they made it two completely different , separate entities and , like you said before too , if you were supposed to mix the byakugan with the sharingan was especially with the , with the mangekyou sharingan , you would get the renegade

right . Well , that is also not true , because that was completely retconned with boruto .

I know we're talking way into Shippuden , but you know the two descendants of the mother Chagat , that type of thing going on . That's what I was thinking about .

The strong gun winds up being pretty much almost a separate eye from the renegade almost like nothing means anything anymore that part , so literally stuff that you may watch because , um , even if you go back that's why I said it might even have been a mistranslation , because when you go back and watch some of the english dubs they have , like fundamation , redubbed

a lot of stuff . So in order , during their hd remaster of things , and in that redubbing a lot of that story winds up changing .

But if you had watched , like when it originally came out , the original dubbing did actually mention it was , um , it was hinata's father that wound up mentioning about that , that the shrine gun was like an inferior version of the Byakugan type thing , and I was like , okay , the whole story changed , exterminate all those half-blood newbies . That part .

But then the other thing as well , too , is that the Shrine Gun is literally just an exact copy of the Scarlet Eyes from Hunter x Hunter , so this is a full confirmation on that . The people were killed for their eyes . It's the exact story that's used for the Uchiha clan .

And then I'm like , yeah , that started to sound like some Scarlet Eyes shit from Hunter x Hunter , I believe it is exactly what it was .

So it's like it's literally that growth of a person . It's I want to protect you , I need more strength to protect you . I've lost you . Then , in order to unlock the mange kill sharing gun , it's I've lost everything . Now I take from someone else .

And it's like it's that change and growth , because if you've unlocked the mange kill sharing gun , there's two ways to unlock it . You've either stolen it from Because if you've unlocked the Mangekyou Sharingan , there's two ways to unlock it . You've either stolen it from someone else or you got it the way Kakashi got it .

It was a gift , it was gifted to you as a loss From the loss .

So it's like , yeah , the will to protect the yearning of power , to protect losing , but then either that advanced point of actually like the fear of loss is what really gets the third part , but then the actual loss unlocks manga , kill um and that loss is either you actually lost it , you lost it from someone and you wound up gaining that power from that loss ,

or you stole it from someone and either way you still lost something . You either lose . You lose what you care most about , or you wind up losing your humanity from stealing , and that's the reason why literally when sasuke unlocks his mangekyou . Well , no , when . When Sasuke winds up unlocking his third Shuriken .

His third piece of evolution to Shuriken was during his fight with Naruto , because he was willing to kill and lose to unlock that power .

After he left the village and fought Naruto , that was , like , probably the last time he used curse mark . But Orochimaru still , like , even through everything , survived Naruto OG , survived Shippuden , like he had the probably biggest character development in the show .

The actual exams itself the biggest exam everyone talks about is the final fight , the third one , where no one passed , because , except Shikamaru , because he's the only one who really finished his fight and he wound up getting interrupted by Gaara .

The beginning , though , when we get an understanding of a little bit again , more of understanding of different ninjutsu , but now other villages , so we finally survive Zabuza , and then we get okay . Now we go through the exams to be able to get to Chunin , the next level you're now getting . Let's make it a Chunin .

Not many people can make it from Chunin to Jonin , but if you can make it a Chunin fantastic . Not many people can make it from chunin to jonin , but if you can make it a chunin fantastic and it's like sweet , yeah , we're gonna do this .

And the first part of the exam is a written exam , and naruto is the only person to have ever passed and not wrote the damn thing but his name I just like how

He was the only one intelligent enough to actually do it , but everyone else was like I just like how naruto was , like man , this some bullshit , like ain't we gonna have me ? And I for everybody that said that you can go Eat a dick . And I was like , oh , that's how you feel , like yeah , that's how we feel .

This is literally the thing about it is can you actually pay attention to the fucking rules ?

Like this whole exam , I was like I feel like this is exactly what the mangaka went through . The mangaka was like I'm gonna troll these people , I'm gonna troll my viewers and troll the people who read my manga and watch this anime and understand that , yes , I went through this exact same quiz too , just like all of y'all did . I was like what the hell .

But I love that we got introduced to two characters who got absolutely hoed Tintin , who became so unimportant . But I do want to mention this one . If you don't know , there is a Chinese made game . It's funny . We're talking about this because you banning China from everything , now my god . But there's a Chinese made game .

It's funny we're talking about this because you've banned China from everything , now my god . But um , there's a Chinese made game based on Naruto characters and they did Tintin justice . Tintin is an actual weaponsmith .

She is fantastic in her in using all weapons proficiency and she's able to pop up weapons just from her scrolls like it's nothing , and actually take down people because she's actually powerful . T up weapons just from her skulls like it's nothing and actually take down people Because she's actually powerful . Ten-ten got no shine in this whole show whatsoever .

Literally , a ninja who uses weapons , is proficient in weapons , should be one of the most powerful ninjas in the whole series and literally gets denounced , the same as Ino and Sakura , and I was like that is absolutely not fair . Ten-ten was fucking fantastic . She should have gotten a whole lot more shine .

And then we got Rock Lee , who also unfortunately gets hold towards the end of Naruto and then Shubuden is just straight up . Well hold on .

Oh yeah , I used to fuck with Orochimaru and whatnot and then proceeded to do absolutely nothing for the rest of the series .

Because , good , good lord , I'm like how is she wearing it ? Through force and everything , her clothes getting snagged , she's in a fight , her clothes gets picked up and still not one reveal Like the celebrities need . Whatever type of jacket she has , that's what these celebrities need . No more slippers .

It was like , yeah , in all honesty , anko , I feel like I didn't do as much . I set up that there was gonna be Something more for Anko and then Just Left it alone . Anko , I feel like I didn't do as much . I set up that there was going to be something more For Anko and then just Left it alone .

that she was actually based off a girl that he used to like .

like when we see Sakura do anything , I'm sitting there like so that's what you're saying , kishimoto .

Not , I don't think this , but it's more like on what uh sucker is based off of , because I think it's like based off how , uh , how , um , not , I don't think this , but it's more like when I read about it , he was saying that it was based off how um girls normally move .

You know , like he's like she's like the typical girl that you'll probably meet on the street , you know um , I can't .

It's not like she always spoke with naruto , but they really made her a hateful character in the in the anime , like some things she said in the anime she didn't say in the manga . You know what I mean .

So Naruto didn't have much comedic relief other than him playing pranks and Sakura going upside his fucking head . You know what I'm saying ? You know what ?

She she wasn't like a best friend of soccer I mean naruto but she also wasn't as mean as the show depicted her to be towards him , like she was always a sasuke dick rider , but she just wasn't like that bitch to him . You know what I mean .

And after somebody explained how the trope is when it comes to those type of like main characters , the love triangle and stuff , it made sense . I can't say exactly what other shows have done that , but growing up we see it a lot where , like it's a norm for the female character to beat up on the male character , he get a fucking knot on his head .

You know what I'm saying . That type of stuff .

like he's a monk and he's with these other monk girls and it's like a whole bunch of shenanigans going on and it's all the girls like fucking , like like real bitchy towards him , like they all , all of them treating like a scrub and one day I just hope like hey , man , one day he's gonna on show you bitches , but like no , it doesn't really happen .

But uh , that was like the worst example of how like it just seemed like all these girls just being real mean to him for no fucking reason it's supposed to be a whole thing .

It honestly , to be honest with you , I think it's always like a lot of people think , if it's a whole political thing or some type of major trope , to always put discourse between us , because the more we're unified , the more we go against the hierarchy , and so it's like there has to be some discourse and we have to have some type of break between us .

old one , dude .

You know how many times Rookie beats the shit out of .

And so , forgive me , I'm not going to be able to be on , but I went back and watched that shit again . It wasn't just sit , she beat , she hit him on the head . Almost every goddamn episode it was a common trope to see Inuyasha with the big swollen knot thing that they have , oh yeah . With the little staple with the little cross bandages on it and shit .

That was almost every damn episode . She would whack him , she'd beat him in the back of the head about something , whack him in the head about something because he would do something stupid . But that was a comment . That's a very common trope . It happened in all the time .

It wasn't until way later in life where I realized wait , hold on . Were they really being mean to me or were they flirting being mean to me ?

It's almost like I'm sorry , but it's one of those things where you thinking , okay , sometimes it be like that , but you just underestimate how common it is can I go back and mention something real quick you mentioned as far as about Shikamaru and Choji being like the original friends for them , I'm gonna be honest with you , that's one of the biggest plot hole and

contradictions in Naruto , because it was a whole staple for naruto to say because you don't really see them doing it um , in the beginning , but you're supposed to believe that they were there for him the whole time yeah , but then when naruto the beginning of naruto is that that him on that swing he kept growing up talking about the fact that no kids would ever

play with him and like they would never would , the parents would never let him and they would never be able to do anything . But then all of a sudden later on we get flashbacks .

But also it could be one of those things where sometimes your own people be talking about you behind your back and also sometimes we be so down and dumps and holding a pity party for ourselves that we be like some of those folks that be like , uh , oh , I have no friends , and then meanwhile you have a whole squad right behind you like , oh , so we don't

mean nothing to you . Uh , you know some of the people going online talking about , oh , I don't have friends , but meanwhile they got a whole bunch of friends um , down the road and some type shit . So I'm gonna say , sometimes just be like that when you're just like kind of in depression and whatnot .

But then again , yeah , like for the most part I just consider it kind of like a retcon to where it just made it sound like , oh well , at least there was two people that was like kind of to our friends . But I'm like nice , I mean , they were still kind of .

Well , some of them wanted to play with naruto , but the adults were like , no , don't play with that boy . And then , you know shigemaru and jojo was like no , no , let's give him a chance .

I don't know , it's just kind of weird , depending on , but yeah , like with the earlier episodes , you didn't really see that , so it's like it's hard to believe , but whatever , that's it .

That was said that probably was not an original manga , like it could have always been that Chojin Shikamaru was down for him and they Shukumaru was down for him and they didn't actually like , they weren't actually mean to him , but they changed it in the dubbing . I don't know , america does a lot of different changes .

We just want to convince them that he's this loner kid , so let's give him some sympathy points , some pity bucks , as they say . When you get down the line , you know how they have their flashbacks and then they will have scenes where they were younger and Naruto would defend Hinata from some bullies and whatnot .

It just kind of seemed like you don't seem like much of a loner when it seemed like there's some people that would still fuck with you . But I guess in the beginning they just had to sell the idea that , yeah , Naruto was on his own and we had to really convince you that he was a loner for the most part .

But nah , he had people that still liked him , but for the most part people kind of stayed away from him because he was the jing shiriki . But you know , over time naruto gained the trust of the village and whatnot . But we'll talk about that more .

My mom and dad say stay away from them . Some kids didn't know why , so I it . I mean they're going to kind of fuck with him just based off of who he is Now remember he was a knucklehead he even said my bad , I'm kind of tired Doing some push-ups and shit .

He was even saying , like he do these pranks because it get him attention , like nobody shows him no attention if he's not doing anything . You know what I'm saying . So it's kind of like one of those kids who they're not bad , they just they just want some friends and they don't really know how to express themselves . And he expressed himself differently than us .

Him and Sasuke are like sun and moon . Now they're also like parallel in a sense , that they're like orphans . But they got them . Definitely , sasuke told naruto what do you know about it ? You didn't have anything to begin with . I lost my family . You see what I'm saying . Like you woke up , didn't have it . I woke up and lost it . You see what I'm saying .

So you just like , oh , y'all got this . You don't know what it's like to lose it . I would have been fine if I just woke up and didn't have anything , but I lost my entire family . You don't even know who you lost .

My big brother killed our parents , my friends , my cousin .

It was like when it was first , like enrolling them in school or whatever , some way and um it had to be a filler because honestly , minato wasn't even around when naruto was that age , not from the episodes , but in this episode it was saying like minato introducing young kid naruto to sasuke . Like hey , maybe y'all could be friends .

Then fugaku come up , sasuke dad . He's like nah , they're not gonna be friends . Sasuke's gonna prove a worthy Rival for your son like they're gonna be rivals . Fuck all that friends shit . You feel me .

They kind of did that during that one movie with Naruto switch places and all that shit , but uh , they could have did like some alternate timeline type shit , but no , I remember that scene where no , no uh at the time yeah , I might be getting confused because I know the conversation happened , but I know this also happened with kakashi's dad and my godfather .

and by the time you get to boruto , it's gonna be fucking boruto and kawaki , so like it's always gonna be like some sort of repeating trope going on in naruto , where , like you're going to kind of see that happening multiple times with these things .

Just like how , keep in mind that with Team 7 , I want to say like there was always like in a way , kind of like a two boy , one girl type situation going on , but that's beside the point . Uh , to some degree it was like going back to where , okay , uh minato was being um raised up by uh , the third okage .

When was it third uh that , or was it Jiraiya ? I'm kind of forgetting . Yeah , fuck it . No , no , no , I had it right . Minato was under the third Hokage and the third Hokage , I think , was under Jiraiya . It's getting kind of messy , but I'll remember when we get there .

So third Hokage wound up training Jiraiya it's getting kind of messy , but I'll remember .

Where it's like , yeah , minato created it , jiraiya kind of learned it and also taught it , and then he got to Naruto , and then he's the one that was going kind of crazy with the different variations of it , and then Boruto took it even further and , yeah , it's like it's almost like passing the torch , like the torch is going to be passing , like some form of

fashion in multiple ways in this series . That's what I love about it . Where it's like , um , you see shit like that . Where it's like , uh , with Mike Guy and Rock Lee , and then there's Metal Lee now , and you know the torch is going to be passed and we're going to talk about that a little bit more when we do other parts .

But let's go ahead and wrap up part one of the Naruto Serenity Review right here . You got anything y'all want to add on to the first season .

We're gonna be doing the breakdown of each of the fights in the tournament arc leading up to the finals and whatnot , and then after that , by part three , we'll probably talk about the whole thing where they gotta find Tsunade and then after that it's the Sasuke Trivark and you know , just go off on that .

So until part two , y'all just go ahead and take it easy . Alright , season two of Naruto . We're going to be covering the second half of the Junia Zams leading up to Naruto versus Gaara . I'm going to say this is the best part about the original Naruto , like I don best part about the original Naruto , like I don't know about the very best .

But I want to say , if anything , if nothing before that point , got you tuning exams is where a lot of fans , they got a lot of fans in a chokehold , but just go ahead and get it . Tuning exams , a pivotal event that tests the skills , strategies and growth of the young shinobi aspiring to elevate their ranks .

The additional and rigorous examination that evaluates not only combat abilities but also teamwork intelligence and resilience . It's a multi-stage process designed to assess ninja from different villages . Uh , these exams not only write a passive , but also a diplomatic gathering that allows different hidden villages to showcase their young talent .

We already talked about that written test . We did talk about the force of death in the first part , but we didn't talk about the part where the sound ninja was attacking team 7 and Sasuke's curse mark was taken over and he had a dark moment with Zaku breaking his arms and whatnot . That happened , but pretty much after that .

Then they eventually got to the stage where they begin the preliminary matches of the tuning exams , and that's where things get really lit . So let's just go ahead and break down the preliminary matches now .

First we got Sasuke versus Yoroi Akado , who's like this chakra draining dude , and he was able to pin Sasuke down like fairly soon , but eventually , you know , sasuke um , got him off and he did the lion's barrage , pretty much taking broccoli's flow , and I'm gonna harp on that a little bit later . But , um , yeah , you know , not much of a fight .

Uh , hope you guys got anything to add on to that .

A lot of people hated it though . They were just like , really it's just a pitiful version of the Hidden Lotus , but otherwise , honestly , it wasn't that bad . I thought it was pretty dope . I mean , of course , naruto wanted to do his own version later on too .

time skip . I'm like , okay , he put on some more layers and like I mean , not gonna lie , I would walk around , kind of like that , but I don't know . He kind of had a long style when he was younger . I don't know what to say . The third match Konkoro versus Tsurugi .

Tsurugi was this guy who uses body manipulation , so he was kind of wrapping around Konkoro like a snake . But Konkoro used his public karate suit to deceive and overpower Tsurugi Once again . Eh , whatever , what ?

We'll talk about something crazy when we get to it , but like , uh , not too crazy . Now here's a fight that , ah , good lord , sakura versus ino .

Now of course we get a little backstory on their things where we see them being like former best friends and they were showcasing their growth and their rivalry and you know , sakura telling , you know how much he grown and whatnot , and you know , like had to do the symbolic cut her hair off just to prove that , oh , she's also grown as a woman too .

And I'm like , see , that was like the first time , like when I was a kid watching this show , at first I was okay , cool , I kind of get the symbolism , but I was not prepared for this to be like a thing throughout modern media to where , like , a woman has to cut her hair to symbolize some sort of growth .

And I'm like , I mean I guess , but I don't know it's feels a little unnecessary , like I get the symbolism , but at this point like uh , ultimately this match ends in a draw , haha . I mean , I didn't expect them to get far enough to turn me anyways , but you got anything at all to be honest , there's not really much into this one .

In the manga it was only one page to let you know what happened , but in the anime they kind of extended it a little bit to be like , okay , she tried to do something with the ninja tools , but samaria was like , uh no , and she just her win technique to counter ten , ten's weapon-based attacks .

And not only did tamari win , she won in style to where the ten-10 fucking fell on her van . And I'm like God damn , like at that point I felt like RIP , 10-10 . You are sadly irrelevant . At this point it's almost like she got the onco treatment a little too early .

I mean , yeah , she's still like around in the anime , whatnot , like she's still kind of sort of do things , but it's like kind of crazy that , uh , the one ninja that's focused on ninja tools , like she gets overshadowed by all the flashy ninjutsu and shit . So it just it was . This is like the most embarrassing fight .

Like honestly , I'm gonna go ahead and skip to it right now because it wasn't much anyways .

The last fight , choji versus dosu , where dosu uses sound based attack to disorient uh choji , while choji was like in his ball form , uh , who was struggling to counter get the auditory assault , because you know , body being made of 70 water and those who use uh ways to incapacitate them , it wasn't much .

So the reason why I was bringing that up because like yeah , there's not gonna be a whole lot of fights that's like really noteworthy . It was only like maybe outside that was just pretty much filler . But yeah , like it's almost like Shoji's fight wasn't as embarrassing as Ten-ten's fight because I said enough . Next fight , shigemaru versus King .

You know the girl with the needles from the sound ninjas , so essentially she was throwing the needles .

And what I like about Shigamaru's fight is like it's always strategic in a way and shikamaru was cleverly using his shadow possession jutsu to position uh keen into the right spot to where , as soon as she was like get close to the wall , and then he would use the shadow possession jutsu and like bend over backwards a little bit so it's like he won't be hitting

the wall but she will , and then that knocked her out . I like that one . Uh kogasa notes . I mean , I know I talked about kind of blurred through on both of them , but like between the 10-10 fight and uh , shigemaru fight . What's , what's your notes on those ?

You don't even hear from her no more , like literally she has no important fights after this , and it was like that's so upsetting . And , um , I think the only also a little side note for this one is that there's a Chinese game right now that they made , and the Chinese game does Tintin justice .

Tintin is actually a fighter and does fantastic on her shit , so that's just kind of how we have right now . So it's like , but I don't know , to be honest with you , this really didn't get super interesting to me until Lee vs Gar .

yeah good lord , I am so sorry , I don't know what is happening , all right , but no , um , I don't really have too much else into this one because it's one of those ones like some of these fights is kind of some of the moments into these kind of feel a little bit forgettable at some point because the story it winds up being good at a point where we really

get a chance to flesh out all the rest of like the rest of the characters during the training exams .

It's one of those ones that some people liked it , some people disliked , because we didn't get a chance to really flesh it out these characters like we really should have , and it kind of hurt my feelings and it's like , um , like I wanted to see more of some of these characters and really kind of see more of their fighting styles , because it's like we finally

get a chance to see other villages like how do they fight , and we don't really see it . You know what I mean , right , so it's like dang , and so it really kind of pushed into that point where it was like , okay , this is just an elimination . We didn't expect this many kids to actually make it , so we got to eliminate .

Some of y'all also felt unfair and unprepared . I'm like , seriously , y'all really just was not prepared for this .

But naruto kind of surprised everybody with his unpredictable tactics and determination where , like , okay , first of all , the funny part where , like , naruto was trying to do something and then Akiba accidentally walked into a bar I thought it was funny as a kid , but then ultimately Naruto did the Naruto Uzumaki Barrage and defeated Kiba .

Yeah , it was kind of interesting . Any notes on that , koki ?

This one was heartbreaking because neji was overwhelming hinata with superior mastery of the yuga clan's techniques , demonstrating his prowess and harsh fate beliefs to where it's like oh well , you know , a failure is a failure and you can't escape your destiny and whatnot , like damn near made hinata go into cardiac arrest with his , uh , eight diagrams , um , bullshit .

And even though naruto was rooting , uh , for hinata and hinata had heart trying to to persevere , but it was just getting uglier and uglier the longer . It was going to a point where , yeah , we're going to have to like get her out in the gurney and shit . That's when it was like fights was getting like really rough .

But uh , what you got for this one Kogigasi , oh man what you got for this one , cookiegatsu .

You can see all the different uh connections of chakra and whatnot , and neji was able to pinpoint these chakra points and shut on down hinata and whatnot , even though hinata tried to do it too . But it was like Neji was more surgical with it and I appreciate it that much .

Hinata this was an absolute unfair match and they knew it was an unfair match when it started . This was so unfair . Hinata's best girl , but she did not know the stuff that Najin went through .

There's no deeper meaning , it's just straight up . This is slavery within the family and you're of higher power , you're of higher class type of thing , and this also proves that being of higher class doesn't mean you're stronger , you know Right , it's just privilege . And I'm happy that he had not a chance to understand what the BS really was .

But let me go into detail how , like you're thinking , okay , it's almost like an unstoppable force meeting a immovable object right when Rock Lee is doing his best , trying to break through Garth's defenses .

But then at some point you decide , okay , let me just get some space , let me get some high ground , right , you go up on that statue and guy was like hey , yo , lee , show these niggas . I'm like , alright , do it . So he take off the fucking leg waves and then tomorrow , over there being a hater , being like , oh , what's he Gonna do with those leg waves ?

All day , like , everybody was like damn , like how fucking heavy were those Waves ? And Ever since then he was like fucking Blazing like almost instant Transmission type shit . Girl was like Having fucking blazing like almost instant transmission type shit . Gar was like having a hard time trying to keep track , like where the fuck is this dude ?

It's like flash stepping everywhere . And then eventually Rock Lee hit him and everybody was like , well , hold on , like nobody ever injured Gar before , oh shit . And then eventually , like Gar kept getting like some blows on to a point to where gara started to crash out and then he was on , lash out and all that shit .

But then gara had to find out that rock leave the crash out too , with the fucking third hitting gate open . Oh man , listen , listen . This was the most hype Fight in the whole . Fucking Jesus Christ , I would give that fight a 10 out of 10 On it's own . I absolutely agree with you on that .

Even at the end , when Rock Lee , even though Gar shattered his arm and his leg , dude was unconscious and still standing ready to fight , I'm like uh , uh , I am not going down that easy . I'm like nah , nah , you can rest now , it's okay , buddy , you have to prove nothing to them anymore .

But bruh , rest now , it's okay , buddy , you have to prove nothing to them anymore . But , bro , this fight here . Now go ahead , koki .

Because let's be honest here he didn't just fight up against just any strong ninja , he literally fought up against a mini-god per se . These tail beasts , these jinchu , are mini-gods when they use it . Naruto doesn't really use his like that , he doesn't use Kurama like that .

But Gar Best believe his demon was abused on demon time all the time , because his demon constantly is badgering him about using his power , constantly telling him he needs to do this , constantly telling him he should push forward and stuff like that . Like , yeah , kill , kill , kill all the time .

You're not fighting against this , gar , you're fighting against this damn demon too . And straight up , lee held his own . We just hired you , sir , and I'm just like you know what Mad respect , bro , just straight up mad respect . This one was also one that I got a chance to really like Gar , because we get a chance to really see his mental breakdown .

You know , he was not prepared for this to happen . He was not prepared for things to really kind of like , really push through .

chance I could lose . And that's what that was . Guard right there Like wait , hold on , there's a chance I could lose . And that was Gar right there . I was like wait , hold on , there's a chance I could lose , hold on .

It was the first time it proved to everyone else , because by this point , gara is foreseen as the most untouchable person . He's the most dangerous one . Nobody can do anything to him . But now we finally got somebody who was able to damage his shell , literally to the point that Konkuru and Samara was like come on now . No one's ever done this before .

Who's ever done this ? No one's ever done this . Is there a chance that Gar might lose ? And it was like intense . It was like okay , we get a chance to really see that the so-called strongest , most dangerous person can be beat . There is a possibility . And he's like there's so many different layers into this fight .

This is one of those ones that , literally , the writer really said that he absolutely appreciated , he really liked this fight himself too . This is one of his favorite fights to write , as well as also have animated , so it was like really cool . So , like I really , that's one reason I enjoyed the fight .

The only thing that also scared me , though , was , unfortunately , the down situation that happened to my boy . Lee got his arm and leg broke , bro bro , and I was like , no , this is some spiteful shit , bro , this is spiteful shit . The guy had to step in . It's like no , bro , the fight's over , chill out , ain't no point in this .

But , yeah , death if we didn't take into accountability that you might die in that forest ? You know ? But yeah , and like I said , with the Choji fight , you know , not much happened .

So so , with that being said , there's the final tournament , and before I even get into that , I gotta be fair and mention how Dosu thought he can catch Gaara lacking , but Gaara showed Dosu that , uh , uh , I'm never lacking . So Dosu died .

So yeah , there you go right there , like a participant died before the final tournament and they were like , oh well , we just gonna have to keep it pushing . Then , also , because Konkoro didn't want to reveal all his cards to the people , he was like , eh , you know , I'm gonna back out of my fight .

So there was only like three fights in the final tournament Naruto vs Neji , ikamaru vs Tamari and Sasuke vs Gaara . And this is where , yeah , like these are all fairly good fights .

How , with Naruto fight , it defies Neji's fatalistic views , using his shadow clones and cunning um to outmaneuver Neji's Byaku Gun and also to kind of borrow the power of the non-self fox to win the match .

Uh , shigemaru and tamari now shigemaru , his strategic genius shines as he manipulates the battlefield to catch tamari in the shadow possession , especially using the same hole that naruto used to surprise neji with the fucking uppercut . However , he conceded the match , recognizing his lack of chakra and his respect for Tamari's skill .

It's almost like he pulled Doctor Strange and was like oh you know , I thought of all the different ways we can go about it , but ultimately there's no good way to go about it . So I'm like you know , this is the only way . And then the final fight .

Listen , sasuke showing up with the fucking drip , with Kakashi and the leaves falling , I'm like that's saucy . That's saucy right there . I'm like Sasuke was oral farming at that point and his fight with um gar , it was really great .

Also , like how , uh gar , when , how you mentioned earlier how sasuke was able to hurt gar and gar was like and shout out to liam o'brien , that was like great voice acting At that point . But I also want to point out that Sasuke , we know him as the Uchiha who can like Copy abilities and what not .

But apparently he don't just copy Jutsu , he be copying People's flow , because not just the Lion's Barrage in the last fight , how he kind of copied that from Rock Lee . But think about it , bro , like the stances , like with the hand up and the cross arms and all this different shit . And I'm like , bro , like you're stealing Broccoli's whole fucking float walk .

He was standing in the fucking bleachers Like , hey , yo come steal my shit . But that fight got interrupted when the Sand Village is like you know what , now is the time to fuck shit up and begin the evasion .

And of course O orochimaru was like , oh well , you know , uh , I guess formality is over with time to reveal my hand to gonna fight the third hokage . They have their fight . Uh the third . Try to fight him off , try to unkill him . But uh , orochimaru pulled a fast one on him and naruto and garo fought uh jin chiriki versus jin chiriki .

That's where we learned that garo has the uh one tail within him and naruto , being famous for his talk , no jutsu

convinced garo to . Hey yo , we're not so different , you and I . And you know Gaara just eventually stopped and man , of course there's a funeral for the third Hokage and all that , but the tuning exam got canceled , however , because the way Shikamaru handled himself in that final fight the higher-ups was was like you know what ?

You were the smartest one out of all of them out here . So I'm like yeah , we might as well bump you up to the tuning . I know there was like a bunch of details that glossed over , but that's pretty much what I remember about the rest of the tuning exams . Kogayasu , you got anything else you want to add on to the final tournament section here ?

Sasuke , I'm dramatically late I hope I made it . No wait , just lame . So um naruto being able to use his brain just first off , because everybody clowns naruto for not being able to use his brain . He was able to use his brain just first off , because everybody clowns Naruto for not being able to use his brain . He was able to use his brain finally .

That was something pretty smart . I like also that we got a chance to see we got a chance to see Neji really kind of do stuff . It's the first time we get a hint that there's a weakness to palm rotation before we really get to see what the weakness is later on .

But it was the first time we get and get an idea that there might actually be a weakness , especially how naruto was able to work it . So it was kind of luck on his side , but it was still pretty fun to watch . Um shikamaru .

That whole fight was nothing but strategy and it was like two smart geniuses like , oh , I'm tomorrow's , like I'm a genius too , I can strategize around everything . I'm smart . And da , da , da , da . And it's like you spend more time bragging about how smart you are versus shikamaru , who's being humble , who was like I could tell she's smart .

But I'm just gonna try to move forward . I'm gonna do what I need to do , just gonna do what I need to do , just kind of keep it simple . But you know , just this is what being cocky gets you pretty much .

But what I really do enjoy is the fact that we got a chance to really really push and see that the chidori used by someone else other than kakashi . It was like akashi , you taught him that technique for a shame of you and it winds up actually like damaging guard guards . Bleeding streams out of his shell , my blood , and it's like it was intense .

Definitely a big shout out to that voice actor right there , cause it felt intense watching like in English . I actually have not seen that fight in Japanese , crazy enough , but in English it was . It was blood curdling . I was like Holy crap , holy crap , but I'm getting that chance .

And then , seeing the monster arm come out , seeing the eight tails arm come out , you're like holy shit , what was that ? What was that ? That part ? You're like , oh , this is a real monster , this dude's a real monster . And you're like we get a chance to really see . Oh , there's another Jinchuriki .

And it's like , oh , I like how the story got to that point , but I'm happy we got a chance to really focus on . This is an exam . Let's see the fights , let's focus on these characters being smart , using their abilities , and I'm like I really like that . Other than that , I mean the whole Genjutsu . At least we got a chance to get a W for Sakura .

You know you can't get her with a Genjutsu because she's a master at it . Fantastic onto that . She knew that immediately , was able to release it out .

It's going to take my life . I'm sitting here and I'm going to die , but I'm going to take you with me , type of thing , and I'm sitting here like Reaper Death .

Um , it was nice to see reincarnation jutsu , though also , this is I like this fight because we get a chance to see Forbidden Jutsu . We got teased for Forbidden Jutsu way back in the beginning when Naruto got the Hidden Scroll , and then we never get to see anything else about it again . It's like huh , it's like , do they forget ?

Or something like that , but we get a chance to really see it again , so it's like awesome again .

You get a chance to see the previous Hokage and you're like , oh , we can't reveal the fourth Hokage , that would destroy the plot . He puts a stop to that one . You're like , yeah , oh no , it cannot be revealed to everyone that Naruto's dead . It's the fourth Hokage dead . It's the fourth okaki . It was like . It was like it's all for plot purposes .

There was nothing else into it . He clearly could have stopped the other reanimation juices . He just stopped the fourth one and that was it . He's like , nope , plot says no . He's like seriously .

You know , it's like even though it's a chinese mythology , japanese people absolutely love sun wu kong , like he has to be included in some form of fashion and stuff . Like japanese people , korean people like , uh , filipinos like absolutely that story journeys to the west is such an iconic thing across asia so you'll see it like everywhere .

That didn't die , but it's all because the fans were too upset . Realistically they were supposed to die . They were not supposed to continue on .

I'm telling you like I know we don't normally do rankings that much , ratings , that much in the stream reviews , but if I were to rate season one I would say maybe like a solid three . I like did a pretty good job with some world building , but uh , it also kind of felt a little slow , uh , a little sluggish in the pacing a little bit .

But season two , I'm like it's a fairly good pace , like yeah , like the first half not a whole lot of crazy shit happened , but it saved for a very impactful second half where I'm like I felt like it was like a slow burn , like a power creep to like you're gonna see some good shit and then , surprise , twist , another jinjuriki and I'm like , oh shit , okay ,

okay and this is fairly impressive . So I'm like you know what ? I will give season two a five out of five stars . Yeah , that's pretty much all I got . The next part we should be covering the Tsunade art , where you know now that the third is uh dead , they're gonna have to find his replacement .

I think there's like some filler before that , but once again that's filler , so we'll save that for part three of Naruto , extreme Review , and Kogayasu . Once again , thank you for being on for this part and we'll just be , but or more when we talk about Tsunade and her relationship with Orochimaru .

Not that kind of relationship , but , you know , trying to convince Tsunade to be the fifth Okage and Naruto about to learn one of his iconic moves . So you can't wait for that .

Alright , continuing the Naruto stream review , we need to talk about the search for Tsunade and the Sasuke retrieval arc because , not gonna lie , I don't have a whole lot to talk about the search for Tsunade and the Sasuke Retrieval Arc because , not gonna lie , I don't have a whole lot to say about the Tsunade Arc .

I mean , I do have something to say , but not a whole lot . The Sasuke Retrieval Arc , that's the one I really want to talk about . And then Season 5 , it's a bunch of filler . I mean not to say it's bad , it's just , you know , filler .

You know , if you want to endear yourself to some of the characters , like so , you know , in this one episode where he was like laughing like outrageously and just sounding so out of character for him . So I thought that was kind of interesting .

But other than that , just like a bunch of episodes with naruto , sakura and others , you you know , just getting into like some ninja hijinks . Sometimes it's funny , sometimes just you know it is what it is . But let's go and zone in on these two main arcs here . Uh , the search for Tsunade .

Since the third Hokage died fighting Orochimaru , the village needs a new Hokage . They asked Jiraiya . But he looked at himself and said nah , I'm not who you're looking for . But , uh , I know someone who might be up for it .

And he pointed towards tsunari , who also was not feeling being hokage , especially with her brother dying in the third shinobi war , I think it was . And ever since then she figured oh well , anybody who wants to be a hokage must be a fool . And naruto took that person .

And I don't blame him because , considering the fact that the fourth hokage gave his life so that everyone in the village , and especially Naruto , could have one , the third Hokage gave his life for the village . I don't recall what's going on with that person .

The second , but all I know is that they were in charge for a reason , but you know , tsunade was just feeling some type of way about ever since her brother died , wanting to become the Hokage . But uh , things change . When Orochimaru approached her and said hey , yo , I need your help with something .

You help me essentially destroy the Lee village and I will do what I can to bring your brother back . I mean , know , in the world of Shinobi with the resurrection . Hey , you know , I kind of did it when I invaded the Leaf Village , where I brought back the first and the second for a hot minute .

So , hey , I can do that for you , brother , would you like that ? I don't like that .

And she wasn't going for that because , between endearing herself to Naruto and she wasn't going for that Because , between Endearing herself to Naruto , giving him the challenge of Mastering the Rasengan by the way , he's learning the Rasengan at this point she decided , you know what ?

Yeah , it might not be the job that I wanted , but it's a job that I need to do Because the village need me to do it . So she decided yeah , you know what ? Fuck all that . Fight Orochimaru While Naruto fights Kabuto , they win . And Tsunade was like hey , yo , you know what I like this kid Um .

And then , you know , she went back to the village and became hokage . The main thing was is that with sunade , not only because of her brother , but it like that's . That's the funny thing . It's like physically because you know she's known for the tickle bitties and uh .

But the thing is Her youthful Appearance is like a Symbolism for her being Stuck in the past , or you could look at it that way . Or maybe you know she's just like looking good , nothing wrong with that . So that was all I had to say about the Tsunade arc . Doug , you got anything you want to add on ?

You know it's still fresh on my mind even though , like now finishing the series , I know that the third hokage is a hope , but it's still really . I ain't gonna lie , I was crying at the funeral , bro , so the funeral scene had me crying .

And then later on they find out about what the king was up to and it was like you know what ? Let's not remember him , let's remember him as he represented and not who he is . And that's pretty much what the thing was with the third Okage , like at the funeral . Keep in mind , like you said , we didn't know any of that shit until way later .

But at that funeral it's like Because when you're reviewing this shit , like going back into it , it's like I can't say I'm torn up . But he was the Hokage , so that's fair , but just let it be what it is like .

So , in other words , it's kind of like saying they need to hurry up and find a hokage who can help us manage and organize structure , or else guys like Yakoski can pull up on us with our pants down and we don't know what to do .

But it's like sometimes just because they're strong doesn't mean that they can coordinate a counter-attack or a counter-measure against invading forces , Like , in other words , let's take Shikamaru , Like he may not be strong in the muscular sense , but there is a reason why they chose him to be a tuning after the tuning exam , because he uses his head .

So I can see Shikamaru being a future Hokage Highly unlikely , but I can see it .

When you're looking at Jariah , at that point did you feel like you respected him for turning down the position , knowing him ?

I just understand you well enough to where , despite you having the strength you know , having sage mode and all that shit , you can do the job . But it's not your style . Sometimes you just gotta go where the wind carries you . Like , don't restrict yourself to a place where you know you don't really need to be .

Like don't restrict yourself to a place where you know you don't really need to be . Like , don't let your it's like that one thing don't let your loyalty keep you in a situation that God trying to pull you out of . But not to say that God trying to pull Jariah out of that situation . It's just that he know himself well enough .

To where I know , this ain't it for me . Even though I appreciate y'all believing that I'm qualified , I just know myself well enough that it's just't it for me . Even though I appreciate y'all believing that I'm qualified , I just know myself well enough that it's just not it for me , and you're not going to understand that until later on .

He walk around the city , he saying hey to everybody and then she gambling . It's like bro , what I like , her nickname , what I like her nickname the legendary sucker . Crazy , ain't it .

It's like when you , when you meet her , like you said , it's almost like this is a woman that loses all her parlays and I'm sitting there like I don't know if I want a leader who has a gambling problem at the helm , like I just don't know about that . But then again , I don't think she gambled that much ever since she became Hokage .

In fact , I believe becoming Hokage gave her what she kind of needed was a sense of responsibility , because the thing was just like how she was running from her past and all this other shit . It seemed like she was just kind of running away from responsibility .

Away from responsibility , and it took naruto being determined to have her come to the village so that way the village can stand on ten toes , you know , from a structural point of view . And it's like saying , if he's failing to persuade her to take the job , then how can he look at himself and say if he's qualified to become Okage ?

See , the whole thing with that is that , yeah , naruto wants to become Okage , but in subtle ways , we're shown how Naruto has not only the strength but the charisma to persuade others to where . Hey , you know what you got a good point .

It's more about the flash your soccer , because I know she summons the slugs like United does , but like barely used , like it's more about the flashier jutsus than anything but , yeah , like it was kind of crazy at first where , like you see these different summons and like , oh yeah , it's about to get real crazy man yeah , I mean even Orochimaru trying to fight

with no hands .

Oh , he's gonna be in Doomsday . I think Either Doomsday or definitely Secret Wars gonna be in doomsday . I think either doomsday or definitely secret wars , so you won't see him again . Oh , that's gonna be dope I I still oh raps to a page when he did hood x-men , I'm like I still don't like how bro did on gaming dirty I like , damn all right .

I mean I kind of get it on with mcneedle being able to touch him and whatnot , but like man , I don't want to take that line down . Like I mean he kind of handled it kind of more mature , but like I would have been crashing out of it with McNeil talking about hey man , that's my business , that's my ball Like what the you do .

You understand them , like you get their backstory like right from the get-go , but after that it's like they're still a likable character , but they don't really do .

I don't like that yeah that reminds me of a character that we're going to be talking about anyways , but uh , let's go ahead and get into the sasuke retrieval art and but wait before we get into it .

It was the whole thing with Itachi , because there was a whole thing with I think we talked about it in part two . If not , there was this whole thing with Itachi because there was a whole thing with because I think we talked about it in part two . If not , there was this whole thing where Jiraiya and Naruto was out and about .

They were like at this hotel , like place , and Naruto heard a knock at the door . I'm like , hey , yo , I got it . I'm like who is it ? And he opened the door and saw those eyes . I'm like , yeah , I would have slowly closed the door too if I was down , like , uh , if I had parents , they would told me not to talk to strangers .

And then if I was itachi , if I saw that door slowly closing , I was like just kind of like stopping from closing , like slowly open it again . I was like just kind of like Stopping from closing , like slowly opening again . I was like Naruto Zimaki , I'm like who wants to know ? I'm like , yeah , though , come with us , please . Like , please , don't resist .

Like just be cool and come with us . I'm like , oh , I don't Know , no , no , no , okay , for real , for real . Sasuke Getting embarrassed by Tachi , you know like Presley , oh yeah , you not strong , you don't have enough hate in your spirit . Boy , like , get back to me , we get stronger , sasuke . But , uh , fast forward , sasuke Recuperating .

And he decided hey yo , naruto , you know what , sasuke recuperating . And he decided hey yo , naruto , you know what ? I've been wanting to fight you for a while Now , so let's go ahead and Handle that on the hospital rooftop Right . So they did their fight .

And then Naruto Doing his Rasengan , sasuke doing His Chidori and Kikashi Came in at the right time to break them up , and Sasuke was kind of Feeling himself with that Chidori . And Kakashi came in at the right time to break them up and Sasuke was kind of feeling himself with that Chidori like hey yo , look at how much damage I did .

I'm like , no , I could never do that . See , look at that little dent he put into that water tower . And then Kakashi was like uh , there's something you need to see , sasuke went on the other side of that tower and I went oh hell , no , he . You need to see , I was getting on the other side of that tower . Oh hell , no , he did that .

That could have been me , oh heavens , no . Oh wait , wait , wait . Is Naruto stronger than me ? Oh no , no , no , no , I'm fucking up , I'm fucking up . Let me hit up Orochimaru , because he did say that he had an offer to make me stronger on the table . I'm going to hit him up . I ain't going to have Naruto , of all people , showing me up .

Hell , nah , let me hit him up . Sound 4 being the escort hey yo , we're here to pick you up . You want to see your people before you want to do ? And I'm like , no , I don't really got people , so I don't know . Now , then sakura's showing up trying to confess her love and whatnot . You know , that's just . I like nah bitch , I need to do .

Yeah , I like nah bitch , I need to do me . I gotta go take this back . You know what I'm saying .

But really , though , I think he would have just like he wouldn't really cared about the vengeance as much because , you know , talk no jutsu , but feeling behind Naruto , yeah , I'm like , bro , ain't no way .

You know , kind of like with Vegeta choosing to be controlled by Majin Buu , like even though he wasn't exactly in complete control , like Babidi wasn't completely in control of Vegeta , but it was more like I'm allowing you to boss me around for the power boost .

By the way , when we get deep into shifu , you will understand why . He was just so locked in on vengeance that at first he thought he was doing pretty good , like okay , well , I'm progressing fairly well . It's not like I'm going against any heavy hitters that I can't handle .

But then he started fighting dudes like rock Lee and others to a point where oh hell , no , I'm slipping now , and so it's like it's not even about power , it's about pride , to where I'm not strong enough to beat these guys . I'm definitely not strong enough to beat Itaki . So , like I said , I need to find a cheat code or something to close the gap .

Tell me about the strengths and weaknesses of the team , bro well with rock lee .

Mainly because , like I said earlier , the where the reason why he was told to be a shooting in the first place is the fact that , with shikamaru Having an IQ of 200 . He should have enough Intelligence , foresight and what not To think 5 , 6 , 7 steps ahead .

You know , like Shogi when he played Shogi with Asuma Sensei , to where you need to be able to think 5 to 10 steps ahead of your opponent , and Shikamaru was the type of guy To do that . So he would also be the type of guy who would have like contingency and shit , like kind of like on some Batman shit .

So it would make sense for Shikamaru To be the most calculating of them all . Even though he don't look it , he will probably Figure something out , even if it's on the fly .

And it's kind of apparent in the fight between him and kaguya , where he pretty much had to use more inventive ways to use his shadows , and I love his development in that shadow possessions usage , where it gets more and more interesting as it go along .

So , yeah , I think shigemaru being chosen to be leader makes sense because of how he's able to plan ahead , but also the type that would have plan a , b , c and whatnot , kind of like dr strange , you know , like multiple possibilities can go out .

So let's just hope for the best now for the team up naruto , him with his clones , he can essentially cover the most ground . Kiba with his sense of smell , with akamaru oh yeah , akamaru . Uh , they can track sasuke by scent in case sight or whatnot is not going to be very strong , so they can at least track him down during scent .

Neji can be the eyes , as far as like , with his Byaku gun and whatnot . Shino same thing with Naruto with the bugs can cover a lot of ground with the bugs . And Shigemaru was the fifth one . So I already explained him .

Yeah , I think it was , because think of the way he lined them up when he was explaining his whole plan to where , essentially , oh yeah , there's Choji , choji , right , honestly , I would say with Choji , even though I like his fight with Jirobo , I'm not 100% sure .

Honestly , I would say with Choji , even though I like his fight with Jirobo , I'm not 100% sure why he's their other man . You know , he's Choji's boy , I mean , he's Shigemaru's friend and teammate and whatnot . But he was a good addition . I'm not going to care .

Because I'm like , once again , you will never see that again and I hated that . At least give me like one more good time in Shippuden . If you gave me that one more good time in Shippuden , I wouldn't have said shit . But I'm like oh , hold on , jojo . What was that one form you did when you during the Sasuke Retriever ? What happened to that form ?

I don't know . I like Neji's fight with Kana and Ukon felt more like symbolic , if anything , because Sakana and Ukon had to split apart to become more effective . Meanwhile Kiba and Akamaru came together to be stronger . I like the parallels in that one Shikamaru and Kaguya . Once again it was just mainly about Shikamaru and Kaguya .

Once again , it was just mainly about Shikamaru using his shadow Possession juice in different ways . But those four fights get in their own right . But then we get to See the secret boy Of the sound . Four , or should I say the sound five Kimimaro and I was kind of interested in his ability to manipulate his bones to a point where he can .

He fucking pulled his own backbone out as a sword and I was like , oh man that man's a menace yeah , I was kind of all for all those bones protruding from his body and all that shit and Naruto was kind of all for all those bones protruding from his body and all that shit and Naruto was kind of having trouble up until that boy , rock Lee , comes in for

the save with the drunken fist style . And I honestly didn't expect a drunken fist style , honestly , like I'm give me a minute . I have to take my medicine yeah , like , okay to be fair , give me a minute , I have to take my medicine . Yeah , like okay to be fair , using the eight gates is going to be kind of risky ever

since the whole tuning exam . So I wouldn't blame him if he's like okay , let's calm down , let's not resort to that this soon . But Drunken Fist was interesting . Like , but Drunken Fist was interesting . He was like dodging , weaving and all that shit without even really trying that much Like staggering .

Like you would think it'd be kind of cool if it was like later down the line . You know gara being friends with naruto now , but it's almost like they had to make that connection immediately to where , like hey , uh , no hard feelings about what happened at tuning exams , right , I'm like hey man , you know you saved my life , so fuck it even I guess .

Um , and also you know naruto and gar is like hey man , like I appreciate what you said back in the tuning exam . You know I'm trying to get right with god and all that shit . I'm like good for you .

You and I I was like , oh lord , here you go . They're gonna pan to that swing Bro the fact that girl was on a fucking swing during his own childhood , where I was like bro the parallel . I was that kid sitting on that swing too . I was that kid that people was afraid of too .

I was that kid that everybody wanted to kill , just like you , but you know what I didn't let that people was afraid of too . I was that kid that everybody wanted to kill , just like you , but you know what ? I didn't let that get me down . That's the difference between you and me , though , but you can change it around .

You just chill out , be cool and , you know , start all over . You know , because you know you got your siblings and whatnot . Hey , man , like you can't be like acting , like you can take on the whole world on your own . Like you got people that want to be in your corner , you just gotta let them be in your corner .

That's way later during the hida and kakuzu arc what that's later yeah , that's way later bro , because all the , really all the fights feel like an arc , bro , yeah , right .

So I would say after the Sockley retrieval arc it was more like a dead air space at that point , up until we get to Shippuden , and then it's like , okay , we need to go save Gar from being kidnapped from Nikoski , and then it starts back to being like back-to-back bullshit going on .

So there's like some spaces in between for sure okay , I ain't got my remember ball . That's what it is no see , that's why we're doing this review to where , like , we're gonna get there when we get there . But uh , yeah , that fight with kimmy morrow great , loved it .

But let's get to the fight that we really want to talk about naruto versus sasuke , part two , the one fight that inspired so many lincoln park amvs , many Linkin Park AMVs , with the fucking Vermillion Rasengan versus the Black T-Dory .

But , point being , we understand that when Kakashi developed the lightning blade , he developed it to be able to protect his comrades . But he taught Sasuke how to use lightning blade , which Sasuke called a chidori , because you know the birds and all that . The bird sound going off .

But the irony is that Sasuke is using a technique that was born to protect comrades against a comrade . Ironic , isn't it ?

Uh , outside of that , you know there was hands and yeah , like that's what I love about naruto , like with the big three , like , okay , I would say , when it comes to power scaling , I'm gonna be honest with you , bleach got it because they're like universal level with the whole dimension warping and whatnot . I'm gonna let bleach have that .

One piece has heart too and whatnot . Like , I would say , as far as like story building , it is king of story building with naruto . Yeah , it has story building , whatnot , but I would say out of the three , it has the most heart .

It has so much emotional weight to it to where , like you connecting all these dots and you're like my emotions , god damn , because it's like these echoes to the past where you see folks like the first hokage versus madara , you have obito versus kakashi , naruto versus skasuke , then later we're gonna have burrito versus kawaki , and it just feel like these echoes of

the same shit going on and the way all this shit connects and whatnot , in a way that's beautiful , like especially when we get to the fourth shinobi war , which is way later , shippuden , where it seemed like bro , like so much sense just clicked at that point , to where it just feels like you understand the characters better , but also it just feels like everything

happened for a reason and it just like history is going to constantly repeat itself unless somebody's brave enough to break the cycle , like someone like naruto , so to speak . To where , hey yo , we need to cut this shit out because we can't have this anymore .

To where we having innocent people die , people being betrayed and all the other shit going on and you got problematic people being left unchecked . Looking at you .

so I'm like , hey , man , like he wasn't much of a if he called himself hokage , he wasn't much of one anyways , he was like man . He wasn't even in the position long enough for it to matter . So what does it matter ? It took a while for Tsunade's face to get on the mountain , but at least he earned it .

But the first time around that started the whole bullshit with Shippuden to where it no longer became about ninjas just Started the whole Bullshit with she put into air . It no longer became about Ninjas just doing missions and what not . It became about how A boy who has a dream To become a Respectful leader of his village , how can he save a whole village ?

It's like I believed in what naruto was trying to do to where , like , hey man , I can't even call myself a good hokage if I just let my comrade just walk away , especially when we could have talked to him .

Like hey bro , like we understand that you're trying to get your revenge , because , keep in mind , like in this world , killing isn't even a crime , like I mean , unless you're killing somebody that's within your own village , like a leaf ninja killing another leaf ninja okay , we can't have that .

But if you out in the wild killing other people , hey man , that's none of my business it's a serious kind feeling , wet dream oh hey , that ain't got nothing to do with us , like they ain't one of ours , so why do ?

You know , like you're like a brother to me , bro , like I don't have much of a family , but I consider you family , so family , you know , ohanami family . We're going to talk about it later bro .

That's like looking at anko you remember anko , right where it's like she was . Yeah , she was like a baddie when she was like first introduced and I , hey , you know , like I'm not trying to pass shame , but like I'm looking at anko now and anko in the past , I'm feeling like what happened ?

mhm yeah , like I said , like with some of these characters , after you watch part 2 or maybe Boruto and you rewind back into part 1 , you're just like god , like I can't look at you the same way I did the first time because I didn't know you at first , but now that I know you better , seeing you in this light again , it's like I can't even hold you .

Well , hold on , it really depends . Like , sometimes it's like you know what I'm going to blame you for you being the way you are , and sometimes I'm sitting there like what the fuck happened to you ? Like you used to be badass in the part one and now you're just like barely even involved .

Like 1010 , for instance , where , like you're thinking , a girl that specializes in ninja tools okay , that makes sense for a ninja world , right . But if everybody's using all these flashy juicies and whatnot , then Ten somehow became so irrelevant to a show that was about ninjas and she's a girl with ninja tools .

It would have made sense for her to be utilized more , but nah , nah , ever since her you even call it a fight if it's one-sided . Ever since she got folded by Tamari Irrelevant , and I just kind of hate for that to happen to characters when , like you got a character that seems cool , but then somehow you just write them off the show .

almost like tomorrow was oral farming and Shigemaru was up in that dance . Like that's my future baby mama right there yeah , that's crazy bro bro , that's crazy .

Now I think about it to where , even though they didn't like have a formal introduction beforehand , but it's crazy how Shikamaru and Tamari could probably share the same kind of story that Goku would have with Chi-Chi , where , like , yeah , remember , remember the first time we met we were fighting each other and I was kicking your ass yeah , that makes sense were

fighting each other and I was kicking your ass , yeah . That makes sense . No , like Sigmar , he folded , but hey , he was the only one that got promoted for tuning them , so did he really lose ?

But I'm thinking about that spring sports festival where that first round where , like , okay , they either had to like fight the robot or save the people , and my boy , deku , was like , hey , yo , let me just go ahead and take out this robot , even though that probably not going to warrant any points .

But oh , surprise , surprise , that gave him like a whole lot of points which made him a prime target for the next part . Yep , but no , the point being is that sometimes getting a dub , you might get dubs in a way you don't expect .

So sometimes you gotta just roll with it , kind of like how a happy accident would happen when you're doing something , you know like You're throwing something away and you probably didn't expect it to go in the basket , but it kind of bounced off the trash can to a point where it kind of bounced off the rim just a little bit until it actually goes in .

I was like , hey , I'll take it .

But if anything , the villagers left him alone for the most part Like someone would pick on him , but for the most part they just left him alone . Gar had actual hits out on him , so I can understand why Gar would be like tweaking a little bit . So you know , I would be too . If someone's out to get me , I'm like hey , man , like I hate to quote Aubrey .

but it's like that one line he said in that one song he did with Nicki Minaj , moment for Life , where he was like Sorry if I'm way less friendly , I got niggas trying to end me .

So Naruto could have been a monster just like Gaara , and Naruto could have turned out kind of like Sasuke to where all Naruto needed was that one shady figure to be like hey , yo you , I bet you get real tired of them disrespecting you and all that Like , yeah , man , I'm just trying to do the best I can .

Yeah , man , I hear you , bro , like hey , check this out , come over to my crib and I'll hook you up with some power and you're going to get that respect that you deserve .

But I don't think it's also a betrayal , because Sasuke's Standards wasn't really Defined like we never really knew how far he would Really go for power , I mean , you know , not powerful for vengeance , but yeah , he wants to seek vengeance on itachi for slaying the uchiha clan , but we never had a clear idea of how far he's willing to go to achieve . That .

Like Sasuke's been like a stoic mystery up until , yeah , I want to say right up until the Sasuke Retrieval Arts , where , like , he was kind of that cool guy that no one can really read , can really read . Up until the Sasuke retrieval arts , where it becomes more understandable that he was .

So he had tunnel vision On Itachi To a point where Him catching elves From different people , including Naruto , and not in a sense where , like Naruto Beat him outright , but more like Naruto was outshining him and saving Sasuke from certain situations where I'm like , ah , this is getting a little embarrassing .

It's kind of like with Deku and Bakugou , to where Bakugou didn't like it when Deku was being like so helpful and saving him and shit . I'm like I didn't ask you to save me , jackie , get the fuck out of my way . Yeah , I'm trying to do my thing out here and you make me deal with the bitch .

I'm like , did I ask ?

I'm letting none of all people get the hose before I get the hose you know , I mean , I was just playing with his hole , but like he had to be like going around impressing people . No , no , hell , no , let me , let me get a but now you know what I'm doing . Doing . I said what I said about the Suck the Retriever . It was an amazing arc . I loved it .

It was like Damn like it kind of Rivals , you tuning them Like I don't know which one I like more . Like tuning them or Suck the Retriever , because they both hit differently .

Yeah , but they're very good in their own right I agree it's hard to choose between the arcs that's what I told one like when I was on social medias where somebody was saying , like what was the best arc in nars ? Oh hell , no , bro , you can't do that bro , because like these arcs hit so differently depending on what art you're talking about .

Depending on what art you're talking about , it hits in a different level to where I'm like , nah , bro , you can't do that bro , like you can't be ranking them like that Because , like some of them go in different lanes , like maybe it's emotional , maybe it's just high-octane action .

Like maybe we get some character development or some backstory that will explain some shit development or some backstory that will explain some shit kind of like with bleak .

When we get to season 11 , where we get some backstory on the soul reapers , why eisen was experimenting on the uh what who became the visors and what that , who were like we kind of understand what was going on . Like see , depending on what art , it hits different .

So , like I just said , with the tuning exam and the substitute retrieval art , it's kind of hard to say which one's better because even though both are good , they both hit differently . It really depends on the theme . Like , if it's like two of the same theme , then it would be an easy comparison .

But if you're talking about , say , for instance , search for Tsunade , where it was about Tsunade Running away from her past , and with the Sasuke retrieval arc , it's about Sasuke Having a wounded pride , fell into darkness , just gain more power to achieve its goal .

Excuse me , I'm kind of spacing out , but yeah , like these are just hit so differently that it's kind of unfair to rank them . All I can say is there were some arts . That was mid at the very least , and then there was some really good arts that was really talking about some shit . But that's all I had to say . On the Sasuke pre-war , it was gas .

That's all I'll say .

With that being said , let's go ahead and close this one out . Thank you for being on the show with me for this part and I thank the listener for listening to the end . Go ahead and have yourself a good morning , good afternoon , good evening and good night , but ultimately , you take it easy .