Anyways, the fourth installment of Naruto Abridged made up for about the last 30 episodes of the actual show. Except for those ones with the badgers that lived on Naruto's back... those memories will haunt me forever... *twitches* o_O
On the saner side of things though, Yu-gi-oh Abridged 14 taught us a valuable lesson: Kaiba must die... but only when you're sure he'll be really really dead. In America.
So yeah, I futzed around with my blog some more. Stella was bothering me with "how do I put a background image" and "I'm a nub about blogging" and "pete's a damn nub, I mean wtf!" so I got into a mood and just went with it. Changing the colors around was a lot more bitchy than you'd think, especially getting two different link styles on one page. CSS and tables and ripping my hair out. Anyways, I got it done and I think it looks pretty good. The background image was a lot of fun to make, and worked out insanely well in both 1024x768 and 1280x1024. Believe it.
Other than that I stayed up even later after all that to play fkn sims 2. I know, shutup. My sims have aspirations! Deal with it. I spent like two hours before warcraft furnishing this massive house for my family, the Lawlzingtons, and the goddamn thing didn't save. So I had to do all that shit over again. I went to bed at like five in the morning. Oh well, it's officially "sleep upstairs on some tree boxes day" at work. I shall go do that soon. And when I get home, it's Heroes time. See ya later, chief.
So you're not satisfied with the antics of Rock Lee and his random retarded dojo? ORLY! Well, guess what. There's still some good anime out there. Ya, wai.
Kiba. This one has just passed the thirty episode mark and it continues to escalate in excellence. Upon watching the first few episodes, I found myself going, "huh? what is this madness..." But I pressed on, and what began as a seemingly random smattering of odd fantasy/sci-fi tidbits soon congealed itself into a cohesive whole with a totally badass fantasy setting. Basically, it took me a bit to get used to the crazy ass "spirits" that every decent "shardcaster" uses to battle. Spirits are giant floating thingies. No, seriously. As often as they have a humanoid shape, they also look like turtles or flying diamonds... or whatever. Shardcasters will summon their spirits, and let them have at it while they fight each other with energy swords *cough*lightsabers*cough*. Shardcasters also randomly throw little orbs that can explode with different forms of energy or make smokescreens, etc.
I know, that's what made it hard to stick with in the beginning. It was intriguing, but seemed too weird and anti-killing-and-blowing-stuff-up for my normal tastes. However, after they introduced some cool badguys and random killings of family members, things started to look up. Now, thirty-one episodes in I'm hooked. The story is insanely intriguing and the characters are all being fleshed out. There's some nice twists all throughout that keep the "Oh damn!" experiences coming. The story follows Zed, a boy who somehow is teleported out of Calm, his home city that resembles modern day Tokyo. He finds himself in a whole new world, in the nation of Tempura.
And that brings me to my favorite part about this show: the setting. I dare say it comes in a close second to Eberron right now for "Badass Fantasy Places". The setting consists of five different nations; Tempura, Jimoto, Neotopia, Task, and Ulbacus. Tempura is your most basic fantasy type nation under rule by a council of wisemen. They are allied with Neotopia, a nation that follows the "Ultimate Rules" without exception. They are zealots of the highest order, kinda crazy and nazi-like. The "bad" nations are Jimoto and Task. Jimoto is run by the antagonist who, of course, wants to rule the whole world. Task is a harsh nation of beastmen and conniving/insane humans. Ulbacus is the technology nation. Every setting needs one of those, right? From what I've seen, it seems the main (and possibly only) means to travel between nations is through use of "shifting shards". Basically, shards that create teleportation circles.
The music is so-so and at times even detracts from what's going on, though much less often in the later episodes. The first ending was a little strange, which didn't help the initial opinion I was forming of the show. The second ending was a huge upgrade in quality of music as well as animation. The second opening and third ending are both superb, with excellent music and great animation sequences. The show itself, in fact, has seemed to get higher quality animation as time went by. Perhaps budgets rose as interest grew, who knows.
The final word is this: It's not Naruto!! But seriously, this show rocks. It's at a great point and continuing forward superbly. Check it out.
NARUTO! WE DEMAND MEANINGFUL CONTENT! CEASE AND DESIST ALL NON-MAIN PLOTLINE ACTIONS AT ONCE! FOUR OUT OF FIVE DENTISTS PREFER YOU NOT SUCKING ANYMORE!
Seriously. Stop it. Your new opening and ending sequences brought a glimmer of hope back to crushed hearts. We can see the "older and wiser" naruto hiding in your damnable shadow. We see him!! Don't deny it... where are you going!? Come back here we're not done berating you!
You ran us kicking and screaming through flower ninjas and that one with the fucking rich retarded kid WHO LEARNED A VALUABLE LESSON and we allowed it. We sat calmly while you did some shit with some star ninjas who wanted to save their village or something and that one kid's mom was gonna die BOOHOO and they too learned a valuable lesson. We even watched as you allowed fat elvis impersonators to fall in love with fat retarded sakura look-alike princesses or was it Ino, I don't even remember and we asked "PLEASE FILLER, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?" And you delivered, oh yes you did. Sharks in the sky and shino LAUGHING. HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO LAUGH WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING HE LIKES BUGS GODDAMNIT(*&#@!!!!
And so we too have learned a valuable lesson: Never pet a burning dog. And filler fucking sucks. That which you have given us thus far we allowed, for better or worse. Now, though, has come the time when the madness must end. We ask you. No, we beg you. No, the cat fucking demands with poor penmanship that you allow forthwith and furthermore...
