Summer Boredom: NARUTO

So, yeah. I've got nothing to do right now... Pretty boring. I know I made one of my goals this summer to beat as many games as possible in my free time, but I guess I have no motivation to do so. No wonder I never really beat any games unless I really like them. Umm, so yeah. Nothing to do, just another boring day! Although there are plenty of things I could be doing... Watching anime and finishing School Rumble up. Yup that's one. Oh and beating all the games that I have yet to beat. So yeah, Den gave me the idea of blogging about Naruto. So I think I'm going to do that!

*ahem* Naruto was one of the first anime that I have every got into! I was introduced to it by my friends actually, but my cousin is the one that really got me into it. He was able to find all the episodes for me to watch, and I did just that! I actually really liked Naruto at the time! I felt like Naruto was someone like me, who wanted to be accepted into society, and I grew rather fond of the character himself. Also, the Haku story arc was what really drew me in, just because Haku was just super awesome. The Chuunin Exam did keep things interesting actually, but it did last for QUITE a long while, and I was wondering when it was going to end. I mean, they had the Written Exam, the Forest of Death, and then the tournament! The tournament which, obviously lasted quite a while as they had to depict fight after fight. The anime did a pretty good job with it though, even adding the Tenten vs. Temari fight, which was over too quickly to even notice in the manga.

Anywho, I really felt my interest in the series waning significantly once Sasuke actually did something dumb and went to join Orochimaru. Sasuke is a character I have never liked throughout the series, he just always irritated me with his emoness. Ugh, I always even liked Sakura better than Sasuke! Although a lot of people disagree with me here, but that's for you guys to argue with me about, because I frankly just don't care for Sasuke. Anywho, I was interested after the Time Jump and followed it in the manga until after the whole Rescue Gaara arc, which wasn't too too bad, it actually gave Sakura some growth as a character, which was great. But in the end, it would be mostly focused on Naruto of course, I just find it odd how they have so many characters, yet only so few are so important. One Piece does a good job with distributing character's time in it's koma pages, as everyone in the crew has their own thing. Anywho, I honestly think that Naruto is overrated now, and I haven't been following the series for a long while, but I'm led to believe that it is currently going downhill.

Oh, and I also recently heard from my cousin that Sasuke actually DOES get his revenge against Itachi! Great, now Elizabeth is going to be super devastated, oh well. Hinata needs more koma time IMO, she's an awesome character. ~end rant~

Kanon

Well, I just finished watching Kanon today, I have to say while it is a very good anime with a very great ending. Overall, it was very depressing! I suppose that's partly why I like it though, it's a change of pace from my other happy anime. Kimi ga Nozomu Eien was depressing to, but not exactly in the way that would have been pleasant. Kanon however, focuses on things like dreams and miracles, plus there is the supernatural factor in Kanon, which automatically makes it better. Haha, well why would I want to watch realistic anime if I already live in the real world? xD I actually grew to like practically all the characters. Ayu is just plain awesome, Mai is uber cool, Nayuki is funny, Makoto is pretty cool too, and Shiori is awesome. Haha, I repeated myself several times there. A lot of the supporting characters were pretty awesome as well, man I need a better vocabulary. Anywho, thanks again Kristina for recommending this anime to me! Haha, now you got me starting to watch Air, which I should be starting soon. I still need to watch Gunslinger Girl though.

Anywho, since I haven't been blogging as often as I should have been, I'll just talk about what happened yesterday I guess. Smash character news! Peach finally has her profile! She seems to play practically the same as she did in SSBM, which would be expected. Haha, probably her Final Smash will come from Super Princess Peach though, something about her has to. It's a good thing though, I'm pretty good with her! Haha, I can somewhat kick ass with her, it's quite fun. I actually never intended to play as her at first, but I started using her in the event battles, it was fun! So I started getting pretty good with her because I was playing the event battles with her. Haha, it sucks though. I think I'm better with her than Kirby now. Kirby is my favorite Nintendo character, has been since elementary school! I hope I can get better at Kirby when Brawl comes out. :o The character I'm best with right now would have to be Pikachu. Haha, but in Brawl, I have so many characters I want to main all at the same time! Pikachu, Kirby, Meta Knight, Ike, Pokemon Trainer, Pit, Peach, somewhat Zelda, Yoshi. Good heavens! Haha, I guess I like video game characters too much. Peach's design is pretty awesome though! Her dress hasn't looked that way before, and she looks much more detailed than any of her previous incarnations. Oh and she has her parasol from Super Paper Mario! She still uses Toad as a shield though, which I consider very sad. Poor Toad!

Anywho, Elizabeth came over to my house yesterday! We pretty much spent the day playing her Naruto game and unlocking all the characters. Turns out, we didn't even have to work to get them all! It was pretty fun being Tsunade and Hinata though. Haha, it sucks though, she could pwn me pretty easily with Itachi. He must be rigged or something! The game was dubbed though, so I pretty much cringed when I heard something out of character and got a bit annoyed by the voices. Haku shouting "Gang way!"? Whoever thought Haku would ever say that is insane! Sasuke saying "Chew on this!" made me cringe! Okay, I suppose that's enough ranting about dubbed voices. Haha, oh well. It was fun though, me and Elizabeth were pretty even on matches for once! Probably only because she used Itachi though. :3 Wow, I'm surprised. I acutally like the English boxart better than the Japanese one! Haham the English one is pretty cool, so... I'm posting that one up instead of the Japanse one like I usually do!