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Gah! I need more Bleach and Naruto. Two of my favourite characters are poised to fight (and in the case of Kakashi has been poised to fight for about ten bloody chapters...)! Scanlators heed my will! *poses dramatically*
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Anyway, have been watching more Naruto; we're up to the third stage of Naruto learning the Rasengan. Tsunade is really an interesting character. I can't say I like her much, but I respect her, which is pretty rare for me and female characters. Naruto really frustrates me on the female character part a lot of the time. On one hand, it has some really strong female characters like Temari and Tsunade, on the other hand, it has some truly weak ones - some of whom I have no problem with (Hinata) and some of whom I do (Sakura). The general attitude in the series is that girls are weak, excepting the few who aren't, and I want to be angry about it, except it's true at least in that universe. Of course, it's the mangaka's fault that the girls are always fighting each other (or Shikamaru *snicker*) or are completely left out.
The spiral thing is annoying too - by spirals I mean the way history repeats itself over and over in Kohona. It drives me insane because you're caught watching a tragedy, and it just seems sloppy that so many past/future characters are simply foils for each other. Nowhere is this more obvious than the Tsunade character arc.
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Anyway, have been watching more Naruto; we're up to the third stage of Naruto learning the Rasengan. Tsunade is really an interesting character. I can't say I like her much, but I respect her, which is pretty rare for me and female characters. Naruto really frustrates me on the female character part a lot of the time. On one hand, it has some really strong female characters like Temari and Tsunade, on the other hand, it has some truly weak ones - some of whom I have no problem with (Hinata) and some of whom I do (Sakura). The general attitude in the series is that girls are weak, excepting the few who aren't, and I want to be angry about it, except it's true at least in that universe. Of course, it's the mangaka's fault that the girls are always fighting each other (or Shikamaru *snicker*) or are completely left out.
The spiral thing is annoying too - by spirals I mean the way history repeats itself over and over in Kohona. It drives me insane because you're caught watching a tragedy, and it just seems sloppy that so many past/future characters are simply foils for each other. Nowhere is this more obvious than the Tsunade character arc.
