this post brought to you by the power of coffee

[amatyultare]

Have I mentioned that I really have developed a serious caffeine addiction? I blame the whole me-starting-to-like-coffee thing.

But. BUT! My paper is DONE! And it's SPW (even though it's supposed to rain all weekend, sigh).

I suddenly realized that I could watch Naruto episodes on YouTube. And while really, watching fansubs on YouTube is just as bad as downloading them, it doesn't feel as wrong. So, I gave into temptation. I just finished episode 7, which had a scene that exemplifies why I find shonen action series so entertaining and yet ridiculous.

[bad guy] You have Sharingan, don't you!

[good guy] Yup

[naruto] What's Sharingan?

[me] Even though you two are staring at each other, about to try to kill one another, you're just going to stop and lecture for five minutes, aren't you?

[good guy] Well, you see...

[me] I knew it

[good guy] blah blah see through illusions blah blah

[bad guy] and that's not all! blah blah you can copy anyone's techniques by seeing it once blah blah

[good guy] cuz I'm just that badass.

[me] cool

[bad guy] Now I kill you!

[good guy] Let's fight!

[me] finally...

(5 minutes later)

[good guy] (copies and uses bad guy's technique to pwn said bad guy)

[me] yay!

[bad guy] You copied my technique??? I am SO UTTERLY SHOCKED that this could happen!

[me] ...

[bad guy] HOW DID THIS HAPPEN! I DON'T UNDERSTAND!

[me] This is why I can't take shonen series seriously...

Okay, that was random...but come on, if you're going to have the characters have long, rambling exposition-dialogue, at least have them REMEMBER IT five minutes later! Not that I don't love this series, because I already do. I just...cannot take it seriously.

Comments

[tarimanveri.livejournal.com]

On the power of coffee: now that I've started drinking it on a daily basis on top of my daily couple of cups of tea, I've started waking up in the morning every few days with a caffeine withdrawal headache. It's pretty pathetic. I feel your buzzed and jittery pain. Not that it feels like pain...

[amatyultare.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I definitely get caffeine-withdrawal headaches too...it's terrible.

[lacontessa11.livejournal.com]

At that point in the series, they were still trying to prove how OMG!BADASS jounin are, so OF COURSE other ninja must be surprised at Kakashi's abilities in order to pump him up. One of the reasons I love this show is how absolutely silly and unrealistic it all is--I love when random things happen/people show up to save the day, and everyone is SO SHOCKED even though anyone with half a brain could figure out it was coming, and it had in fact happened several times already to the same people. Ahh, Naruto. Bleach isn't quite as predictable (but then, it's for an older audience) and Prince of Tennis is completely unpredictable 90% of the time (i.e. when the prince himself isn't playing). I <3 shounen . . . it doesn't make me as happy as shoujo does, but it thoroughly entertains me nonetheless.

One of my favorite Naruto eps was on Cartoon Network yesterday (Josh always sets an alarm for 5:30 to watch it...at least I've got him watching good anime, even if it's *gulp* dubbed), so I'm in a very Naruto-licious mood. Ahhh, Shikamaru, I like you so much.

[amatyultare.livejournal.com]

I haven't even seen Shikamaru in the actual series for more than two mintues...but he is awesome. Your icon=so much love!

P.S. I'm not a fangirl, but I kind of love Sasuke as a character because who can resist someone who says (thoughtfully! with a straight face!) 'I dislike a lot of things, and I don't really like anything'?

[lacontessa11.livejournal.com]

Shikamaru is great . . . I like guys who PRETEND to be jerks, but are really very sweet (unlike guys are actually jerks). That particular ep made me cry the first time I saw it, and I was getting teary yesterday. It's neat how emotional that series actually is.

>_> I can resist him *lol* He's just such an emo kid...