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Alright, then.
That's an aspect I hadn't thought about, yet, but it would seem you're right. They've generally ruined the entire war's pacing by deciding to add in their poorly done fillers. Yes, I have seen them, that's why I talked about them previously. I've also watched the filler showing Utakata's fight with Pein. Still, I'm not pleased even with the canon parts. I'm pleased for the mere fact that they finally ARE canon; their quality is still poor, though.
Well, I imagine people only used to the anime are kind of thrown into the cold water by switching to the manga; no animations, no soundtrack and all. When I first switched I watched the chapters as videos on youtube containing Naruto soundtrack. Meanwhile, of course, I read them on MangaStream, HavenReader or NarutoBase and play the soundtrack myself. Of course, it's way better in the long run.
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Thank you, my dear. Well, that does look more official than the fan-colored chapter; yet I don't like it at all. The colors convey no feeling of night whatsoever; not to mention those indeed horribly misplaced golden Chakra arms. Was that just a one-shot, or is there a regular releasing schedule behind those colorations?
I see no other reason than greed. At this point, I cannot be bothered watching those brazennesses anymore; after having forced myself to take a look at the Oto Quartet's silly revival, which ended with - I think it was Ino, Shikamaru and Chouji - being dragged into some sort of hell-dimension, where they were destined to remain for the entire next episode, I ultimately gave up even looking for new episodes until I'd finally have the pleasure of reading something along the lines of 'Finally no more fillers'. Pierrot has decreased the anime's standards to a point where I'm already satisfied having an episode that's merely free of any filler, regardless of its low quality. Respectively, my hopes for the future are as low as yours; unfortunately including recent and current climaxes. In the end, my only hope is that the anime's embarassing quality eventually forces people to get in touch with the manga, which they'll enjoy a lot more in the long run.
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It was definitely just a one shot. I don't foresee them doing anything like this in the near future, besides the few page color that Kishi does every now and then.
I think they easily could have cut that episode into just one, it worked as that, but they decided to drag it on... For whatever reason that was. I feel like them being revealed like that as edo tensei, also ruined their appearance through Kabuto's body. Just to avoid confusion, you have seen the Madara reveal episode right? If not, I'd highly recommend it, along with the most recent episode where Utakata fights the Six Paths of Pain (but just the fight, anything past that is pointless filler). I'm the quality has turned many dedicated viewers into reading the manga. I don't see any reason not to either. With the pacing the anime has, I would lose my mind waiting for good content. The current episodes are supposed to be canon for at least a month, but it seems like old habits return, as they find ways to squeeze them in.
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Wonderful. Those intense colors are gorgeous, while at the same time, I love the way the drawings and lines still resemble the original page. If only the anime could be more like this..
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Your words are much appreciated. It's a bit sad since apparently these colors are wrong, having realized this after seeing the official colored chapter. I did enjoy this purplish color, while working on it, so I will miss it. I do wish the anime would carry alot of the detail these pages have, as well as the action. It's all very intense with lots of action, and the animations seem to have too much static scenes especially when it comes down to things like this. Which, in my opinion, really dry up the action.
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What officially colored chapter are you talking about? To my knowledge, the only colored chapters are absolutely fanmade; there is no such thing as official colorations. In fact, the only canon sources to define those colors are the colored volume covers and colored pages within the chapters, made by Kishimoto himself. I adore that intense violett; it brings color to Obito's presumably grey and trist new form. At the same time, violett - while being such a wonderful color - expresses malice and evil. Gorgeous work; I hope to see more of them in the future.
Well, I agree. The anime has been riding downhill for a long time, now. Most of the animations are, unfortunately, wobbly trash, while the drawings are flat, undetailed and don't blend in with the environment. I can hardly enjoy the anime anymore; one gets the impression that Studio Pierrot loses interest in Naruto. The result is a half-hearted and unprofessionally feeling anime. What's even worse are those fillers.
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There was a colored chapter published by WSJ a few chapters back of the introduction of Obito's Ten Tails transformation. It was assumed to be directed by Kishi/Ado (if that' his name), but they did not color it themselves. So I took it with a grain of salt, but I feel that there is a lot of truth to it. Although I really disliked how they colored Obito's chakra arms the same as Naruto's, which made no sense to me.
I always feel the defense of doing a good job on the anime, is that it will eventually end, so to leave a lasting impression would certainly be appreciated. The recent episode showcasing Madara is now the prime example I go to, in terms of quality animation, and visual storytelling. That fight scene being awesome, had such a grimace theme to it. I felt bad for these fodder, since just showing a few frames of their emotion, helped me to sympathize with their situation. This was especially true with the scene following the chibaku tensei. I know the top notch animators are expensive, but can they not afford them more often? That's what I'm often left wondering. I mean if they can put two and two together, more top notch intense animation= more profit in the long run (which will attract people to see the amazing action/story). As for fillers, I wish they would keep to that to a bare minimum, they sincerely abuse the crap out of it. Seeing a flashback of why something happened is mine, what I don't need to see is the 10 extra minutes of crap they put out, after the important information is done, of pants and repetitive stories (an example of that would be Utakata's flashback in the most recent chapter).
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Released by Shounen Jump? Entirely colored? That's new to me. May I have the link? For all I know, there is a fan-group releasing the chapters in color a few days after their official release; but as I said, that's nothing official or canon.
Crowds of people consider that episode the most pleasant one in a long time, though still, it pales in comparisson to the early ones. Various animations still have an awful resemblence with what happened during famous episode 137, which was the first episode to make me notice the decrease in quality. Quite clearly, for that matter.
Regarding fillers, they're an extremely double-edged sword to me. While an extreme nuisance - especially to people exclusively watching the anime; at the very least, the worst abominations brewn by Pierrot heavily scratch their general image of the anime, I believe - there were also fillers I found to be very pleasant and fitting. Fillers I watched before reading the manga, and far before getting familiar with older chapters; fillers, whose absence gave certain passages a feeling of incompleteness. Prime example of such fillers is, to me, Kimimaro's flashback. Displaying his sheer loneliness and difficult childhood, heavily increasing the basis for his affection towards Orochimaru and thus deepening their relationship made me feel sympathy towards Kimimaro more than the manga alone ever could have. Entire episodes or even arcs composed of filler-content, however, are the anime's worst enemy; there couldn't be anything more anti-climating, especially when inserted as cleverly as Stuido Pierrot does. Those months of bullshit destroyed any form of serious tension the anyway poorly animated war arc had managed to build up until that point. Even now, after Naruto finally engaged Tobi, their previous Utakata-filler-arc forces them to add yet another half episode of pure filler. Ultimately, I'm not enjoying the anime even half as much as I used to, these days. The sole reason for continuing it is.. well, that it's Naruto; I'm heavily favouring the manga, though. In the end, Studio Pierrot isn't doing Naruto as a whole any favour by neglecting the anime like that. Why not just take a break for a few weeks? Show all 13 episodes of, say, Elfenlied and then continue Naruto without any fillers disrupting the atmosphere?
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I made an album for you on imgur of it (that same album has all our past colored chapters as well). imgur.com/a/qHs8Y It was only that chapter though, to celebrate some anniversary. Also by the way I am a part of that fan group doing the weekly coloring, I provide a link to it (on the DA submissions I make) as soon as we finish, which is around Sunday/Monday.
I am in the same boat as you. I have watched them ritually now for quite some time. It is difficult to try not to defend at this point, because I know what they are capable of doing. The break suggestion is something I have heard of often, and could not agree more with. I'm not sure why they continue to release weekly disappointment one after another. It's getting to the point to where it's effecting all of the canon episodes. Where now, they are losing quality. The episode following Madara's arrival, had so many mistakes it made me upset (Madara'a eye sticking out beneath his hair, Oonoki talking, with the Raikage's mouth moving, the dreadful Rasengan barrage). There's too much I'm afraid for now, that I'm sure they will screw up. I feel like the war wasn't taken seriously until recently, and that was only for a very brief moment. I'm trying to imagine what they will do now with where the war is currently. How will they present the Juubi? Juubito? The Kage's return, Sasuke's arrival? It seems like they only have room to make a good episode, once every 50, and all of those events happens one after another. So knowing that, something is going to have to be ruined, which none of those moments should.
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