Every Naruto Shippuden opening is just:
Establishing shot of a distant scenery of some sort
Naruto in the scenery or staring at it
Sasuke is placed in a mirrored/parallel pose to Naruto
Sakura clutching a kunai looking really really sad about something
Groups doing cool poses. Kakashi is there I guess.
The villains doing cool poses and fight snippets
Naruto running and stopping briefly to stare at something in the distance
The something is Sasuke, and the animation budget has quadrupled to make him look as beautifully tortured as humanly possible
Sakura crying/looking sad again
Naruto and Sasuke moving towards each other or clearly thinking about each other
End it with a group establishing shot. If not that, Naruto & Sasuke staring at each other.
I know I’m like a decade late to this but Sarada still does not look like either her parents. She still looks like a splitting image of Karin with black hair.
It’s just a bad design choice. Sure it’s humbling that the Sasuke Uchiha didn’t just have a daughter, but a daughter who’s a goody two-shoes tomboy nerd. Not tomboyish like Sakura but in a way where if teenage Sasuke met Sarada, he would think she’s lame/uninteresting.
I don’t know why but I always pegged Sasuke as someone who preferred having a son over a daughter. He’s just not a girl dad you know?
Kinda like how Itachi wanted a younger brother than sister. Women and female beings just aren’t important to Sasuke. Sasuke isn’t going to entertain playing dolls or decorating a room with pink and glitter. He’s a tough parent who is just too masculine for girly daughter father things. That’s probably why he’s just not included in her life outside of battle. Another reason why he struggled to connect with her outside of not being in her life.
Finished reading my lost himawari. It’s a SNS doujin that I understand has mixed to positive reviews.
I think it’s okay, a lot wrong with it tbh but there are two stand out chapters/sequences that I really wish were canon.
Naruto’s Hokage inauguration Genjutsu
Like a lot of people, I wasn’t very happy with the that fact Naruto missed his big day. I really like the idea that after Sasuke had heard about Naruto missing the event, he decided to put him in a genjutsu that had him experience it in his own way. It’s really thoughtful from Sasuke’s end, regardless of it coming from a sns fic. I just wish he actually did this because he cares about Naruto and knew how much being Hokage matters to him.
Conclusion to Shippuden Ep 479
This sequence was everything I wanted when I first watched the episode. I was shocked that Naruto was letting Sasuke go again without a fight. It’s like he seemed happy about Sasuke leaving the leaf again after all his efforts. I never thought Naruto would take the news gracefully. Additionally, the idea that Naruto would dissociate and stare into the distance for hours after Sasuke left is chefs kiss. He 💯 did that in canon. I also like the implication, that despite Naruto getting what he wanted on paper, he still doesn’t have sasuke by his side all the time. There is nothing more painful than knowing that phones and all exist (also teleporting) but Naruto doesn’t hear back from Sasuke unless it’s in person which in canon is every two to ten years of radio silence. It’s heart breaking and sometimes, it makes sense why some people think he somewhat moved on to Hinata because he was in some sense, killing time and found a way to cope with Sasuke’s absence by spending time with someone who makes time for you. Nothing is stopping them from seeing eachother and no one is getting chased around.
Anyways, those are my thoughts. Fics about cheating are complicated because the topic itself is such a bummer. I get long time fans being disappointed in the pairings but wow does it feel like major projection at times.
Also it’s weird but I’m conflicted on the sns ship. I still believe it’s one-sided and also Sasuke shouldn’t be in a relationship because he is the problem in all of his pairings. That being said, I like the doujin writers take that sasuke and Naruto would take turns doing each other. Like the thought that both of them thought they were topping. I slightly prefer Sasuke as the one topping but whatever, that’s not important. I’m glad there is no nsfw moments until after the story concluded and everything else was filler lol
Actual poetry
reese malcolminthemiddle. he’s a bully. he’s a master chef. he canonically possesses no sense of empathy. he writes poetry. he ran away and joined the army. he immediately deserted the army. he’s been straight married. he’s been gay married. he’s godless. he’s christian. he had frosted tips.
If Jill didn’t initiate the hand-handing and touching, would it have been like the barn scene 2.0?
Did Clive really expect him and Jill to take their clothes off to dry, vent about his struggles and then get dressed and go to sleep?
He seemed really surprised when they did become more intimate
I really really really want a 90s/2000s coming of age show like Boy Meets World or Malcolm in the Middle but canonically gay. Like I’m talking 90s cameras, graphics, sound equipment for the full effect. I’m talking full-on sexuality crisis for the main character in the same episode style as all the others, where there is a clear setup and story line and it becomes more of a background thing later on and just becomes so normal for the story and the characters that it’s like it was always there, but can be brought back into the forefront for other episode arcs. And then of course you can put in a romance arc… ;)
Just entered my Malcolm in the middle phase
can you imagine cadet cloud seeing seph being all "such a puppy" to zack and then furiosly writing his own self insert fanfiction where sephiroth says that but romantically
Sephiroth and Zack are having a legit tender moment sharing something that was once used as a term of affection by Angeal and meanwhile Cloud is right there aggressively spamming paragraphs of fic in his head.
I can't wait to see more tbh. It's really, really fun to see them acting so weird and chummy around each other. Glad to see that Seph and Zack were at least pretty warmly bonded to each other before...you know.
I love gay dragoons 🏳️🌈
Naruto is fucking insane bc as someone who's never actually watched the anime, I'll have just THE gayest shit pop up on my dash of Sasuke and Naruto, and when I go "oh hey nice edit, this looks really good" I FIND OUT ITS CANON OFFICIAL MEDIA DIRECTLY FROM THE ANIME??? Insane. How did they get away with that.
male lions are known for killing their own cubs