Hee!

[redbrunja]

Rock Lee? Master of the Drunken Fist?

That. Is. So. Awesome.

And Gaara rescues him! Win!

Also, Temari totally pwning that chick when Shikamaru is like, 'yeah, let's get out of here' was totally, totally awesome. I've been waiting for that scene for a long, long time.

And I have to say, while I know it is a staple of shounan manga, I am so. fucking. sick. of the fight fight, 'they're stronger than I thought, I must level up' fight fight, 'they're stronger than I thought, I must level up' fight fight, they're stronger than I thought, I must level up' fight fight, lather, rinse and repeat for every. single. character over and over and over again.

I mean, Christ, if I was one of these characters, I would just damn well use my most powerful attack and either a.) decimate the fucker or b.) not, and have to get creative.

("Isn't that overkill?" "I think that's just enough kill."

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[solace-adrift.livejournal.com]

Yes. Drunken Lee is awesome. I’d highly suggest watching the anime episode for that because the animation is utterly beautiful.

Shikamaru’s fight here is one of my favorite fights in the entire series, and the end is just awesome. After spending about half hour realizing that no matter how smart he is the other girl just out powers him, Temari just shows up and brushes her off with a single move. Also his line right there about her almost being as scary as his mom? Sweet.

Ah, but see for a ninja using your most powerful technique right off the bat would be suicide. Putting aside the fact that most powerful techniques tend to either take a massive amount of chakra or beat up the user’s body, if an opponent were ever to not die from that technique, or even if another ninja were to see it and not die, enemies could quite easily find a way to counter it. Most ninja only have one or two ninjutsu techniques to call on, and their entire livelihood, hell their lives, depend on it. Case in point: hunter nin. An entire faction of shinobi devoted to making sure these secret techniques, stay secret. This actually happens in a later fight in the manga (I won’t spoil who) where ninja A was utterly defeated the first time he fought ninja B but the second time they fought A wiped the floor with B because he had learned to counter his most powerful techniques.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I think the line is actually 'scarier than my mother.' Which made me cackle.

I understand why it would be suicidal within the world, but as a reader it gets so old.

And I'll look forward to that fight!

[solace-adrift.livejournal.com]

I suppose I agree. I mean, whenever I end up writing Naruto fanfic it is one of the first elements to get tossed out. I always end up striving for a cross between the fight scenes in Samurai champloo, Avatar, and Blade of the immortal. Fast, intense, and brutal.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Avatar does the best power ups. Either they're short and fucking sweet (Toph's mental bending, Katara's bloodbending, Zuko's lightning bending) or you just come back from hiatis and sweet jesus, their hair is longer and they're even more badass than they were before (Katara, Toph, Suki).

And I'm really, really interested in Blade of The Immortal. I keep hearing about it. How many volumes is it?

[solace-adrift.livejournal.com]

Twenty two I think. Mind you, it’s a little hard to tell really, because there’s quite a lag between the Japanese release, the American one, and then the ‘net one. The place where I read it (bleach exile) has up to chapter 130, but the latest spoilers are up to 167. It’s really quite weird. I would still highly suggest reading it, despite the odd release schedule.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Okay, thank you.