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[redbrunja]

I am bored and should be doing school work but am truly in want of a distraction.

Talk to me, please.

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[okroginator.livejournal.com]

The end of it was stellar and spectacular, I will definitely give it that. Kyuubi!Naruto, CS2!Sasuke, the water, the light, the movement, the black Chidori, everything was awesome at the end. I was more referring to the vast middle of the fight, the scenes in the anime fight that didn't appear in the manga at all (the forest stuff, for example). I just didn't feel like they looked as good as the shots based directly on the manga. Maybe it's just me.

Norio Matsumoto? Is he the "good" Naruto animator? Do you know if he did Neji's fight with Kidoumaru? Because, IMO, that was one of the highlights of the entire anime in terms of animation.

[pikabot]

I actually didn't watch all the way through to the end, I stopped at the point where Sasuke goes CS2. I actually saw this long before I read Naruto and had any real interest, and was pretty much blown away by it. When I read up to that point in the manga I was pretty disappointed because it didn't seem halfway as cool as the anime rendition.

Norio Matsumoto is a very good animator, and he comes on for the Naruto anime from time to time. I don't have a full list of what he's worked on, but I do know he did that fight, and I'm pretty sure he did the forest fight between Sasuke and Orochimaru, and the fight between Orochimaru and the Fourth Hokage. He also did the sixth One Piece movie, some work on Flame of Recca, Hunter X Hunter, and Evangelion, and I'm pretty sure he worked on the Digimon movie among others.

Here, just watch this video of his work (warning: boobies near the beginning). It's got fucking awesome background music as an extra bonus.