Showing posts with label naruto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label naruto. Show all posts

Sunday, June 27, 2010

This time they turned me into a newt...I got better

Hiya now I don't have time to do a post today so here's a fanfic I made hope you enjoy!!!


*authors note, this is my very first fanfic, and I'm more of drawer than a writer, so constructive criticism would be appreciated*

Chapter 1: Last Midnight Tear

The sun was setting in The Hidden Leaf Village casting shadows over the entire village. There was only so many minutes of sunlight left, half of the sky had even gone dark and a few stars had begun to shine. There was going to be a full moon though so it might be exceptionally bright out if there weren't too many clouds. Hinata was panting heavily and she was sweating and exhausted but determined to keep training till she collapsed, so she focused her chakara. She was in one of the villages forests' and she was in this little area with tall, bright red flowers, trees surrounding the area.

Focus, She thought. She felt a burst of energy and activated her byakugan.

"Eight Trigrams, Protective 64 Palms!" She cried. She spun in place and started to cut the flowers at a precise level, eyes closed (though that did not matter with her byakugan activated) she heard the distinct slitch, slitch, slitch as she cut the flowers in the quiet night. She stopped and then spun around and open her eyes. She saw someone, about 10 yards away and she took an offensive pose.

"Who's there?" Hinata shouted, piercing the air.

"Good eyes," came a firm, but feminine voice "I was hoping I could do a surprise attack in the night but no avail with your byakugan activated eh?" she approached Hinata and she was about 2 yards away. Hinata deactivated her byakugan to preserve chakara but maintained her stance.
"Who are you?" Hinata said, she was worried this person said she had the intention of attacking her and she was low on chakara, she had been training for a few hours now.

"Oh, ehem, forgive me how rude, my name is Akane," She glanced around at the red flowers "appropriate name eh?" (Akane means brilliant red in japanese) she took a step towards Hinata. Hinata finally got a good look at her since she stepped into the moonlight. She had striking blue hair and calm green eyes, a decent sized chest, thin, but clearly muscular arms, and good legs. She was wearing a small necklace with a symbol that said water, a short sleeved dark purple shirt with a weird symbol on it, a black skirt, and a armband with the Village Hidden in the Sand symbol. Her shoes were sneaker like and good for combat. Most of the would be bare skin on her arm was covered with pouches clearly loaded with kunai, shuriken, and other ninja tools.

However Hinata only had an instance to observe all this because just a fractionth of a second after she said stepped towards her she whipped a shuriken at her. Hinata dodged it at the last second.

"Pleased to meet you." Akane said, grinning madly.

"What are you doing?" Hinata said fearfully.

"Getting my revenge!" Akane said angrily.

Akane charged at her with a kunai Hinata spun in place. Hinata activated her byakugan and took a stance.

"Gentle Fi--"
"Oh no you don't!!!" Akane spat out. She cut made a deep cut in Hinata thighs but sill made her cry out in pain, regardless she stayed focused. She found it in her strength to ignore the serious wound. She charged at Akane, who had her back to Hinata and pulled back to strike her. Akane spun out of the way just in time and stood in the perfect spot to strike Hinata in her head, however Hinata dodged it and instead got nicked on the shoulder blades.

"How did you..?" Hinata asked, gripping her shoulder. Akane grinned and in the shadows ran her fingers through her hair.

"You really don't see it?" She had to step into the moonlight again for Hinata to notice it, she gasped in surprise. Her veins were popped out just like with a byakugan.



*END of chapter one. I do have a few things planned for this story Akane will get her own back story (here's a tease the Uchiha clan will also get involved) and unique fighting style and there will be a (hopefully if my writing skills improve and whatnot) epic battle.*


Friday, June 18, 2010

Narutard and Proud of it!

Hello again, I have good news, I just may get a "job" on an anime review site although this has yet to be confirmed. I'll be sure to let you guys know about this.

Naruto Going Green: Recently the Naruto manga officially sold over 100 million books in Japan and to celebrate the creators are going to create "Naruto's Forest". They are going to plant in total 7,610 trees on Japanese mountainsides. Indeed, they will continue to care for the trees for about ten years until they are able to survive on their own. This not only shows that the creators care about the environment (and are trying to plant back the paper they used) but also that they realise what a good milestone this is. In addition people can submit art and maybe receive "a tree" in their name. They'll receive information and a number so they can locate their tree. Personally, I'm just glad they're giving back to the environment.

Legal Scanlations: We all know scanlations are much more of a hassle than illegal uploads for anime, considering most animes you can legally view on site's like Crunchyroll or Hulu. However when it comes to manga scans we're talking a whole new ballpark. Very few sites can claim they legally distribute scans of manga especially mainstream ones. However one site plans on doing so. Digital Manga Publishing says they plan on opening up a site that legally distributes digital manga. However they plan on maker sure owners get their fare share of the pie. My only issue is that from rumors it seems the site will revolve around yoai and yuri. There's nothing wrong with either genre but, establishing the fact that I'm a hetrosexual male, obviously I prefer the later genre. Still it's good to know some sites are cleaning up their act. Many website's are still doing illegal scanlations and are being met with a lawsuit, when it has mostly legal scanlations though. Hopefully this is one website that will work out.

(WARNING: This article contains some explicted language) Hentai Anyone?: Getting to something a few days old it seems Japan is looking to revise the "Nonexistent Youth" Bill. What is this Bill again? Well basically it restricts certain types of porn, namely anime, manga, etc. etc. Basically if it revolves rape or incest or something of that variety. Although it's not too specific, I'm guessing it would either raise the minimum age to view porn in Japan or it would censor it even more so than they do now. I'm not going to try to get into to much detail for the sake of my mental health. But the reason we do have to worry is that some manga with genuine plotline and simply have hentai just for hentai's sake or because it's relative to the plot might be censored or cut out, making the story confusing. Although I havn't read any manga like that I have heard of some good ones that might have to be worried because of this bill. Personally though as long as it doesn't get in the way of my Pantsu I don't care. (Just kidding)

Best Selling Manga in America (According to the New York Times)
#1 Naruto Volume 48
#2 Vampire Knight Volume 10
#3 Bleach Volume 31
#4 Hellsing Volume 10
#5 Black Butler Volume 2
#6 Yu-Gi-Oh! R Volume 5
#7 Alice in the Country of Heart Volume 3
#8 Negima! Master Negi Magi Volume 26
#9 Naruto Volume 47
#10 Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Volume 13

A few comments about the bestseller list actually. I'm thankful that Naruto is up there with two volumes. I'm also thankful that I'm confirming how popular Black Butler is, reassuring myself to check it out. I'm going to start getting my allowance again next week so that's when I'll review Bleach Volume 31 and maybe Naruto. I'm also sort of surprised Yu-Gi-Oh is up there. I had no idea it was THAT popular. Oh well...

Anime Character of the Day: Soifon from Bleach
Soifon quote: "I have no interest in whether it is right or wrong. All I care about is executing orders as a captain of the Gotei 13. All who get in my way are my enemies. All enemies must be slain. That is all that matters."


Sunday, May 30, 2010

Cheerio My Good Man, How About Some Anime and Tea?

U.K. Anime?: A handful of animes were just licensed but not but Adult Swim or 4Kids (thank god) but by Beez entertainment which is a branch of Bandai established in the U.K. It is said that Beez will release Durarara!! (yep those two exclamation points are totally necessary...right?), Vampire Knight, Eden of the East, Mobile Suit Gudam 00, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation. In addition it has licensed Baccano! aniume series and has added Outlaw Star to its anime line up. It's good news because countries like the U.K. and the U.S.A. often get screwed in a bad place with sharp objects when it comes to releases and translations.

Fanime Convention Across the Pond: Continuing with our U.K. theme it is confirmed that co-owner of anime studio Gainax (Hiroyuki Yagami) will be having a "more refined" Fanime convention as opposed to Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. It is said the Project is suppose to be set in the early 1900's England which just leaves me flat out confused. Personally I'll stick to the conventions that feature Narutards like me, as well as Yoko and Misa cosplayers.

Tourism Targeted at Otaku's: Since I love repeating things I'll say it again, the city of Kobe is beginning to target tourism at Oatku's to go to Japan, why they need to do that I haven't a clue. The city of Kobe started airing 4 minutes clips on YouTube promoting tourism. The clip follows a young college student wondering aimlessly around they city and a chicken appears to guide her (I really wish I was making that up) with English subtitles it follows her and the chicken around the city. The short is insanely entertaining and made me want to watch Naruto The Abridged Series for some reason. However if I ever were to visit Kobe all I'm going to be thinking of is giant chickens in Kimonos.

Anime Character of the Day: Yoko from Gurren Lagann
Yoko quote: "What's this little furry thing hiding out in my cleavage?"

Friday, May 28, 2010

Anime NEWS

Bestselling Manga of the week (according to the NY Times)
1. Black Butler #2
2. Black Bird #4
3. Pandora Hearts #2
4. Naruto #47
5. Black Butler #1

Graphic Novel Fail and Win: The Twilight Graphic Novel (ohhhh I'm a vampire gonna suck your blood slpslpslpslp and maybe something else...ooooohh! Big snaps for me!!!) is back to number one on the seperate hardcover best seller list, because Twilight fans don't have enough Twilight stuff to put their load on, meanwhile real graphic novels continue to be ma--...this just in there appears to be Maximum Ride graphic novels as well, but this series is actually good.

Heil Crunchyroll!: Crunchyroll is streaming yet another new anime: Lilpri which is basically Yu-Gi-Oh only imagine it being good, and having The Dark Magician Girl as every single character. Yu-Gi-Oh hentai fans, rejoice. The series created by Sega (remember when they created good games?) is based off of the Sega trading card game and the story revolves around three girls, namely Ringo Yukimori, Leila Takashori, Natsuki Sasahara, who can transform into idol princesses.

Rainbow (no homo) Online: Funimation and Nippon Television Network have reached an agree in the online streaming of "Rainbow - Nisha Rokubo no Shichinin" starting June 1, Tuesday one hour after it brodcast is Japan FUNimation will brodcast it online with English subtitles. NTV is one of the top brodcast networks in Japan so them in partnership is sort of like Bleach meets One Piece only not quite as awesome.

Anime Character of the Day: Shugo from .Hack//Legend of the Twilight

Thursday, May 27, 2010

My First Blog

This blog is dedicated to anime and nothing else...except that statement...With that out of the way let's get started.

Naruto Box Set 2: I finally got Naruto shippuden box set 2 and finished watching it and I have to say even though I've already read the manga and know the outcome it's very interesting to see it in action, the battle is interesting if not slightly slow paced, and it's fun to see Sakura ACTUALLY FRICKEN' DO SOMETHING...but that's what any anime hobo would say so I'm going to be a bit more creative. It's fun to see Sakura stand there with a kunai and let someone else (Granny Chio) use her as a puppet to attack. Ergo, SHES STILL JUST STANDING THERE WITH A KUNAI.

Bleach Volume 30: HOORAY FOR: filllleeeeer filling up our story its gonna be a damned long time before we get some ploo-oot-ooot (sing that to the tune of thriller and you'll get the joke). Seriously all that happened is we further established how much Rukia is suffering because of killing Kaien and I suppose dedicating basicaly an entire arc to that backstory wasn't enough. Seriously he's dead and we get how much of an impact Kaien had on Rukia can we move on. To put it quite simply it was a great read, but I felt like nothing happened, just a delay really.

*Bankai: SPOILER ALERT* (the most powerful of Bankai): Chad figures out that his powers are really Hollow meaning?...he was really a Hollow in a past life? I'm not sure they don't explain it erm...he gets killed...almost. Then we transition to Rukia who begins fighting someone, but after going into an enclosed area he pulls off his mask revealing himself to be Kaien :O dun dun duuunnnn! Rukia amazed engages Kaien in a conversation were he briefly explains that he ended up merging with the Hollow after all as part of Aizens experiments, but ended up overtaking the Hollow in his (the Hollows) wounded state. For a brief moment Rukia believes him, but then he tell her to bring the heads of her friends and she comes back to Earth (or Hueco Mundo whatever). They engage briefly in battle and he explains (after Rukia shines light on his face transforming him into a jar with two skulls in it) that in spirit and in body he's technically Kaien. Rukia then gets stabbed unable to attack because it IS Kaien and has a flashback in which explained Kaiens belief that a persons heart is between a friendship. Rukia then kills the Hollow realizing Kaien wouldn't mind. We end on a shot of Ichigo standing off to Ulquiorra Cifer.



Anime Character of the day: Light Yagami from Death Note