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dude, he provided a credible source. you can't really blow him off like that. I think one of the series writers is more reliable source than rangerboard.

yes, that's one of the major drawbacks of this franchise. but that's why i only recently became interested in this franchise, because dragonball kai is fixing what dragonball z broke.

as i had been talking about dragonball in here, I thought i'll add this here. I have watched the most fun and entertaining half hour of entertainment that i can ever remember last night. I got to the tournament and then it got to the match, kuririn vs jackie chun! my oh my, I am even laughing now thinking about it! that has to be the most most hilarious thing i have ever seen!! it really started to kick it up a notch a couple episodes early... like kuririn fighting bacterion.. and goku said to him " you have no nose" i was almost on the floor! I obviously thought that his not having a nose was just part of the art style... but then.. when seeing a later episode muten roshi sama made mention of the character that was "too serious for an oddball character anime" and then when the commentator asked him what happened in that flash.. and he said they'd do a slow-mo!!! HA HA HA that was so funny! and he even had him lifting him up and carrying him OMG this anime is just so much genius. It took me a while to get back to it but i've passed the mark now. the mark that confirms a series for me. when i have no more reservations. I am now a dragonball liker. not a fan yet but i think i may become one. one thing i have noticed though.. wow, naruto really does rely on dragonball a fair bit! I mean... they give a starting off story arc that basically builds up to one moment where they show how the main character has a monster like alter ego. then that finishes and the main character enters a type of tournament and during that tournament there is a suggestion of the characters secret powers again. and goku eats so much, and is childlike and kinda dumb in a way. I think that naruto is kind of like a remake of dragonball but with many different elements mixed in.

I'm thinking, naruto seems to be getting a bit dull? i think sometimes a series can get dull and it is a good idea to leave it for a while to let the episodes mount up and then hit it like a marathon. the manga is spoiling the anime i think. i have found that the more recent episodes of the anime have seemed very weak. but I think they seem weak because i already know the story and i am noticing the differences. although I have seen so far ahead now, I am going to know the story for quite a while ahead... so I would have to leave it for at least a year.

oh awesome I haven't played mine for a while. I think the earlier one was better. it was "we love katamari" and i think it was the second. now i have the third, "beautiful katamari" but i don't think it's as exciting. I'm glad you're getting a wii, I hope you have fun with it.

hmm, that gives you about 2 weeks to watch them all? wow, that would be one hell of a marathon!! i think eps 47 was released. I'll watch that later on.

don't know, but one day when my Japanese is much better, I will translate the book i have. the one with the pink haired girl on the cover.

maru the cat. I wish my cat would play in boxes like this.

that would be awesome can you send to me in a pm. I think we derailed this topic enough

no need to apologise, I really appreciate all the effort you have gone to. we've been without images for those volumes for ever anyway so it's actually a leap up if i use your photograph and crop the image for each book.

thanks toku warrior, I almost opened that spoiler without thinking about what thread i'm in. 47 was released subbed today.

I'll watch it when we get a translation. onlt a few more eps. they really staged the ending quite well.

fighting games could be good..... if i could do well at them. honestly, I find most fighting games far too frustrating to be able to take out my frustration on them. it's kinda a misnomer where i'm concerned. well maybe i'm just doing the wrong ones. bayonetta drives me crazy. naruto drives me nuts. i end up slamming my hands on the controller, throwing it behind me and bouncing on my chair stifling my raging screams. it's because the bad guy hits you and there is no way to block it or dodge it. it's as if you have to know it is coming before it comes. I think i played a good fighting game once. where i could watch the enemy and learn from his movements. i think that was good. because i really felt like i had achieved something impressive. can't remember what it was.

well power rangers was not really much like zyu ranger. so i don't think this ought to be much like shinkenger. saying that though, the actor they chose for gold, does kinda fit in with shinkengold's personality. I thought they all looked like interesting choices... apart from red. he looks a bit too pretty. but then of course it all depends on how it is directed.

hmm, well i think you need to watch those missing eps or read the manga for that period. there could be something important you've missed.

thanks for the dates, I can't really read the kanji in that image. it's ok for now, I know how awkward cameras can be with things like this. I'll keep my fingers crossed that you're able to do some scanning.

awesome thanks. btw, I have the same problem. windows 7 and scanners, pain in the backside. a program called vuescan will solve any issues though. it supports most scanners. the trial version puts a watermark on images but i can edit those out. if you scan once the right way up and again upside down. oh and yeah, aside from the scanning thing, the larger picture for volume 2 is just so i can read the subtitle and translate it.

can i have a bigger picture of the volume 2 novel please. and if possible, if you have a scanner can i have some scans of the covers to volume 2 and all of those shonen captain please. last request, can you check the publishing dates of the volume 1 and volume 2 novel please. thank you. it is for this page - http://japan-legend.com/wiki/index.php?title=Guyver:_Merchandise

I really like the spinning light inside the gravity globe.

you've already seen that though dude. that's way back in the anime. episode 138. we're up to 173. unless you haven't been watching the anime either. but episode wise... it is really hard to judge. there is a lot to get through though. I think they have gotten to a stage where they can do roughly 1 episode per chapter of the manga. they can put a lot of fillers into the content of each episode... like the way they added those two extra characters with konohamaru in that recent episode.

fighting games? like street fighter? nah, i'd get bored with it. i'd be like an actor "what's my motivation?"

it depends on how much of a spoiler you want. after this part there is gonna be a lot of political stuff. the bigwigs in konoha have some important matters to discuss. then we need to catch up with what sasuke is doing. sasuke has some thing to achieve. he will target a specific person that we may not have expected. this will turn into a rather big fight. something will be revealed about akatsuki and 'their' intentions. this will turn hte ninja world into turmoil and there will be talks. after that as naruto goes searching for sasuke, he eventually find sasuke while sasuke fights a influential figure. after that, naruto has some special training and we get an important flashback. naruto gets some powerful abilities and that brings us up to our present stage in the manga. I think that's pretty vague and avoids some major spoilers. if you want some detail, I can go into specifics. as for time frame, i think the anime has a lot lot go to catch up to where the manga currently is. let me backtrack an appropriate amount in the anime to give you an idea. go back past the attack on konoha, past naruto's training for sennin mode, past jiraiya's mission into amegakure, i think that is it roughly. would you guys agree?

happy birthday yeah you got it, i like quest style games. well any adventure that has a clear story and balanced progression. so i loved super paper mario , yes i loved oukami. kingdom hearts was a little annoying when it got to the gummi ship bit but mostly it was a great game. mario galaxy was dull, the story was pretty much a copy of all other mario games with a side story thrown in on the side, that you don't even have to read. most wii games these days are party games, family games, or similar. no story or progression so not my style

well as a member of akatsuki, kisame is an enemy to all the ninja world. i think if there was some personal connection between the two, they would be considered rivals, but there is no personal interaction. just fighting.

I agree. accel was truly very good! i was especially impressed with the special effects used for that big head monster. it was very solid, much better than previous special effects. i was thinking to myself as i was watching 45 and 46 last night, this is become more like what kamen rider ought to be. for the whole series it has seemed kinda odd and sort of vague, but now it is seeming to become more cohesive.