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well i would like to read it to get a feeling for the story and enjoy whatever the ending is. so i need to find a website that has a good detailed plot coverage. yeah i have an extra memory now, but the controller of my faulty one, is being sold with the faulty one. it will sell as a spare/repair.

woohoo! I managed to get a new xbox 360 today! it is bonus as well because it came with a memory card and a wireless controller. i only previously had wired so this is like luxury almost. I also decided to get naruto game with it. so i'm happy about that. I watched an episode of kamen rider blade today and decided once and for all that I do not wish to watch that series. even though it is supposed to have a very good storyline, I just do not like the style and atmosphere of it. it is a shame because the design of blade is quite cool. I just can't abide the atmosphere of the show though. it is just so dreary. I cannot feel comfortable watching it. so I want to find a good written version of the story. that way i can experience the story without having to put up with the show.

interesting side note, I got the game today for my new xbox 360, "Naruto rise of the ninja". it seems like this game is adapted right from the anime with some bits cut out and other bits added in. interesting. but what i noticed mostly is that they use the american voices! that is really weird. very forced in places.

ok , I might see if i can get the episode 101. it's hard to make up my mind if i want to get those fillers then. if they are made up arcs with made up characters, does that make it bad? if I'm not a manga purist then would it make much difference?

well i really like some of the different scenarios, when we see naruto just fooling around with konohamaru and the others. so that's why i thought i might like the fillers. the type of filler i really hate is the type of filler that has a really pointless story as an excuse to do flashbacks. I hate recap fillers. but if the producers have taken the time to write the episode and do good character interaction and have an entertaining one-off story that might not be related to the main story arc, that's ok. if it is giving me more enjoyment of the characters then i think it is good. actually, I wouldn't strictly consider that 'filler' rather i would consider it additional material. a filler is something to fill in the gap when you have to have a certain length of series. when you commission around a hundred episodes, I don't think you can really consider that filler.

orochimaru? i don't remember. do i even know who that is? perhaps i am a bit hazy about the first episode. I watched the first ep as soon as i obtained it and then there was a gap. so maybe i'll watch that again just to refresh my memory. so anyhow, i got to ep 21 by now. i watched the introduction of new character, gaara, and now they are going to have an exam. i always thought gaara was a good guy but it's looking like he is not.

yeah you could be right. W is getting interesting now. the character on the 'bad' side are actually interesting characters and it seems a lot of the character development is cross party.

no, I haven't seen any chase with sasuke.... I'm up to episode 20 right now.

wow, you are right, her smile is so sweet, it would melt my heart, but the main problem here is that i am way too distracted with some other part of her charms...

yeah 220 is my last episode, but before 220, the last episode on my dvd shelf is 135.

i have saved up almost £100 it won't be long now before i can afford to buy a new xbox! I want to get mass effect 2. my friend got it today and i watched him starting it and playing it. it looks so amazing game!

that's a good point. really, I just intended to reproduce the original image in a more smooth/defined way. i guess i could have shaded the hair in some fashion but takaya-san didn't do it. thanks for the comments all you guys

I'm quite upset that he mentions scotland, ireland and england but no wales.

very cool! he makes me think about tekkaman

uhhhm, did you read teh part where i said i have 54? that's way too much overkill to put in here!

ok well i'm safe watching all the ones i have then and i guess it is good idea to remain with all the eps i have and not get the fillers. I did look at a good website which pretty much said what you said bbdude. I wonder if i will even bother with shippuden. I can't be bothered reading manga to be honest so if the anime is so bad, then it's a good idea to avoid it. well i'm giving it a break after the initial arc. I'll watch some drama for now and go back to naruto in a couple of days.

so i left it ambiguous to avoid spoilers. i did a re-sketch and colour and used the original image as a bloom effect to provide consistency. yeah i know it's my avatar, but as my avatar does not say where the picture is from, anybody can assume it's guyot from earlier on or an original sketch or whatever. or maybe not even guyot.

what follows is a thread that follows progress through the series up to the current episode of naruto shippuuden and will have up date info in the manga, it should be put in spoilers but if you're badly behind, take a bit of care. here is a filler thread if you want to avoid fillers - http://www.narutoforums.com/showthread.php?t=501381 --------------------------------------- spoilers so I had it ready and waiting and over the past week or so, I have started watching it. I'm really enjoying it I have to say. I thought i would, based on the game demo I played. so far i have just passed the zabuza story. that was very heart wrenching stuff. I was so shocked. I have familiar with a couple of characters, it's hard not to see some things about such a popular show. I already knew that some important character were Sakura and Sasuke, so I was very surprised when he got killed! this was a great situation because i had no idea why he was an important character and for all I knew, this could have been the end of him. it could have been like risker in guyver, a major character who everyone loved but went out early. so when he died, i was genuinely shocked. of course, somewhere along the line, I remembered how haku had 'killed' zabuza... I then remembered how haku was not trying to kill them, so i suspected that he may have just done the same thing to somehow provoke naruto or to help zabuza achieve his objective. i thought zabuza with his flappy arms, and the kunai in his mouth, seemed a bit comical but only slightly and the situation and how it all happened, sort of negated the comedy and turned it into an immensely cool scene. the way he burst through them all and killed a lot and totally slaughtered gatou was totally awesome. well I just got caught up in it again, I really enjoy it up to now. so i have all the series but not all of it. i saw on a website that there were a lot of filler episodes so what i did was to take out the fillers. I was just thinking the other day, maybe i can actually get the fillers, because i like to watch the characters and the fillers will give me more to watch. what do you think about that? see, i was wondering, if i am fully aware that they are fillers, will they still be entertaining? or are they just really boring and pointless? also, is there a different series after episode 220? I have 220 and i have heard of shippuuden, is that different? or is that included in the episodes that i have?

i collected them from anywhere i could find. I don't normally get a lot of different wallpapers so i don't have any sites saved if you want copies of all my wallpapers, i can make a thread for it to save overtaking this one.

Sorry, I've updated the first post to give decent instructions.

i'll post a couple of mine. I actually have them on a cycle and currently have a stock of 54. it's hard to get suitable ones.

not that i remember. another member on here was working on a gregole with zbrush i think. it was a while back now and he hasn't posted in a while so I can't remember who. but the thread should be easy to find. edit: here it is http://www.japan-legend.com/forum/index.php/topic/1368-3d-zoanoid-model/

wow, that is pretty freaky! looks like this guy was practicing modelling muscle groups in zbrush. I'm not a big fan of zbrush to be honest, it is hard to model efficiently with it, I think it is best only for surface details for use in normal maps etc. but it is certainly nice to look at.

ha ha, well I'm glad it's ok. you are free to take it if you want. yeah, that lightning bolt bugged me the most. it is 3 segments; a rectangle in the middle, and triangle top and bottom. the middle and top are equal but the bottom is stupid width.

great work cannibal, as usual! I notice in the original image, the flag is sagging, so the logo will be distorted? I'd like to proffer up my own version for your approval. I re-created it using geometry so i don't know how accurate we can say it is. I suppose it's just an alternative for you?