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i wouldn't worry too much about leaving notes. that's only really useful if we have large scale editing. good work on that dude. I went and did some extra stuff. who knew extirpate is an actual word? I was bugged by that translation for a while. (draglord extirpate mode.)

my cat sleeps almost like that. but she stretches out more with her paws above her head.

that's obviously shopped but very nice nonetheless.

i agree with the sentiment i believe you are describing. this is why i am very disappointed with recent sentai series'. the plot is so incredibly weak.. it's like butter spread over too much bread. even if there were not any plot, if they had decent monsters or vehicles, it may make up for it in some way. or the other way around. as it happens, plot is totally lame, monsters and vehicles are totally lame. it makes me think... why are they not paying attention to what tomica hero are doing. even the designs of tomica hero monsters are laughable. but the special effects of their vehicles and the fights are so awesome and so well done, I don't mind the bad designs so much.

this is why story is important and character development. the emphasis in some of the better Japanese shows is the story and the characters. the previous Kamen Rider shows weren't good because of "cool" monsters, they were good because of good story. if they didn't have good story you wouldn't even know about the series. it would not be popular at all. also, I'm not sure if you fully get the design of the t-rex guy. his human body was a surrogate for the head which then built a full dinosaur body out of scrap. now I don't know about you, but I find that incredibly cool. or would you have preferred something like the super mario bros hollywood movie? I'm really not a fan of this western myth that cool = dark twisted features and lots of spikes. or long trenchcoat and emo hair and bad mood. in my opinion, a good design is something that looks like what it represents.

to be fair, W is getting good. it started off quite weak compared to previous series'. now it is really getting interesting. I look forward to seeing new episodes. are tvn slow? or am i just imagining it?

so i just watched 'eppisode 27'. then i went on to episode 28 to find it is the same episode. what is going on, i thinking... so i try to figure out why they are the same and i find out that somehow, some stupid person has labelled episode 28 as episode 27 and i have 2 of them. so i actually missed that episode. what a bummer. well that snake guy is so creepy. he scares me.

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?