stuff i watched in 2021...

SEEMINGLY MASTERFUL AT UNCOVERING THE MYSTERIES SET BEFOREHAND IN THE SHOW. THEY UNDERDEVELOPED MY FAVORITE CHARACTER, BUT IT'S OKAY IM NOT MAD. IM NOT MAD. NOT EVEN CLOSE TO A SHOW ABOUT ACTION, BUT IT HAS SOME OF THE BEST ACTIoN SEQUENCES I'VE EVER SEEN. IT ISN'T FULLY OUT YET, BUT IF IT ENDS AS WELL AS IT'S BEEN GOING, HOLY. borderline MASTERPIECE.

SO BAD SO DISCONNECTED. THEY MADE IT MORE RELATABLE TO OLDER GENERATIONS AT THE EXPENSE OF INFORMING THOSE WHO WOULD HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE MESSAGE THE MOST!!!!

season 1 is one of my favorite seasons of tv ever with some crazy well done tense moments, but i don’t see it lasting

update: i dropped it lol

i wish i saw the appeal i really do

I THINK THE CONCEPT IS SOMEWHAT VERY UNINTERESTING. THAT SAID, IT DOES ITS CONCEPT INSANELY WELL!!!

okay the name makes it sound like a joke but i swear it's good and very very very emotional i cried really really really really hard. the characters, in a vacuum, are laughably unrealistic. that said, it doesn’t really matter in the context of the show. it doesn’t devalue their interactions and connections, at least for me.

very very great characters, awful pacing, standard combat system, decent world building. idk i just don’t get it. i’m happy people like it as much as they do, but it really doesn’t compare to shippuden for me

pretty good. loved everyone’s performances, and it was a really enjoyable watch. sense of humor was great. wolf of wall street is better though

pretty good. started as a purely enjoyable show with a great concept, but the characters became way too gimmicky and annoying. i think it can be recovered, but i’m insanely skeptical

why do they speak chinese?? like actually. i definitely don’t like it as much as everyone else, but i think it’s very charming and i like the cast. it was done dirty, but i think people need to let it go

pretty good. didn’t need to make him kiss tom cruise’s wife though. that was weird.

where to start. this WILL be absurdly rambly. cry about it. I still have so much to say that I couldn't even fit into this note. I suppose I will start with the characters. The characters are by FAR and away the best AND worst parts of naruto. Naruto? Kakashi? Gaara? Jiraiya? Obito? Hashirama? Minato? Madara? Itachi? Neji? do NOT get me started. So many of them are so impressively well written and i became so attached to so many characters. Seeing pictures of young gaara and naruto could easily make me crry on a bad day. The fact I care about like literally 70+ characters is so impressive to me. HOWEVER. It's almost impressive how poorly done like all of the women are. I have never seen a character done dirty like they did sakura. And she was one of the better written women. It's like they made a vow to make it so the males were always like 10x stronger than their female peers. That said, I suppose I should give them credit for the lack of fanservice. Like I guess there was some stuff with tsunade, but that's like literally it. The villains were also so very well done. except for kaguya. my god. But like pain? haku/zabuza? obito/madara? THE AKATSUKI??? THE AKATSUKI. my GOD the akatsuki. I can't get into it because obviously spoilers, but some of the villains are some of my favorite in literally anything ever.

Chakra. I have an OVERWHELMING amount of thoughts about chakra and ninjutsu/genjutsu/taijutsu. Definitely a very middle of the pack combat system as far as im concerned. The introduction of chakra types was done like, 200 episodes late. As the show progressed, amount of chakra really only became a factor when convenient. I swear kakashi said he was "low on chakra" like 2 hours into the war. Stemming from this, I really think, once the war STARTED, naruto got too many power ups WAYYY too back to back. The fact people even bother distinguishiing between them is crazy to me.

Assorted thoughts: Lee. they needed more of lee. Also need more of Shino. Tenten also deserved like 3000x more screen time. I also think Sasuke had a relatively underwhelming redemption arc. like it was DECENT, but there were multiple others WITHIN NARUTO like 50x better. I also think it's very funny that, for how much the show preaches the necessity of letting the future generation shine, the previous generations took the spotlight 90% of the time in the war. Sai deserved more screen time in the later 150 episodes. Why did naruto just stop summoning da frogs after the pain fight. The 11th opening is pathetically bad. Sage mode naruto has the most drip. Shippuden ABSOLUTELY ECLIPSES!!!! regular naruto. They should have made Sakura an expert genjutsu user. Kaguya absolutely BLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There should have been more about summoning Jutsus. Yes there are 720 total episodes. WHO CARES???? CRY ABOUT IT. SKIP THE FILLER.

Absolutely an experience I will never forget and, to be honest, probably never top. I guess One Piece MAYBE? Like I guess that would make the most sense. Absolutely far from perfect. Regular naruto was a chore to get through at times, and the Gaara retrieval arc KINDA blew sometimes. BUT!!!! I'm beyond grateful I started and finished this show, and cannot recommend it enough for anyone willing to stick through its early lows. The fact i VERY EXPLICITLY listed so many flaws and STILL, against all reason, want to give it a 10, is very strange to me. It really is just an experience unlike any other.

i’m not done but it’s like just good

everything about watching this has been just so enjoyable. the characters are full of personality, the magic system, although currently under explained, has a lot of potential and allows for very VERY entertaining fights. there is not one moment of this show where you go to check the time. whether it be the well done comedy, the beautifully done fight scenes, the interesting story, or engaging character interactions. everything about it just comes together in a way that hits different for me. especially knowing how crazy dark the show becomes, i have insanely high hopes for the future. that said, i’m not ready

there are a lot of things that were fairly under explained, but i love it so so much. i really really like the main cast and am very excited for future seasons. that said, there is a lot that needs to be explained in the future to keep my rating this high.

i mean it’s funny but it really is just a kids movie about sonic

i mean it was good but i just stopped feeling it. it also apparently gets really really really bad and underdeveloped though. so. i kind of won.

absolutely loved how human this show could be. the art style, although initially jarring, grew on me way too much. i was initially put off by the slapstick, but as i grew to love everything else about the show, i began to appreciate the slapstick... usually. i definitely did not expect to cry as hard as i did at one moment, but i’m so very glad it happened. hope they make a well concluded s3, because the season 2 finale would be very underwhelming as a series ending.

king bach carried so hard and im not even joking. lead guy reminded me too much of cody ko for me to truly enjoy it. but like in a bad way bc i do like cody ko

it was very good. it was definitely not at all predictable. i hate the detective’s accent, but in all it was very enjoyable. please don’t make TWO???? SEQUELS??????

djangooooooooo. django. didn’t think i would ever be impressed by a jamie foxx role. i was. very good. the only western i’ve ever seen (unless star wars counts, i guess???) and i really enjoyed it. also the only tarantino film i’ve seen. but i hear he has a lot of feet so maybe i need to peep

inosuke and rengoku carried. very beautiful. definitely the nicest looking animated thing i’ve ever seen. can’t get into the stuff i liked without spoilers lol