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Sketch
06-12-2006, 08:06 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/Sketchor/Naruto-image.gif


Grab you're bowl of ramen cause this kid's crazy like a fox


Naruto From the Begining

Monday 6/12 - Thursday 6/15 at 9PM EST


This Week's Episodes

Monday - Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!
Tuesday - My Name is Konohamaru
Wednesday - Saskue and Sakura: Friends or Foes?
Thursday - Pass or Fail: Survival Test



Overview:

Years ago the Nine Tales demon fox attacked Hidden Leaf Village. At the cost of his own life the 4th Hokage sealed the demon in a young orphan boy named Naruto. Naruto has now grown up and is attending the ninja academy in hopes of becoming the next Hokage. Due to the terrible power sealed within him, he just might pull it off. But first… he’s gonna have to graduate.

Characters: (images from Captain Zechs)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/bobklause/narutooooo.jpg Naruto:
A mischievous orphan who grew up a hated by his village because of the terrible demon fox sealed within him. He’s not a very skilled ninja, infact he’s regarded as “dead last” but he’s got incredible stamina and an unseen potential for greatness. The one thing he wants in life is to be the next hokage and in turn be acknowledged by the village. Oh yeah… and he could go for a nice bowl of ramen as well.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/bobklause/Sakura7.jpg Sakura:
The center of Naruto’s affection, even though she’d rather be as far away from him as possible. She’s very skilled with basic ninjitsu techniques because she works hard. Her goal in life is to gain the affection of Sasuke.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/bobklause/Sasuke6.jpg Sasuke:
The last of the Uchiha clan. He tends to keep to himself and all the girls think he’s dreamy. He’s also the top ninja in his class so he and Naruto never quite seem eye to eye. His one goal in life is to find the man who slaughtered his family and get his revenge.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/bobklause/kakashi2.jpg Kakashi:
Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura's ninja master. For unknown reasons he never takes his mask off and he often conceils his left eye. He renown as one of the toughest teachers of the academey and he's never passed a student.

Iruka:
The teacher of Naruto’s class at the ninja academy. He is also an orphan due to the attack on the village by the nine tales. He and Naruto share a special bond.

Mizuki:
Iruka’s old friend who is also teaches at the academy. Unlike Iruka, he’s only looking out for number one.

Konohamaru:
The grandson of the 3rd Hokage who constantly “attacks” his grandfather in hopes of defeating him and becoming the next hokage. He and Naruto become friends but because they both want to be the next hokage they are also rivals.

Ebisu:
Konohamaru’s personal instructor he feels Naruto is a bad influence. He’s also a bit of a closet pervert.

3rd Hokage:
The leader of Leaf Village who is also the most skilled ninja in the village. He should have passed on his title some time ago but due to the death of the 4th he must remain in his position until a suitable replacement is found.

Nine Tales / Kiyubi:
The demon fox that ravaged Hidden Leaf Village years ago. He was sealed inside of Naruto and some believe he is Naruto.

RomanMack
06-12-2006, 08:22 PM
This is the first time I've seen you make a show talkback thread, Sketch.

But yay! Naruto from the beggining starts tonight.

Sketch
06-12-2006, 08:33 PM
I used to make the Miguzi TMNT threads and I've done a few Toonami talkbacks as well but I haven't done a talkback in quite some time.

I put together the header image BTW. It's not on TZ's server yet.

Sketch
06-12-2006, 10:25 PM
Observations...

CN's bumpers are the same as for the other shows. Honestly I was hoping for some custom ones using that cool BG the promos do. This random stuff is bothersome though... CN is in need of general action bumpers.

Wow... this dub has really improved. Malie especially. Compared to her current performance this one wasn't very good. I could live with it before but seriously, what a difference.

It's kind of annoying how nearly all anime have a rocky start for their dubs (the ones dubbed for TV anyway) but they get better. I kinda wish they were always as good as ever because I hate inconsistancey.

Can't for Freeman's Ebisu tommorow. Always good times.

yoshirider13
06-12-2006, 10:56 PM
Dangit! I missed it! I guess ill watch konohamaru tomorrow ^_^

veemonjosh
06-13-2006, 09:50 PM
...Why do they keep putting a AKA Cartoons logo at the end of Naruto?

Kagetsu
06-13-2006, 10:32 PM
This show is a good match for Xiaolin Showdown. I like the beginning shows best except they don't use Ino and Hinata as much as I'd like. I liked Iruka Sensei better than Kakashi. This would be a better show if they picked up the pace a little, but I still like it for the characters and animation.

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6104/naruto1k1kx.jpghttp://img114.imageshack.us/img114/875/izuka756md.jpg
In case you'd like an Iruka for your list :D

Mugen
06-13-2006, 10:51 PM
Actually, I prefer they air Gundam SEED Destiny after Naruto and have DBZ at 10 p.m. I would watch that.

FireStarterLE
06-13-2006, 11:00 PM
well i would rewatch these, but i'm hoping Right Stuf sends out the set in the next week or so, that way i can rewatch them without having seen them recently (and they'll be in their all uncut glory)

Sketch
06-13-2006, 11:43 PM
Actually, I prefer they air Gundam SEED Destiny after Naruto and have DBZ at 10 p.m. I would watch that.

That would require them to have Destiny and apparently they turned it down. Gundam would do a lot better on weekdays than once a week though. So that would be interesting. I'd settle for another action show (preferably not One Piece, Ben 10 or XS - 1 has an awful dub and the others have enough slots). Bo-Bobo and DBZ would be good.

It seems they are accidently showing the squished credits for Ed, Edd n Eddy after the episode preview. That's rather odd... Oh well.

Bets on the uncut set dub of these episodes being quite a bit more pollish (which will be nice because boy... these first episodes are almost painful compared to the recent stuff).

Mugen
06-14-2006, 12:01 AM
That would require them to have Destiny and apparently they turned it down. Gundam would do a lot better on weekdays than once a week though. So that would be interesting. I'd settle for another action show (preferably not One Piece, Ben 10 or XS - 1 has an awful dub and the others have enough slots). Bo-Bobo and DBZ would be good.



I know they turned Destiny down, but man that would be awesome. And with CN being allowed to use TV-PG, there would be some edits but, they probably could get away with some stuff.

Rolling Cloud
06-14-2006, 02:30 PM
The Konohamaru episode was hilarious! I can't wait till Ebisu returns and we see Jiraiya

Grenzer
06-14-2006, 02:51 PM
Observations...

CN's bumpers are the same as for the other shows. Honestly I was hoping for some custom ones using that cool BG the promos do. This random stuff is bothersome though... CN is in need of general action bumpers.

Wow... this dub has really improved. Malie especially. Compared to her current performance this one wasn't very good. I could live with it before but seriously, what a difference.

It's kind of annoying how nearly all anime have a rocky start for their dubs (the ones dubbed for TV anyway) but they get better. I kinda wish they were always as good as ever because I hate inconsistancey.

Can't for Freeman's Ebisu tommorow. Always good times.

To be fair, the Japanese dub was kind of rough at the beginning as well, you just did not notice it as much becuase it was in a different language. Junko Takeuchi's performance as Naruto has changed a lot in the past three and a half years; she was nowhere near as solid in her acting in episode 1 as she is now at episode 192. We should give Maile credit, she managed to improve her Naruto quickly, and the English dub is really one of the strongest ever made, far superior to edited dubs like Digimon or even uncut ones like Rurouni Kenshin.

Neo Ultra Mike
06-14-2006, 09:29 PM
Also, to be fair, it's not just anime dubs that have this problem. Pratically all semi long running cartoon don't nail down the character's voices at first (espically the main characters) and they develop them over time to sound better. Think back to first Season Homer from the Simpsons or Bender from Futurama: sounded really off compared to the later seasons. (Espically Homer. Dan really shouldn't of put so much Walter Krondale into his preformence).

Anyway episode 3 is where I first stopped in the manga (due to not getting the next ep with the translation of episode 4 in Shonen Jump and deciding to skip it until I could/wait for the TV version to show it) So it's always interesting seeing this ep. I note this has the most use of the comedy music track on the show so far. You know that thing that always plays whenever Naruto does something stupid and Sakura's about to beat him up? Luckily that lessened over time but it still dosen't fit as well as most of Naruto's other music themes.

Sketch
06-15-2006, 10:10 AM
To this day I love that scene when Naruto's replicated and all of his clones are trying to get into the bathroom at the same time.