Naruto and Bleach II: I don't have the heart to care anymore.

No Maam

@The:

So yeah, I did a blog post; it concerns dollhouses, moronic training methods and the sad fates of Mexican immigrants.
http://theappliedlogic.blogspot.com/2012/02/your-plot-point-has-expired-fullbring.html

Also, I'd like to make a bold prediction concerning the coming chapter

! It doesn't advance much Completely unorthodox, I know, but that's just the kinda rebel I am.

–- Update From New Post Merge ---

Daz, I think I know why Ginjo would keep Giriko around, due to his ass-pull time limit powers. Actualy, if he put some kind of impossible time-limit on Kenpachi and he had to beat it to win, that would have been a far better fight then "Ima turn into the Hulk !" *gets cut down *

Narutossss

@OldMate:

Interview

! Q: Any specific manga you read when you were young that inspired you?
! Kubo: Gegege no Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki was my earliest influence. It was the first manga whose characters I ever tried to sketch. I really liked his yokai design, and his art has a unique flavor. My art style is so simple compared to Mizuki Sensei's work, which is very detailed. But I feel that there is some influence from him in terms of my character design. Even to this day, seeing Mizuki Sensei's art makes me very excited.
! Q: We know you're really into music, what do you listen to while drawing?
! Kubo: David Guetta and The Back Horn are my recent favorites. I don't usually listen to Japanese music. I like listening to music from artists all over the world. I watch MTV while I'm working on manga. Also, I use a phone app called SoundHound a lot while I'm cruising in the city. It's perfect for me because I get bored really quickly, but the app helps me discover new music.
! Q: Did you learn any lessons from drawing ZombiePowder?
! Kubo: The most important thing I learned from ZombiePowder is that I should always follow my heart and draw what I want to draw. When I was working on ZombiePowder, I was still holding back. I wasn't used to weekly serializations, and I was reacting to my editor's comments. But now I focus more on staying true to my own style and creating what I want to.
! Q: Your character designs are a lot edgier and more stylistic than the average shonen manga. Tell us the process of how you create a character.
! Kubo: I don't really have a specific process to make characters. But I always have quite a few characters in my mind. When I start a new story arc, I think back to the "stock" of ~~Aizen Clones~~ characters in my mind. I draw them in a group and see if they are appropriate to the next story. It's pretty easy to pick who is going to be the main character. Then I pick the other characters in relation to the main character based on what would suit their personality. This is not the way everybody creates manga, but I like to create the story ~~out of my ass~~ based on the characters.

how can anyone work while watching mtv? for every good song theres like 10 shit ones.

Sander

@mcdreamy:

Dreamers gonna dream…

Wait,people actually want a round 2 of that?

Pix

@OldMate:

Q: Your character designs are a lot edgier and more stylistic than the average shonen manga. Tell us the process of how you create a character.

Kubo: I don't really have a specific process to make characters. But I always have quite a few characters in my mind. When I start a new story arc, I think back to the "stock" of ~~Aizen Clones~~ characters in my mind. I draw them in a group and see if they are appropriate to the next story. It's pretty easy to pick who is going to be the main character. Then I pick the other characters in relation to the main character based on what would suit their personality. This is not the way everybody creates manga, but I like to create the story ~~out of my ass~~ based on the characters.

Tite Kubo, proving that creativity is not needed and recycling the same ol' plotlines over and over is the only way to go.

Gliblord

Lol, the thing he learned from Zombie Powder was "Don't listen to my editor."

Cyan D. Funk

I watch MTV while I'm working on manga.

Well that explains a lot.

Hiroy

Also, I use a phone app called SoundHound a lot while I'm cruising in the city. It's perfect for me

No Maam

I can just see Kubo driving into a bad neighbourhood and trying to act gangsta.

I can just see it.

Cyan D. Funk

Kubo: Watsu up mah niggasu?! makes weird hand gestures
gang members look at each other and shrug
gun Kubo down

Sander

Oh btw,here's a question guys.Just what is "The Heart"?

fatmatt

@Sander:

Oh btw,here's a question guys.Just what is "The Heart"?

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tite-kubo-the-heart

When Ulquriorra was killed, Kubo literally made a blank white page just saying "The heart".

Gliblord

@Cyan:

Kubo: Watsu up mah niggasu?! makes weird hand gestures
gang members look at each other and shrug
gun Kubo down

Don't be silly. They'd gun him down the moment he turned the corner in his Mercedes.

Cyan D. Funk

Kubo in Kompton

Coming soon to a theater near you

Sander

@fatmatt:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tite-kubo-the-heart

When Ulquriorra was killed, Kubo literally made a blank white page just saying "The heart".

So…was that supposed to be artsy or something?

black-leg jex

with annual book day coming up, i was given a pamphlet about what books you should read and bleach was put down under 3 of 6 categories and one piece didn't even get mentioned. Even naruto and fullmetal were only under the manga category but bleach managed to get supernatural and something else. This upsets me greatly

pyromonki

@Cyan:

Kubo: Watsu up mah niggasu?! makes weird hand gestures
gang members look at each other and shrug
gun Kubo down

You're under the impression that actual gang members would even waste their time, let alone even understand what's going on.

"Yo what'd you say to me?"
Kubo: "When were you under the impression that I was talking to you?"
"But you were looking this way- what? Where'd he go?"

"He's behind you!"

Sander

Kubo confuses the gang by telling them how he was actually manipulating them since they were born.Afterwards,he makes them question their fathers and mentors by telling them those people are suspicous and then offers them some Ramen in very ominous way

mcdreamy

@Sander:

Wait,people actually want a round 2 of that?

Ikr? Even though they already know that Itachi has a mission to defeat Kabuto…

choperman

we really need to make a kubo meme

zxcv11791

@Narutossss:

how can anyone work while watching mtv? for every good song theres like 10 shit ones.

Well it certainly explains the amount of concentration that actually goes into his manga nowadays.

Mortea

Since when you were under impression that Kubo is not a meme?
He even has image macro.

Gliblord

What we really need is a Tsukishima meme inserting him as a major player into ______ historical thing entirely unrelated to him.

Kizuchan

Hey guys, guess what I did? I sort of quickly skimmed the whole of Naruto this past month, just to get what the gist of the series is because I kinda felt like I want to understand the jokes.
I'm just going to say that I'm probably never going to read this series properly. I hate Sasuke mainly because his sudden change to wanting to destroy Konoha, the whole thing with Itachi is a mess and I still think Sasuke's motivations are kind of unclear to me. So his brother was trying to protect Konoha, but now he's going to destroy the village? What. I'm not sure with anything of that. Maybe I should read all of that more properly.
What I did get was the theme shift from part one to part two, which made Naruto's whole character kind of pointless. The whole point of him was to show that talent and inheritance isn't everything that counts. But then suddenly his father is the hokage and he's ninja Jesus basically.
Sakura is just bland and useless basically. I know Robin doesn't really have many fights either, but at least her abilities evolve and she takes part of all the team fights and also helps with her smarts along with knowing how to read the poneglyphs. Sakura has healing powers and has one fight which is kinda cool, but we still barely see her do anything.
I feel sorry for Hinata. Poor girl. Hell yeah! Rock Lee! Props to all the fights before Naruto vs. Sasuke. There's like 8 characters getting their own spotlight. The fox also gets a special mention even if he turned good. Orochimaru was creepy as hell, a fairly good villain. Pein and Madara can burn in hell. I like Killer Bee and Raikage.
The art got considerably worse as the series went on. Seriously, it looks hideous at times.
I don't get the eye powers either. There's so many things they can do and are utterly broken…
Overall, I don't think it's as bad as Bleach, but it's meh. Also, feel free to fix any things I might have gotten wrong. I really just read it pretty quickly.

IgorGB

@Kizuchan:

Hey guys, guess what I did? I sort of quickly skimmed the whole of Naruto this past month, just to get what the gist of the series is because I kinda felt like I want to understand the jokes.
I'm just going to say that I'm probably never going to read this series properly. I hate Sasuke mainly because his sudden change to wanting to destroy Konoha, the whole thing with Itachi is a mess and I still think Sasuke's motivations are kind of unclear to me. So his brother was trying to protect Konoha, but now he's going to destroy the village? What. I'm not sure with anything of that. Maybe I should read all of that more properly.
What I did get was the theme shift from part one to part two, which made Naruto's whole character kind of pointless. The whole point of him was to show that talent and inheritance isn't everything that counts. But then suddenly his father is the hokage and he's ninja Jesus basically.
Sakura is just bland and useless basically. I know Robin doesn't really have many fights either, but at least her abilities evolve and she takes part of all the team fights and also helps with her smarts along with knowing how to read the poneglyphs. Sakura has healing powers and has one fight which is kinda cool, but we still barely see her do anything.
I feel sorry for Hinata. Poor girl. Hell yeah! Rock Lee! Props to all the fights before Naruto vs. Sasuke. There's like 8 characters getting their own spotlight. The fox also gets a special mention even if he turned good. Orochimaru was creepy as hell, a fairly good villain. Pein and Madara can burn in hell. I like Killer Bee and Raikage.
The art got considerably worse as the series went on. Seriously, it looks hideous at times.
I don't get the eye powers either. There's so many things they can do and are utterly broken…
Overall, I don't think it's as bad as Bleach, but it's meh. Also, feel free to fix any things I might have gotten wrong. I really just read it pretty quickly.

Hey, for someone who just skimmed quickly through it, you nailed the main problems with the series quite well.

Kizuchan

@IgorGB:

Hey, for someone who just skimmed quickly through it, you nailed the main problems with the series quite well.

Thanks! I just have to add that the art just really really bugs me. I mean it was fine for a while, but then it just gradually got worse. How can people say that OP looks like shit when some chapters of Naruto just have that awfully sketchy art. I also now get why newsong is such an hilariously bad opening.

pyromonki

Ya know, the Pain part wasn't that bad until all the retardation began. I mean, Nagato was off to a good start, within like 4 chapters he:

-Immediately bombed and destroyed the village, I like that
-Split up and started killing everyone valuable

Then.. just when things were dark and entertaining….

Konahamaru all of a sudden kills one of them... and then is never seen again. KONOHAMARU kills one of them with a RASENGAN. Why? Just why?

And then Kishi tried to pull a "fast one" by having Team Gai absent so they wouldn't "lose to Pain" and lose fans.

He honestly seems to be delaying that card for as long as possible, because he knows full well once Rock Lee loses one more time to another one of these "inherited power" tools the fanbase is going to dwindle.

Nobodyman

@pyromonki:

-Immediately bombed and destroyed the village, I like that

Yes, I too like how it completely contradicts what an actual ninja would do (though I suppose Kishi was too fargone by that point) and how it was completely unnecessary.

-Split up and started killing everyone valuable

Who did he kill that was valuable?

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pyromonki

@Nobodyman:

Yes, I too like how it completely contradicts what an actual ninja would do (though I suppose Kishi was too fargone by that point) and how it was completely unnecessary.

Yeah.. way too far gone. Also, the entire Pain arc was unecessary, so that point is kind of moot.

I've completely ignored the fact that these guys are "ninjas" for years.

Oh man, that just reminded me though, how did nuking a village not kill anyone?

@Nobodyman:

Who did he kill that was valuable?

Didn't he kill those sensory people so they couldn't find him? I forget.

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