Posts made by RCat

The thing that upsets me about this chapter isn't the whole BS surrounding Star and Toriko being Froese's twins, or Toriko being more emotional over seeing his appetite than his long-lost brother and rival dying, or why God released only one of Toriko's 3 demons. I mean, that stuff is also stupid, but what really riles me up is how we were robbed of what should've been another epic moment in the story for the sake of getting a power-up for a boss fight that NOBODY has any reason to care about at this point. Namely, Toriko eating God. Y'know, the thing Toriko decided would be his main course since, like, over 200 chapters ago? The thing his boyfriend has been working on off-screen for months without a peep? The thing he was waiting to share with the other kings who still haven't been allowed to come back because "bbbbbbrrooooottttheeerrr" nonsense?

Just force fed without even an explanation of how it tastes, because even the main character's dreams and goals are being rushed for the sake of BOSS FIGHT POWER UP. It's like if Luffy got shunted to Raftel by his secret twin brother Smoker and got injected with the power of the One Piece so he could fight some unknown person who turned out to be behind the Void Century and created the Grand Line, and is also Luffy's mom somehow.

Considering the pattern of interruptions, this time with Joie being interrupted, I'm going to assume at this point that Starjun and Toriko are Acacia and Froese's children. It's likely that Joie ate Pair again centuries later and restarted the pregnancy. I'll just assume it's some magic science effect of Pair to put the embryo(es) in stasis.

Though, that would also work for the theory that Komatsu is Froese's child.

Anywho, I'm glad Acacia decided to out himself as a misogynistic asshole on top of all his other bullshit so Midora punching him in the fucking face would be even more cathartic.

The "special announcement" and 10 year time skip make me scared they're going to pull a Boruto with Bleach. Which would be mind-numbing because Ichigo doesn't even have a dream that he could achieve and then ignore his family with.

But the resurgence of Yhwach's reiatsu also makes me scared/excited that his pre-"Ichigo gets stabbed again to get his sword back" threat to come back to kill them when they're at their happiest is going to come true. Excited because it brings the possibility of the ending being that everyone dies, and scared because it will probably kickstart Bleach Nisei and/or will be just as unsatisfying as it was last week.

That awkward feeling where an Aizenism is a welcome change of pace.

Looks like Shimabukuro watched that episode of Futurama where Farnsworth's time machine goes so far forward the universe dies and reforms slightly lower than the previous universe, so he decided that that would be the perfect way to save Acacia NEO.

I'm going to pretend that this "Kubo will end his manga in 10 weeks" isn't a decision on Kubo's part; it's an ultimatum/limit imposed on him by the company. In essence, Jump is so sick of Kubo's bullshit that they're shutting down Bleach in 10 weeks no matter what, so if he wants it to have an ending, he'd better hurry it up.

Meh, no matter what happens in Super, Grandpa "Piccoyo" will always make it superior to GT in my book.

I mean, I still want other awesome stuff to come out of Super and blow GT out of the water; I just can't gush about Grandpa Piccoyo hard enough.

More like B for Boring and A for Apathetic.

Bacholi's continued jabbering about how his future vision works really makes me wish Garnet would just pop in and kick his ass while singing.

Poor Sokka. It's bad enough that both Master Roshi and Piccolo blew up his first girlfriend, but now a giant frog eats her?

I liked this fight better in Yu Yu Hakusho, when it was called Genkai vs. The Beautiful Susuki(a). Especially since that fight didn't have a pointlessly sexualized and practically useless transformation that only server to bait out the Quincy transformation because Kubo couldn't figure out any other way to beat a guy whose power is basically "I become invincible against one opponent".

Cue next week's chapter with something along the lines of "my super Quincy form makes 50,000 immunities ever .003 seconds".

We were deprived of the awesomeness of Sunny and Livebearer becoming bros. The brocess is the most important part of broship.

Zoro's secretly just jealous that Luffy and Sanji have mysterious, influential/powerful parents and complicated backstories, while he doesn't.

I'll be counting the days until I see Sunny and Libear-chan again. Their adventure is gonna be AMAZING.

Unless they follow Team "Komatsu and the Tertiaries", Team Poison, Team Loudest, Team Fetish, & Team "Generic Main Character & Rival Pairing" at the same time, in which case it'll feel as disjointed as One Piece has been lately.

I have a feeling I'm not going to like the next chapter or two regardless of what happens. If it goes the way the chapter wants us to believe it's going to go, and Toriko, Coco, and Zebra are now dead, then resurrection or not, Sunny will have to live with the guilt…of having a completely normal reaction to a ridiculous situation, with said reaction only having occured because of Toriko's curiosity and fear reaction. Assuming it turns out to be a prank/routine/Teppermoment/whatever, it basically means that Sunny was singled out to get screwed over...because he had a completely normal reaction to a ridiculous situation, with said reaction only having occured because of Toriko's curiosity and fear reaction.

So either way, Sunny gets butt monkeyed by a butt monkey for having a different personality than "tsundere stoic badass, calculating stoic badass, and charismatic stoic badass", and also because of Toriko. Sorry that you're likely gonna be Yamcha'd, Sunny, but I'll always love you for those reasons.

(Of course, on the unlikely chance that it turns out Sunny had the Riddle Chapter upside down and the capture level is really only 0009, I'll laugh like an idiot despite the above.)

Satan Vomit: Reason #208 why I love Sunny.

@BarclayBull:

How can an unripe fruit have 70 % of the flavour of a ripe one, and a ripe one have twenty percent more flavour then it has.
This s a logical nightmare.

Komatsu learned how to math from younger Toguro.

Also, can I take a minute to point out how much I love Sunny? Toriko is pulling demons out of his ass- or face, in this case- Coco is creating same-power clones of things (even more broken than a Green Lantern Ring), and Zebra is…actually, he hasn't shown any new powers this arc has he? And then there's Sunny, who just develops pragmatic new uses over the hair power he already has. No BS, just logical progressions. That's part of why Sunny will always be my favorite. (Granted, I'm not sure why just pushing himself forward with his hair wouldn't do the same effect, but I can dig making hair tracks.) (And no, reflecting power back at multiplied force isn't BS shut up shut up shut up.)

is the song I had play through my head when Toriko got hit.

Naruto: I like Might Dai, but did we really have to make Gai yet another Generational Xerox? How the hell could anyone in this series expect the next generation to surpass the last if the most the younger generation accomplishes is the exact same things the previous generation accomplishes?

Regardless, I'm rooting for you, Gai! Kishimoto probably won't let you defeat Madara, but I'm still hoping you'll at least get a "If I hadn't done blank, he might've killed me!" out of the whiny ass b****!

Bleach: I'm glad that Kubo at least learned from Dragon Ball that, if you just have a character job all the time without doing something cool once in awhile, the jobbing loses its impact. Too bad he didn't learn that it is the repetitiveness that lessens the impact, not just it being the same character each time.

So now we get yet another "enemy kills its ally for no good reason" and yet another "character gets a good showing one chapter, then jobs the next chapter, only for an overexposed character to save them at the end of the chapter and then show how much stronger he's gotten since his training next chapter". Bleach has pretty much surpassed Phineas and Ferb's formulaic-ness, but without the wit, personality, and self-awareness of its formula that makes the latter entertaining. At least in Hueco Mundo, the first few turn-based fights allowed the protagonist characters to complete and win a fight before they jobbed and had to be saved.

And now, not only has Yachiru's first contribution to fighting the enemies been rendered meaningless, but Isane's contributions have also been rendered meaningless by the same enemy. I was hoping that Isane would at least turn into another "healer that is secretly a bloodthirsty killer" like Unohana, except that her power is tied into people killing her patients. Her power could be the one thing that can beat imagination: getting your head asploded by psychic powers, which then somehow resurrects fallen allies. But no, let's let the female characters get overwhelemed by a new enemy just so the big, strong men can save them. It's at the point where I can't even get excited for Kenpachi's shikai.

Also, I have two theories about Imagination Boy that I'm making into headcanon:

1. His powers do actually let him turn imagination into reality, but all he can think of right now is cookies, because Yhwa-Juha-Bac-…KING MUSTACHE MAKES THE BEST COOKIES IN ALL REALITIES, BUT HE'S BEEN TOO BUSY KILLING HIS OWN MEN TO MAKE ANY COOKIES, AND JAMES ALREADY ATE THE LAST BATCH, SO NOW IMAGINATION BOY IS HUNGRY D***IT.

2. Imagination Boy's speech about turning imagination into reality was a big fat lie, and his only power is to turn things into cookies. That barrier Isane put up? He made a cookie door in it. The reason Isane thought Rose and Kensei died? Their hearts have been turned into cookies, so they don't beat. That one ugly guy Yachiru was fighting? He also got turned into a cookie, but his powers activated so that we all forgot what happened to him.

I'm fully expecting next week that we won't see Kenpachi's shikai, because Imagination Boy will turn his zanpakuto into cookies.

After the Naruto chapter I see the fanart of Aang doing the Rasengan, and now I can only wish for a glorious anticlimax where Aang swoops in and energybends Madara's chakra away. Then again, I suppose Aang would then insist on keeping Madara alive, which would later result in this shit starting up again.

Y'all must not have played or remember Paper Mario. Komamura's invincible now.

They're such a cute family. I never thought I'd say this about a flashback (especially a flashback within a flashback), but I really don't want to go back to the "Midora eating Ichiryuu and then meteors". Just cute, happy memories for the rest of the manga.

! So, Midora is a master of Lerolero Shinken. Does this mean that the Bishokukai is really just the Neo Maruhage Empire?

Well, the Stray Islands thing kinda ruins my theory that Jirou's World Knocking is what caused the battle to supposedly turn in Midora's favor.

Still, CHOPSTICKS! So awesome.

@choperman:

chapters out!!

umm… so it seems like Ichiryu is dead, or definitely out for the count for a while before he makes a dramatic reappearance, either way like I said I'm not really happy about how this was handled

even if they show a flashback to the fight, knowing the conclusion (however obvious the result may be) kind of ruins it a little, at least for the first read

If you have anyone to blame for this, blame Komatsu, Yuu, Setsuno, Alfaro, and everyone else that was at Ice Hell, and Tina. If Midora hadn't gotten the Century Soup and leveled up, then Ichiryuu would've had the advantage.

I'm gonna be Hokage!

Well, now a new threshold has been set. Jirou just pulled some beyond-DBZ-level shit, which only makes you wonder how psychotically awesome things are going to be near the end of the series when the main cast has caught up.

Also, I can't get over how cute Jirou and Setsuno look together.

It's times like this that make me wish Don Patch would appear in Naruto to beat the shit out of Obito and Madara, and then fight Team 7 in order to become the main character and heroine.

Also, does anyone else find it annoying that the best praise Minato can muster for the son whom he hasn't seen in years and managed to get full control over the power he sealed in him as a baby before orphaning him is to compare him to a boy he's only just met and really shouldn't be close to Naruto in power at this point? He's almost as bad a father as Goku, and that's saying something.

Maybe it's just me, but Shino came off as a bitch this chapter. Not that Kiba didn't, mind you, but Shino's the guy Naruto forgot post-timeskip, so it's kind of annoying for the insignificant speck to talk down to the slightly bigger speck. Stuff like that just bugs me, like when Chaotzu talks down to Krillin in Dragonball Z Abridged. (As in the guy who Krillin beat with 1st grade math back in Dragonball, though that has no relevance to DBZA.) It also screams, "Uh, I don't have anything inspirational or interesting to say in what's supposed to be a great reunion, so I'll just talk smack and stroke Sasuke's dic- err, ego".

Also, I bet the reason Team Gai wasn't part of this lineup was because Rock Lee and Tenten, upon seeing Neji get killed for fake drama, decided to run back to their manga where it's safe and wait the rest of this arc out.

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I'm assuming the first panel is a dig at Toriko, considering…

Isn't Zebra's horse with Komatsu? It's not like Komatsu cooked up a faster way of travel or something.

Also, Zebra's intimidation monster is FAT. He needs to go on a diet. Seriously.

Also, it's nice that the monsters are wearing suits, but if they're going to do that, then Toriko's and Coco's could at least done something about their hair. Sani's monster is the only one who appears to have any class whatsoever. Zebra's might have class, but he's probably a glutton due to him being so damn FAT, so he probably has no table manners.

@MiyamotoMusashi:

I do not even know what is supposed to be funny about it, if people still enjoy Naruto then what right do you have to corrupt that enjoyment

How is it corrupting their enjoyment express a desire for more Breast Hammer? It's not any different than complaining about Neji or Shikamaru not getting enough screentime, and they don't even have missiles!

So, is the reason for the filler matches this time:
A) To move the final match to Monday?
B) To give the mods enough time to plan something crazy in case Bon Kurei wins?
C) To give Rayleigh enough time to BS his way back into the tournament with another Big Brother-esque stunt, thus enabling him to beat the same person he previously lost to and rob them of their well-deserved spot in the tournament?
Nami-swan ;-;

Has anyone been inspired yet to lead a campaign of trolling Naruto fanforums with threads crying out for more appearances of the Breast Missile?

@TheCrystalShip:

I don't know where this idea came from. Roger was all about passing the torch, Luffy is all about ending the game. This may seem to back up the Roger = Luffy mindset, but really, they have very different places in the story…

It's a good enough reason for me to not make make my vote useless by voting for all of them.

Voted for everybody except Roger, because everybody but him is amazing! Everything he ever did is just going to be emulated by Luffy anyway, so there's no point in voting for both of them.

@Samwize78:

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/246/0/1/tony_tony_chopper_by_silvver-d2xwjps.jpg

Well, that pretty much clinches my vote for Chopper.

Running around shirtless in a warm climate isn't manly. Stripping naked in a cold climate is. Vote for Hiriluk!

I actually voted for Dragon because of the poll question. I was about to vote for Whitebeard, but then I remembered that Dragon had Ivankov.

Sorry, Sabo. Maybe I'm shallow for not appreciating characters from flashbacks that take longer than 2 chapters, and don't build trains, but I gotta go with Chopper. Hopefully you'll turn out to not be dead, and do awesome things as an adult. Just please, please, don't turn out to be a creepy man in a mask with eye hax who wants to gather up all the Pokemon to fuse them into a beast to get the power to use the moon for mass hypnosis.

@IceBorg:

Well seeing how much of a big deal with Zebra was this stuff it should be important for then.

And im pretty sure a huge part of the army all died.

Ichiryuu is a jerk.

Everyone was using a GT Robo. They clearly said that, so they're fine.

As for the whole Zebra thing, he did hunt down 26 species to extinction. There's no guarantee yet that the four beast extinctified anything yet.

Besides, maybe the beasts only eat people? I don't think that was stated, but it could be the situation.

I seriously need to check out the Iron Man anime now. It seems like, unless the anime is focused on technology, like Gundam, that modern or advanced weaponry and intelligence can never stand up to naturally occurring monsters or living things or whatever. In order to be useful, you have to have training/instinct/HEART/ki/whatever. (Or in Toriko's case, you need jellyfish cells and to be a glutton.) Except in Dragon Ball, where technology can defeat the "strongest warriors" ever, but even then technology, and the reigning deities, can't defeat a testicle headed wizard's magical taffy monster.

I can just imagine anime Iron Man losing fights to random monsters, only to win by gaining the power of HEART, which he couldn't as his "heart" is now a big, glowing chunk of technology.

! Too bad Zebra isn't taking on King Octupus Kong. That cocky bastard probably took out the Salamander Sphinx! Now how is he supposed to get his favorite drink?

@Hayama:

For those who want to see the new ending…

0:17 must become my new wallpaper. <3

Vote for Kuroobi and Chew! I don't care if they win. I just want Ugly Toad B****-face Asshat Bellamy to get dead last.

@Cyclone_Baroness:

I'm kinda surprised none of the actual Uchiha's achieved this form.

! http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100113030448/yuyuhakusho/images/5/59/Hiei_Jaganshi_form.JPG

Now I'm surprised that no one in Naruto has figured out how to use Kurama's ultimate magical eye defeating technique: throwing blood at their eyes!

So, Acacia's main dish is GOD, his salad is AIR, his drink is ATOM, and his dessert is EARTH. The soup or the fish dish will probably be OCEAN or WATER, and the meat dish might be FIRE, if WATER is there. Therefore, the hors d'oeuvre must be DEVIL.

@Big_Bad_Lith:

Am I the only one who thinks it's a little cruel to cut pieces off of a living animal, and just let it keep going around? I mean, even if because of FOOD HONOR the animal apparently feels no pain or whatever, that just seems like an awful thing to do. What if they just look at themselves? Won't they realize they're living in agony, with all their skin removed?

I was unfortunately struck more by the fact that the fish shown during that was STILL ALIVE. It was basically a skeleton with scraps of meat; no amount of FOOD HONOR should allow a thing to keep living without a heart or gills or whatever, and especially not notice it for years. It's not like every animal out there is a housewife.

@kouch_lee:

The chapter was good, and I'm liking this training, even with its cliches (-A normal people would take 1 month, they made it in a few days! Incredible!- must be the number 1 most used phrase in manga training arcs). The arc where everything will go to hell looks promising to say the least.

It's too bad I just can't feel a thing for Toriko and Komatsu bonding. Maybe it's because I don't like Komatsu, but that line about feeling so frustrated about Toriko losing that he felt like crying. . .or that he's having fun with this training because he's growing together with Toriko. . .It's just so enormously cheesy. Can't feel it at all.

It might help if you consider that this training arc can also be considered a couples' retreat/couples counseling. They sorely needed it after Toriko left Komatsu to go get almost murdered at Gourmet World, their separation at the Gourmet Pyramid and Melk's valley, the fact that Zebra and Sunny are trying to get Komatsu to cheat on Toriko with them, and the whole Dourian(?) Bomb debacle.

So…Sani's hair made a cameo in today's One Piece, as a potential antagonist? Sweet.

@Shezar:

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Got few chuckles out of me,they are from BA and NF.

That last one makes me cry. Even though it's likely true, I hate the idea of Hachigen being the only Vizard left forgotten. He's my favorite among that group, and he's the only one that actually defeated an Espada! He even did so in a cool way that didn't involve simply swinging around swords or energy blasts. He also displayed some tricks that could be used by Orihime in the future- at least, in the unlikely even that she is ever actually shown to be competent again- like the parents of the Shika-Ino-Cho combo in Naruto part 1.

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@Mortea:

What is Ukitake's power? Was it even shown? I remember dual swords (because he was standing next to that flower cape guy and old fart commented how sexy the sexiest swords look together) but nothing more.

I think he could absorb energy blasts with one sword, then fire them out the other. He used it a couple of times against Starrk.