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I personally am not a fan of naruto. It may just be that i only have watched a handfull of episodes, but the ones i saw seemed kinda slow. I've seen some of the fight scenes (like one of naruto fighting sasuske where they transformed or something along those lines) and they still didn't prove to impress me too much. Then again, i may have just moved on from the fighting animes. I used to love DBZ (yeah i know, lame) but know, most of the episodes seem pointless to me. Anywho, i would have to say that naruto is not one of my favorites. Perhaps if i had the time, i could sit and watch more of it, then maybe i would like it like the millions of gaians seem to. ( regards to the ninja headband, which i thought was stupid when i had like 6 and now look at them)

I haven't had many chances to watch Natruto myself either. They started airing it on YTV and i'm opposed to dubbed Anime. I've been forced to watch a few episodes now and then with my boyfriend, and i hadn't a clue as to what was going on. I've been interested in taking a look into the Anime mostly because i heard it was funny, but the prospect of "filler" episodes pretty much threw me off. I'm sure the manga would be a better choice?

The only thing i did like was that each ninja seemed to have been drawn differently to represent their nationality. It's rare that you'd find an anime that can sucessfully draw that out.

you know, i saw some of the japenese version, and was excited when i heard it was coming to cartoon network. then i heard the voice actors, and how out off .. line it was and.. meh. gonk i was so upset.

yeah, i saw dbz and thought it was crap until i learned of the original also. that uncut stuff was pretty awesome. whee i miss that tnechi show, that was a pretty good show. 3nodding

Well I never watched the show, but I'm guessing Cowboy Behop and Naruto are made by the same people/companey?

Another thing to remember is that Anime doesn't use programes like Toonboom, Animo and Flash like in Western Cartoons. Ever 24 frames per second is hand drawn onto a clear plastic sheet, then hand painted. Also, you can't do all the colours in gone go, ou have to do one colour at time, otherwise the paints will bleed together, and they dry up really fast.

Best way to describe CG paint is like wall paint, but dries much faster. This prosses can take months to prepare, and one slip up can ruin a whole month or two or work. This is one of the reasons why anime cut corners, regardless if it looks the same or not. Another example is running scenes: why bother doing different running scenes when you can do one in different angles and close ups and just repeat them, but with different backgrouns. Animators like me know how to cut corners for not only to save time, but it saves a lot of time.

Another time saver is when people are talking. If you watch closely, they hardly move when they talk, and the lip sync, well there isn't really, just a lot of opening and closing the mouth, so it looks like it is, when in fact it isn't

Like I said for one second of animation, there is 24 different pieces of paper to make that one second. So imagine how many frames they are in half an hour wink

Same with the Cowboy behop Background: Look carefully: The camera moves the same way, a black block moves repeatedly it's to save time. Same with the Naruto clip, they're done like that to save time, money and effot.

I'm sure they're millions are other anime 'rips', so In my opnion there is no 'Great'/'The best' animated anime, because I garentee there will be rips from other animes

actually, alot of animators use that repeat backround. 3nodding just for the fact thati t does save time and money.

It's true. those are his clones.

I personally really like the manga naruto, but the anime gets on my nerves after they made about a year of filler (non plot) episodes. The manga is really great though, plotwise, and such.