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EP 44. Memory Loss Jutsu!! Naruto 41-47
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Welcome back Weebs!! This week the guys dive further into the prelim matches in the Chunin Exams. We watch as just like Sakura and Ino, Jon and Nelson fight it out about who opinions are correct! We find out that they may be closer to the Ino Sakura dynamic than either of them thought and see the big brain of Shikamaru contrast the fading brain of one of our hosts!! Thank you again for Weebing-Along with us we truly love making this show for you all!!
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Setup
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome to Weeb Along. I'm Jon, and I'm forcing my friend Nelson, who doesn't like anime, to watch and discuss different anime. Thanks for tuning in. Let's get started.
00:00:16
Speaker
What is up, Weebz? Welcome back to Weeb Along, the show where all my predictions are correct, and Jon makes fun of me a lot. Speaking of, here with me is Jon. Say hi, buddy. Hello, that's me. That is you. I'm Nelson. I'm the one who is always correct. 100%.
Naruto Watch-through and Tuning Exams
00:00:34
Speaker
This week, we are indeed continuing our watch through of Naruto. Yay. Hey. Hey. If this is your first time tuning in, know that I apparently have an unjustified disdain for this show. ah rob I think it's justified, but nobody asks me. So here we are. I mean,
00:01:01
Speaker
The points that you make about it just, they don't hold up. They hold up to me. ah
00:01:11
Speaker
Yep, yep, yep, there we go. They just, they don't make sense. But they do. If you really think about it, they actually make a lot of sense. No, they don't make sense. No, but like, you only think about it. No, no, no, no, no. No, you don't need to really think about it. They just simply don't. You'll be like, oh, I want this to happen. And then it happens and then you can bitch about it. And it's like, hmm, I wonder why it happened. Maybe because people were asking for it like you just were. Anyway, this week we watched episodes 41 through 47. Yeah, we did.
00:01:53
Speaker
We got a little more one on one combat in our third stage of the tuning exams. um Of course, moderated by one Sugaru Gato. Yes. Which just makes me very happy. Oh, absolutely. It's so good because it's all I can hear. But yeah, I mean, let's I guess let's dive right into our first fight. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing really happened in these episodes for the most part.
00:02:24
Speaker
There were some other things, ah except for fights. Yeah. OK, OK, cool. I thought I was like, what do you mean? We watched like six fights happen. What do you mean? Nothing happened except for fights.
Character Dynamics and Techniques
00:02:37
Speaker
Nothing happened. We got a little bit of backstory, um which I'm not super thrilled with, but. There it is. No, we got a little background on, you know, and Sakura. So I'm kind of glad to have a little bit more background on the beef. Mm hmm. You have to see their dynamic and all that shit. Yeah. But first we opened up with ah Conquero and also um the fucking Capitos teammate, the other one, Sumi. Yeah. um What did you think of their fight?
00:03:16
Speaker
Um, it, it seemed, uh, perhaps a little one sided. Yeah. Um, but go absolutely deep sticking. Yeah. Yeah. That was. It was over fast. Yeah. Well, yeah. no Go ahead. Go ahead. I was going to say, which like if it was on any of the other people, it would have been over much faster. Oh, yeah. Like the fact that he would use the doll or the crow as his ah like substitution type thing and didn't have his neck snapped. ah Pretty clutch. Yes. Very clutch. Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:00
Speaker
um Yeah, that was I don't know fully what I expected. Mm hmm. But that wasn't really it. So has the real him been inside there the whole time or um potentially? Yeah. Because he does. What was it like a ah puppet jutsu? Yeah, puppet master jutsu. He makes ah the strings for like marionette type stuff are yeah made out of chakra. Oh, so they come from his fingertips and then he controls it with that. Okay. Yeah, it's a whole thing. It's cool.
00:04:32
Speaker
I'm sure we'll see more of that in the future. Oh, you betcha. Oh, good. Wonderful. There are you. You darn tooten, sir. Darn tooten. Holy fuck. Oh, yeah. Not me having but i started watching season three of Shorzy right before we started recording. ah as I know where this is going. I watched it literally. I hadn't seen any of this season. And I was like, you know what? I have a little time. Yeah. Good show. Yeah. why and Unlike Shorzi, let's get back to Naruto. Yeah. Bad show. But no it's not. We're all entitled to our wrong opinions. Sure. um Well, you think mine is wrong and I think yours is wrong.
00:05:19
Speaker
Yeah, and one of us is right. That's not how opinions work. I mean, you can have an opinion. If you said that yours is a wrong opinion, then that then implies that there is a direct opinion. Yeah. All right, I can see that the logic tracks. Yes, it does. But yeah, the the cockatoo fight was interesting. ah I am. Yeah, I'm excited to see what more comes of the puppet. Because I feel like and what if he tries doing that on the living person? What the poison gas? I was going for the puppetry. Like, I don't know if it's only inanimate objects he can do it with or just the one thing.
00:06:06
Speaker
You know what? We'll find out. Exactly. And when it comes, I won't bitch about it. I promise. I am sure you will. I am yeah positive. I'm certain that you will, sir. I yeah, I will. I will. Uh, for all the listeners who know, you know, all. Yes. I never complain. Never, never ever. Can we go back to my hero now? Why? Almost. We're
Thematic Discussions and Fights
00:06:45
Speaker
getting there. Oh, buddy, we're getting there. But. No, the yeah, that that ended that fight pretty quickly. The next snap, I was like, oh, cool, we're just offing more people.
00:06:58
Speaker
Yeah, you had a oh reaction. It's like, yeah, ah things happen in this show. Yeah. Let's not get Gara just got bored and killed three people. Yeah. As he knew as he fucking does, you know, he's entitled to his own wrong opinions as well. Oh, that's homicide. Yeah. Or a wrong opinion. John, that's murder. Yeah. Both of your things are illegal. It's good. oh Yeah, no, it's fine. OK. Sure, let's call those just a fair comparison. Yeah, no, I think they are. Shut the fuck up. All Moving on, ah we got our fourth match up.
00:07:45
Speaker
after the kangenom sumi fight and we got potentially the most god tier fight like just match up. I'm talking like McGregor mass with all man like this would be a fucking bout. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Zakra and Eno. Yeah, no, it was great. What the fuck? I feel like you were a little bit surprised when it started up because they didn't do like an immediate blow by blow. They actually had some action in the sequence to start off with. I was astonished to say the least. Yeah, I mean, hey, they do shit, too. para Crazy. But do they? yeah
00:08:32
Speaker
They do. This is the most effort Sakura has put into anything in 41 episodes. Correct. And they acknowledge it. That's they do. They do. They do. That's it's almost like she was written that way. Fucking weird to have development and growth. Weird! You know, it's one of those things I guess, but it's just funny. That was pretty good. Thank you. Yeah, I'm pretty fluent in dumbass. I've been speaking it for 28 years. yeah
00:09:13
Speaker
oh But yeah, no, we get to see Sakura and Ino going about it. ah We get some other backstory because they are going to blows with each other, but they get to a point where Ino has an opening and she can really land one on Sakura. And instead, her hand just automatically opens and she's... She smacks that bitch. Yeah. Instead of a punch. And everyone was surprised. Yeah, yeah especially. self- included Just smack the shit out of her, man. Yeah, they've been fighting each other with kid gloves a little bit because at the end of the day, they have history that goes back and they don't want to hurt the other person. But also, you know, they're fighting each other, so they got to come to like some sort of resolution with it. ah A fight ends when it's over like it can't just.
00:10:11
Speaker
Go. Yeah. Like the it's it the kid gloves were really on. Yes. You're not wrong there. They pulled a lot of punches. Uh huh. And it was incredible because I learned during this episode that Sakura could make a fist and ah you know, she used it a little bit. Yeah. No, she used your fits. Yeah. But no the whole the whole fight dynamic changing with the slap with everybody just in awe. Mm hmm. Because even Kakashi was like, Oh, shit. Yeah, that's ah not what I expected. Well, because usually like a slap and stuff, it's meant to like disrespect your opponent as a right to, you know, showing them respect.
00:10:58
Speaker
ah So um not the best move. No, no. What did you think of the whole little flashback thing that it spawns of baby Sakura, you know, picking flowers, you know, like pumping up Sakura and then sort of having like this moment that they share. What did you think of flashback, maybe, you know, in soccer? Well, I thought billboard brow having to go out and pick all the flowers was
00:11:31
Speaker
I'm trying to think how to put this. They they very clearly did not treat the girls the same. ah I didn't see any boys in the flower picking class. ah Correct. Yeah. Is a ah the whole thing was supposed to. It was like a blending in like spy thing, right? Yeah, it's like ah when you become a Konoichi, you need to be able to know how to blend in and have a certain manner of decorum. So we're going to, you know, practice flower arranging. So if you have to infiltrate someplace, you know how to do that. Gotcha. OK, so it wasn't just a
00:12:15
Speaker
your golden and flowers ah pretty much. Yeah. I mean, it was also gender based as well ah because they didn't have the guys learning how to arrange flowers for cover. Yeah. But as for baby, you know, and Sakura, I like their kid dynamic. Yeah, no, it's cute. Their pals and all of that just to let a boy come in and rip them apart. Yes. How are you going to hate somebody because you both have a crush on somebody like? Yeah, why would that happen? No idea, but I don't know. Let's look at middle school, bitch.
00:12:56
Speaker
ah uh for all the listeners at home um nelson and i uh the beginning of our friendship was very tumultuous to say the best um we were friends and then uh somebody decided to you know do Also like the same person as the other person and ah Yeah, it wound up becoming not friends very quickly ah Which yeah we didn't talk to each other for probably a year and a half after that Oh, right. Yeah, and then Friendship rekindles from there. So yeah, no, thanks for coming to my wedding buddy. Yeah, you're welcome you fuck all So weird, um
00:13:44
Speaker
that that that that That would happen. It takes life. It takes life, I guess. Yeah. but They they kind of got that shit right because they were about middle school age. Yeah, they were. So that, um you know, they got they got it. Huh, weird. They got it right. Yeah. Good job. guys There we are. Oh, God. Oh, but yeah.
00:14:15
Speaker
god nutty
00:14:21
Speaker
no the Yeah, they're separation. I feel like at some point they too will rekindle. Okay. Um, that is my bold prediction of the week is they will learn, they will, whatever the opposite of grow apart is come together. I suppose there we are. Yep. That's it. I was, I was halfway through it. I'm like, Oh wait, there's already a phrase for this.
00:14:47
Speaker
Look man, it's early reinventing the wheel at 10 30 in the morning. started with squares don't know where to go from here triangle uh anyway that's brilliant holy shit why didn't i try that fucking nutty if i take the square and cut it in half diagonally yeah i have two by the way Um, I don't know what we're doing from what we're doing right now. ah One of my buddies at work who listens to the pod listen to our my hero and he listened to the Scooby Ohio Riz episode.
00:15:27
Speaker
And he died that tangent and all of that is your cancer so.
00:15:40
Speaker
that's exactly what I thought of right now that was the goal. yeahp ah That was, I've also received messages about this video I erased. I got one that just said, bro, are you good? Yep, that was all you're doing. Correct. I will 100% point the the finger and direct the blame. It was 100% me, so sorry guy at work. yeah ah How dare you.
00:16:14
Speaker
I'm sorry it was a not very skippity situation. Shut the fuck up now. I don't think I'm even using it get right. You're probably not. Probably not. There's more beta of you. hello
00:16:27
Speaker
That's pretty sick though bro. Oh my god. Air cancer. Air cancer. cancer. Back to the show though. Back to my fucking hands. Yeah. Good. Where it belongs. Anyway, ah we get more of In Sakura fighting. They have this like resolution of like, fuck it. i'm just gonna you know I respect you, so let's beat the shit out of each other. Then they start you know going blow to blow and they you know they're pretty equally matched. Gives herself a haircut.
00:17:10
Speaker
um Scatters the hair down and to be like, hey fuck you to Sakura and then she goes to do her mind possession jutsu she fakes out Sakura, um by faking it We're out and she would say yes faked her out by faking it. Yeah. I mean, hey It's better than fainting, ah which she does. ah Yeah, ah fainting is spelled with an E instead of an A. The first time is what that was supposed to be. Would have been more clear what I was saying if it was if it were written down. Yeah, nutty. Well, lucky for you, I don't know how to read, so I wouldn't have gotten the joke either way. Correct.
00:17:52
Speaker
ah Bring it back! Bring it a back! ah But yeah, she does the fake mind transfer jutsu, and then she, you know, looks like she slumps over like she did it, and then Sakura's like, haha, miss me, bitch. And then, you know, channels chakra through her hair that's on the ground to bind chakra in place. And then she's like, Chakra, am I right?
00:18:21
Speaker
Anyway, ah binds her in place and then shoots a little mind transfer jutsu at her while she's being held and makes a successful hit. ah Thoughts on Inno's tactic for that? um It became more clear once the possession actually took over what the goal was. Uh-huh. Cause when she first started doing it, I'm like, what are you going to do with this? Like, I feel like it's more helpful in a, you know, larger scale fight. Yeah. Sort of like Chica Mars, right? Where like yeah the copying thing. Yeah. it Yeah. Definitely better in a larger scale, but it was interesting to see where she took it. Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:06
Speaker
Nice. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Um, that's all I have to say about that. Alrighty. But yeah, so soccer gets, uh, possessed by, you know, and, uh, is raising her hand to quit the match, uh, and forfeit giving up the wind to, you know, and, uh, is interrupted by Naruto yelling at Sakura not to do it that she's been actually fighting hard for the first time in her life. And, uh, she shouldn't give up. Which then i causes herself or her subconscious to be like, hey, fucking no. And then we see the cha demon but inside of Sakura, you know, out, never give up, never surrender. That's what I always say. And the rolling helps. Oh, what did you think of Sakura's chaff, like breaking out of the whole thing? Good for her for doing something.
00:20:02
Speaker
Yeah, like that's ah especially something that seemingly no one else has done. Yeah, but she has always had that very strong drug control. Uh-huh. So there you go.
00:20:21
Speaker
So I mean. Everyone was surprised, seemingly, except for Kakashi. He was a little surprised, but was also like, no, I get it. Yeah. Like it makes sense. Well, that and also, you know, is tired of shit ah because they did the force of death directly into this. It's so wild that they did that transition, but also combat's never going to wait for you. Correct. So I guess it makes sense why they did it. um Everybody who gets to go last is lucky because they get the breather. Yeah, I get to rest up a little bit, especially when some of the fights like um this one and Naruto's fight take a while.
00:21:10
Speaker
Yeah. So I guess Rock Lee and Gara ah will both be relatively well rested for their bout. them And then the other two that are left over are Choji ah and Dosu, ah the sound guy. Yes. Uh-huh. i Yeah, we'll be getting to them. ah what do What do you think about the Choji-Dosu matchup right off bat? Was that in this episode? No, no, no, no. That's that's looking towards the future. there Oh, I was going to say, I'm like, fuck, I don't remember. No, this is me getting a prediction or an option or something, a raw reaction for the podcast. Oddly enough. Oddly enough, I think the roly poly is going to be successful. OK.
00:22:00
Speaker
ah I think there's a lot of things that we haven't seen from him yet. OK, so he's going to break out some shit during the fight that's going to be like, whoa, but OK, cool. Prediction, really? Polioli wins. I think those who's going to I think he's going to kill those who. Oh, OK. Oh, full murder. Just full dead. Full day stop. Cool. Interesting. Alrighty. But anyway, uh, we get to see that makes it sound like I'm not correct. So I'm going to take. would Never, never. Um, anyway, uh, the killing him is wild. Is it? Absolutely wild. Some people are going into this with the intent of murder. You think Choji's going into this thinking that he's going to murder someone? I think Choji doesn't know his own roly polyole strength.
00:22:56
Speaker
I think that he's gonna murder a bag of chips, but not murder a person. He might do it accidentally. Okay. that way That's what my prediction was. It would be an accidental thing that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Okay. God damn it. Alrighty, anyway, back to the show. That was a legitimate prediction, god damn it. Proud of you. Anyway. Thank you.
00:23:23
Speaker
um Yeah, so we get the ending of the Ino Sakura fight where Sakura breaks out and then her and Ino run towards each other and then they both punch each other in the face ah causing both of them to get knocked the fuck out and ah you know knocking them both out of the competition because neither one of them can get up. They get brought off the field, they sleep a little bit, have a little nappy poo, and then they wake up, come to, and then they have like a little like ah you know exchange where there's like a little bit of respect.
00:23:56
Speaker
ah exchange between the two of them, which lasts for 0.2 seconds yep as they go back to fighting for Sasuke and who's stronger. I just realized this. Neither of them won. Correct. Both of them were eliminated. Yes. That still leaves an open spot. Correct. That leaves nine. It does. And they want to go in with 10, right? I mean, they're just looking to thin down the numbers. OK, so it doesn't necessarily have to be 10. Correct. OK. Yeah, because I mean, like, hey, if ah they if Kabuto hadn't dropped, then they would have been at 21 and i already would have been a. ah Oh, you're right. Mm hmm. So they're just trying to thin the ranks. Yeah. Mm hmm. Which I mean, this is a great way to, you know, cut it in half. ah Right.
00:24:53
Speaker
But yeah, just like Joji is going to do. Yeah, he's going to just, you know, cut him in half full soup in a malevolent kitchen and a malevolent kitchen. Yeah. Full Gordon Ramsay docu and just chop them in half. Dear. What are you? A dead sandwich malevolent shrine. Oh, anyway. That'd be nutty. Oh, awesome. My brain got to be awesome because it's what's going to happen. Brain can't get past imagining choji with the sukkata marks on him right now. And we're crazy. ah Oh, I'm picture. Oh, my God. Oh, but yeah. ah So we get to move on to the next fight, which is. Dotto, no.
00:25:45
Speaker
What? Tamari versus 10-10. I forgot that one even happened. Yeah, because it happens quickly. It was very fast. We see 10-10, who is from the squad of Rocklea and Negi versus Tamari, who is from the sound the ah the sand village with Mara and Kankaru. What did you think of their fight? Wind versus throwing shit. ah
00:26:17
Speaker
The wind kind of wins that one weird ah Yeah, I mean you're you're quite literally spitting in the wind I feel like after the first one I probably would have stopped throwing shit Yeah. And then like, OK, this isn't working because all they have to do is push it back a little harder. And now everything you threw is coming back at you. Yeah, it's a boomerang almost. Yeah. And it just. 10 10 did not execute. Well, no, she had some mad hops, but she did not execute the rest. Well, killer vertical. Mm hmm. Holy shit. Yeah. What did you think of all of her weapons summoning stuff? Just get a take on 10 10 herself. It was kind of cool with like pulling everything out of the scrolls.
00:27:10
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, she pulled a lot out. She really did. ah She threw fucking everything. She must have thrown like 40 or 50 things. Yeah. Yeah. um Cool. And then thoughts on Tamari with her fan. Were you a fan? I was a fan fan. OK, nice. ah Once all three moons. Yeah, yeah, you're nailing it. we're We're visible, I guess is when it really popped off. Yeah. Uh huh. I really like that it did the one, two, three to kind of show that that power scale. Yeah. um It'll be cool to see what ah she does, I suppose, is in the future if we see more of her in the future.
00:28:01
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I mean, and she moves on, so. Oh, that's true. Yeah. So yeah, we will. Not a spoiler. Yeah. For those who. Nutty. um Anyway. so Uh, yeah, so Tamari kicks the shit out of 10-10. Uh, then we see, uh, 10-10 falls down. Tamari catches her on the top of her fan. Sort of looking like she could have broke 10-10's back.
00:28:34
Speaker
And then decides to you know chuck her aside well very disrespectfully and rock Lee jumps in catches ten ten and then starts making a fuss about it like how fucking dare you and then gara. Also has some words to say and we get a little tease. of the morals in between Rock Lee versus Gaara for the upcoming fight, which will be in our next episode chunk. Hello, hooray. So then they clear the field um and we get to move on to the next fight, which is Rock Lee versus Gaara. Nope. Which is Which is... Which is?
00:29:29
Speaker
It's tomorrow versus Shin, the sound ninja bitch. Oh fuck, that's right. The problem with it is, it's every fight that we have. It's two episodes long, you don't remember anything. I got it. Yes. Yeah, no, it's okay. This episode brought to you by him's memory loss. um You can't give me like a three minute fight and then have one last two and a half episodes. Why not? Isn't your main complaint that it's not happening faster? Just don't make the other one two and a half episodes.
00:30:09
Speaker
I feel like that's not- God forbid that our main characters get spent more time with than our ensemble characters. Weird. Who would do that? Why would that make sense?
00:30:26
Speaker
Dear God.
00:30:31
Speaker
Couldn't be me, but... No. Anyway. this it's the It's the shadow fight, right? Yes, it is the shadow possession ju-su fight. Okay, okay. That I do remember. That I do remember. I got this. I was just testing you. I knew all along. Sure. Anyway. What did you think of Sound Ninja Bitch versus Shikamaru? Uh, sound ninja bitch, little too cocky. Yeah. Um, this was his fight with he had the one arm, correct? No, that was the that was a guy that was a guy in the whole other episode cluster. Yes, it was. This is Shikamaru. Yes, I know. I know this is Shikamaru and the I'm trying to remember what this dude looks like. It's it's versus the girl. Oh, that one. Yeah. That's why we've been saying the sound ninja bitch.
00:31:29
Speaker
To be fair, we call a lot of people. We do. We do. um Can't fault me on that one. oh But it is Shin, the sound ninja girl. Oh. Oh. Oh, yeah, that bitch cocky as hell.
00:31:53
Speaker
Audience, you see what I go through, right? You you hear it. You see it.
00:32:02
Speaker
So she throws the things, right? And the things have the bell. Yep. The send on. Yep. Yes. I like the. The move, though, he figured the. I. Fuck. Shika Shika Maru. I had to call him. I want to call him Shigigami. Oh. He's doing great, but early.
00:32:30
Speaker
It's 1049. No, it's not. That is early. You wake up at like eight usually. You've been awake for almost three hours. I worked late. I went to bed at four. What? You got a point. Yeah, I do. ah Weird. Anyway. So Shikamaru figuring all that out kind of quickly. Uh, it was, it was cool to have Bitch doing, I guess, maybe not necessarily adapting. Was it her plan all along for him to figure it out with the bells?
00:33:07
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, because the whole her whole thing, like it's set up to look like it's going to be like, oh, yeah, you dodged this, but you don't dodge this ah like an old trick. But it's actually that she uses the sound waves from the bell to actually like destroy his head. Yeah. Yeah. Like disorient the enemy being, you know, a sound ninja using the sound waves. You don't say. Weird. um But yeah, ah but yeah but his when his brain gets rattled, honestly, I thought he was kind of done. And you sly dog, you caught me monologuing. She didn't notice the his his, what, shadow jutsu?
00:33:52
Speaker
Yes. So he has the shadow possession Jutsu where he can extend his shadow to then take control of another person and they mimic him. Yes. ah So another thing about her things is they have little strings attached to them. So she pulls them, they go into Shikamaru. He uses those strings, ah feeds his shadow along it and connects with her shadow, making it a successful Jutsu. Yeah, she was so busy, she didn't notice the thickness of the shadows on the strings, which probably should not even have a shadow. Yes. ah And so after, you know, getting possession of her, it takes the shuriken and stuff and then throws each other chicken. Yeah. And then does a little backbend and he clears it and she also not. Yeah, she clears it.
00:34:47
Speaker
Yeah, she goes a whole bonk right into the wall. She doesn't clear the wall, but she clears the shuriken. Yeah. Yeah. um So fun fact about that. So Shukamaru is known for having like big brain plays. The only reason that his plan worked and why the shadow jutsu was is because of the spacing of that. Do you remember what his opening move was?
00:35:15
Speaker
Cool, it was, he just- I'm thinking. It's okay. Anyway, he does- I didn't remember his name. You think I'm gonna remember the opening move? Yeah, that's why I moved on. So he does just like a reckless attempt to get possession of her shadow, just right off the bat, just like launches it straight at her, which causes her to jump backwards. So he has had this plan in place the entire time from the opener. Damn. Yeah. So Shikamaru, cool. A thousand IQ, actually. Oh, him and Toto, him and Toto locking it down.
00:35:54
Speaker
ah
00:35:58
Speaker
But yeah, ah thoughts on Shikamaru? Excited for more, especially with the battle tactics. OK. I feel like at some point he's going to end up not necessarily devolving, But moving to more of a like Armin type role where it's more of the strategy. Uh huh. Or like he'll come up with the plans like he'll still fight. There's shadow possession like. Dude, you're winning, but but he'll become more of like the the planner. Yes, OK, cool, nice.
00:36:39
Speaker
Uh, I dig it. And so the correct prediction,
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00:37:52
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Naruto vs. Kiba Analysis
00:38:19
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I'm not. Uh, but yeah, we get to see Naruto versus Kiba in Akamaru thoughts on this matchup. You want like the whole fight thoughts or not? Go for it. Um, I love Akamaru. Yeah, like I would die for Akamaru must protect at all costs. Um. Kiba
00:38:49
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I was not expecting the running on all fours transformation into wolf person hybrid. Yeah. ah But when he did the whatever, I think it would technically be a clone jutsu on Akamaru. Yes, the man. Yeah. When he was doing that, and launching the smoke bombs and then doing his thing over thing. Yeah, that was I feel like he's definitely going to be one of the stronger in this. Yeah. um
00:39:27
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But when Naruto did the switch, or the clone, and then did the fake out, ah huh ah when did he get smart? hey They've been doing stuff. I mean, remember when he had the whole thing with, like, uh, disguising himself as the shadow shuriken for Sasuke Singh versus Zabuza? Like, oh, yeah, guys got the mind for it at times. guys He might be an idiot at times, but he also can do cool shit at times as well. Yeah. The duality. The duality of man. why No, it was it was probably, um,
00:40:10
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I guess the most intricate fight so far. Yeah, definitely had the most layers to it and everything. oh It helps that it was over two and a half episodes. It was only two. OK, two episodes. Calm down. So they had a fuck off. So they had time to let. Two for Sakura, one for Tamari in Ten Ten and also Shikamaru and also Shin and then two episodes for Naruto, two episodes for Hinata. That's seven.
00:40:40
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shit yeah yeah you're right yeah main characters nutty anyway wild how that works but it no i mean it i like that they flushed it out a bit um we got to see kind of what both of them could actually really do i'm surprised we didn't send naruto into nine tails mode Yeah, I was honestly expecting him to like go overboard like Sasuke did in his. Right. Well, like when that's happened, it's been life or death situations. He's fighting right intensely for life. Yeah.
00:41:26
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So I think that's why it wasn't triggered. Also, Orochimaru had just put a seal on Naruto to bring him out of the Ninetales. So who knows what? ah Oh, yeah. Yeah. Who knows what effects those are having on him right now? That's a good point. Yep. Nutty. Like you have seen the show. Weird. weird or I just remember a couple episodes back. ah Look, you got me beat there. I know that my memory asshole. I'm coming to realize that we might actually have to watch some recap episodes in the future for you. We actually might. Yeah.
00:42:09
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ah Anyway yeah so we got everything going on in that at one point Naruto is like alright I'm gonna you know release my new jutsu that I've been working on. ah a dragon we got the super smell Uh-huh. He's got the super stink, uh, for the super smell. And, uh, at the moment where Kiba's sentence are heightened, uh, to like the elevated dog form, uh, you had this to say, which wound up, I spliced it together with when it actually happens of, you know, thoughts and reaction to the good stuff. Somebody rip ass right now.
00:42:50
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yeah Hey, remember when you said somebody rip ass right now? Oh, my God. That was not the prediction I thought I would get right. ah Yeah, so ah Naruto rips ass all. Right and keep his face as he was about to strike him and, you know, causes a break enough for Naruto to get his shit together.
00:43:23
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i I didn't want to be correct. But you were. But I was. I didn't. I desperately did not want to be. I'm like, there's no way they would go that low. Oh, they did. Yep. Hmm. Yep. I mean, he just he fully shit his pants. Yeah, he shit himself. Um. Yeah, so that was the thing that happened. ah Then we get to see the Naruto Uzumaki barrage, where he uses his clones to kick Hiba up into the air, and then he himself jumps up there, ah does some flips, and then kicks Hiba down into the ground, sort of imitating what Sasuke did with the lion's barrage. ah Thoughts on that? I just hope Akamaru's all right.
00:44:13
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Yeah, which also speaking of Akamaru, we got to see him take a food pellet earlier and it made him turn red. And everyone said that's cheating. Yeah. So fun fact, ah as ah I've been learning Japanese, Akka means red. So the fact that he turns red is cool. Oh, because it's a name. Yeah. Just like how Sakura is. Oh, my God. Her hair is pink like the soccer block. Deku. Yeah. And Deku Midori. Midori. Yeah. It's all good. Um, yeah. Colors, names, reading. Who knew? Anyway.
00:44:58
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Red herring in Scooby-Doo Kids. He had red hair. Who would have thought? Nutty. Oh, but yeah. ah That's going to be the next shirt. It's going to be the Jif logo, ah but it's just going to say nutty.
00:45:15
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Oh, all I've merged that hasn't been made anyway. Yeah, the amount of shirts that I want that are just our dumb shit. Yes. Yeah, get in the comments. If you want some shirts, let us know. Uh, apparently we have ideas for them. We do. And we have the means to make them. So yes, we do. Uh, cool. Nutty nutty. Uh, but yeah. we get Naruto versus Kiba ending Naruto being the victor hell yeah and unfortunately yeah that means we'll never see Kiba again yeah never ever uh but yeah Kiba gets wheeled on on a stretcher Naruto runs back up to his friends Hinata has a little moment of being like ah And then hands him some lotion to help him heal you're welcome for that that one was the boys clip ah is that not a good hena you don't know what you want fuck Thank you, um Yeah, you just you have to envision edging and then you just say Naruto and then you're set and
00:46:30
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No, he's
Hinata vs. Neji: A Deeper Look
00:46:31
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in the next fight. Shout out to Edgy fighting it. Shout out to Edgy. Well, here's the hat. Anyway. I'm not Ryan. So as Kiba, her teammate is being wheeled out in the background. She offers a healing medicine balm to Naruto who takes it like, gee, thanks, and then runs away. Wait, take a hint. Memed and jiffed or all that good stuff. Gift. Yeah, gift. Gaffix heard. Anyway.
00:47:12
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ah Then she goes over to Kiva and gives a little bit of the ointment to him and he's like, no, good. You got to focus up because you're next. Yeah, it's graphics. Yeah. Yeah. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. matchup ah we find out that you know she calls him big brother nedggie G. G.
00:47:44
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the main branch of the hugo clan and him being from the like ah you know side slash lesser branch of the hugo clan as well and it shows he gets overpowered like a motherfucker yeah definitely uh what did you think of the Hinata Neji fight in broad um i think that earlier there were a lot of really cool jutsu yes And in this one, they just beat the ever loving shit out of each other. Pretty much. There was. Other than the what is it, the the Bakugan? The Akugan. That's the one. ah There wasn't really anything like magic.
00:48:32
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Yeah, or jutsu. Yeah. So it's just a technique that they're using where they are um very much like Tylie from Avatar, where they're hitting the chakra points to try to shut that down, which in turn can kill the person if they run out of chakra. Yeah. Or if, you know, if you hit their heart, Negi, yes. That was that was what I was going to get to. What the fuck? Fucking. Oh, what a power move. Power move, criminal, you know, attempted homicide. That's why I was saying with Choji. I'm like, dude, some people are actually trying to kill each other here. Yeah, but Choji. Choji, you're going to tell me that that Rolly Polioli, who is smart and short and round.
00:49:22
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is not capable of murder. I am excited to see more of choji with you because yeah. Correct. Yeah, you just haven't fully met him yet. um So I guess I can't blame you anyway. ah But yeah. ah Back to the Hinata Neji thing. ah They start going to plows. We see the gentle fist technique, which is where they are again, striking the chakra network instead of ah really trying to hit the muscles and stuff like that. The interesting thing about the biakugan is you are hitting stuff that is internal.
00:50:02
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And as rockly says you can work on strengthening your muscles and your exterior but you can't do anything to do your interior so the biakugan is sort of ah goaded in that realm and the sharing on actually is derived from the biakugan in the past. Yes yes. So i wonder if there's a relation between sasuke and. It'd be like a very um it'd be like a very very very very very very very very distant it's like oh oh yeah you know how they're like oh yeah.
00:50:41
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the human race started in Africa and then spread out from there. yeah It's like technically everyone is related based off of that, but um yeah, sort of the same realm for a shaingon versus biakon. Very much main families and branches and clans, but not actually fully related. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, ah during the fight, we also got to see a little flashback for Hinata ah when Kuranai comes to the Hugu clan's house to talk about taking on Hinata as a Genin. And we get to see Hanabi, which is Hinata's younger sister, ah very briefly, who has just been sparring with her father. And Kurana is like, hey, so Hinata is becoming a Genin.
00:51:34
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She's your oldest child. Um, getting can usually get killed. It's very dangerous. Uh, are you sure that you're OK with this and you don't care? Yeah, he doesn't care. He goes out a single spot anyway. Yeah. Thoughts on Hinata's, you know, tragic past. What do you think? Somehow not even the worst dad I've seen in anime, right? Shout out to my boy, Toji. Yeah.
00:52:09
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I'm assuming we'll see more of the other one, the younger sister. Yeah. Down the line. Sort of. Yeah. Down the line. Yeah, so it'll be interesting to see how far her special treatment has gotten her when we eventually get there compared to the one who's, I don't know, going into cardiac arrest on the floor. Yeah. Um. Yeah, shit relationship. Yeah, yeah. And the awful thing is, after current, I guess, like the blessing she walks outside and then he not just standing right next to the door and heard her dad say, I don't care if she dies, it's fine.
00:52:46
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Yeah. ah ah Which I feel like she already had a hunch. Yeah. But I mean, there's also a difference between having a hunch and the just flat out hearing your dad say, I don't care if she dies. She's weak. Um, you know, emotional damage right there. Yeah. ah So I definitely I definitely feel for her there. Yeah, ah thoughts on Nedji and all of his anger towards the main branch and that you need to calm the fuck down. Yeah. There is there is no reason. Yeah, to be that much of an angry little shit. Yeah, I get that you're the strongest one there and you got there because of the chip on your shoulder. Mm hmm. However, yes. Fucking calm down.
00:53:38
Speaker
You mean don't murder someone. Yeah. Drink a Pepsi. You'll be fine. Have a Snickers. Yeah, just. Change the attitude a little bit, a little bit, just be a lot. Just don't murder your family. Yeah. Well, like at the end, it's interesting because Hinata gets up to continue fighting. We also get a nod to her when he's like, just give up already. And then she's like, no, I'll never give up. That's my Nindo, my ninja way, which is your Nobel. Yeah, which is exactly what Naruto had said earlier in the fight as well. Yeah. um
00:54:19
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Yeah, so, nutty, interesting, seeing, you know, the trying to be like, look, Naruto, I'm just like you. Notice me, love me, pay attention to me. ha how if be hot Yeah, that one. God damn it. That was a shout out to Sioux School, a musical that we did in high school. ah like' just a musical in general yeah that one too uh anyway yeah so we get that little thing that little shout out to that but she gets up at the end of the fight to continue fighting and neji goes to run towards her and all the jonin jump it in to stop him before he fully kills hinata a kakashi might guy kur and i
00:55:05
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all of them jump into action. They're like, uh, no. Try again, motherfucker. Yeah. Because during the fight, you even had this to say. It's not about to die. Like, it got intense. It got bad quickly for her. Yeah, well, again, two episode fight. At the end of the first episode fight, you know that it's bad when it ends on a strike to the chest and then you see an X-ray vision of that chest and the boom, boom. Oh, you know, it's bad. Why? Yeah, it's very mortal combat, very mortal combat, very fatality esque.
00:55:45
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Yes. And it damn near was. But yeah, we get to see Naruto jumping down there to i'll also fight Neji. And they're like, hey, you fucking don't. They say you're not allowed to fight unless you're in a match. And he was like, cool, because Hinata is being wheeled on a stretcher. And he is even talking to Joni. He's like, I don't know why you guys are jumping in to defend this trash of a human being. ah She's worthless and weak. I'm not worth your time. Calm down. Yeah. when My guy. Yeah. Pisses off Naruto. Naruto runs his hand through the Unumaki that Hinata had all and sort of like holds it to him as I vow to win ah of like if we go up against each other, I'm a fucking kick your shit in bitch ah towards an edgy. Direct quote. Yeah. Thoughts on that.
00:56:44
Speaker
You just watched him fully attempt to murder somebody. it You know he's the strongest one here. say It took you a while to win your fight. z And then you're going to say, if I ever fight you, I'm going to put you in the ground.
00:57:08
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somebody bring this man a wheelbarrow to carry it carry his balls around because the stones that you've got to have to even say that. That's like you walking up to Mike Tyson and being like, hey, if we boxed, I'm going to fuck you up. Yeah. Yeah. Like what? I don't know what your goal is, but you're not going to take it. I mean, at least he's, you know, trying to stand up for. He is. um That's you're standing in front of the tank, brother. Yep. It's not going to go well. Cool. All righty.
Anime Predictions and My Hero Academia
00:57:48
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Well, that sort of leaves us off of the farthest. Can I predict what the next fight is? Sure. Choji versus Din Djarin or whatever the fuck his name is. Din Djarin. The Mandalorian just pops up. just
00:58:11
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I couldn't remember. Dosu. Dosu. There we are. Nailed it. I didn't have to look it up. Let's go. Oh, darn. That'd be a great fight. Yeah. Just just Grogu and fucking Choji just eating chips. Yeah, it's just the mud rhino all again.
00:58:32
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This is my symbol, and it's just Joji with the bag of chips. Yeah, this is the way. This is the way. This is the way. But yeah, so yeah, we get Joji versus Dosu and Rockly versus Gaara. You already know about the stuff, so it's not a spoiler. Correct. Cool. Because it's pretty easy to know process of elimination wise and all that. And also the title of the next episode. Yeah. ah So speaking of next episode, for the next episode of We Belong, we will be watching episodes 48 through 52. This will bring us to the end of season two. Bringing us into season two of My Hero. Right, thank you, God. So we're gonna go from this to the other tuning exams. It'll be great. ah It's the...
00:59:32
Speaker
The hype I have going back into my hero. Yeah, it's a good show. It's a really great show. Really good show. I believe that it's going to be your top three. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's going to be in your top three also because I know you and you like superheroes and stuff like that. And I feel like also just a story of it's really good. The story I'm really enjoying so far. I'll tell you a season seven still popping off. Love it. I I had a friend of mine from college who was texting me ah yesterday, two days ago, whenever it was and was like, hey, I found this guy on TikTok who reminds me a lot of you.
01:00:11
Speaker
I opened it up thinking it was going to be one of our videos because that would have been funny as fuck. ah But no, it was a guy who's ranking. I think it was like the hardest punches in anime. Mm hmm. And I opened it up and it was all might a fighting somebody who I had no idea who it was. Correct. And I was like, get away, get away, get away, get away, get away, get away, get away. Yep. I clicked off of that video so fucking fast. You betcha. And I was like, shit, if this brings me season seven spoilers, I'm going to cry. Yeah.
01:00:50
Speaker
It'll be good, I'm excited. Yeah, no, but we're gonna go back into My Hero season two after this. Get to- And watch the entirety of season two. Yeah, hang out with Deku and all them again. Yeah, and soo, and soo. Yeah, go cool. Anyway, so your predictions for the next episode, who do you think wins Rock Lee versus Gara?
01:01:17
Speaker
I'm going to go with Gara. Okay. And then predictions on who's going to win. show je Okay. i He's going to kill those who hurt. Yep. Okay. Cool. Um, yeah. Well, I guess that's sort of her app. That's it. Yeah. ah For a week. Cool. Cool. Um, what would your plugs be, sir?
Community Engagement and Closing Remarks
01:01:38
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Go ahead and follow us on Instagram and take talk at we belong pod. And then you can also follow our subreddit, our slash that we belong podcast. we yeah I was like, there's more than this, right? Yep. Go ahead and click the link. Tree takes you to our discord. My music playlist ah that is there of Nelson Rex and anime bangers.
01:02:02
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And, uh, this week's music plug freshly added to that playlist is stamp on the ground by the tallow brothers. Um, yes. Solid, uh, just dance track out of, I think Finland. Sure. I think it's Finland. So we're going to go with that. I'm probably totally fucking wrong. But, you know, Eastern Europe, that's where it is. But yeah, it's super killer. It's just a fun. It's a good hype song. If you're driving to work and dreading your job, it's a good way to, you know, hype yourself up before you walk in. Hell yeah. What do you got? Oh, oh, oh, anime, anime, anime, anime, anime. I forgot I watched that now.
01:02:48
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oh I am am in season two of ReZero still. Yeah, I'm in season two of ReZero. Nice. ah Cool. Yeah. What do you got, buddy? ah Not much. I've been watching Demon Slayer, been watching some My Hero Season 7. I've also been watching some ah but but but bo Soul Eater as well. ah That's been popping off, been getting into that. ah Excited for seeing that. I'm about halfway through the entire show right now. And digging it.
01:03:30
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a good recommendation thank you so much that is from you guys if you have any other show recommendations feel free to drop them on discord reddit wherever you so choose and if you have any music recommendations as well i will happily take those the last one was fucking killer hell yeah so fucking send them my way fucking sweet All right, but yeah, I think that's going to do it for us. You guys have a fantastic rest of your week. Thank you so much for dropping by and hanging out with us. Make sure to we belong in the next couple of episodes and we'll see you in the next one. Bye.
01:04:25
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He's milking?