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EP. 30 B***hes and Bridges!! Naruto 12-19
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Hey Weebs welcome back!!! This week we continue on trucking through the beginning of Naruto! Nelson and Jon dive into the bridge fight and learn how to classify the different characters of Naruto. We find out that Nelson might actually begin to be enjoying himself as we start to get farther into the show than he had ever been previously, and hear the pitch for the ultimate crossover with the critically aclaimed Wendy Wu Homecoming Warrior!! Make sure to check out the next episode to find out how Nelson enjoys all the new characters about to be introduced!!
next week the guys will be finishing up the first season of Naruto and beginning the Chunin Exams as they watch episodes 20-25. Make sure to Weeb-Along through those episodes in order to keep up with the guys for next week!!
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Opening Track: "Smoke Break Valedictorian" https://get.slip.stream/2wSuBM
Ad Track: "Big Luck" https://get.slip.stream/Xv9zVI
Closing Track: "Yolo Times Two" https://get.slip.streamC00wn7
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Transcript
Introduction to Weave Along Podcast
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome to Weave 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
Welcome everybody to we've a long welcome back. We missed you.
Nelson's Dislike for Naruto
00:00:21
Speaker
We're continuing our watch through of Naruto, the thing I hate. My name is Nelson here with me is John. Hi, that's me. It certainly is you and we love to have you here. Thanks for being our guest this week. Absolutely. Thank you for having me.
00:00:37
Speaker
Of course, wouldn't wouldn't dream of not. I figured we've gone, what, twenty nine episodes of the show without you. We might as well bring you on for one, right? Yeah, that's always good. Always good. Consistency is always nice.
Analyzing Naruto Episodes 12-19
00:00:51
Speaker
Our weekly guest is AO. But yeah, we continued our watch through of Naruto this week. We did episodes 12 through 19, eight episodes.
00:01:03
Speaker
Yeah, all favorite. Yeah, all all eight. And if I can, we watched them. Yes, we did. It's really all I can say is if I can watch them. Hey, you enjoyed yourself a little bit.
00:01:19
Speaker
I had moments where I wasn't disappointed. And you know what? From you being jaded, I will take that as a fucking win. I'm still jaded. I know. I'm still jaded.
Comparisons with Other Franchises
00:01:30
Speaker
You're still talking about Naruto like you've seen all of it and you know what's going to happen and so therefore you have dubbed it as trash. But seeing as you have not seen what happens and you do not know what happens, you cannot put out there. But seeing all of it is seeing so much. That's a lot of shit to watch.
00:01:48
Speaker
OK, and that's a problem. 600 episodes. Yeah. Yeah. No, not yet. Yeah. It's OK. It's just like, you know, like people who like Star Wars and everything. There is so much Star Wars content. People like Star Trek. There is so much Star Trek content. People like Harry Potter. So much Harry Potter content. Some might say too much. OK, well, it's too much Harry Potter. There's too much Star Trek. I'll say it. Not Star Wars.
00:02:16
Speaker
No, I guess once you bring the animated shit in, it really that that does say it's got a lot row exponentially. Yeah, you got rebels, Clone Wars. You get even the older Clone Wars as well. Bad batch visions. I don't even know what. I have never heard of visions.
00:02:33
Speaker
Oh yeah, you wouldn't, because it's when they do an animated Star Wars theme and they change the style and it's like a little anthology and so a lot of them have like an anime concept to them.
Naruto Meets Haku
00:02:48
Speaker
So, it's Star Wars anime. Of course that'd be the one I don't know then. Uh-huh. Oh boy, wow, egg on my face.
00:02:58
Speaker
Yeah. Damn. Well, I guess anyway, let's get into fucking Naruto, right? Yeah. Your favorite. Yeah. So good. I hate you.
00:03:15
Speaker
Oh, Jesus. So we get Naruto taking a fucking nap in the woods and then some girl comes up and starts talking to him, right? But we know we know that it's not a girl. We know that it's Haku. Oh, even if during this episode, I somehow accidentally referred to Haku as her.
00:03:32
Speaker
repeatedly and I asked you I asked you I straight up was like can you say that again and you said her again so I'll be completely honest with you when this came out 100% went over my head that Haku was a guy and it took me rewatching back during the pandemic like back in 2020 it took me rewatching being like oh shit dude
00:03:59
Speaker
I have gone most of my life just assuming that Haku was a girl. So all old habits die hard, but am am aware and apologize for misgendering of Haku if I do. And we probably will. Yep. It's going to happen. Correct. But yes, and Arto's talking to fucking Haku and they get into this whole like philosophical debate and Haku is like, you have to have somebody you care for.
00:04:30
Speaker
I have somebody I care for. My dream, it's his dream. I'm like, Jesus fucking Christ, would you calm down? Yeah. Have an ounce of personality for yourself. Please. Aku the simp, bro. I didn't. It was it was just a very weird thing for me. But either way, they have their discussion and they start to leave. And then Haku turns around, it's like, oh,
00:04:53
Speaker
By the way, I'm a boy. I was hitting on a dude. You learn a lot about yourself, don't you buddy? Is that a past experience that you'd like to share on the podcast? Nob square.
00:05:15
Speaker
But either way we have, uh, Naruto goes back to Taz and his house, gets into beef with Inari cause Inari's a fuckwit and I hate everything about him.
Critique of Supporting Characters
00:05:26
Speaker
And I really hope we never see him again.
00:05:28
Speaker
You know, I'll let you have it. I'm excited for I was thinking back through stuff and I was like, all right, we have all these different anime shows and they have sort of similar arc where it's like that first titular arc for the characters. And they usually have a character like Anari, where it's like somebody that gets inspired by the main character and it's like their first fan. My hero has a fan is fucking Kona Hamaru. No, Kona Hamaru is more like his
00:05:58
Speaker
brother but not his actual brother correct no not his actual okay cool i'm like uh no correct no so the whole the whole inari thing i don't it was poorly executed to me
00:06:11
Speaker
Yeah. Just the whole, how do I put this? The, it just seemed like unnecessary beef. Like Konohamaru's whole reasoning for like heroes are dumb is because his dad got killed, but that doesn't mean everybody coming through his village who's like, yeah, man, I do something kind of good for people. It's like, you're a fucking coward.
00:06:35
Speaker
Like, uh, bro, calm the fuck down. Let these people be. Yeah, I think that you're projecting a little bit. But yeah, I don't know. I think it could have been better. I know you're not a fan of Inari. No, he did. He's just very whiny, cry all the time. And I think that it's just that we got too much Inari as well.
00:07:00
Speaker
Like, I understand why Inari is there, the plot device again that he plays of, he's the first person that Naruto turns. As Inari goes from the, fuck you, you're stupid. To like, I'm gonna cry because I miss you so much because you're great.
00:07:16
Speaker
Back to being a bitch. Yeah. But a bitch of a different meaning. Variety. Yes. There's many varieties of bitches in the world and he is several of them. Most of the time being a cry baby bitch. As opposed to a baby back bitch. Yeah. We can have an entire other podcast about the sub-sex bitches.
00:07:46
Speaker
We're dumb, but at least we're funny. Yeah, because nothing says I want to hear two guys talk about something and just bitches. Bitches. Yeah. New spinoff going up on a Patreon that we don't have, just bitches and anime. Yeah, under the under the we belong umbrella, we have anime and we have bitches.
00:08:13
Speaker
I was like, wait a minute. Hold on. I know my wife doesn't listen to this. And then the exclusive spin off hentai with hunks and then. So hold on completely branching off here. I was talking to the girl yesterday.
00:08:30
Speaker
Guys and we were driving right and she was scrolling through her tick-tock and the one we just posted came up Yeah, and she was like, oh this this should bring you guys some new people. I'm like, yeah, it should hopefully that's kind of the point She goes do what else would bring you more people if you just did one episode about hentai that we got it's cancelled and potentially bring us the wrong people I was like babe
00:08:55
Speaker
I love you dearly. We're not doing a hentai episode. If we were to do a hentai episode and we were to post about it and we were to get people to come to the show from that, then they would come to the show thinking that like, oh, yeah, these guys watch hentai all the time. Yeah. These guys watch anime shows and make stupid jokes about it. Oh, wait, Naruto. No, no, I was going to I was going to make a joke. No, we're just going to right pass.
00:09:26
Speaker
Naruto, what is your tail doing? No, all mine Anyway back to the show
00:09:40
Speaker
Oh, my fucking I'm crying. Oh, God. OK, you know, and it's awful because I'm pretty sure that there is something in that realm for this. Yeah, I would not be surprised like narrative parody of like a hentai. I'm like, yeah. Yeah, it's not going to beat the Teen Titans ones, but, you know, we're here.
Humor and Crossovers in Naruto
00:10:06
Speaker
So anyway, back to the show.
00:10:10
Speaker
I'm clipping that and sending it to your mother. But anyway, we get a little bit of we get a little bit of dad Kashi. He's dad Kashi sensei. Oh, my fucking God. So we get Kashi talking to a Nari and being like Naruto has his own pain.
00:10:32
Speaker
And you know, he's like, I'll give a shit pretty much. That's how it goes. Yeah. But yeah, so they let Kakashi Sasuke and I'm looking at a Funko Pop of no bar right now. So I almost said no bar. Sakura all go to the bridge and let let your boy sleep in. And when they get there, yeah, when they get there with Tazuna, like everybody's knocked the fuck out and Haku is just kind of standing there.
00:11:02
Speaker
And, uh, yeah, the next day Naruto kind of wakes up. He's like, what the fuck they left without me. Bitches. Bitches. But what kind of bitches? Trying to think. Yeah. Audacious bitches. Yeah, I'll give you audacious.
00:11:23
Speaker
Excellent use of audacious, by the way. Thank you. It came to me. He's milking? I almost played it. I said it came to me, not on me. If you feel the tap on the head, that's just the nine tailed fox.
00:11:46
Speaker
I'm so excited now for the announcement at the end of this episode. It's going to be great. It is. Yeah, just know make it to the end. We got a big one. I don't want to say a big one coming. He's milking yada yada. You know the drill. Yep.
00:12:06
Speaker
But yes, Naruto starts hopping through some fucking trees through the woods, and then he sees a pig on the ground that's kind of all fucked up. And then we get the little cut over to the bridge and kind of the introductions, the reintroductions, I guess. Yeah, the like the confrontation of like, you didn't actually kill him. You're a fuck. Yeah.
00:12:31
Speaker
Just like that. Exactly like that. But yes, so we get Zabuza is back. Haku's there with him. And Zabuza is like, this is my apprentice. He's the fucking greatest in the world. I don't actually care about him as a person. To me, he is an object. He is a weapon. The was it getting in the beginning, right? In Sasuke? Well, technically, wouldn't Haku kind of be getting?
00:12:57
Speaker
Oh, I don't think the haku is ranked because haku orphan and everything. I was just like an assassin raised from birth. Yeah. For those who know the show and everything, haku is equivalent, I feel like of because it just clicked in my brain of Psy as well, who you'll meet later on in the show down the line in this show,
Bridge Fight Sequence Analysis
00:13:23
Speaker
in this show. OK.
00:13:24
Speaker
Spoilers for a character that you have no idea and frankly, you'll forget about this conversation by the time we get there probably by lunch. Yep. Why? You said sigh and I was thinking the sushi walk. Yeah. Cross over. Yeah. He said that's the thing. Pensacuna and Haku said, I'm a striker.
00:13:50
Speaker
get to the bridge and he's just like okay you know what we'll play soccer for it we're gonna we're gonna play and if we win you leave the bridge but if you win we'll kill the bridge builder ourselves yo i would actually love to see imagine just like ninja soccer isn't that basically just blue lock
00:14:10
Speaker
OK, but like the people from Naruto are like actually using jiu-jus and shit like that, like imagine. But also also that's just the end of Wendy Wu, Homecoming Warrior. Listen, wasn't that was that soccer or was that dodgeball? Oh, that was soccer. OK. You're like backflips in the goal and shit. I don't know why I remember that, but I think it was cooking. They really were. Shout out to the song down to Brenda Song. She was out as a child with Macaulay Culkin.
00:14:39
Speaker
No. Opposite her was, oh, God, he was in like fucking everything for a while because he was also in the last samurai. Yeah, my brain wanted to say it's like Dante Bosco, but I know that it's not. Oh, boy, that's a that's a name I am going to botch. Shin Koyama. Sure, yeah. I want to let you have that. I'm not going to touch that. So yeah.
00:15:07
Speaker
I am probably incorrect, but guess what? We we thrive in out here. Oh, that's not actually the word for it. But yeah, in a series of bitches, we are the illiterate bitches. So fast. So wildly, he took a massive break from acting. He quit in 2014, only came back in 2022. Wild. So anyway, back to Naruto.
00:15:34
Speaker
I get stuck on IMDB, bro. That shit. That shit gets me. I get that. And the voice actor the same way. But yeah, so. Oh, fuck. Where was I? Uh, the Hakus, I was showed up at the bridge. Oh, yay. Yeah, because he asked what haku would be considered. And then somehow. Right. From when you were coming.
00:16:00
Speaker
I'm using how it works. Oh, no, because we were doing the yeah, because we were doing the crossovers. Yeah, the crossovers. That's why. Because to top off all of the crossovers, we could have the soccer ball be Joe goes head. Yep, there we are. Look at that. We got the trifecta or the quadfecta. If we want to include Wendy, I'm coming for you. Yeah.
00:16:23
Speaker
Oh, my God, I'm lightheaded. The fight doesn't actually start yet, does it? No, it does. Because I know Kakashi and Kakashi and Zabuza don't really do anything. So it's this is the so we end up getting a super excited sasuke or Sasuke for the culture who he just really wants to kill somebody, I think. Yeah, pretty much.
00:16:46
Speaker
Yeah, he seems very excited for the the thought of spilling blood. I don't know if it's like he wants to kill someone or if it's it's more along the lines of like I want to text like test my strength. He hasn't. The only other person that he's really gone up against was like Zabuza for like two seconds. But Kakashi was being like, hey, hold back, don't do it. And also the two brothers who he did a little bit of stuff to and then Kashi popped up and was like, hey, fucking I'm going to fix this. Yeah.
00:17:13
Speaker
So the fact that Kakashi, for the first time, this is like the first fight where he hasn't been like, hey, hold back. It's like, no, no, pop off. Yeah, I think he's excited for that. Yeah, because we get all of the Zabuzas that pop up around him and he's like clutch up homies. Let's go. Takes his kunai and proceeds to kill all of the water clones. Oh, so fuck it, Christ. So he.
00:17:41
Speaker
You know he did good you do good it didn't do anything, but he do good I mean Okay, it did a little I yeah It did a little and then job is like how did you know that they were water clothes like let's get basic
00:17:58
Speaker
Yeah, because you keep doing the same shit, expecting it to work each time. But yeah, so Haku is kind of like, I'll handle him. That seems like it'll be fun. And then we get the most intense fight animation ever. Remind me. So what happens is they they go to start fighting each other and, you know, he kicks her back and all that. Him back. There you go. We're nailing it.
00:18:26
Speaker
And then they go to score up again and then Haku does some fucking spin moves with one of Haku's Sembans and, you know, then they clash with the Kunai and Sasuke is able to read the movements. And then right after that, we see a wide shot of them all from up above and we see that good early 2000s battle animation.
00:18:50
Speaker
where it's they're moving like each taking a step forward to clash and then a step back and then a step forward to clash and then step back. Yeah, that would peak. Yeah, just pink. Pink, pink.
00:19:03
Speaker
Think I like when it immediately cut back to them afterwards and it was all like the intricate movements. Yes. But for that one, we just have the equivalent of patty cake going on. Mm hmm. No, we don't have the budget to fully animate this yet. So here you go.
00:19:23
Speaker
This is what do you call this art style? We call it use your imagination. We call it budget cuts. Yeah, no kidding. But we yeah, we have haku turning into a fucking beyblade and just spinning wildly, which I thought was kind of dope. Yeah, I guess. You know, for this show, I heard that.
00:19:41
Speaker
They didn't cut that, cut that, cut that, cut that. At some point in all this, we hop back to Inari's house where I believe he's crying if I'm not mistaken, just because what the fuck else would he be doing? And we hear his mother scream as to two of Gato's thugs come break into the house and they grab her and they're like, we're going to take you.
00:20:08
Speaker
She's like, no, whatever, leave the kid. And he's like, well, we only need one hostage. So smoke the kid. And he's like, no, you don't really need to do that. You already got spilled blood for the day. And yeah, they they they kidnapped both of them, which hooray. That means we get more Inari. Yeah, let's go.
00:20:32
Speaker
All my homies love Inari, except for all of my homies because we fucking... I wish he would have died. That would have been a good lesson for Naruto.
00:20:43
Speaker
That would have been a that would have been a you can't save everyone type deal. All right. But he needs to get, you know, faith in himself first before we get that far. He needs to fuck right out of here. Naruto comes in to unfortunately kind of save the day and he made his way back because he saw the pig that got fucked up. He was all sliced up. So he's like, oh, they must be going in the direction of Nari's house. I need to save him. Yeah.
00:21:09
Speaker
And then Inari has a moment of like, you know what? I can't be a crybaby bitch for my entire life. I gotta be a little bit like Naruto. And then he runs up to the guys like, stay away from my mom. And then Naruto comes out and then like sucker punches the two of them and takes them both out with one hit or punch or kick or whatever. And then one thing that he did. One thing. Yup. And yeah, he'd be, fucks them up pretty good.
00:21:36
Speaker
And then we go back to the bridge. Yeah, we go back to the bridge because what would Naruto be if not hopping back and forth? Absolutely. But yeah, back at the bridge, Haku and Mr. Susuk begin their fight. They keep on going a little bit and Haku is like, oh, this isn't good.
00:21:55
Speaker
if it keeps on going like this, then I'm gonna be bad. So what Haku does is they are still beyblading and out and everything while Haku has the Senban up and Sasuke has the Kunai up and they're sort of deadlocked right there, does hand signs with one hand, which is cool as shit, and does Haku's Kekai Genkai
00:22:19
Speaker
which is like ice and snow manipulation that is passed down through generations for the bloodline trait and has all these ice mirrors pop up to which Haku then enters. That was kind of his domain expansion. Yeah, yeah. It's very much what it reminded me of. Yeah, you activated my trap card. That's a video one, right? Yes, it is. Proud of you. Hey, thanks, buddy. Absolutely.
00:22:48
Speaker
But yeah, Haku starts going in between all the different mirrors. You find out that Haku is not like in each mirror at the same time. Instead, it is a is able to transport in between the mirrors at like lightning speed. Mach Jesus, if you will. Yes, Mach Jesus. And it starts fucking with Sasuke a bit. And Sasuke even tries to do his fireball jutsu because he's like, oh, what can melt ice? Fire. Fireball.
00:23:28
Speaker
I was gonna leave it edging. Okay. Okay. Nice. Very very nice. He's milking fuck. I knew it was coming. Yeah We'll clip that for the next one perfect, uh
00:23:44
Speaker
Yeah, so Sasuke is not doing great. Haku is fucking him up a little bit. And then there's like, this is bad. And then Sakura is like, oh shit, this is bad. And Sakura's like, I got, I have to do something to help. And then throws a kunai to Sasuke who is in the, like,
00:24:06
Speaker
And that's all she did, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. Well, it's the best thing about it is throws that there and Haku just comes out of the mirror and fucking just grabs out of there. It's like, did you want this? Fucking sorry, bitch.
00:24:22
Speaker
So if anything, she hurt the situation. Well, the only thing that's good about it is while Haku is out with the Kunai knife, literally having a moment of like, the fuck were you thinking? Uh, that is when Naruto enters the fray. You see a shuriken come out from nowhere and it glances Haku and then Naruto is suddenly there on the bridge. Crazy. Even though like 10 seconds ago he was at Inari's house and yeah.
00:24:50
Speaker
They had this he's the number one hyperactive knucklehead ninja. Yeah, you nailed it. That's a quote right there. I read it. I know you did. I wasn't going to remember that. Oh, yeah, he shows up to the fight. Kakashi and Zawazar still having their saying off words. I was like, if you move, I'm going through the girl and I'm getting the bridge builder.
00:25:12
Speaker
And then Kakashi's like, well, shit. So then he leaves Haku to Sasuke and Naruto. And they're like, OK. Good job as a voice. Thank you. Thank you. It helps not yelling at people. And so my voice is a little worn out. I mean, you are tanked empty. Congratulations. Hell, yeah. Uhrah. Uhrah. Uhrah. Uhrah. Uhrah. Uhrah. Uhrah. Uhrah. Uhrah. Uhrah. Uhrah.
00:25:40
Speaker
Turned into the redneck motherfucker flesh junkies. You're you're insulting the zombies. I was up motherfucker. Oh God.
00:25:56
Speaker
That kind of day, huh? Yeah, it's gonna be that kind of day. Let's go. Anyway. Back to the show. Back to the show. Naruto's on the outside, Sasuke's on the inside, like, perfect. We can attack simultaneously and then fuck up Haku. And then as they're, like, brainstorming, like, Sasuke's like, ah, we got this. We got this. Perfect. Cool. And then all of a sudden he feels like a tap on his shoulder and Naruto is snuck inside of the ice moves like, hey,
00:26:22
Speaker
I got inside. He's like, you're too fucking idiot. Oh, yeah. Thoughts on Naruto's shit. He's so dumb. He's so stupid.
00:26:35
Speaker
Listen, I came to help. No, you didn't. Every moment is a learning moment. It is opportunity for growth. And some people have a lot more to grow. Well, I'll tell you what's not growing. My patience. That shit is dwindling. Hey, it'll be good. It'll be good. It'll be good. It'll be good. You're good. You're good. Sure. That's the word we're going to use. You're great. You're fantastic. You're doing great, sweetie.
00:27:02
Speaker
You're doing great, sweetheart. You're doing great. But yeah, his battle tactics definitely have room to move to improve. Yeah. Yeah. Just a bit. A skosh. A little bit. Yeah. I think so. It's a bit.
00:27:19
Speaker
Oh, I don't know what I'm doing. Taking a bitch. I think this one is done. Yeah. But anyway, yeah. So they're both inside and Haku's like your fucking dummies and then starts throwing you a quote. Direct quote, direct quote from the show. Oh, you fucking dummies infamous. It's actually on Haku's gravesite engraved into the wooden corners. Yeah, crazy. They've seen that episode. They should know, right? That's how it works.
00:27:48
Speaker
That's how the show works. They leave the long. Moving along. Not just like, I got this and then goes to fucking Shadow Clone and try to break the ice things. And it's like, yes, stupid bitch. And Haku throws a whole bunch of needles and takes care of all the clones. As that happens, it's like, wait, hold up.
00:28:13
Speaker
I can sort of read the movements. Can you do that again? He's like, I got you. Second verse, same as the first. And Naruto does more shadow clones and Sasuke's like, ooh, he's coming from there and then throws a kunai and almost gets Haku. We get to see Sasuke's eyes is able to like, you know, sort of comprehend stuff.
00:28:32
Speaker
And this leads us to, yeah, yeah, Sasuke, uh, you know, he's a little bit more of like prodigy level as opposed to Naruto. It's just like, Bobby, Bobby Fisher of. Yes. The Bobby Fisher of ninjas. Uh, I suppose in our toes, I got to work and like put in that time and effort. Sasuke has like the natural ability of it, mostly because of his bloodline as well.
00:28:56
Speaker
Which we find out his eyes are good because as stuff continues to pop off and Naruto gets more and more tired, Sasuke's like, fuck, I gotta be better. And then his sharingan awakens. And as that happens, we get some fun music, which is cool. Also, this was your reaction to Sasuke's sharingan. Let's go.
00:29:23
Speaker
Painting I will say the music goes so hard it does a and there he is mr. Shotting gun Oh
00:29:35
Speaker
Oh, which I think that is the first like excitement that we've gotten from you for like, oh, that is my my first and only all that. Actually, no, there was one, I think. Yeah, there's stuff later. Later on in the episode. Yeah. Or not this episode, but in the in our in our watch and our watch. Yeah.
00:29:58
Speaker
No, so shouting gun and Sasuke is able to read Haku's movements. And so, yeah, good for him. Such a good boy. And we'll see in the future more of the sharing gun as that is Sasuke's like.
00:30:15
Speaker
Thing, it would be so funny if they just never touched on it again. Yeah, they're like, all right, here's this cool thing. All right. Done. Time in like episode 14. And they just never again. Never again. Just 600 episodes. Remember that time you.
00:30:35
Speaker
We don't talk about that. No, no, no, no. She already had one. They couldn't let me have one, too. Well, because she's much cooler. Just saying. Well, yeah, exactly. So we give it to the cooler guy. Listen, you'll find out. You'll find out down the line why it's cooler. I think I already know why it's cooler. No, you don't. Oh, because it's it's Kakashi. Yeah, no, that's 100 percent the reason why as well. Yes, let's go. Cool.
00:30:59
Speaker
But yeah, Shyangan awakens, Haku keeps on throwing needles, realizes that Sasuke can read the movements and is able to dodge out of the way and is able to push Naruto out of the way as well, and then is like, ooh, so if he can read my movements, I gotta not go for him, and decides to go for Naruto. And Sasuke sees this going and is like, ah shit, pushes Naruto out of the way, Naruto flops down to the ground, he looks up and fuckin' pin-cushion.
00:31:25
Speaker
Sasuke has needles going through all of his body, to which you had also said why Haku doesn't just go straight from being a ninja to being a chiropractor or an acupuncturist and making a side hustle. Yeah. All the needles, all the pressure points. You look, man, the money's there. Uh-huh. Oh, definitely. So you don't have to fucking work for Zabuza. You can have your own practice.
00:31:50
Speaker
Mike, you can be your own person, you little fucking simp. It'd be like a kill your old self. Yeah, with with needle acupuncture. Boom nailed it.
00:32:03
Speaker
End it. Cool. We see that, and then Sasuke's up there, and then he collapses down to the ground. Naruto's like, you fucking killed him. Ah! And then we see the Ninetales Chakra. Naruto gets Angi Mode unlocked. You see this orange chakra sort of bubble up around him, gulf swirling up into the sky. Kakashi and Zabuza both have a moment. It's like, what the fuck is that? Haku?
00:32:28
Speaker
No, it's no. You can see it and she's like, wait, I know this. It's the Ninetales chakra.
Haku and Zabuza's Emotional Arc
00:32:38
Speaker
Don't tell me the seal broke and it got torn back a little bit, not fully broken. And, uh, yeah, Naruto got angry.
00:32:49
Speaker
Angiebode. Yeah, Angie. And so he runs at the mirror. Angiebode unlocked, runs at the mirror that how who's in punches through the mirror, including Haku and sends Haku flying. Haku then stands up, mass falls away. And just before he's about to do a finishing blow, we see that it is the same person that Naruto met in the forest. The girl, the girl, the girl who is not the girl, the girl with the penis.
00:33:18
Speaker
I didn't know how to say penis with like a weird voice. I believe that depends still or not Ben Stiller. Not even fucking Steve Carell. There we are. And that's in it. So with the Venus. What was that? That was like almost like a Bill Cosby.
00:33:43
Speaker
uh all the voices this episode man oh my god yeah but anyway over to the kakashi zabuza stuff holy shit yeah fucking the kakashi zabuza fight that shit was lit onto the next one
00:34:07
Speaker
I'm still in recovery. All right. So, yeah, Kakashi Zabuza. Yes. Let's talk about it. Zabuza kind of has this whole thing with Kakashi unveiling his sharngan and he's like, yeah, man, just so you know, I was taking it easy on you. So all of the shit that you've been doing is not going to work anymore.
00:34:31
Speaker
And he's like, Oh, shit, that's no that's no bueno. We're just going to have to see what happens because all the mist and everything because he's the demon of the mist starts coming in. And then we kind of cut over and get a little bit of backstory on Haku, which is interesting. I didn't think we'd be getting that, but here we are. You didn't think that they'd have a flashback in Naruto?
00:34:52
Speaker
I know I did not see it coming. Very strange. No, I probably should. Yeah, we cut back to Haku's childhood. Yeah, Haku developing his powers, I guess. He made like a little like water ball or something. Yeah, this one. This one was a little.
00:35:12
Speaker
a little weird because I guess the people in that village, like where Haku grew up, if you had the powers, you were like killed or something. Yeah, you were like demonized and stuff like that. So it was like, oh, kill it. Kill them. They're different. Racism. Got it. Exactly. Well, it's all an allegory. Got it. So genocide.
00:35:37
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah, the haku kind of ends up going nuts because I think his dad tries to kill him. So when haku's like water bending and everything, then mom is like, don't do that. Don't ever do that again. If your dad sees it's all over because dad doesn't know that mom is also able to do that because mom is from that family with that bloodline. But dad, however, was like coming home at the wrong time sees it happening.
00:36:02
Speaker
We then go to inside of the house. Turns out that he's fucking killed Mom right in front of Haku. And then all these other guys have showed up to be like, fucking get him. And then as they're cornering Haku, Haku's like, no, don't do it. And then ice crystals erupt from everywhere and fucking get Todoroki'd, bitch. What? Okay, I don't know that one. Bye.
00:36:26
Speaker
It's weird to have a situation where him coming home at the wrong time, if she had probably if she'd been having an affair, it probably would have been more calm. Yes, like that's wild. But because of that, Haku became a homeless orphan and was in the streets and he had a dog come up and like growl at him and everything. And he kicks the fucking dog asshole. And then we noticed that the dog had babies and the dog is just trying to get food to feed babies.
00:36:56
Speaker
And he's kind of saved, so to speak, by Zabuza. Yeah, Zabuza takes him in. Yeah, he's like, hey, you look like you could be somewhat useful. Come with me. I'm going to train you and you're going to want nothing in this life other than for me to rule everything.
00:37:13
Speaker
I weird thing to throw at a kid, but a little bit, but that's where we're at. This is when you were when you were watching this for the first time. Yes. Way back when you were, you know, a child, a toddler. Mm hmm. Well, what was what was your thoughts on the whole like haku getting brought in if you can remember that far back?
00:37:36
Speaker
Uh, I'll be honest, I can't really remember my authentic reaction to it. I think I remember just being like, Oh, it's sad that he's all alone, but it's nice as I was there for him. Not going into the whole dynamic of like master versus like servant role. Yeah, because that would have been a weird thing for a fifth grader to think about. Exactly. Yeah. But but now you look at it from an older perspective. Mm hmm. And it's it definitely feels a little different, right?
00:38:06
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, the thing is, I was as upfront about everything as like you will just be a weapon or a tool for me to use. So if you're OK with that, then you can come with me. But if not, get fucking lost. And then Haku's like, yeah, fuck it, I'll do it. So consent is there. Yeah, it's he did agree to this. So as weird as it may be and as immoral as it may be.
00:38:31
Speaker
And we see later on they do bond as well. So it's not purely just your tool and shit. Yeah.
00:38:39
Speaker
Yeah, they have their moments, and we'll learn about those moments in a few minutes. Yeah, so with all that going on, we go back to... I almost called him Gojo. God damn it, I've been doing so good this episode. We go to Kakashi on the bridge in the middle of all the mist, and he kind of realizes, oh my god, he's going to go for the bridge builder.
00:39:03
Speaker
He's going to go to Tazuma. So he summons a whole bunch of fucking dogs that go out and grab Zabuza. He's got that dog in him. He got that dog in him. One of the dogs is like a six foot tall man dog thing. Yes. That was really weird. But yeah, he restrains Zabuza and Haku. We cut over to Haku who's talking to Naruto and he's like, hey, man, just fucking kill me.
00:39:31
Speaker
Yeah, it'd be pretty cool. Just end me. Do it. You win. I lose. Yeah. How do those full existential crisis of like somebody beat me? I'm no longer the sharpest tool. I'm no longer usually the Zabaza. My purpose here in my life is done. Just end me. And then we have Kakashi
00:39:51
Speaker
Summoning his lightning blade. Yeah. Gashi. And he goes to hit him. He goes to finish off Zabuza. So Kakashi does his lightning blade and then he goes to run at Zabuza. And then as he's about to connect with Zabuza, Haku's like, hold up. Don't kill me yet, Naruto. I got something else I gotta do. Jumps in the way, takes the fucking lightning blade and Kakashi looks up and he's like,
00:40:17
Speaker
fuck you're not zabuza and yeah you see some blood you see haku is not doing great has a hole in the chest where kakashi's hand went because that's bad and zabuza is like perfect
00:40:34
Speaker
Haku did exactly what he was supposed to do and then takes a sword and then goes to swing through Haku's body and also just take out Kakashi because Zabuza heartless. And so Kakashi's like, you bitch. Takes Haku, jumps back, sets him down, closes the eyes and all that and is like, hmm, don't do it. And then is able to, you know, unlock his I'm pissed off mode as well. And Zabuza proceeds to then try to attack Kakashi and Kakashi
00:41:04
Speaker
Dodges out of the way, fairly effortlessly, and throws some Kunai, disables Zabuza's arms, and then as they're squaring up and all that stuff, who should arrive? But the big cat himself, Mr. Gatul. Mr. Inari- No. No, god no. Not yet. Uh, well yeah.
00:41:23
Speaker
Gato shows up with like a whole army of thugs and then shit talks opposite as I hate you look pretty fucked up they even killed your kid and that seems stupid so I got all these other guys cuz you're failing and he goes up to haku and then he kicks out whose body cuz he's like you're you almost broke my army a little bitch
00:41:44
Speaker
And Naruto's pissed, and then Zabuza's pissed. Well, he desecrated a child's corpse. Yeah. Like. Yeah. What the fuck? Naruto gives a whole big speech that's like, how could you just stand there and let him do that? Haku died and lived for you. You should be better. I know you're not a good guy, but be a good guy.
00:42:07
Speaker
Just because you're a bad guy doesn't make you a bad guy. Bad guy. And Zabuza says what you were thinking the entire time and goes, stop talking. And you're like, hey. And then you find out Zabuza does have a little bit of a heart. And you see a couple of tears coming down from his face. It wasn't even a couple. That motherfucker was sobbing. Yeah, yeah, he was seeing it. But we actually see his face now.
00:42:31
Speaker
We do. He undoes his face wrapping. Yeah. We get to see what Zabuza looks like. Mm hmm. Thoughts on Zabuza's real face. Oh, no. He's hot. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. But no, he just looks like a dude. Yeah. Like he is. He just he's a dude. He's a normal guy. He's a dude, my guy.
00:43:03
Speaker
And he's just he's just a fucking guy. Right. But yeah, my only comment with a mission now, he is like, Akashi, we're we're square. I don't want to kill Tazuna anymore, so we have no quarrel. However, this fuck over here, I want to take him out and cash is like, I got no problem with that. So then Naruto throws him the kunai very loftily for a guy who doesn't have use of his arms.
00:43:32
Speaker
Zabuza catches it out of the air with his mouth, proceeds to run at Gato, and Gato runs through all of his thugs, and we see Zabuza make his way through. And he is cutting down bitches left and right, slitting throats, stabbing people, kicking people down. So many people just makes his way through very quickly. And this was your reaction to Zabuza going to town.
00:44:00
Speaker
Oh, my God. Holy shit. Yeah, that was the fucks. That was the fucks hard. There you go. Fast fighting. Shit's happening. I'm amazed we're not getting backstory on every throat slit here. Now for the listeners, this is where I would once again like to point out that I quit watching this show the episode before this.
Reflecting on Naruto Viewing Experience
00:44:28
Speaker
Yeah, that you were so close.
00:44:30
Speaker
Everything that you hear now is actual genuine. Yeah, we are. We are now in my first watch through kind of. And what do you think? So I'm really glad that the show does actually have some fast paced action. Oh, yeah.
00:44:50
Speaker
and not what I've been used to so far. Yes. I mean, I I'm still not super big on the fact that this entire eight episode chunk was this bridge fight. Yeah. Well, it was this. We got we got a little haku backstory. We got the story. We got some inari stuff. Yeah. But it's still like, damn, y'all really took eight episodes to do this. It gets better again. It gets better.
00:45:18
Speaker
It once again, it has to because it's not going to get worse. The further down the line we get, the more recent the episodes are. The flow gets better as time goes on. OK, so I will sit here in anticipation for that. Exactly. But until then.
00:45:36
Speaker
Until watching the rest of it. I'm going to bitch and moan. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, I mean, the I it was it was cool seeing him. And I will say it was actually cool. Yeah. To see him just sprinting through the crowd. No arms killing everybody. Yeah. And he gets fucked up along the way. He gets a total of seven swords stabbed into him as he's going. And then he makes it to God to at the end of the bridge. And what?
00:46:05
Speaker
You're wrong. I'm wrong. He gets the seven swords in him after he kills Gato. I heard he gets cut up a little. He gets cut up a little bit. I said, I'm pretty sure he gets like a spear or two in his back. He gets like one or two, but it's when he actually does not know that everybody stabs him. Then I am wrong. Correct. But yeah, I corrected you on something Naruto. Are you proud of yourself?
00:46:30
Speaker
I'm proud of myself for correcting you, not necessarily for the show. I'm proud of you for that. It was on Naruto. But anyway, Zavasa makes it up to Gato and he's fucked up, but he is like, I'm gonna take you out. And then he is like, I'll see you in hell with that kid. He is like, no, that kid is going somewhere that we can't go.
00:46:55
Speaker
And then he's like, I'll see you in hell. And then he takes out Gato and Gato is dead. Yay. Thread. Hey, woohoo. And then he turns around to look at Haku's body and make his way through. And then as he making his way through, then he gets stabby wabbied by all these people. Yeah. Yeah. He becomes a pink cushion himself. Makes out that Haku would have wanted.
00:47:23
Speaker
Yes. Well, maybe not, but no. That happens. Then all these thugs turn around after they stab Zabza a ton and they're like, we're going to take over this village. Now the gato's not here because fuck y'all. And then as they're about to square up and go, gosh, she's like, I don't have that much chakra left. Fuck.
00:47:41
Speaker
a arrow comes flying through the air and lands at the feet of the thugs and we look up to see a strapped inari with a crossbow that dude that dude came for war he did he got it like his bucket hat he's ready i would have loved that fight i wish it had been like aragorn at the gates of mordor
00:48:04
Speaker
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00:49:22
Speaker
Yeah, well, we didn't touch on it, but there was a scene earlier in this cluster of episodes where an Ari after Naruto goes to the bridge, like runs around all the different villagers and is like, help, we need to help them. Come help me. We need to stand up for our village, growth some fucking balls.
00:49:39
Speaker
Also a direct quote. Yes, direct quote. And I think that actually during that sequence of Inari running around being like, hey, come help was when you said, oh, we're picking up with Inari, I have something else I got to do. And then you decided to turn off Naruto and then never pick it back up again until the podcast.
00:50:00
Speaker
Holy shit you're right i think you dislike to nari so bad that that is the thing that push you over the edge was another nari focus thing that you're like i can't do this right now. Oh my god you're right nari single handedly turning people off from naruto.
00:50:22
Speaker
Yeah. I hate him that much, to be fair. The only reason I'm still here is because of the show. I know. And it will get good. I promise, because also after this cluster of episodes, and Ari is like gone for forever. Yeah. For Amber and Amber. Actually, no, we get the tune in exam starting in our next cluster. Yeah. And then Mario will be in it.
00:50:47
Speaker
Cause he's a Genin going for his Chunin, right? Where's my gun? I feel like an Ari would be a water shell person, one because Landa waves, but also, you know, um, he fucking cries all the time.
00:51:01
Speaker
The land of waves is just his eyes. Yeah. The reason that there's so much water is just, you know, his constant screen like stream of bitchy tears. What do you think his dad had to swim through? Oh, God. That's why he's always so upset. He killed his dad with his own tears. Yes, it definitely wasn't the guy disemboweling him after breaking his arms and crucifying him. No, no, no, no. I'm definitely going to be going to be crazy.
00:51:27
Speaker
But anyway, back to the show. The whole village shows up and it's like, hey, we're fucking done. You want to come fight us? Fucking fight us, but we're here. And then they're like, okay, we can take you. And then Kakashi is like, Naruto, you got any chakra left? He's like, I got this. Makes like four clones. And they're like, yeah, okay. And then Kakashi's like, I don't have much chakra left, but I can probably do a little something to help.
00:51:52
Speaker
And then it goes Shadow Clone due to Kakashi style. And then about like 90 Kakashi up here on the bridge behind them all. And all the thugs are like, fuck. Those were definitely like full clones, right? I think that they were. I don't know. With the multitude, he probably didn't do full clones. He probably just did shadow clones as opposed to like actual clones, you know?
00:52:21
Speaker
Yeah, gotcha. Cause yeah, it's true. He didn't have a lot of chakra left.
00:52:24
Speaker
Yeah, I think that he was just trying to create the illusion that they were going to get fucked. It worked. It worked. They jumped off the bridge into a boat, some of them didn't even make it in the boat, and then they all left. And then, happy, yay, we did it. Woo-hoo. And then, Zabuza picks himself up and then begins walking. And Kakashi takes all the swords out, and he's like, I got something I gotta do. And then, can you bring me to the boy? He goes, absolutely. And then they- My boy! My boy! My son!
00:52:52
Speaker
Uh, happily in the background. But yeah.
00:53:06
Speaker
He makes him over there and he goes, Kakashi, bring my body back. And Kakashi drops on Zabuza next to Haku. And then we have this little tender moment of like, if only I could go where you're going, Haku, I'm sorry, my boy. And then...
00:53:26
Speaker
Oh, and then they did. Ah, and then we see- Rest in spaghetti to fucking Zabaza Momochi. The man will never forget. Oh, finish your fucking little thing, though. Rest in spaghetti. Rest in spaghetti, never forgetty. And what did you fucking do going into the show? Oh, I tried, I'm forgetting.
00:53:44
Speaker
You forget he's hardcore. So to be fair, he didn't die in what I watched. If he had died and this whole thing had happened. Yeah. If I had seen 19, honestly, I might have remembered him. You probably would have remembered him. Do you think that you also post 19 would have stuck with the show a couple more episodes to see what the next arc would be to see if it interests you?
00:54:12
Speaker
I'm gonna go with yes. I think I might have actually given it a chance. We were literally two episodes away, goddamn. One. Yeah, one. I might have got it. I think we got to the beginning of 18.
00:54:34
Speaker
And then you were like, yeah, and I know because I didn't even see the I actually I don't think we even made it to 17. Yeah, because it wasn't seen. I was right. It was only 15 episodes. I don't think that you saw how to die. Yeah, because that probably would have kept me if I had seen the the lightning blade incident.
00:54:54
Speaker
This is cool. Yeah, I stopped at 15. Look at that magic. Look at that. I was right all along. I know. Crazy random turn in events. It never happens. It probably won't begin.
00:55:07
Speaker
But yeah, as I was at Haku dead, we see a little funeral type thing up on the hilltop looking over the bridge. They have their little crosses. Hakus has a like belt thing that they wear. And then you have the giant executioner's blade right next to Zabuza's cross as well. If I find that, I hate to say it. I'm taking it with me. Hey, I mean, I find that grave and there's a sword like that. I'm sorry. It's coming home with me.
00:55:34
Speaker
Listen, I'm sure you're not the only person who would do it. It's all good. I'm assuming you would also. I would never know. It couldn't be you. Yeah, no one would ever take that sword. Never ever. Oh, OK.
Naruto Collectibles Discussion
00:55:51
Speaker
Kind of a kind of a tangent here. Yeah. Not really tangent, but kind of a off offshoot. It's something. So a guy who you and me went to high school with. I I think you probably know the name, but you don't know him. But he ended up going to work for the Baltimore Knife and Sword Company as a blacksmith. And a lot of shit that he makes these days. Yeah. Is just anime weapons. Yep. Because they're cool as fuck.
00:56:21
Speaker
He when you show them he should fuck off and showed up to my house one time because I bought a I bought a sword that was from the 1800s and I was like, you'd think it's cool. So I hit him up. He came over. I show him that. And he's like, oh, this is neat. You want to see what I've been working on? And he pulled out this giant like pitchfork thing. Yeah. That I will send you a picture of and I'll probably post it on the on the Reddit because it's just cool as fuck.
00:56:51
Speaker
But I'm like, dude, now I really want to hit about and be like, hey, man, can you make me a executioner's blade? Because that's a really cool name for a sword. Uh huh.
00:57:03
Speaker
Oh how the events have turned. I was gonna say this man went from like fuck Naruto to like I might need some Naruto paraphernalia in my house. No that's not paraphernalia. I just want a big fucking sword. Custom made. So because here's gonna be the worst part is because we're covering Naruto I have to get at least two Funkos that are Naruto related. Uh-huh. I'm assuming one is gonna be the Kakasha with the lightning blade.
00:57:27
Speaker
Don't you know it? But also, are you going to do two per like chunk that we watch or you know, it's just going to be two. It's going to be two in total. So I'll do the Kakashi Lightning Blade, as I will say, most of the Funko Pops. So Naruto being a slightly older show, the Funko Pops didn't really start coming out until Shippuden.
00:57:46
Speaker
So hold off on those until- Hold off on my second one. Yeah, I was gonna say until down the line a little bit because it'll be more accurate for you. Yeah, I will hold off until number two. Like we're just now fleshing out like the rookie nine and everything. And also we're still missing like 10-10 as well who you haven't even met yet.
00:58:17
Speaker
Next episode arc. We're close. Yeah, but we have everyone but 1010 and we just got like, you know, we just got choji. So they're still working on going back because I should put him was coming out. Funko started to take off, but it was like.
00:58:38
Speaker
too late for them to be doing Naruto stuff. So there's like some very basic Funkos for Naruto that are like the OG ones, which is like the random or like the basic just like T-pose essentially that a Funko has. But then now they've gone back and there's some fucking cool ones.
00:58:57
Speaker
I look over my entire bookshelf full of Naruto Funko Bops. Oh no. Anyway, let's get back to the show. Anyway, back to the show. There'll be more time for Funkos later. Yes, there will. Always.
00:59:12
Speaker
Uh, but yeah, uh, they have that little thing. There's like the, Hey, is it true what he was saying about like the role of a shinobi is to die for the village and all that. And Kakashi's like, I mean, yeah, sort of in a way, like you put your life on the line and if you die, then you die. But that's a part of the job and that's what you sign up for. And now it is like, well, that doesn't sound right to me. So I'm going to follow my own ninja way and I'm going to figure out what the hell that is and then follow it. Believe it. Believe it. Believe it.
00:59:38
Speaker
And then we get to see a goodbye to Inari, Tazuna, and Tsunami, I think is her name? Is in fact Tsunami. Nailed it. And so they're on the bridge and like, okay, goodbye. And then Naruto and fucking, what's his nuts? Inari cries saying, or try not to cry. Inari cries? Inari cries. Who would have thunk it? Great easy.
01:00:05
Speaker
First time for everything, I suppose. Listen, you got to you got to show it once in a while just in case you find out the name of the bridge, which is the great Naruto bridge. Fucking be a famous name. Yeah, known throughout the world. And that ends the bridge builder arc. Yeah.
01:00:27
Speaker
Thank God. So I realize it was sort of breezed over it because we're just trying to get through stuff.
Significance of Nine-Tails Emergence
01:00:32
Speaker
But going back, what did you think of the whole nine tails emergence thing? Oh, yeah, that was I never got your take on that. I I want to see more of like what the capabilities are. Yeah. OK, because like you might have. Yeah. But then also it turned off like real quick. He essentially turned it on through a punch and that was like, hold on.
01:00:53
Speaker
Yeah, a little more would be nice. I'm sure we'll get more. Oh, you betcha. You know, I feel like so this arc is meant mostly to, you know, show you that there are consequences and everything in the ninja world. We get three deaths. And then also shows a little bit of like Naruto and Sasuke's like frenemy rivalry type thing going on, like the birth of that where Sasuke sort of acknowledges Naruto as like, oh, if he pushes himself, he can catch up to me.
01:01:23
Speaker
Um, which sets that dynamic off. We also get teased, you know, we get to see the little bit of the shrine gum. We get a little bit of the nine tails that are the like essential like power type dynamic thing or not, uh, which are like the star weapons of those two characters to queue it up for the rest of the series. So overall, looking back over it, what do you think of the bridge builder arc in its entirety?
01:01:53
Speaker
Oh, boy. And it's entirety. Mm hmm. How would you rate it on a scale of 10? Like a seven. OK, I'll take seven because it's got to improve your improvement. Again, pacing. And then it's always a cry baby. What destroys this show for me? It really is. If that had been from the from the jump a little bit speedier, like this could have been four episodes. Well, like a very common thing in our episode.
01:02:22
Speaker
Yeah, it's a very common thing for one of the common gripes is the pacing and also the filler for Naruto. Yeah. I know we got a I know we got a question on the Reddit of like.
01:02:39
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Are you going to watch the fillers and what are your favorite filler arcs, which I on it? I I answered. You have not seen the other stuff, so you do not know. Oh, I think I'm going to leave this to you. Yeah. But yeah, we will be skipping over filler arcs. There's whole seasons
Future Plans for Podcast Episodes
01:03:00
Speaker
that we're going to be skipping of Naruto in order to get to Naruto Shippuden.
01:03:03
Speaker
In that in that same thread on the Reddit, you said you were going to make me do Naruto hot takes. Yes. While eating a spicy ramen. Yeah. I am so horrendously bad with spicy. Uh huh. But I'm going to do it. Oh yeah. It's going to hurt a lot. And I'm probably going to cry more than an Ari. But I'll do it and do a little extra salty seasoning in there. It'll be good.
01:03:29
Speaker
I guess now is as good of a time as any for the announcement. So you're making me watch an art. Yes. You're being, you're being, I won't say exactly a good sport about it, but you're being a sport. I'm being a sport about it. So this is a show you have seen how many times?
01:03:51
Speaker
Naruto, this is my fourth, I think. Yeah. Fourth or fifth watch. But there are many other shows that you have not seen. Correct. I went out and with the help of my other friend, John, not you. Correct. I found my own anime to watch. Yes, you did. Yes, I did. I went out and I said, buddy,
01:04:18
Speaker
Help me find some degenerate anime. I want to find the the most family friendly degeneracy that I can. So, ladies and gentlemen, after Naruto and Spy family, we will be rewatching Spy family. Just kidding. We're going to be watching Gate, not Steins Gate, not Gate Zero, just Gate. And for all of the listeners are like, what the fuck is Gate?
01:04:49
Speaker
Yeah. So the quick summary of what the show kind of is, there is a member of the Japanese military who is an anime loving weeb.
01:05:05
Speaker
Suddenly a portal opens up in downtown tokyo he gets sent off through the portal into this magical world of cat girls and fucking witches and pretty much everything he's ever wanted in life it is extremely high action it is a lot of people dying and it
01:05:31
Speaker
answers the question of what would happen if you showed up in the world of uh game of thrones with seal team six heard yeah that is the most you know about the show now gotcha yeah uh
01:05:50
Speaker
I could hear the excitement in your voice, which I did for it. Here's a fucking ear. So also I don't know where listeners are watching or weaving along with us, whether it be Crunchyroll, Hulu, Netflix, whatever you choose. I believe that this is on Hulu, right? It is not on Crunchyroll is on Hulu. It is not on Crunchyroll. But what profession? So in one piece, what profession do they have?
01:06:19
Speaker
What are they? Pirates. Oh, weird. OK, cool. That's all I have to say about that. Wait, what? Put put two and two together, but if you don't have Hulu. Oh, heard. OK, heard. Gotcha. I was like, our fiddle B.D. I was like, what's up with one piece?
01:06:39
Speaker
I was like, that's not the announcement for this episode. Not the announcement. No, we will be watching. We will be watching gate. I can tell you right now after for what you guys know that I enjoy. So the the attack on Titan. Avatar, all that. I fucking love gate. I've watched the entire thing already twice.
01:07:06
Speaker
Oh, what a guy. Our watch through will be my third. Cool. Awesome. But yeah, so that'll be coming out very excited. Yeah. On the horizon. Before we get to gate, we have one more episode of Naruto that will be coming out to you guys covering episodes 20 through 25, which will be the beginning of the tune in exam marks where we're going to meet the rest of like our
01:07:29
Speaker
main cast pretty much for like the rest of Naruto's colleagues who get introduced to them, not fully for some of them. They'll just sort of lurk in the background, but they'll be on screen and we'll take that.
01:07:44
Speaker
Do you know what I'm really excited for? I'm excited for you to play the who is that voice actor game. I'm excited to play that game as well. I have not been able to play that. I play it with myself when I watch stuff, but you play with yourself while you watch it. There's only so much fun you can do when you're playing with yourself. Anyway, it's not knowing the shows you've seen, I will say there's not a lot of crossover. OK, because a lot of the.
01:08:14
Speaker
voice actors who were in gate because it is kind of a degenerate show. Uh huh. Aren't as established. They are. Uh huh. But they're more established in the other degenerate shows. Mm. OK. OK. Like pretty much. I'll tell you this right now because it's not it's not really going to spoil anything for you. From what I saw in looking up voice actors of the main. We'll call it 10 characters.
01:08:42
Speaker
In the show, nine of them are in food wars. And I have not seen food wars. So you've heard about it. Oh, yeah. I'm I'm pretty sure everyone's heard about food wars. If you started any journey into anime, you have heard of, you know, like, oh, yeah, this lady in the first episode, like her flows fly fly off and she like has an orgasm after taking a bite of food. Better be a damn good burger.
01:09:10
Speaker
but yeah it's all the voice actors from food wars heard okay cool you know it's so much easier for me to do guest voice actor to you because i know what shows you've watched um i also know a lot of the shows that you've watched and none of them link up cute awesome some of them some of them are like literal like
01:09:33
Speaker
throwaway characters in like my hero. Like if I noticed they were in a show you've seen, I'd look them up and be like, oh, that person literally has one line in a filler episode. Hell yeah. So I'm not going to hate you with those. Yeah. Shout out to my hero also only having like four or five filler episodes for the entirety of it.
01:09:50
Speaker
Yeah, that's it gets me excited. Yeah, except for that to be coming out soon. We got like what month. Yeah, a little over a month until season seven comes out. Oh, yeah. Yeah. A time that this comes out will be less than a month. Season seven will be like three weeks away. Cool. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. Yeah, I guess plugs for the episode.
01:10:10
Speaker
Uh-huh. I've been continuing to watch Mob Psycho, Shangri-La, Shangri-La is finishing up, and that makes me sad, because I love it. It just got announced for season two. Oh, it did? Hell yeah. It just got announced for season two, yeah. Nice. Missed that. Excited for that. Good for that. It only dropped, like, this morning, I think. Ah, heard that. Yeah, no. It was this morning or last night.
01:10:29
Speaker
I have been working until getting home at about like two thirty last night into waking up this morning editing for an hour beforehand and then filming this. So I have not seen stuff. But cool. Oh, that that reminds me. So, folks, not for you, for them. Yep. OK.
01:10:50
Speaker
All of the episodes of gate, which will be seven episodes of we belong to be in three episode chunks. Every one of those episodes is going to be edited by me, not by John. John has been the rest of the shit into everything that you guys have heard the past seven months. Yeah. So if there's some parts that sound a little weird,
01:11:14
Speaker
I apologize if there's bird chirps I miss. That's on me. Hey, there's only so many we can get out. Yeah. But this man needs a break. So I'm going over and taking taking over on that. And I hope it's not too bad for you guys. I'm sure it'll be fine. It'll be good. But if you have complaints, then you can hop over to our Instagram at we belong pod. Also our tick tock, which is now we've got some more videos out. If you can repost them.
01:11:44
Speaker
Show them to your friends. If you think it's funny ha ha send it to the other people. Get them the funny ha ha's and then they come here and then they watch it and then we make more funny ha ha's. Yeah. Because we love nothing more than making funny ha ha's. Funny ha ha's are the best. I would also like to give a quick shout out to the employees of the Home Depot in Reston, Virginia.
01:12:06
Speaker
Yep. Who are listening, all of them while they're at work. Hell yeah. It's played on a speaker in the break room. Weaving while you work. Ucky Snow White, we're better. But yeah, you can also hop over to our subreddit, our slash the we belong podcast. We have a link tree in there. We just opened up a discord. So for those of you guys who aren't really like social media, but
01:12:35
Speaker
do you know you have a discord and like hanging out on there pop in we would love to talk right now it's the two of us in there yeah and then uh or on discord we got a couple yeah we do uh yeah there's a couple more in there but yeah i think that in the future what we will be doing is uh
01:12:55
Speaker
Instead of releasing the audio tracks from us watching the episode as a bonus thing for a time up with us and then watch on your own time whenever, we're going to be in that Discord as we watch and we'll post on the Reddit or whatever like,
01:13:15
Speaker
Coming up we're thinking about watching this these couple episodes at this time if you want to hop into the discord and uh Listen along as we're watching then cool You got a little sync preview of some raw reactions and also all the other stuff that gets edited out And there's a lot there's so much just be prepared. Okay, hold on. I'm gonna fly this right now shit
01:13:39
Speaker
A lot of stupid shit. There's a lot of bird squeaks. And I do live next to the military base. So there's a lot of a lot of jets. There hasn't been a single one today. Thank God. I know. Right. It's very weird. Oh, you know, it's Easter. Oh, shit. Yep. That's what it is. That is a we're recording on Zombie Jesus Day. So they're probably not out flying today. But no, I'm probably going to post a fucking take talk while I'm standing outside so everybody can see
01:14:09
Speaker
what the noise I have to deal with. Yeah. Well, there's been one or two jets that I have left in because we either go off of it and it's fun or just because. But all the other jets are edited out
Music and Playlist Recommendations
01:14:24
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and all that. So I think there's a lot of them. I think that there's one in the episode that's the episode before this. And then there's one from like two or three episodes back as well just after we moved.
01:14:37
Speaker
But oh, you're right. Yeah. During one of the spy family ones. But yeah, there are there quite a few of those, quite a few of them supply formation. Uh huh. So yeah, if you hop in the discord and everything, you'll probably hear one. Yeah. And to sum everything up here, the music recommendation for this week, Bad Moon Rising Creedence Clearwater Revival. Nice little little throwback. Yeah, a little.
01:15:02
Speaker
Well, I think 70s music for that one, but nice, nice little classic rock for you. Very nice. Well, we'll switch over from what was it fit for an autopsy, I think is what. Yeah. There it is. Yeah. I'm still working on setting up a playlist on Spotify for all the recs. Nice. If you guys want to listen along, you'll you'll see what the next couple would be. Sounds fantastic. Yeah.
Logo Design Mishap Story
01:15:31
Speaker
Cool, I think that's gonna do it for this episode. Again, next week we'll be doing episodes 20 through 25 of Naruto, and then after that we'll be jumping into some gait.
01:15:43
Speaker
I had to go from there and then we'll go. Oh, man. We should. OK, hold on. This might be bad. So, oh, God, we because Gate is my show, I was told to make the logo. Yeah. For the show. Uh huh. Except that was when I made the logo and. John remembered that I'm colorblind.
01:16:09
Speaker
Yeah. So we called in my fiance. We called in his wife, my future sister-in-law. I got a photo. Pretty much everybody saw it and went, are you fucking dumb? So if you guys want to, I'll post the original picture.
01:16:27
Speaker
So I think they don't post it now. I'm not posting it yet. I'm going to post it later. Yeah. After we reveal the actual logo. Yes. One that we literally had an artist do. Yeah. Thank you, Maya. Because I'm like, I, I was looking at it as like, I pulled it up. I was like, what?
01:16:52
Speaker
is this." And you're like, that's the logo. I'm like, this isn't a front on the eyes is what it is. But the thing is, I haven't seen Gate, so I don't know what the vibes of the show are and the color schemes, everything. So I didn't know. Thankfully, Maya had a little bit. So I was like, I don't know how to fix this.
01:17:15
Speaker
i already know the first clip i'm gonna have when we start watching this is gonna gonna be you going so you saw these colors and you thought and you thought uh like a shitty fucking shrek mixed with nerf that is what the color scheme looked like
01:17:37
Speaker
We're gonna post the actual thing, and then you guys are gonna see that. And then it's gonna be a- And then I'll post the real one? Yeah, and then it's gonna be a- Or the fake one, the fake, the wrong one, the bad one. It'll be, are you good? Fuck.
Humorous Sign-off
01:17:51
Speaker
Okay. But anyway- That's for tuning in, guys. Yeah, thank you guys. Again, Naruto next week, and then we'll be going into some gate. You guys have a fantastic rest of your week, and we'll see you in the next one. Everybody needs to learn art theory.
01:18:08
Speaker
or just basic colors fuck you basic bitch wait that's another kind of bitch is basic bitch i'm playing the outro shut up but it clicked he's milking?