![]() ![]() It certainly isn't the worst I have heard, but some of the actors don't seem particularly suited to the characters. I sampled the English dub and found it acceptable if unspectacular. The end of the season offers some new theme tunes, and as always they are memorable and suit the story well, while the incidental music is a little more generic, but definitely gives Naruto its own musical identity. Sound The DD 2.0 English and Japanese stereo is more than adequate in recreating the original experience, and given a little Prologic magic does offer a pleasant ambience and some discrete action. ![]() The final thirteen episodes of the fourth season are presented here across three discs. As we begin this set, Tsunade has a choice to make. Yet Orochimaru promised that if she healed him, he would resurrect the two people she cared for most, and whose loss has left her fearful and in hiding. Naruto made a bet with Tsunade, that if he finally managed to master the Rasengan, then she take him seriously. It's a three-way collision when they meet. He needs Tsunade to heal his damaged arms. But they weren't the only ones looking for Tsunade, as Orochimaru has just one chance to restore his strength and take his revenge on the Hidden Leaf Village. As Jiraiya searched for her, he began teaching Naruto the Rasengan, a powerful technique that only he knows, and that only the fourth Hokage before had mastered. She was a skilled medical ninja, but tragedy in her life has left her relying on drink and gambling, and she spends her time wandering the land, racking up a large debt. It's just that Tsunade isn't in a position to lead anything. They conveniently have a new mission, to find the third and final Sannin and offer her the position of Fifth Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village. At the same time, Jiraiya, the pervy sage Sannin who is now in charge of Naruto's training, had become aware of this and decided to take his charge out of danger. Itachi is a seriously powerful ninja, rogue though he is, and he left both Sasuke and Kakashi in a coma. It turned out that one of them was Sasuke's estranged brother Itachi, and we finally learnt of the dread past that has set Sasuke on the path to vengeance, and the confrontation between the two was explosive and damaging to say the least. Meanwhile the Akatsuki group had learnt of Naruto's power and his harbouring of the Nine-Tailed-Fox spirit, and they sent two of their number to obtain that power. With his sacrifice, he dealt a crippling blow to the rogue Sannin ninja, and with his jutsu powers sealed, his arms paralysed, Orochimaru was forced to flee. ![]() The Chunin arc concluded with the tragic death of the third Hokage, as he defended the village against the power hungry Orochimaru. If you haven't, then don't be surprised by the SPOILERS that follow. I'm assuming that you have seen volume 4:1 by now. Fortunately there is still some adapted story to get through first. In the UK releases, volume 4:2 is where the filler material first appears. The prevailing opinion is that the filler episodes of Naruto are mostly disappointing, and in the end, when there was enough new manga to adapt en masse, a firm line was drawn under Naruto, and the story jumped forward in time to Naruto: Shippuden. The answer was filler, in house episodes that featured the main characters, but did absolutely nothing with them lest they conflict with the eventual manga releases. The common sense thing to do would be to take the show off the air until there was some more story to adapt, but that is a bad idea in the world of bottom lines, audience figures and ratings. And so it was that Naruto's television series caught up to the manga being produced. The problem is that the strict demands of a television schedule, producing an episode each week and every week, is all a world away from the comparative ease of producing a manga strip, where the only pressure comes from your agent and your publisher. Naruto is a popular anime based on an even more popular manga, and what charmed many fans was seeing that same story brought to life on the small screen. Introduction The moment I've been dreading has arrived. ![]()
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