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So Iruka gave a speech about what a good kid Naruto is while Naruto listened in and Naruto was crying but also pretty happy. Bitchzuki tries to kill Iruka, Iruka accepts his fate because he’s heavily injured and can’t fight back, Naruto swoops in and punches him (finally!), and Naruto then declares that if Bitchzuki hurts Iruka then Naruto will kill him. Then the fucking Shadow Clone scene which is just as iconic as I remember. Honestly, Naruto is pretty badass in this. Then they beat Bitchzuki to hell and while Bitchzuki lies in a pool of his own blood, Iruka looks on proudly. Hokage calls off the search and says they’ll be back soon (though maybe you could send someone to pick up the heavily injured and bleeding chūnin and small child who just performed a Forbidden Justu? Like, just maybe? If they’re far enough away you couldn’t quickly dispatch some ninja to help them out, getting back might be a problem) and Iruka gives Naruto his cool forehead protector because yay, he passed! Now he can begin his career of risking his life and killing to protect his village’s interests! In all seriousness, it is very cute, but maybe instead of just ramen you can get him some therapy as well. I mean, I assume at least some trust issues were caused by this.

Credits roll, Japanese song with bits of accented English commences, most of the imagery is focusing on how lonely Naruto is and how he is separated from his peers. All in all, super fucked up. Like, at least other major shounen usually have their protags be a little bit older than twelve. Sixteen is a nice age, relatable, young enough to be ignorant, but still old enough I don’t feel like I’m watching literal babies get stabbed. Maybe it’s cause I’m nineteen now.

Anyways, this somehow turned into an actual review. Maybe I’ll do it for other episodes. Maybe not. Still though, first episode and they already are setting the tone for the large amounts of adult-on-child and child-on-child violence, huh? As well as child abuse, neglect, and themes of authority being untrustworthy or useless. I hope they continue to examine these themes and not drop them for “our society is perfect here in Konoha, nothing wrong here.”

So I started rewatching old anime for nostalgia~ and I’m working through the original Naruto and gawd I forgot how fucked up it was. Cool and awesome, yes, but still very fucked up. I’m only on the first episode and I know it only gets worse from here.

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Now Iruka is crying and Bitchzuki is being a fucking bitch (fuck off dude, stop interrupting the emotional moment) but then Naruto flees (I don’t blame you kiddo) and Bitchzuki continues his dumb bitch monologue about how terrible and evil the twelve year old who plays dumbass pranks is. Iruka just rips the giant shuriken out of his back like a boss and hurls it at Bitchzuki (and misses which is lame) and Bitchzuki reaffirms that yes, alongside stealing the scroll, his goal is to kill Naruto.

The Hokage is also apparently watching the entire thing through his crystal ball justu or whatever and like, this guy is the Professor, right? A God of Shinobi or whatever? Why isn’t he doing anything, or even just dispatching some ANBU to go help? Save the heavily injured chūnin teacher and the small emotionally distressed child in grave danger from the fucking traitor. I mean even if you’re only concerned with Naruto potentially releasing the Kyūbi, do something!

No? Nothing? They can’t be that far away, can they? You’re a God of Shinobi, do something! Anything! God, you really are the most useless Hokage.

So I started rewatching old anime for nostalgia~ and I’m working through the original Naruto and gawd I forgot how fucked up it was. Cool and awesome, yes, but still very fucked up. I’m only on the first episode and I know it only gets worse from here.

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Okay, now the truth is out about the Kyūbi (sorta, bc Bitchzuki doesn’t understand how basic sealing works and a lot of stuff gets retconned later) and we once again must revisit the fact everyone hates Naruto and has essentially abandoned this child to grow up alone and with minimal contact with adults outside of school (it’s a miracle he isn’t feral) because demon fox, people died, your fault, blah blah blah.

Bitchzuki says Iruka hates Naruto which is also fucked up because Iruka is like, one of three people who treats Naruto like a human being (I’m excluding the Hokage because dropping by to pat him on the head once in a while is not how you treat a child you are responsible for. That is how you treat a dog, but dogs usually get pats more often) and Iruka flashes back to the most useless Hokage explaining the obvious (if don’t give children attention and they act out? Who knew?!) and then Bitchzuki throws one of his giant-ass shuriken at the probably-in-shock twelve year old who tries to scramble away! Then Iruka, bless his heart, throws himself in front of Naruto and is impaled by the giant shuriken in front of the twelve year old boy! He’s also like dripping blood onto Naruto’s cheek and stuff and it’s pretty horrific really. Naruto is all like “Why?” because his teacher/parental-figure has taken a giant-ass shuriken for him and Iruka explains--speaking a lot for someone with a giant ninja star stuck in their back--that he and Naruto had a similar childhood. I assume it was with fewer nasty side-eyes from the adults because Demon Fox, but it still raises a lot of questions about Konoha’s childcare systems? I mean I assume there are a fuck-ton of orphans because ninja so why the fuck was Iruka living alone? Is there no orphanage? So many questions and none of are very hopeful for the state of Konoha.

So I started rewatching old anime for nostalgia~ and I’m working through the original Naruto and gawd I forgot how fucked up it was. Cool and awesome, yes, but still very fucked up. I’m only on the first episode and I know it only gets worse from here.

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And now Naruto has watched Iruka--who Naruto’s teacher and primary parental figure because he lives alone even though he is fucking twelve--get stabbed by several dozen sharp knives while defending him, knives thrown by his lying teacher Bitchzuki but Naruto doesn’t know that Bitchzuki is a lying liar who lies so as far as he is concerned a trusted teacher just tried to kill him and Iruka out of fucking nowhere and Iruka is now bleeding a lot (I forgot how much blood was in the original ‘for kids’ series) and this poor child just looks so distressed.

So I started rewatching old anime for nostalgia~ and I’m working through the original Naruto and gawd I forgot how fucked up it was. Cool and awesome, yes, but still very fucked up. I’m only on the first episode and I know it only gets worse from here.

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Like holy shit when I was younger I never really considered just how fucking tiny Naruto is but like, he’s twelve! He’s a baby! And already Bitchzuki has used both his position as a trusted authority and Naruto’s childhood neglect/abuse to manipulate this emotionally vulnerable and attention-starved child into stealing top secret information from the government! And Bitchzuki plans to straight-up murder this twelve-year-old who fucking trusts him before bolting with the scroll!

So I started rewatching old anime for nostalgia~ and I’m working through the original Naruto and gawd I forgot how fucked up it was. Cool and awesome, yes, but still very fucked up. I’m only on the first episode and I know it only gets worse from here.

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So I started rewatching old anime for nostalgia~ and I’m working through the original Naruto and gawd I forgot how fucked up it was. Cool and awesome, yes, but still very fucked up. I’m only on the first episode and I know it only gets worse from here.

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Same with long hair that you can feel on your back and moves when you turn your head.

I really like loose skirts that swish when you move. Especially longer ones. They feel nice.

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I really like loose skirts that swish when you move. Especially longer ones. They feel nice.

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Bisexual confusion is out

Bisexual self-doubt is IN!

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Probably one of the funniest things that must have happened after the events of Be More Chill is the school reacting to Rich.

Like yeah, the popular kids are hanging out with known losers Jeremy and Micheal now as well as local theatre dork Christine, even if Jeremy is a little better than before, but they probably haven’t changed much otherwise. A mystery, sure, but not too weird.

But Rich (and by extension Jake) weren’t just popular but hardcore bullies. And not in the popular people gossip and mock sort of way, which is still bullying but not as stereotypical and obvious; they were physically shoving people around and probably stealing lunch money (though with Jake it seemed more teasing? Less malicious? Or mainly enabling Rich? idk)

Point is, Rich was a real shit. Rich slammed nerds into lockers. Rich made homophobic jokes. Rich burned down a fucking house and while we know about the entire Squip thing, the school doesn’t have that context.

So violent, mean gay jokes, arsonist Rich who is probably known as the local psychopath by the rest of the school, shows up after spending time in the hospital as not Rich the asshole, but Rich the bisexual icon who has a lisp and openly flirts with dudes and would definitely throw down for his new crush Micheal and buddy Jeremy. Like Rich would definitely punch someone for using a homophobic slur. First day back Micheal and Jeremy probably had to physically restrain him (bc you know Jake wouldn’t stop him, plus crutches) from beating up whoever shoved Micheal into a locker and if that image doesn’t make you laugh I don’t know what will. And if you went to that school that would just be such as wtf moment bc now Rich the asshole is being nice to the nerds and still making gay jokes, but like, playfully? And about himself? He’s friends with stoner Micheal and temporarily cool but back to geeky Jeremy? And he’s still weird and violent but also kinda nice and he’s defending ppl who used to be his victims and during English class he made several insightful points about Lord of the Flies and it would just be so trippy to go from asshole Squip Rich to proudly bi and kinda geeky Rich who still has a temper and could put you through a wall if he wanted

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This is what a real, qualified OBGYN will tell you about what women feel when they get an abortion

Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because he’s honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.

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stop celebrating………………accomplishments of women……in fields that literally hurt, murder and otherwise oppress women…….you are not feminist for flying a drone……or spilling 10 million oil barrels into the ocean…….or heading a company that pays their workers 2 dollars an hour…..or literally leading foreign invasion….like….you are just a capitalist

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i don’t want to achieve equality by sinking to men’s level, i want them to get on ours! why should i have to unlearn the conversational art of waiting my turn, unlearn sexual self-restraint, unlearn trust in others’ good intentions, unlearn the impulse to cater to others’ needs, just to have a chance at success among savages? why can’t the men learn some fucking manners so we can all conduct our affairs in a civilized manner? i shouldn’t have to stop saying sorry, you say sorry!

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i really don’t know what a fortnite dance is. i see a little fella doing a dance i’m like “rock on” no idea where he learned it. don’t care. his moves are fuckin raw 

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It’s bad enough when a sci-fi setting has all the ladies wearing painted-on tights so snug that you can see all the way up their respective buttcracks, but then they go and do it with the armour, too.

Like, it’s armour.

It’s a solid chunk of heavy, rigid material.

How does that work?

How do you walk with a pair of inflexible domes tightly cupping your glutes?

Hell, how do you even stand when you’ve got a quarter-inch durasteel plate wedged so far up your ass you’re tasting metal?

Makes no sense.