#musashi kishimoto

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Kishimoto s illustration of Mui, Maori, Ryuuzetsu and Muku is Awesome... I wish somebody Scanned This

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A couple older naruto pieces

I brought an artbook by musashi kishimoto and I really enjoyed the alternative takes on Naruto

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🍥 Hello, in the next post I'm gonna talk about Naruto and the change of meaning that he propagated about friendship and loyalty. Hope you enjoy it! 🍥

Naruto was created by the famous Japanese manga writer Masashi Kishimoto in 1999, getting a lot of recognition in different countries around the world. Naturo’s plot is mainly based on a boy who lost his parents when he was just born. Then, he has to live by himself being kinda underestimated by everybody. Anyway, he tries to reach his goal: become the Hokage, the highest authority of Konoha, his native aldea.

The special fact here, and also what this post is about, is his essence of friendship even considering all the difficulties that Naruto went through in his life, a great quality that I think, has changed the point of view about friends and what they meant to our lives.

Naruto teaches that there's NOTHING more important than friends and the fervor to always protect them, no matter what. This demonstrates the purity of friendship for Naruto, an aspect that I think is notable and, I dare to say, not many other mangas or animes, reflects such a sincere value of meaning for friendship. I think that Naruto should be an example for many people, especially in a world as dirty as the current one, in which individualism and betrayal are prioritized for personal gain. I believe that many people, like me, have been inspired by Naruto’s kindness and the nobility of his genuine friendship meaning, so if you haven't taken the time to read or watch it, you should. ¡ Naruto best friend EVER, dattebayo!

🍥María José Acevedo🍥

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Naruto (2002)

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Pro Sasuke Uchiha : Constructive Criticism of Kishimoto’s Antagonist

Disclaimer: I am not a critic. To anyone that disagrees, my humble opinion doesn’t count for anything because I’m just some loser in his mom’s basement as far as you’re concerned. I’m little more than a disappointed fan. Thank you for reading if you’ve go this far. Hope you can read the rest with objective consideration and without bias. This will be a long rant, you’ve been forewarned.

So I’ve been on a spree of criticism of Kishi’s work. Cannot help being criticil of an Artist/Writer who has let me down just as many times as he/she has inspired me. So because he let me down he has inspired me to write about some of the things I’m very critical of because I have no closure from the series and I can’t help but feel “Next Generation”  wasn’t about love for writing the story anymore.

In the beginning of the series Sasuke isn’t yet the antagonist, but it’s clear Kishi intended the to of them to be rivals while building what was supposed to be, and in many ways, is a story of incredible bonds and friendship. It was clear he had a motivation behind what he wanted to do as far as the character developing into and I see, it seems anyway, that he deviated from that. 

By the early stages of the character development it is established through Sasuke’s monolgue to Sakura “I am an avenger” that he never stopped grieving the loss of his clan and family and that he wanted the same closure fans never got. He said to Kakashi “I will restore my clan” and while I’m certain this isn’t meant to be taken literally he wanted to do right by their memory. 

Understanding that he didn’t just lose his family, he was literally tortured at the age of 8(forced to endure something that had Kakashi bed ridden for a week), he lost connection to his heritage(remember Madara is one of the founding members of the village yet Sasuke had no clue who he was), he lost his idol in Itachi and was forced to deal with a damaged psyche that no one could really repair Itachi drilling in his head that he was some sort of coward. He has both an inferiority complex and a superiority complex because of the standard the Clan is held to. Rather than knowing what is and isn’t true with his parents to guide him through his mess of a life.

What’s disappointing is by the end of the series that wasn’t the main take away from his character. Why? Because the development of his character was stifled by Naruto. Yes, I’m talking about the main character of the story. It’s very relevant to know and understand that Kishi didn’t take time to develop many of the characters in the story. Tenten, Hinata, Lee to an extent, Ino, Choji, Kiba, and Shino among others I may even be forgetting because....yea its obvious.

So to the point. Naruto borders on being a gary stu because, seemingly, Kishi was more partial to him than anyone Sasuke included. That’s not to say Sasuke didn’t get charcter development, just he didn’t develop in a way that was understandable to the majority of fans.

As I was saying about the end of the story none of this is understood. Worst part being that Itachi overshadows Sasuke’s character in a way that is completely disrespectful to fans who had great insterest in the development of him as Sasuke’s antagonist. I do not in anyway disagree with the choice to make Itachi remain his loving brother, who made a difficult choice for the good of the village and the one he cared for the most, but to be honest the logic that comes out of Itachi’s choice and reasoning by fans loving him so yet having great disdain for Sasuke as describe: Whiny, emo, ungrateful, selfish, among other things is a fallacy. Most of those things are inaccurate as well hypocritical to praise Itachi at the same time. 

Firstly lest start with him being ungrateful or selfish. It was immediately after the death of his clan, that this clearly life altering even influenced him to decide without doubt that he would devote his life to seeing JUSTICE for what happened then. This is how the story STARTED, please understand that it wasn’t until part 2 that this turns into full blown revenge and blind hatred in a completely hypocritical manner that made fans who already disliked Sasuke absolutely loathe him. I’ll say again this is merely so Naruto could play hero and save his soul(see there I’m getting irritated thinking about this already).

If you have a goal like becoming Hokage, or President of the United States, or First Pick in the NFL draft, or becoming head Medic nin, whatever real life or fictional you know that you can’t just decide to give it up because people say it is Irrational. Sasuke’s ultimate goal was to avenge his family. That meant he had to become strong enough to defeat Itachi, which meant sacrifices must be made.

What did he sacrifice. A normal childhood, his friendships, and the closest thing he had to a family since his blood relatives died. Yet Sasuke is selfish? Sacrificing your frienships and chance at a normal life in favor of a decision you made at 8 years old because of the family you LOVED is probably the most selfless thing a person can do. I often see people compare him to both Kakashi, and Naurto in these cases to justify loathing his character and making silly memes to ridicule him.

Kakashi couldn’t get revenge on anyone, seeing as how his only family commit suicide, The White Fang was not murdered/slaughtered. As far as Rin and Obito, they died in the line of duty they weren’t killed simply because some evil bastard(as far as Sasuke knew) wanted to “Test my power.” 

Naruto, had no connection to his family until Jiraiya and also had no concept of vengence until Jiraiya died, and If we are really to give credit where its due, the only reason he chooses not to avenge him is 1. Because it would go agaisnt his Masters wishes 2. Because he see the weight Sasuke’s had to carry and wants to free his friend from that pain. He can’t do that if he chooses to walk a path that was not his. 

Another thing that Kishi made very clear was that was the point. Sasuke was at his best when he was written as a character that manifests his own reality, and walks his own path without regret. Let’s not forgot that Fugaku is nothing like Jiraiya. He didn’t raise Sasuke to aim for peace or anything like that, in fact, one of the Uchiha’s rules is that they don’t take prisoners. Yet another reason Sasuke took it upon himself to kill Itachi, it was his duty.

Then of course, yes I’m about to go there you’ve been wared, there’s the SasuSaku thing. Why? Just why? This relationship, was never called for from the get go. Another reason so many Americans are so messed up that they don’t understand the difference between true love and infatuation. Where does Sakura’s “love” begin, where does Sasuke’s more importantly? Was that established with any certainty?

In the beginning the bulk off their interaction consisted with Sasuke ignoring her and calling her annoying. The nicest thing he says to her the entire series is “Thank you.” seriously? Not “I’ll miss you.” not  “I care for you...deeply” but “Thank you.” Thats like something you say when someone passes the salt at the dinner table.

What is their connection? I refuse to bring up other pairs because is about Sasuke development as a character not SasuSaku. Sakura does nothing but follow Sasuke around like a love sick puppy and by the end of the series, it somehow pays off and while it may feel like a win for fans of that pair, to me as a fan of the overall series and writing that makes sense even in a fictional world where characters have superpowers. There should be some logic there at least. 

What we know at the start of part one is Sakura is a 12 year old girl with a crush on the most popular boy in school. Hilarious, that’s the foundation of this pairing, never in part one and hardly anything in the series at all does it explain where these “romantic” feelings developed. It least we know why Hinata admires Naruto (sorry nothing more on NaruHina,another time perhaps). 

And Sasuke never shows any affection to her what so ever besides “Thank you.” of course and gently lying her on the park bench. Don’t think I don’t notice the SasuSaku moments either. Like when he was about to break both of Zaku’s arms and Sakura hugs him. Probably as close ot romance as it gets and Sasuke is being hugged from behind. He doesn’t initiate the hug and he doesn’t hug her back, he stands there suprised at probably the first time he’s been hugged since his mother was murdered.

Understand this, if you take that as a sign Sasuke felt the same, fine. That is absolutely acceptable, even understandable. However, for me, that is a bit half assed. It’s really not much to go on over the course of 700 chapters to say they “fell in love”. Because to me love does not equate to trying to force someone to notice you for two years, having attempts at affection met with disdain and even physical assault, like when he slaps the apples she spent so much time carving out of her hands as she visited him and tried to feed him at the hospital. 

I’m sure I don’t have to mention the actual attempted murder at the summit to anybody so that’s all I’ll say about it for now. Now back to Sasuke’s overall story as I prepare to close. The summit was probably the biggest chance to turn Sasuke into an admirable character in fans eyes. 

Instead what Kishi does is comepletely wreck his character, so he can be the antagonist and be saved by Naruto. There’s even this little comparison by Karin where she see’s how evil and corrupt Sasuke is, another innocent he tried to kill, and then sees how pure Naruto’s soul is. It was ridiculous. I understand Naruto is the hero of the story, but that never meant Sasuke HAD to be the villain.

He even turns the entire situation with Danzo and his orders to have the Uchiha clan annihilated into a complete mess. Sasuke has gone batshit, and rather than being a person trying to do right by his clan and his brother’s memory, Kishi turns him into this absolute fiend who will murder even his own allies just to make some silly point based on a story told him by a guy who’s real faces he’s never seen even once. A guy who wasn’t even the real Madara Uchiha. As if Sasuke was never strong enough to separate himself from his emotions and what he believes is right. Itachi was already dying and he wanted Sasuke  to kill him as atonement. He killed the uchiha in favor of the leaf why would he want Sasuke to destroy the village.

If he were written properly Sasuke would’ve killed Danzo and walked his own path, facing Naruto one final time and either dying or leaving all of that mess behind. It would’ve been fine for him to return to the village if he there to sow seed and start a new with the Uchiha clan. Instead he's a glorified prize for Sakura and Sasusaku fans, as well as someone Naruto basically stalked for 2 years just to force him to not even be in the picture anyway.

As I said in the beginning, or someone in the middle maybe. Sasuke was at his best when he was written as an independent character walking his own path and sacrificing what mattered most to him in favor of doing right by his people, his family, his clan. I thank anyone who made it to the bottom of this post.

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NARUTO Anime Soundtracks To Debut Via US Music Streaming Services On Friday, September 24

  Milan Records has announced that multiple soundtracks spanning the NARUTO TV and film franchise will officially launch on Friday, September 24th. The soundtracks span the TV anime and feature film franchise and the slate of soundtracks is featured below. The slate includes composer Toshio Masuda’s soundtracks to the original Naruto television series and corresponding Naruto films as well as composer Yasuharu Takanashi’s soundtracks to the Naruto Shippuden sequel series, films, latest series Boruto: Naruto Next Generations and the feature film.

        ALBUM

ARTIST

NARUTO ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Toshio Masuda, MUSASHI PROJECT 

NARUTO ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2 

Toshio Masuda, MUSASHI PROJECT

NARUTO ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 3 

Toshio Masuda, MUSASHI PROJECT

NARUTO THE MOVIE: NINJA CLASH IN THE LAND OF SNOW ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Toshio Masuda

NARUTO THE MOVIE: LEGEND OF THE STONE OF GELEL ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Toshio Masuda

NARUTO THE MOVIE: GUARDIANS OF THE CRESCENT MOON KINGDOM ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Toshio Masuda

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2 

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 3 

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: THE MOVIE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: THE MOVIE - BONDS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: THE MOVIE - THE WILL OF FIRE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: THE MOVIE - THE LOST TOWER ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Various Artists

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: THE MOVIE - BLOOD PRISON ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: THE MOVIE - ROAD TO NINJA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

THE LAST: NARUTO THE MOVIE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

BORUTO: NARUTO THE MOVIE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 1

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2 

Yasuharu Takanashi, YAIBA

  The soundtracks will be made available across all major US streaming services and digital storefronts.

  SOURCE: Supplied Press Release ©2002 MASASHI KISHIMOTO / Thumbnail: ©2002 MASASHI KISHIMOTO / 2007 SHIPPUDEN  All Rights Reserved.

  Disclosure: Crunchyroll is part of Funimation Global Group, a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Aniplex.

    By: Humberto Saabedra

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Naruto, Musashi Kishimoto

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Musashi Kishimoto is weak because he had the CHANCE to show Tsunade as the actual old lady she is, and instead acted as though that scene never happened. For shame

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Worried about Kishi going to NYCC

Is anyone else worried about Musashi Kishimoto going to NYCC? After all the hate he got, I’m a bit concerned for his safety.