Quote:Eh, everyone is entitle to a little stupidity when they're young. Also - her grasp of theory and the family specialty (at the academy level) of perfect chakra control is spot-on, but she's trying to stand out in a big family of higly effective ninja by being like the kind of kunoichi that's in the movies, who gets the guy by being a 'valued team mate' but still needing rescuing, but never breaks a nail or smudges her costume even at that darkest moment when she must endure a dank dungeon while her One True Love rescues her and pounds the badguy, or possibly the other way around. Sadly, she's going to have to accept that life isn't as slick as a movie, and the guy she's interested in will only regard a team mate who needs regular rescuing as a bother.
*shrug* I like the kid, so having her be/act so blatantly shallow and stupid for no good reason, while possibly -realistic-, given her age, still doesn't sit well. I guess that makes me an apologist.
Drakensis - I like! if it's six months after Team Explosive Youth was (officially) formed (after practising together anyway for months, and the guys for nearly a year) then that's three months after the chuunin exam Gai didn't let them enter, and nine until the one that he will.
Naruto anime - is anyone else as unimpressed with 'Formation Ino-Shika-Cho' as I am after seeing ep145? Chouji grabs, Shikamaru shadow-binds, Ino mind-controls... and they stand there, burning their stamina, not doing much of anything to actually, you know, take out their opponents. Not so much as wrapping them up in a freakin' rope... of course, this is kind of a sad filler arc so far anyway, but it wasn't actively bad before now.
finally... heh, this is funny. I'm writing Naruto-fic... and I just got done building a bridge to the island in the back yard. Granted, it's only an 'island' because the river splits and flows on both sides for a bit, and there were no missing-nin trying to assassinate me over it, but still good for a laugh.
Maybe I'm just easily amused?
ETA: The ch2 draft has been edited with the additions thus far.
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
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