In another exciting edition of “Third-of-life Crisis”, the Cousins decide to stay a while on Memory Lane, aka Nostalgia Boulevard and talk about everybody’s favorite orange ninja, Naruto.
We also spend way too much time talking about the pandemic, so if you want to skip right into “What Have You Been Watching?”, go directly to the 30-minute mark.
Kenny read all of the manga, while Laven watched all of the Anime*.
*Not including filler episodes.
This week’s hosts:
Laven – @LavenVoth
Kenny – @sakoku_otaku
Im here purely for the DBS talk this time. I love Dragon Ball, and theres parts of Super I love, but a lot of it is chaff. The Battle of Gods and Ressurecction F arcs are done better and paced better in their respective movies. The best of Super is the latter half of the Future Trunks Arc (if youre around episode 50 then you should be on or about to be on this Arc) and the Universal Survival Arc, both of which have larger stakes and better animation at points.
Also Black and Zamasu are jsut great
I’m late listening to this episode, but yes, the movie retelling arcs are definitely inferior to the movies. And Black and Zamasu are the best part of Super (not that I’m biased or anything…)
More related to the actual main topic of the episode, you guys make me want to finish Naruto since I stalled out on it several years ago around when the Ninja War was starting. And you’re both correct in that Shikamaru is best boy, always and forever.