Forum - View topicLong Anime scenes
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Wolf X
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Recently I have been watching Naruto on cartoon network. Does anyone know why some anime series will drag a action sequence or sub storyline on for 10 to 20 episodes? Now I am not complaining, cause they have some definate story lines that need to be drawn out to explain everything, just in Naruto it seems that they add very little information in each episode and the majority of the time you are watching commercials.
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Key
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 Posts: 18447 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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Welcome to the glorious world of long shonen anime series. I call the practice "stretching," and it's been around at least since the earliest days of Dragonball Z. It's all about filling space when you have a plot that's really only extensive enough to fill say, 14 episodes when you're dealing with a 26-episode season.
Naruto is hardly the only series using this practice, and it probably won't be the last. |
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selenta
 Subscriber Posts: 1774 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Although I wholeheartedly am against the pracitce in concept, the reality is that some shows actually manage to pull this off quite well. Naruto is one of them, in my mind. There are large stretches of episodes where the main characters are completely unaware of the things the viewer knows (since the character was not actually there to witness the event), and the viewer tends to forget that the characters do not always know as much as the viewer. In general (though not always), I believe Naruto actually does a quite well done job of emphasizing the circumstances when a character actually "catches up" to the viewer in terms of story, what it does lack in however, is the unnessecary flashbacks for the viewer's sake.
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Ragg
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I find this suprisingly true. Although I find it very annoying on TV to watch them, hoping they might actually fight and not talk for half the entire thing, however in the end it is usually another hanger to the next episode where they actually DO do something. The good thing is that when you watch them back to back on DVD releases or fansubs, they kind of piece together to form a nice long fight scene with things to make you think about while your popping in the next DVD or scourging through your folder for the next one. My little brother is starting to watch Yu-Gi-Oh! (God Forbid...), and he's completely hooked. He buys the cards, tells me about every-single-detail, and then makes ME watch them with him  . So don't worry about these long fight scenes.... I mean long DUEL scenes are much worse. The one Yugi vs Marik (I think that's his name) is something around 10 episodes, for more than 3 episodes they play 1 card that's it...
Don't get thrown off by Naruto, because of its extended fight scenes, but I have no idea how you can watch the dub  . Naruto's voice along with everyone else's is so completely different from the original.
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