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#5401 ciardha

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 11:05 PM

Just got home form work to see got my copy of the Road to Ninja novelization from Amazon Japan today- happy dance!

Just a quick glance at the end of the novel rendered an interesting point that I wonder will be in the movie. Just by the choice of honorifics Sakura uses with her mother vs her father gives tons away about the family dynamics. Sakura calls her mother kasan, which is just kind a neutral (like saying Mom. If she said okasan that's rather formal and distant- like calling her "mother") with some formal emotional distance, but calls her father tochan (which is on the level of calling him "daddy") at the return scene at the end of the story.

(But we know already from what's been released that Mebuki is not a warm person and is quite prone to saying insulting things about her daughter to anyone and everyone.) I knew when I saw the way Sakura had so little self-esteem in part 1, and even moreso in the flashbacks when Sakura entered the Academy, that at least one of her parents had to be the type who never praised her, just told her how she didn't measure up,etc... and if it wasn't both parents, the other parent had to be passive about this and just say nothing to contradict the other parent. The passive parent might have felt bad to see their child unhappy though, and be nice and treat her to things when the harsh parent wasn't around. It's that second dynamic.

The illustrations have already been seen online, but the ones used in the back were nice to see clearly- if smaller than what we saw online- the character sketch drawings for Road to Ninja. Including the one of Sakura with a grinning Naruto face sketch to reference the height difference. And the one used of Mebuki is a different one than the one commonly seen with her arm outstreched with a face sketch of an annoyed Sakura used as height reference. The ones reproduced for the novel shows a front view and 3/4 view of Mebuki with a face sketch height reference of Sakura between the two sketches with a kind of scared and upset look. The one with the Kizashi character sketches is the one we saw where Sakura looks embarrassed. There's one of Naruto I don't recall seeing- he's wearing a T-shirt under his unzipped jacket that has either the blue Uzumaki symbol or the red Konoha version on it. His expression is pouty-faced.

Edited by ciardha, 09 August 2012 - 11:08 PM.

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 11:07 PM

QUOTE (ciardha @ Aug 9 2012, 07:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Just got home form work to see got my copy of the Road to Ninja novelization from Amazon Japan today- happy dance!

Just a quick glance at the end of the novel rendered an interesting point that I wonder will be in the movie. Just by the choice of honorifics Sakura uses with her mother vs her father gives tons away about the family dynamics. Sakura calls her mother kasan, which is just kind a neutral (like saying Mom. If she said okasan that's rather formal and distant- like calling her "mother") but her father tochan (which is on the level of calling him "daddy") at the return scene at the end of the story.

(But we know already from what's been released that Mebuki is not a warm person and is quite prone to saying insulting things about her daughter to anyone and everyone.) I knew when I saw the way Sakura had so little self-esteem in part 1, and even moreso in the flashbacks when Sakura entered the Academy, that at least one of her parents had to be the type who never praised her, just told her how she didn't measure up,etc... and if it wasn't both parents, the other parent had to be passive about this and just say nothing to contradict the other parent. The passive parent might have felt bad to see their child unhappy though, and be nice and treat her to things when the harsh parent wasn't around. It's that second dynamic. The illustrations have already been seen online, but the ones used in the back were nice to see clearly- if smaller than what we saw online- the character sketch drawings for Road to Ninja. Including the one of Sakura with a grinning Naruto face sketch to reference the height difference. And the one used of Mebuki is a different one than the one commonly seen with her arm outstreched with a face sketch of an annoyed Sakura used as height reference. The ones reproduced for the novel shows a front view and 3/4 view of Mebuki with a face sketch height reference of Sakura between the two sketches with a kind of scared and upset look. The one with the Kizashi character sketches is the one we saw where Sakura looks embarrassed. There's one of Naruto I don't recall seeing- he's wearing a T-shirt under his unzipped jacket that has either the blue Uzumaki symbol or the red Konoha version on it. His expression is pouty-faced.

Interesting.

Let us know if you find anything interesting.

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 11:08 PM

QUOTE (ciardha @ Aug 9 2012, 04:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Just got home form work to see got my copy of the Road to Ninja novelization from Amazon Japan today- happy dance!

Just a quick glance at the end of the novel rendered an interesting point that I wonder will be in the movie. Just by the choice of honorifics Sakura uses with her mother vs her father gives tons away about the family dynamics. Sakura calls her mother kasan, which is just kind a neutral (like saying Mom. If she said okasan that's rather formal and distant- like calling her "mother") but her father tochan (which is on the level of calling him "daddy") at the return scene at the end of the story.

(But we know already from what's been released that Mebuki is not a warm person and is quite prone to saying insulting things about her daughter to anyone and everyone.) I knew when I saw the way Sakura had so little self-esteem in part 1, and even moreso in the flashbacks when Sakura entered the Academy, that at least one of her parents had to be the type who never praised her, just told her how she didn't measure up,etc... and if it wasn't both parents, the other parent had to be passive about this and just say nothing to contradict the other parent. The passive parent might have felt bad to see their child unhappy though, and be nice and treat her to things when the harsh parent wasn't around. It's that second dynamic. The illustrations have already been seen online, but the ones used in the back were nice to see clearly- if smaller than what we saw online- the character sketch drawings for Road to Ninja. Including the one of Sakura with a grinning Naruto face sketch to reference the height difference. And the one used of Mebuki is a different one than the one commonly seen with her arm outstreched with a face sketch of an annoyed Sakura used as height reference. The ones reproduced for the novel shows a front view and 3/4 view of Mebuki with a face sketch height reference of Sakura between the two sketches with a kind of scared and upset look. The one with the Kizashi character sketches is the one we saw where Sakura looks embarrassed. There's one of Naruto I don't recall seeing- he's wearing a T-shirt under his unzipped jacket that has either the blue Uzumaki symbol or the red Konoha version on it. His expression is pouty-faced.


ciardha think you can upload scans of the novel? pretty please. whatthekitten.gif
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 11:31 PM

QUOTE (Gravenimage @ Aug 9 2012, 07:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
ciardha think you can upload scans of the novel? pretty please. whatthekitten.gif


As a librarian, I'm rather leery of violating copyright laws that way. I'll do a few pages though- something that doesn't violate copyright.

There might be a bit more to the last scene Naruto and Sakura are in together before Naruto goes off to see Iruka. I saw Sakura's funny comment about the date they'd been on, then there's around three more sentences before Naruto leaves. Curious about that...
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Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison- Yoko Ono 2009

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 11:35 PM

QUOTE (ciardha @ Aug 9 2012, 04:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
As a librarian, I'm rather leery of violating copyright laws that way. I'll do a few pages though- something that doesn't violate copyright.

There might be a bit more to the last scene Naruto and Sakura are in together before Naruto goes off to see Iruka. I saw Sakura's funny comment about the date they'd been on, then there's around three more sentences before Naruto leaves. Curious about that...


....ahhhh, the plot thickens. emoticon_monocle.gif

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 11:55 PM

QUOTE (ciardha @ Aug 9 2012, 07:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
As a librarian, I'm rather leery of violating copyright laws that way. I'll do a few pages though- something that doesn't violate copyright.

There might be a bit more to the last scene Naruto and Sakura are in together before Naruto goes off to see Iruka. I saw Sakura's funny comment about the date they'd been on, then there's around three more sentences before Naruto leaves. Curious about that...

Can you tell us any scenes that you consider romantic.

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 12:02 AM

Yeah, thank goodness I'm off work tomorrow, I'll probably try to get some kind of translation of those sentences. Was flipping through the early part of the novel and spotted the pages where Sakura argues with her parents. Interesting, she gets very formal and distant when she argues with them- uses "okasan" and "otosan" with both of them. Thought I spotted a Kizashi line during this where he just says "Sakura and okasan..." (Japanese parents usually call each other some version of mom or dad in front of their kids. Interesting that Kizashi uses the most formal version of mother too here. More common would be either the neutral "kasan" or affectionate "kachan". (We hear Minato call Kushina "kasan" when he's trying to calm her down while she's screaming at Naruto for example of this.)
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 12:35 AM

Well for one thing, the animation looked awesome...for the most part at least! I wonder why they can't have this kind of quality animation in the anime, although it most likely has something to do with the budget.

As such, I'm really looking forward to seeing the K11 vs. the Akatsuki. Especially since it seems like everyone will get some time to shine! happy.gif

And last but not least. Those scenes with Sakura being a badass were so....well badass! cool.gif

Also, the parallels! They're killing me! This movie cannot get subbed fast enough! XD.jpg

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 12:41 AM

QUOTE (TerrorKing @ Aug 9 2012, 08:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Well for one thing, the animation looked awesome...for the most part at least! I wonder why they can't have this kind of quality animation in the anime, although it most likely has something to do with the budget.

As such, I'm really looking forward to seeing the K11 vs. the Akatsuki. Especially since it seems like everyone will get some time to shine! happy.gif

And last but not least. Those scenes with Sakura being a badass were so....well badass! cool.gif

Also, the parallels! They're killing me! This movie cannot get subbed fast enough! XD.jpg

I agree. They seemed to use the big budget towards the beginning of a epic battle. Nice to know, because that's where all the parallel frenzy begins, brought to you by Kishimoto Masashi. Remember, if there's a parallel in a couple, then it must be canon. tongue.gif

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 03:12 AM

I hate to break up the thread, but we have to close it, due to a recent fight. And official warnings are about to be handed to those who contributed during the massive hype of the movie.

Right now, I will say, "Do not create another thread" as of now, because I'm currently not sure of its fate.

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 03:37 AM

And want to add that this recent flair up of petty arguments, childish insults, fights, and drama that has resulted in a thread being forced to close practically every week, has been very disappointing to us Mods and Admins here at H&E, who work so hard to try to make this site as peaceful and welcoming as we can. Very disappointed.

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 06:59 PM

OK, this thread has now been re-opened, and you can discuss the movie all you like. smile.gif Please be sure to keep things on topic!

Thank you for being patient while we sorted all this out.

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 07:27 PM

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 07:29 PM

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Does Sakura have a black hole in her stomach? Seriously, where does all that food go? laugh.gif

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 07:33 PM

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OK, this thread has now been re-opened, and you can discuss the movie all you like. smile.gif Please be sure to keep things on topic!

Thank you for being patient while we sorted all this out.

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 08:13 PM

Lol what is lee wearing in that pic. And it looks like Sakura kept the flower

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 08:23 PM

sakura has a bottomless pit XD kinda like naruto for ramen XD lol

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 08:25 PM

QUOTE (Dragunov @ Aug 11 2012, 01:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Lol what is lee wearing in that pic. And it looks like Sakura kept the flower

Isn't it supposed to be Tenten's underwear? That's what I remember reading somewhere....



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Posted 11 August 2012 - 08:35 PM

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Isn't it supposed to be Tenten's underwear? That's what I remember reading somewhere....

Look closely. Tenten is on the right side, if you zoom in. Maybe someone is making a Tenten lookalike laugh.gif

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 09:06 PM

Thank you to the kages Smitter and everyone else for re-opening the thread we will assure you that there won't be anymore arguments that will get out of hand. I'm pretty sure by now ciardha and HalfStarStudios have patched things up.

Edited by Gravenimage, 11 August 2012 - 09:07 PM.

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