If anyone is interested in reading the entire thing theres a translator that could do it but it would be expensive so if anyone would want to help with paying that would help and if not Ill do it once I can afford to

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This 15 year effort was finished. The original edo period story of Jiraiya. I ordered the physical book but Im pretty excited its more than 700 pages

Got some hearsay about that Naruto 4 episodes mini series. Apparently, the CEO of TVTokyo said in a financial report that it will come out in this fiscal years. So, it has to come out by March 31 of 2025 for that to be true.

I guess not yet 😅

 

Never followed either of those series. Care to elaborate?

the adventure of dai has characters that appear to be similar to ones in naruto and it also has other similarities. for example a similar love triangle (i'm not sure how to spoil in the forum but i can add some other details if i knew how). in beet i noticed the main hero and heroine had a similar time skip that sakura and naruto do (both series have the same writer so kishimoto probably was a fan)

 

Yeah I remember the comparisons between Kishi's wife and Sakura. I did not know that she was unhappy that about how the manga ended or that she was a NaruSaku fan. 

 

I 100% agree on Kishi's lack of reliability. To me it just points back to how he should bear the consequences and displeasure for constantly lying and gaslighting his audience. 

kishi went to the dentist and his future wife recognized his name matched the mangaka of naruto and that's how they met. it's kind of funny because i think oda married a one piece fan as well

I mean she also was very high in north and south america in the recent poll

Well the comments are surprise, "that Sakura is actually popular in Japan," is true.

Well now she is at the very least. People are catching on that boruto and the ending suck which might influence the votes too

Happy narusaku day

https://www.reddit.c..._a_poll_on_the/
Not sure if this was shared before but seems there's a gender divide for hinata and orihime

shonen jump released a manga music video for sakura's birthday which wasn't the worst but it does seem to utilize ai

happy valentine's day

So was the boruto anime put on hiatus or cancelled before ending on the last chapter?

https://gamerant.com...iller-episodes/

https://gamerant.com...himoto-himself/
this is off topic but this forum not using ssl is unsecure and if a hacker wanted to what's to stop him from stealing the logins for the forum or otherwise intercepting data?

I mean to me the equivalent for ns already happened in the adventure of dai so even if other manga are scared off by naruto's ending i don't think that's what mangaka should do. There's still plenty of support for ns in my opinion and letting the ending doom other ones doesn't make much sense

Yeah why the united states wanted grab em by the pussy again is simply inscrutable...
This guy is a felon who asked his followers to stage a coup he shouldn't even be allowed to run except he's got the court stacked with allies. Trump also said he will take away elections in the future meaning he intends to do away with term limits to stay in power (and also away from the bars)

I'm gonna see if I can buy the issue today at my comic book shop

The shop i went to a while ago was missing their 2nd floor i guess comics aren't selling well there. I didn't see the crossover comic but i did see some tmnt comics so i wonder if the physical copy isn't available as of yet

I had to buy it.
 

TMNTxNaruto Issue 1

It follows between Search for Tsunade and Sasuke Retrieval Arcs from Naruto. While the TMNT world and lore exists within the Naruto canon, it follows the IDW comics as Alopex is part of the Foot Clan (if you guys follow that version). And remember that filler arc right before the Sasuke Retrieval arc? Well, they gave Sakura the sudden enhanced strength before her training with Tsunade and she fought against Raphael, in which he even complimented her skills. Sasuke fought Leonardo and Naruto against both Donatello and Michelangelo.  And somehow Kakashi knows Splinter aka Yoshi Hamato.
 
End of first issue. Second issue comes out in January...

Nice. Where is it for sale? I'm not sure if kishimoto intended for sakura to be super strong judging by him saying he wanted her to be a normal girl but maam inherited super strength from her dad so maybe the anime liked that idea

A decade ago. A decade ago. A decade ago, Naruto was the King of International Sales and was some years even second to Dragon Ball. Maybe even better than Dragon Ball since it was largely dormant during Naruto's prime years. That hasn't been the case since the ending. Due to streaming and the Live action adaptation One Piece has finally taken off internationally like it should have 25 years ago, but before that it was largely considered popular only in Japan. Even Oda admitted he thought that in interviews around the time of ending of Naruto.

 

https://en.wikipedia...t-selling_manga

Now a days its number 6 at 250mil in terms of volume sales. Dragon Ball is 5 with 260mil, Detective Conan 4 with 270mil, Doremon 3 with 300mil, Golgo13 at 2 with 300mil, and One Piece is number 1 with 517mil. Oh Slam Dunk is number 7 with 185mil

 

https://www.cbr.com/...ime-franchises/

It is the 13th biggest anime franchise with estimated worth of $10 Billion. With One Piece at 7 and Dragon ball at 5. Number One is Naruto's old time slot partner Pokémon. 

 

Even with those numbers the executives know. Naruto-Boruto is not making the money it should be making.

depends on what you mean by closer to dragon ball. like was it inspired by dragon ball or is it competing with it. when i first read that it wasn't clear what was meant by "closer" for me. how does boruto compare to these other manga?

No, in 2014 at Jumpfesta he said Sakura was his favorite in another interview later on Hinata was his favorite.

 

Being Kishimoto's favorite character is a meaningless phrase as he changes it constantly and it mainly to appease the person asking the question.

 

The reason that event was important is that it was when Kishimoto was giving constant interviews trying to justify the ending and come with more explanations/excuses to see which one the fans would accept. With someone, Junko, finally having enough of it and telling him to drop it.

do you have a link for these interviews? from my understanding kishimoto complimented sakura and then said he liked hinata which is when junko told him to be silent which was a single interview

That was last month. This month its the 10th anniversary of the Last Naruto Movie with Hinata's red scarf of fate. Next month Naruto's VA Junko Takeuchi asking Kishimoto to be quite already as he tried to BS fans that Sakura was his favorite character; which was embarrassing Chie Sakura's VA who felt ashamed that her character was so unpopular she had to be replaced as the heroine. 

When did the second thing happen? Kishi said he liked hinata and junko told him to be quiet from my understanding

One piece is still ongoing so i can see it. Kishi also said dragon ball and goku was a big inspiration. Heck chi chi and sakura both have chinese dresses

Also all the similarities in dragon quest: dai no daibouken and beet the vandel buster

To be honest the moment a sequel trilogy was going to be made the old eu canon was going to be removed. George lycas himself never saw it as canon and at best just used a few ideas from the eu or give a little import like the history of the sith with darth bane or palpatine's sith master. Heck his ideas were etheir going to be about the Willis or darth maul and darth talon with having a underground criminal empire. So no thawn or yu zang vong. Plus I doubt genreal audience was to read about 20 to 30 decades of spin of novels, comics and games to understand a sequel trilogy from the eu timeline, they will have so many questions like chewbacca dead, along with why their is a galactic federation instead of a new Republic

yeah true but like i said the replacement isn't better than what was removed

Wouldn't say Hollywood is in decline, most of their films have had a good year, compared to last year. Like dune part 2, kong x godzilla new empire, Kingdom of the planet of the apes, as well as Disney with inside our 2 and deadpool & wolverine being the 2 highest grossing films of the year so far. The only real failure I can think of is the acolyte that was cancelled, though star wars might have a chance to recover with skeleton crew this year.

I can top that Bail with one ss fan I agree on twitter a couple of years back saying how they loved sasuke trying to kill sakura, because it showed how far he fell to darkness trying to kill, completely ignore that his breaking point what when he stabbed karin to get to danzo.

Pretty sure they wanted hinata to become important and be the heroine, which they got but it failed

At this point the one thing lucasfilm could do is put effort into a knights of the old republic live version. No sense cancelling something and not have anything to replace it. After disney's recent fiasco where they added a non litigation portion to their terms of service which came up when one of their customers died i won't lie I'm not in much hurry to subscribe to disney plus with so much to risk. Much of their problem is the insistence on removing established lore and replacing it with things like "vergences". Why remove prior lore when the new lore doesn't make sense. It's the same problem that the sequel trilogy movies have and lets be honest if disney isn't going to bother releasing something good then just adapt a popular game to keep the brand from being abandoned from understandably upset fans

Doubt it's ture. Also totherpage95 what the heck the live action was good!

Maybe I'm just not big on one piece. I was enjoying the bits of street fighter: assassin's fist i saw at risucon though