~ Pain & Peace ~

Pic courtesy of dayamon @DeviantArt

I love that entire storyline section of the Naruto manga. Seriously, I love that part. XD



***Spoiler section, if you are following the anime ONLY, do not read this part-Continue only after the "End of Spoilers" sentence! XD***



The fight between Naruto and Pain is probably my favorite out of the entire manga so far. I've read this the first time early last year I think, and since then I've went back to it another two or three times. I really do love this fight/section. It was a combination of investigation, action and one-man-army style of fight that I really really liked. So many things were happening at the same time and I never felt like one section was redundant or pointless as some other parts of the stories sometimes were.

In fact, Pain is now probably my favorite bad guy now. (Has been for some time actually) Alternatively, I think Madara would probably make a seriously bad-ass bad guy, but his power just a bit fake ady. Pain's power was already pushing it a bit, but I could still dig it, I mean splitting up his power into 6 different bodies was just brilliant (I didn't really get the use of Rinnegan though).


I have rings in my eyes

The only other fight I remember most of the time is the very very very beginning fight between Shikamaru and Temari, and after that the one between Lee and Gaara or Lee and... that... bone... guy... ^^;;

And I feel like Sasuke is getting more and more boring. His reasons for fighting is getting ridiculous. Ultimately, he would probably fit perfectly into the emo mold of the 21st century. But I love his power's names though: Amaterasu and Susanoo. I don't think he can use Tsukuyomi though, I'm not sure why.

I'm actually just naming this story arc Pain & Peace by myself because I like it. For obvious reasons, the fight is with Pain. For less obvious reasons, Pain is fighting to stop the pain and bring peace as is Naruto, but using let's say different approaches.



***End of Spoilers***



Anyway, I just loved this story arc. The upcoming ones should be... cool. But it is moving slowly. The anime is a bitch also btw. Now still at fillers, but I think it's going to return to the main storyline soon. Which is going to be awesome because I think this story arc is coming up! Soo... yay! I'll just need to remember to come back to the anime is about... say... 3 months time? And I'll have the entire set of this story arc to watch! Woots! XD

On non manga stuff (First time I've actually gone on so long about manga):

After School released Bang!


It does take some time to get into and I do agree with what most people say that the actually singing part without the drums are the best part, but still, listen to it a while and the drumming really gets drummed into you. ^^;

However, their other song: With U


Is infinitely more awesome than their released single. I'm sorry to say that, but I 110% think that is the case. The problem is that everyone thinks you need to release a song with a catchy beat to catch everyone's attention, which, in a sense is true. But I do wish someone would really release and promote a power ballad. I mean it worked for 8eight although that wasn't really a power ballad, but it didn't have a dance/pop beat and it was quite awesome. Sadly, even 8eight also succumbed to autotune, it's a sad sad day (The song was actually not bad though).

It's almost similar to their Because of You and When I Fall songs in their previous round of promotions. Except in that case Because of You was almost as awesome as When I Fall. In this case, With U is much much better than Bang!, in my opinion anyway.

If you don't like how Bang! sounds, go watch the MV. It helps. ^^

Okay, this was a much longer post than I had originally intended to post. Haha. Will bitch and moan on different issues another day. I realized I've been very candidly avoiding talking about my feelings and thoughts on my predicament these days, but that's because when I did talk about those, people called me a emo whiner who had no life. (Not literally, but it was implied... XD)

But it did help to not talk about things that make me down. I mean not thinking about it helps. Haha.