I have been oon a bender since wednesday watching episodes on youtube. been staying up till 4am therebouts watching the shows (i have a slow dsl package). It hit me though in that the show could be a get testimonial on geas while performing adept abilities. using hand signs to perform certain skills, blood magic as well. It'd be something if one had a character that got ahold of these old episodes and based his whole way off the cartoon. lol. i tell ya skikamaru (that depressed guy) and yaiyun(perverted hermit) are my two halfs. I had some other compariosns but I've been drinking abit to dull the aches in my body to watch more naruto

kancho adept?

bad kremlin, no soy for you today,

Fortune, google, Japanese Schoolteacher, it tells very well about a "kancho adept" named mouse

Way of the Kancho recommended Adept Powers
with references

Combat Sense and Counterstrike (should be geased to only operate if the attack is a kancho)
http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher11.html

Distance Strike
http://www.mikewang.org/dongchim.htm

Nerve Strike or Critical Strike
http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/naughty02.htm

Killing Hands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_taiju..._Years_of_Death

Elemental Strike: Water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kancho

Having a Naruto adept is pretty good. It's really ideal for pissing off the other players, especially if you state that you waste valuable in-combat actions doing pointless anime posing.

However, I think that for being utterly annoying and horrid it's better to go for older anime. Dragonball Z, for example. How badass would it be to run around acting like Goku and embarassing your team at every moment. (Incompetence: ettiquette)

GM: "The Johnson is unusually well dressed, with a three piece suit and a glimmering TagHeuer watch. He peers at the team from over his mug of soykaf, the steam mystifying his bold and piercing mein."

Goku: "ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A CHALLENGE!!!!! MY POWER LEVEL IS OVER 10,000 AND MY KAMEHAMEHA WAVE BURNS WITH THE FIRE OF A THOUSAND MOONS! AAAAAARRRRRHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRHHHHHH! AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!"

Face: "What he means to say is, 'are you Mr. Johnson'?"

man if i were to ever get back into shadowrun gaming I'd definately create a character based on naruto anime. I"m hooked on this show and making a character who learned his adept way watching old naruto toons would be a blast!

give a few episodes a try on youtube at the very least. You can' tell me this theme 6 doesn't rock! a warning though as your toes will tap at the very least most likely though you'd get up and to a jitterbug (especially at :55 seconds)

or this theme 4

or this theme 2

Just for the record, the translations of Naruto that they're playing on american TV and basing the video games on sucks, IMO.
Get a halfway decent fansub, though, and it's a great show.

edit: Oh, and song 2 is my favorite

Oh yes, Viz has a long and cherished history of gutting anime's through horrible mistranslations.

Believe it or not, Naruto is actually pretty serious. Apparently, the Viz reps who previewed the show prior to aquiring the license only saw the first 3 episodes, which are incredibly goofy and don't actually give an accurate portayal of the show, and as such, the Viz reps marked it down as a comedy (and kept at it when 'translating' the show). Naruto never actually says any phrase that could be accuratly translated as "Believe It!," nor does he ever speak in an "old lady forcing her voice to be husky" voice.

Much like how the first few episodes of trigun are incredibly wacky, but the end is very serious.

I really think Naruto is some of the best Anime I've seen (maybe not #1, but up there) where as the translation makes it one of the worst. I find the dubbed translations make it absolutely unwatchable. The difference is amazing.
Slump speaks the truth, Naruto never, EVER says "Believe it!".
But yeah, the first few episodes are pretty silly.

the translationg is pretty bad, doesn't say believe it but he says something alot more "debetyo" (sp) almost evertime he talks. Believe seems to fit with the character though.


what they need is a death of one of the main characters to really stir things up. IF they do do that don't tell me!!!!! lake last episode of zatch bell