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Really, I just meant in general. XD What's made you not read or watch it?

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linkandluigi.livejournal.com

1) The manga is boring me. Too many new characters yet not enough characters. (Meaning, I didn't bond with the new characters and the fact that it's JUST them makes me sad.)
2) The anime is FIIILLLLLEDDDD with fillers that I'm not partial to.
3) I might have accidentely gotten into a new series while waiting for both of those to pick up.

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I started by watching the anime (in rapid succession... I watched every episode up to 135 in two or three weeks) and then I started reading the manga from Kakashi Gaiden. ^_^ So yeah, I still watch fillers when I'm bored, but I live for thursdays.

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O_o That's like me with the manga. I had vol. one for the longest time, but it never held my interest much. Then I re-read it and somehow got addicted. ~~Naruto's Jesus Powers?~~ I ended up getting all the manga up to 9 that week, then all the chapters up to 102 or 103 and read them within two weeks... Did the character names get mixed up for you too?

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nope, I have the ultimate memory for character names and faces, lol. The speed-watching didn't scramble my brain ^_^

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Lucky =P

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I guess so, but my friends think I'm a freak XD "God, you know all the characters already? Haven't you only been watching for a week!?"

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staceywoo.livejournal.com

so far i'm only watching the anime, but i would like to get into the manga, i just haven't found the time yet :P

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shinobi-genius.livejournal.com

I obsessively finished chapters 1-162 in about two days and started downloading anime. ^-^ I believe that you have to read and watched both the manga and anime to really appreciate Naruto.

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I used to do the anime, too, but then came the fillers. After they were all the same lame story, over and over and over and over, I cried and ate some babies. When(if)ever Kakashi gaiden comes on, I'll start watching again.

omg, I just watched Fruits Basket today. You don't see too many fans of both Naruto and Fruits Basket... =) (though I've checked out of the English fandom, that shit takes way to long to come out, I'm still reading it in Japanese, though)

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Yeah, Naruto > than Fruits Basket when it comes to chapters and whatnot coming out. If you notice in the livejournal groups and whatnot, most of the fans seem to be the elitist type. =\ At least the communities are- the translators too apparently.

Also: that seems to be the theme for anime- the same story over and over and over only jazzed up six ways to sunday.

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yeah, the fans are kind of dicks... (perhaps because they are mostly younger girls?) And they'll defend their pairings to the grave... Yar, and I had the most awesome crack theory about the series, (if you wanna know I'll tell you) and I went through and gathered information, and it was awesome and it rocked... but mostly meant to be funny, and they like yelled at me for bringing up such a stupid idea. IT'S CRACK FOR CHRISSAKE! Naruto fans don't take themselves so seriously. Maybe because the most popular fandom pairing will never happen, *cries* and we're OK with that. ??? sort of. Maybe because the series is cracktastic in places, itself??? Maybe because the fandom is generally older?

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T_____T Furuba has so much potential for crack, the drug dealers would be rich for the rest of their lives I swear. It's just too bad that the fans refuse to see that.

You could be on to something. It could be that Naruto is an older fandom. It's been going on, what five or six years now? Fruits Basket is still relatively new. Not to mention that the target audience is the teenage female population, as you pointed out =\ Anyone from the teenybop era can tell you just how scary they can get. Hell, anyone who's come in contact with a fangirl can tell you how scary and serious they can get @_@ So yeah... you could be on to something.

I would love to hear the theory. :D Best to take it somewhere else though >_> Talking Furuba in a Naruto community... yeah, no XD cj.yira@gmail.com if you want to e-mail it to me.

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yeah, I'll email it to you. hopefully it'll make you giggle.
ugh, I remember teenybopping. oh the angst.

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I think its because Naruto is less... girly than Fruits Basket. We're not even sure at all that any real romance will even occur in Naruto (despite what Kishimoto says, I won't believe it until I see it) as compared to Fruits Basket where romance is a visible theme.

Of course, shippers in both fandoms fail to realize that the most important theme is love in friendship. XP

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but the girly fans *cough* me *cough* put romance into the fandom. liek omfg sasunaru 4evaz! =)
I don't really want a lot of romance in the end. I mean I want closure for the main characters, but I'm fine with hints for the others. I mean when in your life do all the people you know magically discover their true love (within 5-10 chapters) =) But admittedly, coming of age stories are incomplete without romance.

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well, what I meant by real romance was... something with depth. Instead, what I think will happen will just be as simple as "Naruto-gets-the-girl." bleh, that's boring x.x So, unless there are some startling character revelations/changes along with the romance, I won't find it too significant...

I happen to think that NaruSasu is great character-wise, but we all know that won't happen XP

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I mean when in your life do all the people you know magically discover their true love (within 5-10 chapters) =)

That happened in Harry Potter =\ It was not good. I don't think anyone liked that unless their particlar 'ship did not sink. ~~Dammit Rowling, you sunk my battle ship! >=o~~

Romance just isn't as important in stories like Naruto as it is in stories like Fruits Basket. Almost the entire span of the manga has been Yuki and Kyo spazing over and crushing on Tohru =\ Naruto.. it's all one-sided which is freaky but amusing at the same time. They've grown out of it for the most part too. Lee doesn't dote over Sakura as much as he did when he was first introduced. (He doesn't get much screen time either, but you know =\) They've grown up as ninjas and they realize that romance isn't as important when you have to watch out for your own life.

...Or something.

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...I absolutely loved HBP... and I could care less about ships. XP It really is a good book if you ignore that stuff.

But yeah, about Fruits Basket and Naruto, that's exactly what I meant in my other post. The value of romance is completely different in the two series.

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icefalcon.livejournal.com

I prefer the manga, and read the manga before I watched the series, but I watch all manga based episodes. There are moments - particularly with fights - that sometimes turn out better when animated.

Also, the voice actors (whom I all adore) give the characters that extra element that makes it all work.

I don't watch the fillers. >.

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lykomancer.livejournal.com

Like someone else mentioned, I watched the anime up to 135, and then picked up the manga at the Gaiden. I still occasionally go back and read earlier manga chapters-- especially for looking up a key moment, because it's easier to find...
...but I prefer animation over manga for just about everything. I have a much harder time 'getting' the characterizations and parallels in print, and I'm highly reliant on vocal cues like tone and pitch and volume. I think part of my problem is also the fact that I tend to read very, very fast; when I watch something, I have no choice but to go at the pace of the show, which gives me more time to think things over and catch on to subtler things.

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