I’ve been holding this blog for some years now. I’m not entirely sure about the reasons that got me started on blogging anime but I ended up enjoying it. The blog has seen some ups and downs, it’s been more famous before but, never us much as I would have liked it too, in order to get enough feedback to turn it really enjoyable for me.

The main thing now is.. I’ve been really busy in my life, the blog as been lagging behind and I’ve been missing and not watching anime shows because of it.

I wanted to blog everything and.. as I didn’t have time to blog a show, I wouldn’t watch it. The "to watch" list was getting really big.

Then it hit me, just a week ago. I was going to watch Naruto, my day was full, I hardly had 20 minutes, I was tired and realized I could not blog the episode at the time, which meant I wouldn’t watch the episode at that time. I realized how blogging was becoming a chore and preventing me from enjoying anime. It had always been happening, but there it was, the limit, I wouldn’t even watch Naruto! for christ sake, the show that (I admit) I’m a total fanboy about, even for fillers, just for lack of time.

I realized I couldn’t keep blogging. With more time.. maybe but, I’ve been losing interest in blogging all around as other parts of my life have been getting more important, and time was just not present.

So, here it is, I’m ending my blogging "career" on anime. This blog will be kept online for archiving purposes. I will not be continuing to blog anything.

I’m also willing to give the blog away to someone I think might do good with it. In a case like that, if someone else continues this blog, it may happen that I’ll return for sporadic one time reviews but, don’t expect anything. And if the blog isn’t picked up, it will die.

So, here I’m saying goodbye, thanking everyone who has been enjoying it and commenting on the blog.

If someone is interested in taking up this blog, contact me, and we will discuss it napa13@netcabo.pt

Cross Examination

Quite a nice chapter. Got me surprised. The flashback was really cool, explaining the combat symbol we have always been seeing. The moment where they were going to do the harmony thing was awesome too. Since they have always been shown doing it in their "dreams" and it surprised me quite well when they just grabbed each other lol.

Apart from that, Naruto shows the Fox he doesn’t really care about any bullshit at this point, he’s going to bust through everything and believes it deeply.

Nice chapter, not what I expected. Looking forward for more.

• Personal Enjoyment: 5/5

The First Link in the Chain

This chapter, we start right with Cherry. News of peace have broke in and people have started going to the mother-ship. Things are bad on earth for supplies and most people are too stupid so, most of them believe in it. One "shuttle" takes off for the ship.. among them is Cherry, the guy who swore to kill them all. Nice.

They arrive, and as soon as some aliens come to get them, we don’t even have time to find out what they are gonna do. Cherry makes every single one die instantly. He leaves the "shuttle" and goes to the alien city. His first victim above ground is an elderly lady, she seems really nice, her grandson appears too. Cherry gets really conflicted about killing them and goes away.

He struggles but, his voices telling him to be good fail, he once again swore to kill every last one of them.

Meanwhile, the Gantzers get news of the peace and they get surprised. No idea how they are gonna do it now but, I guess some proof from the draining pool would be enough to convince most.

Tae also seems to be in good hands, it could be interesting to see her group trying to survive.

Nice chapter, nice representation of the circle of hatred in wars. War is hell. Still, I’m glad Cherry seems to keep on the path to destruction.

• Personal Enjoyment: 4/5
  

The Forbidden Visual Jutsu

Nice one, the battle plays out fairly well, even with the worse animation. Danzo shows some more secrets, like the 1st Hokage’s Wood element. They also reveal Izanagi, the forbidden jutsu where the user trades his eyesight for immortality. We also a pretty awesome summoning.

Anyway, Danzo uses most of his eyes up while Sasuke struggles to survive and force Danzo. Even Madara almost has to intervene but, Sasuke always manages. Really cool episode, looking forward to the end of the fight now.

The next episode will be awesomely animated once again. It seems pretty cool with Danzo getting his right eye working again, which means gengutsu greater than anything else. We also be seeing some more curses and wood element, can’t wait.

• Next Episode: Danzo Shimura

Hopes United

So, the fighting starts. It’s all a mess, Gantz’ manga is probably one of the most difficult to clean out there. Anyway, Kurono decides to take the monster out but loses his weapon. One of the new guys goes in. He uses two swords and quickly kills the monster and one alien. Pretty impressive.

The new guys basically do everything. I hope Kurono gets a chance to show what he’s all about, I can’t forget the way he managed to survive the most impressive things with perseverance alone.

Nice chapter, things get taken care of quickly. We end with Tae being found by some military-resistance guys. I really liked the shot where the aliens were going to hit her with their finger. It really puts things in perspective, the way we do that same thing to insects.

• Personal Enjoyment: 5/5

The Dark Beat 2

So, Ginjou interferes and steps on to fight. Ichigo tries to convince him to let him fight but, Ginjou tells Ichigo that he doesn’t realize how bad he is, being dropped from that height in his human body, he’s barely able to breath. To finish, his powers supposedly are not at Tsukishima’s level.

Tsukishima is not going to leave this time around so, he and Ginjou will be fighting to the death. Nice to see Ginjou answering Tsukishima’s taunt, saying that he’s sure he can kill him. I thought Tsukishima was some kind of God among the fullbringers, glad it’s not.

Meanwhile, Ichigo is left behind, Chad tries to explain things to him. Ichigo doesn’t care, he forces himself onto the battle again.

So, basically, awesome chapter. First, Tsukishima and Ginjou were pretty interesting, I was curious to see if they were equals or not. It seems Ginjou’s power can harm Tsukishima but, he’s also managing to hit Ginjou. For now, it’s only strange that Tsukishima’s cut-through-anything sword isn’t actually operating like that. But, small detail aside, I loved how Ichigo just told everyone to go screw themselves and attacked Tsukishima again, this time with even greater unknown power.

Still, he’s saved by the little fullbring boy. I guess we are only going to witness Ginjou vs. Tsukishima from now on. Another interesting new bit is the part about "tainting Ichigo". Which means there’s probably a dark side to this fullbring thing, something they don’t probably want Ichigo to know, as me may be to hungry for power.

• Personal Enjoyment: 5/5

Night Falls

I like the beginning of this chapter. Suddenly, they are all scared and really don’t know what to expect, then, the Night Falls title is shown and somehow, it looks like people are gonna die this time around.

So, not exactly like that but, things get really complicated. It seems that statue doesn’t work the same way when Nagato used it connected to his body. Madara let it roam free and it basically represents all the beasts they have taken. So, being there 7 tailed beasts.. it’s power is immense. The statue defeats everyone, while Madara goes to collect the sealing weapons and retreats.

Everyone’s going to rest and stay alert during night fall. Madara returns to his HQ, he wants to seal Ginkaku and Kinkaku in the statue, even if it’s not the real fox, at least it will be a little more powerful, he wants to finish his plan the next day. Kabuto watches Madara’s actions and laughs.

The Kazekage and the Hokage leave to stop their jinchurikis personally.

So, cool chapter. But, not that much actually happened. We basically got to know that the Genko statue is damn strong and it will have to be Naruto and Bee to stop it. But, how is that going to work out if Sasuke and Madara come fighting too? Because Naruto will surely fight Sasuke.

• Personal Enjoyment: 5/5