Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 115
Zabuza’s Blade
Sasuke gets his first recruit, who accepts to follow him if he helps him get Zabuza’s sword.
So, the first scene was really well done, with all the tension from the manga well portrayed. Suigetsu seems odd at first, his clothes and hair color don’t match well with my perception of him in the manga lol, I’ll just have to get used.
There was a lot of filler. Suigetsu didn’t just get the sword from Zabuza’s grave like in the manga. I remember the manga having much more power when they first showed Zabuza’s grave again, along with the abandoned sword. Anyway, the filler between Sasuke and Suigetsu was cool and funny. Even though most of the episode had crappy animation, the drama and "acting" parts were all well done and very detailed.
Anyway, they have to go to this castle and get the sword from a guy who took it. There’s an attack on that castle and Sasuke and Suigetsu infiltrate it in the middle. Sasuke makes a bet with Suigetsu. I think this was kind of off from Sasuke’s personality but, at the same time, he made Suigetsu promise not to kill anyone. Anyway, we’re told later that it was to test him.. although they weren’t any real opponents, doesn’t make much sense of Sasuke to test him this way.
Well, the episode’s animation was so so, the characters had nice details when interacting with each other. The fighting was crap, even thought it was fluid. The filler managed to stay relatively well within the series reality. The comedy was good. Entertaining episode, I just hope the next ones don’t drag the plot much.
- Next Episode: Guardian of the Iron Wall
I still think that anime-Suigetsu doesn’t look like the manga-Suigetsu at all - he’s too skinny and his facial features are strange - but the seiyuu is very good. He sounds seductive, playful, wicked, everything at the same time, and that’s fantastic. The filler part was odd and there were some spoilers about Suigetsu’s abilities as well, which in my opinion was rather weird. But I guess they felt he needed to be introduced somehow, so here’s the result.
But why on earth has the animation been so crappy lately? Are they saving money for some awesome future episodes or what? *sigh*
Comment by Tarou — June 26, 2009 @ 5:35 pm
maybe they are saving for the kakashi gaiden special, or for after it, when sasuke does his “thing”
Comment by Darknives — June 26, 2009 @ 6:37 pm