For 1, there isn't really any point in spoilers for anything. If it's real, it ruins the entire experience of the surprise of what happens next. If not you end up looking like an idiot say what would happen next and you're wrong. Now who would want that? (Really, it's embarrassing).

Now, back on naruto, I love the show, but I looked on the internet for the longest time looking for spoilers, and most of the time they were fake, and I ended up looking like an idiot (hence what I said earlier). When you do find one that's real the episode/movie seems more boring that exciting.

So see? Never use spoiler, unless of course you want to ruin it for you and your friends or embarrass yourself. Now remember, I'm not saying you can't use them, I'm just saying I don't recommend it. Thanks for reading.

Mandara then explains to Sasuke that Itachi implanted the Mangekyou sharingan through the fingertap as Itachi fell. Mandara then reveals that Itachi also transfered all of his jutsus to him, when he tapped him at their family's massacre. Mandara also explain's to Sasuke that it was in order to protect him. Sasuke then becomes angered and threatens to kill Mandara. Mandara then tries to comfort him, and apologizes. Finally, he shockingly reveals that he help Itachi with the massacre of their family.

Sasuke then screams in anger, "Get away from me! I don't want to ever see you again!" Mandara then replies, "I am here to teach you all i know, and I do know everything, about your brother.. Uchiha Itachi."

Thursday, April 17th of the year 2008, I will review the 398th chapter. Any questions, contact me on here.

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God X Ninja

1. Drawing

   Manga: American Comics
   
   American comics try to make their drawings far too realistic than what they need to be. Fancy color and top-notch clarity will really cut into a budget, and personally, it looks terrible. Too dark and gritty, it makes for a horrible job at trying to be “cool” and “hip”. Black and white is what you will see in most manga. Sure, there is an occasional color page or two, and they look a whole lot better than that.

2. Multiple Universes

   Far too long has the industry relied on just the current roster of heroes that they have. They have just repeatedly used them over and over and over. Sure, they are well-known characters, but please, get some originality. With manga you have one story, and after it finishes, it normally stays finished. They don't use it another twenty times to bring in money. That is why Manga does so well; they just come out with a refreshing new story and hope for the best, not abuse one character's universe to death. Speaking of characters, this leads to another point.

3. Characters

   American comics seem to just make their characters either invincible or near-perfect. Superman is a perfect example of this. He is immune to everything, except for Kryptonite and a different colored sun (guess what one makes the most appearances for a weakness). If I remember correctly, there was even one universe where he developed an immunity to Kryptonite. The characters just aren't human enough, while if you look at manga, you will find a huge selection of different kinds. Yes, there are some that do what American Comics do if you are interested, but there are also some that make the character more human than invincible beast. It actually has character development instead of the good-guy beats bad-guy over and over. Also, unlike in most comics, the main manga character will sometimes ACTUALLY DIE! That doesn't happen very often in American Comics without some other universe making it happen.

4. Ads

   Ok, you won't find any more Charles Atlas ads in today comics, but what you will find will be ad after ad after ad. This makes it to you aren't really getting much content in what you buy. They are slowly taking up more and more of the comic. In manga you get three pages at the end of a book. Yes, a book. Not some little 19 page thing, an actual book for anywhere between $7 and $11 USD.

So there you go. American Comic are becoming one big cliché. Eventually the unoriginality and lack of funds will drive American Comics into non-existence unless something is done. I will miss my Iron Man if that happens…

 

Adult comics have surprisingly long history. The first modern adult comics were published in the USA in the 1920s. They are called Tijuana bibles and they contained pornographic comics. In the modern world, porn comics or Japanese hentai manga aren't uncommon.

Brute violence was brought to comics by two Europeans, Benoît Sokal and Hugo Pratt in the 1970s. In the 1950s, American EC Comics showed that adult comics can be made without sex or violence as mature fiction comics.

Censorship knocked EC Comics down but adult comics managed to survive in America, thanks to the underground comics movement in the late 1960s. It was not until the early 1990s that adult comics started to be mainstream in America. Famous adult comics like Hellblazer and Sandman were published at that time.

Another country with a traditional comic culture is Japan. Modern manga comics were born about 60 years ago. The first manga were for children but soon adult manga started to gain popularity. Nowadays lots of adult manga like hentai are published. Compared to American or European adult comic culture, Japan's culture is more open and mainstream.

Most of the published comics may be for children but adult comics stand firmly on their feet also.

Love Hina

Ai love you

Although men definitely enjoy yaoi, its main target audience is women. And it is not gay porn for women. As yaoi is written by women for the enjoyment of other women, the works display a female fantasy of what is sexually attractive, but not necessarily a gay male one. Moreover, yaoi is much more than sex; yaoi manga, novels and anime actually cover a wide variety of genres, from comedy to science fiction, from giant robots to high school romance. Some of them, however, can be sexually explicit and should be kept away from minors.

Many people are still not sure whether shounen-ai and yaoi are the same thing or not.

Shounen-ai, meaning boy-love, refers to shoujo manga written in the "70s and early "80s that featured stories about poetic, platonic or romantic relationships between pubescent or pre-pubescent boys. While Japan gradually discarded the term, the West lapped it up and started using it differently. The American fans now apply the term to stories that have little to no sex, keeping yaoi aside to describe those with a higher erotic or sexual content.

Several companies in the United States publish yaoi titles. They include 801 Media, Be Beautiful, Blu, DramaQueen, Hirameki International, JAST USA, Juné Manga, Media Blasters/Kitty Media, Netcomics, and Tokyopop. Juné by Digital Manga Publishing has announced two new yaoi titles- Don't Say Anymore Darling and Not Enough Time - for summer.

In Don't Say Anymore Darling, Kouhei is a doctor at the local university hospital who has lost touch with his schoolmate Tadashi. While Kouhei grew up to become a successful doctor, Tadashi turned into a jobless, poor-as-dirt, flaming gay writer. One lonely night, at his wits end, Tadashi sends Kouhei a text message and gets a reply. In fact, Tadashi has secretly harbored feelings for Kouhei for a long time. But he finds out Kouhei is getting set-up for an arranged marriage…

In Shoko Hidaka's Not Enough Time, a collection of eye-opening love stories, Yousuke suddenly shows up on the door step of his old high schoolmate Tanigawa after years of separation. While the two had a budding relationship in school, things fell apart and they decided to part ways looking for their true love. However, it might be that their relationship during their school days was what they have been looking for all along.

During the same period, animated film making began in Europe and then the United States. As it made its appearance in Japan, it became a huge phenomenon. In fact, after 1940 more than 40% of all domestic films in Japan were found to be animated films based on manga. Because of its integral role in Japanese society, manga appealing to all age groups were routinely published and the scope of animated films also covered all ages. On the contrary, animation was perceived as primarily a medium for children in the West. It was so because there were not enough animated films aimed at older viewers and classic cartoons flooded the market in the decades both before and after the Second World War.

As television became a popular entertainment medium in Japan, animation became a large part of the programming schedule. Even though other shows preceded it, the first really successful animated series in terms of popularity was Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atom in 1963. The show became so popular that it caught the attention of NBC in 1964 and 104 episodes were syndicated in the U.S. as Astro Boy and became the highest rated syndicated show on television, live action or otherwise. Thanks to this development, other shows shortly found their way on to American television, including Tetsujin 28 (Gigantor), Eight Man (TOBOR, the Eighth Man), Kaitei Shonen Marin (Marine Boy), Jungle Taitei [Jungle Emperor] (Kimba, the White Lion), and Mach Go-Go-Go! (Speed Racer). Although these shows were edited to fit American standards (often with numerous episodes not even being released in the U.S.), broadcasters and pressure groups still complained about the violence present in these shows.

These protests forced a lull in bringing anime to American television for a number of years, although series and features were still being released in Japan and were wildly successful. The American viewers didn't get another look at anime until the late 1970's, when 1972's Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman was adapted for American audiences as Battle of the Planets.

Global audiences are now enjoying a growing influx of popular anime. Pokemon, Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball have delighted children in all parts of the world. Most significant is the deal that Disney Studios and Studio Ghibli signed to bring all of Miyazaki's filmed masterpieces to American audiences. Anime's success owes a lot to the unswerving dedication of many Japanese artists to fully exploit the possibilities of animation as a creative medium. They realized that they could do more with moving pictures than just entertain children. They could explore the boundaries of space and probe the complexities of the human condition. This is what has made anime so dynamic and appealing.

But the second movie left people confused, as a few years before it was released, the Ghost in the Shell TV series was being shown on TV in Japan, and later got DVD releases across the world.

This is what confused people though, as after the 1st film, it splits off into 2 different timelines. You can either watch the first film then watch Innocence, or you can watch the film then the series. The series (called Stand Alone Complex) had nothing to do with the second film apart from its characters.

The first series (each series called Gigs) contains 633 minutes worth of action over 26 parts and 7 discs. It follows Major Motoko Kusinagi, Bato, Togusa, Chief Aramaki and all the other characters from the 1st film tackling various missions. The first episode sees the team infiltrating a robotic Geisha house, where some top ranking politicians are being held captive.

Each episode is extremely slick and stylish mixing, fast paced action with incredibly in depth conspiracy and political sub plots. Each episode shines new lights on each characters pasts that weren’t in the films, and with there being 26 episodes, sometimes the focus is on just one member. One of the episodes has Bato chasing down an old army “buddy” who’s gone crazy, and teaches us about his past in the Peace Corp and the horrors he witnessed before joining Section 9.

There are new characters as well in the form of the multiped tanks the Tachikomas (the one the Major ripped herself apart when she was trying to open it in the 1st film) these ones are smaller and talk in creepy children’s voices. Over the series we learn a lot about them, and their journey of obtaining their own “ghosts” through constant data-linking.

Most of the episodes don’t have much to do with each other, apart from one story that begins in episode 4 and carries on in various episodes until the last one. This story is the case of “The Laughing Man”; a cyber-brain hacking criminal mastermind that bought the government to its knees 6 years back and has apparently re-surfaced now. (How I wish they’d release the laughing man saga on its own DVD)

This is one of the most in-depth and twisted conspiracy stories you could ever hope to see. You never know who the laughing man is, and even when you find out who takes responsibility, he wasn’t the one who put the chain of events into action. I haven’t seen the 2nd Gig yet, but im guessing the real culprit will be revealed as you see him walking off in the end.

This is a must see series. Its edge of your seat stuff complete with giant walking tanks controlled by a dead guy’s brain, women with guns for forearms, Section 9 HQ being blown apart and the revelation that the Major possibly used to be a man. Throw in some massive mini guns, robotic suicide and the constant discussion of what makes a human a human? Is it their Ghosts? Because if so, the Tachikomas achieve their own humanity by acquiring Ghosts.

It is beautifully constructed and will suit fans of Manga, Mecha, Action, Conspiracies, Sci-Fi and romance. There are so many twists in it that it will leave your head spinning.

If you watch it, put on the subtitles, as they give you more information in the Laughing Man case then they do in the regular dialogue.

You must see this. 10 out of 10.