I'll leave you to find the relevant bits on wiki about the person the concept of the anime was based on ;), the apparently historical bit was intriguing for me. You also get an added benefit of finding out about the French Court of the period if you do look it up.
The story itself was quite fair, attempting to combine fiction/fantasy with bits from the historical period, e.g court intrigues/international affairs, etc, and mostly succeeding. A few twists, and even several surprising ones. I initially only had 12 eps, and was looking for the rest for quite a while, which you can take as an
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Jun 12, 2008
Naruto: Shippuuden
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As 'good' as the normal naruto series.
Reminicent of Inuyasha - characters keep running around and nothing really (ever!) happens plot-wise(what plot? There is no plot!) for the next 300 manga chapters and 500 anime eps... Will Inyasha, ops I mean naruto, save kagome, ops I mean sasuke.... Seriously.... Most of the time is spent showing characters: running around (mostly jumping from tree to tree, it seems), standing tensely, with the wind blowing between them...Very productive and oh so tense. oh, almost forgot sakura's endless whining about poow nawuto and/or sasuke or someone/something else equally as unamusing. And naruto's whining about sasuke. Had to watch ... |
