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Movies & Series 14 June 2022, 17:11

author: Marek Jura

The Best Fights in Naruto Shippuden

Shonen, i.e. manga and anime focused on martial arts, transformations and striving for new limits, are not only Dragon Ball, One Piece or One Punch Man. One of the best of these is the now somewhat forgotten Naruto.

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Sasuke vs Naruto

Sasuke is one of the main characters in manga and anime. The boy, never showing his emotions, is one of the last representatives of his clan. Almost all of his friends and his own parents were killed by Sasuke's brother, Itachi. This event marked the beginning of the transformation of the young warrior. From a talented kid, considered to be one of the most talented kids in the entire academy, he turned into an introvert teenager fixated on revenge.

The author of the manga, Kishimoto, initially didn't want to have Sasuke in the story at all. It seemed to him that Naruto didn't need a similar rival. The publisher, who wanted to invest in the series, convinced him, however, that the main character deserved proper frienemy. Willing to deliver his best, Kishimito went through dozens of manga with a similar theme. Drawing Sasuke wasn't easy for him, too – the hero almost always looked too mature for a twelve-year-old. The final effect isn't the result of a creative frenzy, but a long, meticulous process of tweaking the material.

In the anime, the fight between friends turned out to be a real visual masterpiece. It's enough to compare the frames from the first episodes with what happened during this fight. Sasuke vs Naturo is also in many ways the culmination of the entire series. Although it was not the most important fight, it's difficult to imagine the series without it. It just had to go down. And that the rivals still remained friends after the beautiful and exciting exchange of blows? It was the icing on the cake.

 

 

Marek Jura

Marek Jura

In 2016, he graduated in philology at UAM. Since then, he has been reviewing prose, poetry, movies, series, and video games for GRYOnline.pl. He took his first steps in the journalism industry as a newsman in a local tabloid. He ran his own company - he designed, created, tested, and sold board games. He published several short stories and is also preparing his debut volume of poetry. Trains martial arts. A feminist, vegan, fan of pineapple on pizza, cat lover, dislikes Bethesda and Amazon, likes Lovecraft, Agents of SHIELD, P:T, Beksiński, Hollow Knight, performance, abstract art, game mods and dumplings.

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