Naruto, A Brief American Obsession | Esoteric Internet
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- "Believe it!"
Well... Can you? Do those words trigger a fight-or-flight response in your body? Do they bring back lost memories of the late-night weekend? Do they go even deeper and remind you of long forgotten, poorly edited videos set to mid-2000's Rock music?
You may remember Naruto. How deep? Let us pull back the curtain to a time nearly lost in darkness. When every American was a red-white-n-blue ninja.
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Video Sources (Support the creators/uploaders):
-TOM's Farewell: the End of Toonami: bit.ly/2NIn30m
-Toonami: Hodgepodge - 2004 Bumps and Spots: bit.ly/2uebiXA
-"Until We Meet Again." (English Ending): bit.ly/2LbhqGg
-Naruto opening 1 american: bit.ly/2JfvJba
-Toonami Naruto Long Promo: bit.ly/2ufA4q6
-【Sound Effect】 Naruto - Kagebushin No Jutsu (No Voice & no finger signs): bit.ly/2zxiMd0
-Malcolm In The Middle Intro HD: bit.ly/2NbDzVs
-HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!! FROM ALL OF US AT 4KIDS!!: bit.ly/2uhhHRz
-Naruto Opening v2 - US Toonami Version: bit.ly/2KQAb5D
-Me at the zoo: bit.ly/2mfRhuZ
-DBZ-AMV-My Sacrifice (Vegeta vs. Goku): bit.ly/2LcEyEu
-Toonami Naruto Bumper Collection III: bit.ly/2mi7ct7
-The Day Naruto Gets His Headband [60FPS] - Naruto: bit.ly/2L6XkQD
-every anime: bit.ly/2uteOMJ
-Anime Run: bit.ly/2LaPDsG
-NaRuTo RuNnInG: bit.ly/2N86pWW
-What it's like going to a Naruto run: bit.ly/2JepC6N
-Mall Cops Mall of America U S Womens Hockey Team 11 27 2013: bit.ly/2N5mBIg
-Akatsuki on MallCops: bit.ly/2JicuOl
-Akatsuki on TV? (Pain) "RYU ATAKU": bit.ly/2L56Unm
-The akatsuki get in a commercial: bit.ly/2zxsiwL
-Toonami - June 2018 Lineup Promo V2 (HD 1080p): bit.ly/2KRZO6p
-zoidz vs gundam: bit.ly/2zAJAcA
-Naruto vs. Haku: bit.ly/2NNmMJx
- Naruto Footage from Naruto Episode 220 and Naruto: Shippuden Episode 3
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Music:
Dan Leibowitz - "Fugetaboutit" (00:00-01:20)
Frédéric Chopin - "Galop Marquis", preformed by Aya Higuchi (01:20-01:30)
Dan Lebowitz - "Dumb as a Box" (01:30-03:07)
The Grand Affair - "Coupe" (03:07-05:30)
Anonymous420 - "Mouse Compatible" (05:30-08:30)
Dan Lebowitz - "Tiptoe Out the Back" (08:30-11:05)
Dan Lebowitz - "Still Want It" (11:05-12:10)
Dan Lebowitz - "Lone Wolf" (12:13-14:19)
Anno Domini Beats - "Welcome" (14:21-16:39)
Kevin MacLeod - "Crinoline Dreams" (16:51-17:20)
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All copyrighted media, images, and music respective owner(s).
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Sources:
-Masashi Kishimoto On Why His Naruto Manga Is So Popular: bitly.com/
-Why running like an anime ninja is a thing: bit.ly/2zuszRf
-Beyond LinkinBall Z: The History of the Anime Music Video: bit.ly/2uv01RI
-Cartoon Network to End Toonami on September 20 (Updated): bit.ly/2JjFS6z
-There's A Reason 'Boruto' Avoids The Famous 'Naruto' Run: bit.ly/2zwmOlX
-How to Run Like Naruto: bit.ly/2utreEj
-TLC Mall Cops - Akatsuki Gone Wrong?: bit.ly/2meGly0
-Ugh, CZcams is full of AMV videos...: bit.ly/2NchVk1
-My First AMVs: bit.ly/2zzHJEL
And to all those involved in Naruto's creation and its presence on the Internet both in AMVs and not.
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Believe Thank You For Watching! - Krátké a kreslené filmy
That Naruto vs Sasuke fight amv with the Linkin Park song is peak 2000s.
"I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter"
It's been 10 years since I watched it, and I've never listened to Linkin Park besides that amv, but those lyrics are still seared into my head.
Is this it? XD
czcams.com/video/OqTocV2qhWI/video.html
@@reviathan3524 Yes, it is
The original run of Naruto up until the end of the actual plot, before the like 200 episodes of filler, is genuinely good shounen anime and I'll always stand by that
I would need to rewatch some of it, but I would probably agree.
@@Pseudiom the games resume more easily the anime and manga
I followed a non filler list for shipuden and managed to watch the whole thing without a single episode of filly. Except I got tired of it during the madara arc
Naruto minus filler and Shippuden is overall a pretty good anime.
Pseudiom I think Naruto’s on Netflix. Don’t know if it has the filler episodes, though. Bleach is on Netflix with no filler, so maybe it’s the same for Naruto.
I simultaneously feel like an old man and like a kid again.
I like how this guy is talking about the Naruto series like it’s an ancient artifact or a prehistoric fossil
I like to approach even the weirdest online stuff as a Historian. Try my best to be impartial no matter how weird.
@@Pseudiom Plus on the internet the span of a TV Show or even just a year can feel like 100.
It’s funny to think that, at one point, the Naruto and Naruto Shippuden manga, in the US, used to sell as much as fucking Batman and Spider-Man comics. That was way back in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s. It was wild. I remember going to school book fairs and ordering Naruto manga next to YA novels and Spider-Man comics. I gave my Naruto volumes to a younger cousin who had gotten into Boruto and he was bewildered at the sight of old Naruto manga volumes. As much as people look back and cringe at the moments where they did the Naruto run or shouted jutsu in public while playing with friends, those were simpler and fun times. We didn’t give a rats ass about what other people thought; we were just kids having fun.
Eternally disturbed some kids will only know Naruto as "Boruto's Dad"
@@Pseudiom I do that as a joke. I call the original Naruto series "Boruto's Dad", and I refer to the Boruto series as "Boruto's Dad's Kid."
On the day when people say unironically, what I occasionally say as a joke when the opportunity arises, I'll die laughing.
I would want a Naruto reference in DC or Marvel Comics haha
I calle Rellenoruto (Filleruto) and a friend Obito Gaychicha
Noooooooo the Naruto Vs Haku AMV has been taken down by TV Tokyo! This made me way more pissed off than it should have done
Apslup And so the history is gone for good! Lost forever!
Don't worry, I have a copy saved. Not sure were to upload it, but I made sure to back up that piece of history.
Pseudiom Legend! Upload it to a new account specifically for it so it won’t matter if it’s taken down or not (I’ll also download it once you upload it)
so the last titan has fallen
Apslup you think the naruhina amvs are still on here?
In middle school this boy gave me a naruto headband because he had a crush on me. I didn't like him but I'll never forget that
I think you’re completely forgetting that dragon ball just had a different version of “filler” they made things last 10x what they ever should have. A whole episode to power up, two punches an episode ect ect. A lot more happened in each episode of naruto than happened in dragon ball.
not really, there are power up scenes that take longer in naruto than in db, the main transformations and moments are the only ones that take long.
Otávio Dantas like what? That’s not true at all. There was rarely if ever an episode where naruto sits there talking to a villain about his new power up for 20 minutes and then the last 10 is him screaming and people being like “he’s shaking the PlaNETTTT he’s so strongggg” and then maybe they throw a punch and talk for another 20 minutes. There’s shit LIKE that in naruto, like when they stop to explain a sharigan power or something but when they do stop to do that you actually learn something about the universe they are in. There’s a lot of world building that goes into those type of scenes in naruto that are completely absent from dragon ball. No one in their right mind can say that dragon ball has better world building or better writing in the slightest. There’s a lot more going on in naruto and a lot more depth. I enjoy dragon ball more, but it is just dumb stupid fun and literally nothing more. It was a really low quality anime as well with constant reuses of animation dragged out in an entire episode that covers maybe a few panels of the manga. The filler in naruto is infinitely better than dragon ball filler as well. The garlic jr arc was some of the worst cartoon tv I’ve ever watched in my entire life.
Rogue Rogue even when that happens, there’s still word building going on and some of it is actually pretty good. Episodes explaining the akatski or the history of some clan or the politics of a certain nation, ect. The writing was still always always better than dragon ball.
5 minutes
Don’t forget Goku and Piccolo learning to drive
I'm sad for little me that never owned a Naruto headband.
Same.
chryco4 I had the sound village one, was OP
Same but tried to make the ninja gloves with a piece of cardboard ... i still cringe when i remember it (but a nostalgic cringe indeed )
I owned two leaf village ones. I still own one of them.
This is a seriously underrated channel.
i think there's a factor you missed in the video.
this generation is so plagued by depression and anxiety, that naruto, a young protagonist that refuses to give up at any cost is the perfect catalist for this mani. Think about it. What was the last supportive character in television with mass appeal. I'm not an american, but i can remember bob ross, and that's a lot of time without one, so the demand was there. Here in Brail at least, Young adults love this aspect of the show and always use naruto as an example even for the academic difficulties.
so that's that
Do Hibiki Tachibana, Medaka Kurokami, and Nanoha Takamachi ring a bell to you?
@@Astolfo2001 no, they dont.
I really liked that you found a correlation between the rise of Naruto and the rise of Linken Park at the same time....those were good years haha.
Naruto is the anime i growed up. Begun to watch it when i was 9. Will always be tied with good memories of the mid 2000s.
Man back then I was such a dork,I was so cringe I love Naruto almost religiously I was a fan from 2005 to 2009.
That Naruto AMV has existed a few months before I was even born...
*BELIEVE IT*
How do you only have a few hundred subs????
Right?
I binged watched 3 of his videos before I noticed.
@Neon Dawn Definitely! However i'd even his videos that aren't about anime are just as great.
Esoteric was a good word to use for the series.
Easiest sub of my week
Great vids I’m sure they will all gain some more views soon, they are all so well made
The sad part is that I was one of these kids. In the 2010s. I hate my past.
We were all something we hate. I find it easier to just laugh at it. More productive.
I did that to so....... Yesh (sigh)
Your past is the foundation to your present. Without that past you wouldn't be the person you are today. Besides I've taken to reveling in the degeneracy. Hell for me if it wasn't for naruto I wouldn't have gotten into manga collecting, and I wouldn't have a library of manga in my room now. Trust me I have videos on youtube from when I was 12, I cringe so hard my face reverses itself, but those growing pains were necessary. We have the luxury of being able to look back and see how much we have changed, if you hate who you used to be then that's a good thing, it means you consider yourself better today than you were before(just ensure that's your own perspective and not one made off the expectations of others).
Naruto was one of those shows I refused to watch cause of the second hand cringe of AMVs.
Eventually I did watch it and was surprised to see how much heart the show has. It's dumb but it is very emotionally engaging.
I can't even believe that he ended this video with "BELIEVE IT!" That made my day a lot sweeter... 👍
We gotta make your channel bigger fam. You're putting in real work here and it deserves to be seen
great video!! happy to have found your channel
I can honestly say that you deserve waaay more views.
Considering this is the first video of yours I've seen, I think this was a great first impression. Nicely done; I especially like how this brought back old awkward and delightful middle school / high school memories and feelings that I never bothered to reflect on until now. I may no longer be a Naruto fan as of writing this (the 4th Ninja War was too much of a disappointment for me,) but the nostalgia of everything before the war lives on. :')
also, i cannot recommend this channel enough, you make interesting videos like the seires down the rabbit hole, but much more dinamic and with a lot more shitposting. thats fucking gold
I think you forget that right before Naruto got brought over to America is was featured in an American version of Shonen Jump that was a cheap weekly magazine you could have shipped to your house and was sold in supermarkets.
This is how I first became aware of Naruto. I bought Shonen Jump for Dragonball, got stuck on Naruto right there.
Then I got impatient and realized that I could go read translations online and I bought Naruto merch.
I think this was an important part of the pipeline of bringing masses to find out about Naruto before its anime ever came to America.
I remember being so disappointed Steve Bloom wasn't kakashi.
Just found your channel and I'm stoked!
Subbed
Hope you enjoy it!
found ur channel thru one of ur twitter comments and u are making some good shit! Please keep making more
Damn dude. Your channel deserves more subs. How do you only have 3k?? Let's pump those numbers UP!
In fourth grade I won a hidden leaf headband in a Cartoon Network call-in sweepstakes.
I wore it to school for a week.
I probably lost to you in the same sweepstakes lol
No mention of that time a kid died trying to emulate Naruto sticking his head in sand?
Ah... No. Never heard about that and didn't come up in my research. But now that you mention it I recall hearing people talking about it back in the day, but I thought it was just an urban legend.
Never heard about that one too
I remember back in 2016 when I would take the bus to college, there was this guy who went to the same college as me, and he would wear that black naruto costume every single time i took the bus. I wanted to say something but i knew that at this point he was to deep into the rabbit hole.
Your videos are so good bro!!!
Just found your videos. Good work man keep it up. You got the style to make it big.
Pseudiom, you HAVE TO BE my favorite CZcamsr of all time. You make videos that matter bro. Holy Shit
Glad someone finds this as important as me
I enjoyed this vid 😂 keep up the work
Many thanks for the view and subscription. I got plenty of videos coming soon. Stay tuned.
I remembered 2005-2007 as the year I was obsessed with Naruto. Internet browsing privilege was just on weekends. When I get on the internet, I'd search for Naruto videos, images and such. Those were the good days!!!
Back when Naruto was considered as hardcore as it gets
I first saw Naruto in 2003 in a manga collection book at my friends house i was blown away by it and was waiting from this to come to the states. 2005 Cartoon Network aired the show, I saw it blow up literally over night. Naruto became a overnight sensation. The rest is history.
i liked the video but next time make sure to make another video, they help MY DAY!
Wow man, looking back on those times when CZcams was a plethora of AMVs, I GREW UP WITH THAT, it's so trippy to look back on it now.
Surprised that you have such little amount of subs. But since I watched 3 of your videos +sub
Thanks for reminding me that the greatest years of my life are behind me.
I had no idea how much I'd love this type of content. Thanks for being born and making it this far!
Ok great video. What really suprises me is that zoids vs gundam video still being up tho, zoids amvs now thats a trip down memory lane. Breaking Benjamin, Lincoln logs, and Disturbed can attribute half their album sales to edgy anime fans.
man this video sure does wax poetic
Man, the Naruto craze was a time capsule for me and my brother. I think it’s poetic that my brother was obsessed with Naruto, considering that it first aired on his birthday(9th birthday to be exact), and while I wasn’t as obsessed as he was(I was more of a Sonic fan), I did remember wanting to have a Naruto headband because my then new schoolmates had one shortly after I moved to a private school in 2007, and my old friend gave one to me, I still have it, and it’s in good condition surprisingly. My brother still likes Naruto, though he’s into other anime like Dororo, The Quintessential Quintuplets, and Date a Live.
The Naruto headband is the great unifying symbol of the American mid-2000's.
Pseudiom You said it. Pretty soon, it’ll be a rare collectible.
This might be the most important video you've made so far.
It is one of my personal favorites.
Oh shit dude you’re starting to blow up.
You were only 600 a couple days ago
While not Naruto, I do remember my first amv I watched. Kirby right back at you: animal I’ve become. Good times, though i will admit to Naruto running in elementary school.
The fan version called Naruto Kai is really really good for this reason.
Dragon Ball filler was more enjoyable than Naruto filler
Kane Smith word
I'll never forget that Piccolo driving episode
FACT
The last bit of filler was pretty good TBH. Better than how the manga ended anyway.
Piccolo driving a car or a tea race, which is more enjoyable?
I was always a Dragon Ball type of guy.
For me I was the Bleach type of guy.
Akirafan99 I’d rather Yu Yu Hakusho, personally
Aaron Landry just finished bleach (eh) and starting Yu Yu
The other day I was helping a middle school drama club put on a show. One kid was wearing a naturo headband and jacket and another handed me volume one of the manga to use as a prop. It honestly blew my mind.
Did you time-travel back to 2007?
@@Pseudiom felt like it. I guess Naruto will eternally resonate with middle schoolers everywhere.
now i need to see that video..
Never got into naruto I was always the Bleach fan (the lonely one as well everyone at my school were Naruto fans).
bEAU aADAMS I was the one that never got into Naruto either, and watched Sonic X and Kirby Right Back at Ya instead
bEAU aADAMS Same here. I could never get into Naruto. I just felt it was way too overrated. I was into Bleach and One Piece since I found those series and its characters more enjoyable. Also, I felt they deserved more love, too.
The video had its song listing wrong, the song on Naruto Vs. Haku was Papercut, not Sharp Edges, Sharp Edges was from their last album in 2017.
I was a big Linkin Park fan myself 😅
As an older millennial I was into Dragonball more. Sure I started middle school in 2005 and Naruto craze broke out, But I stood by DBZ. However my lil bro was Naruto 100% and his crowd looked down on Dragonball
I remember when CZcams was full of three part Naruto episodes
Ah... The good old days.
I'm still a Big Fan of Naruto. Even though I didn't know it was filler I still watched all 220 of the Original Series until sticking with the Manga. It was a regular Routine for me on Thursday. Read the newest Chapter in the Morning, Talk about it on Forums, and then get on with day. I only watch the Anime when they get to the Fights or a Filler that expanded on certain plot points.
Ahh yes hoping on youtube after school and watching amv’s hahah
Fuck... remembering the fact that I was on YT nearly since day 1 really makes me feel old. And whenever someone tries to talk to me about remembering things from old yt i'm like 'Do not cite the deep magic to me witch. i was there when it was written'.
I was at the library and my friend who had talked to me about Naruto a couple of times, walks up to me and shows me this video of people dressed as characters from Naruto playing Red Rover Come Over. That was my first CZcams video and my first exposure to cosplay.
Knowing that I’m watching something *like this*, an arguable ‘amateur historian’ take on relatively recent pop culture makes me feel confident that I’ll ‘age comfortably’ knowing that there are ppl out there who won’t take the internet and ‘internet climate’ for granted.
I believe Internet History to be EXTREMELY important for social and cultural reasons. The issue is it is so fluid it can't really be handled by old standards. Videos like this are the best way to tackle it. I guess the Web has just caused up to revert to Oral History. I'm just the guy who over investigates every weird reference nobody else has.
I think its worth mentioning Kishimoto's and Oda's friendly rivalry. Oda outsells Kishimoto in general, but he did envy Kishimoto's influence on the West.
Im not the biggest fan of anime in general, but Naruto is part of a handful of shows from my childhood that I still unashamedly watch every now and then. It's not great, a lot of people dont even think its good, but goddamn i love this show.
My friend went through a major Naruto phase when he was freshman in college but only found out later when I helped him move and discovered a plastic tub filled with volumes of the manga. He said he was to embarrassed to tell anyone of our friends
16:02 lol “Anonymous Nigga”
When な and は both have a long A sound
I remember damn well of the amvs my god. Honestly that’s what I would look up mostly on CZcams, anime clips, anime amvs, lots of dragon ball fan super sayin 15 goku silver hair looking, space looking. Other shows were bleach, Inuyasha, bleach, full metal,naruto, alchemist,cowboy bepop, samurai Champloo, other anime’s that were like on movie channels like stars,ifc(shows like vandread,hellgirl,witchblade)shows that we’re more adult (I think that’s why they would be in the movie channels).
i used to hate AMVs cuz i always used to watch whole episodes on youtube
When I was little, I was a huge Naruto and Mega Man fan. I watched the shows, I played some of the games, and I wanted a lot of the merch. Nowadays, I am more into Gundam, other anime such as Medaka Box and Lyrical Nanoha, and fighting games. I'm also an casual when it comes to movies and music.
To think the Naruto run might be immortalized if people really do storm Area 51 tomorrow.
What you touched on about Naruto being in the right place at the right time is 100% accurate. Unfortunately, the show's quality got worse while the kids who grew up on it naturally had less time for it or lost interest. If you ask a random person who might have watched the show, they will likely remember moments like the zabuza arc, chuunin exam, or sound 5 fights as their favorite moments. Only the most dedicated hardcore fans bring up shippuden and even fewer bring up anything beyond the pein saga.
I think part of the problem was that it was oversaturated and promoted to such a huge extent from day 1. There was sooo much merchandising, not to mention all the amvs and cosplay that exploded out of nowhere as the video points out. Like harry potter and Pokemon, it kinda became a victim of its own success. Didnt help that the writing got worse, tbe art became more bland and less imaginative (especially in the manga), and of course all the damn fillers.
Victim of its own success is a good description. Very few of my friends watched to even the end of the first series. Over-saturation was a huge factor in killing Naruto. The larger the series the more obnoxious the fans.
Still remember watching the first episode during its premiere on my sister's birthday, and lmaoing with all the kids at naruto's sexy and harem jutsus. Good times good times.
Ah yes, this brings me back.....
ᶜʳᵃʷˡᶦⁿ ᶦⁿ ᵐʸ ˢᵏᶦⁿ ~
Please get more viewers this shit is so good.
Can you talk about the history of Vimeo and dailymotions and how they became the "storage" or "savior" of deleted youtubes videos....
I might give Vimeo a look. Like this suggestion.
I walked in cautiously as a pretty hardcore Narutard, didn't feel insulted, laughed the whole video. Thank you, from one internet nomad to another.
I try to present my topics to be a neutral as possible (of course this depends on my own experience and sources), but I try. Glad you enjoyed it!
I totally remember that akatsuki clip damn
One of the select few.
Actually the oldest amv currently in youtube is a DBZ amv set to Linkin Park's One Step Closer
uploaded in July 20th 2005
lol me and some friends are responsible for some of those early AMVs, we were making them in the late 90s before youtube and uploading them to websites like planetnamek
Even led to a career for one of my friends from the time, he kept with it and is now a producer for a large tv channel
Very cool!
I never watched any AMVs... but I did stumble on some.
Naruto is alive and well believe it
Kingdom Hearts II was also a vector for this "curse" during this period. I call this element "Weeaboo Maker"; it made deviantArt fucking huge.
Lol, Kingdom Hearts. There's another one I need to cover at some point. I'm actually more familiar with Kingdom Hearts since I like the series so I know the sheer amount of stuff I'd have to cover with that one.
@@Pseudiom I'd also like to point out that Advent Children acted as a sort of tributary LOL
I was one of the many kids who grew up watching Naruto when it initially aired in the US back in 2005, and I remember that Saturday evening like it was yesterday, it was the first time I could stay up past 9 PM, and it was just for that one show. I was part of the obsession, having Naruto t-shirts, Naruto manga volumes, Naruto trading cards, an official Naruto guidebook, and what else but a Hidden Leaf Headband. Looking back it was a surreal time, but it was a good time, and I kind of miss those days.
People say My Hero Academia is this generation's Naruto, and while I like that series, it just doesn't have the same effect that Naruto did back in the day. Naruto was something special, it came out in the right place at the right time, and was pretty much where the "modern" anime fandom started, and it's just hard for any other anime series to recreate that experience. I just don't think there will ever be another series like Naruto (Boruto doesn't count), and while I could easily say that My Hero Academia is a spiritual successor, I just don't feel it will ever truly meet the same level of success.
What happened to the Naruto telethon back in 2010 or 2011 it was on back then.
A kid a my work wears one of those headbands, a chrome one, guess he didn't get the memo
I memba gettin hyped as fack wit my lil bros to watch my man naruto erry week. Good times
We are...
*FIGHTING DREAMAHS*
*TAHGA EE MOO WEL AH SHEET EH!!!*
I first saw naruto when I was about 5, I had no idea what it was. it was in the middle of a fight between naruto and sasuke vs the bug guy (shino I believe), I watched it for a minute or two before falling asleep
Well let's see your curse, I don't know if it could compete with DB in Mexico tho
I always see at least one person dress like this at edm festivals
Tyler - Jihaku
Still the best amv
To be fair fights in Dragon Ball Z being dragged out for much longer than they needed to be, not being accounted for in that 15% figure misleads how much of the original Z run was "filler"
Math error 45% of 720 is actually 324.
Other then that fine vid good job.
"Naruto is LOONNGGG"
One Piece : *Allow me to introduce myself*
Worst part about the Naruto run is that nobody does it right. I don't think this because I'm a Naruto fan, but because it just ends up making the run look even stupider than it already looks.
It's like a bunch of people running with their arms flailing behind them with their backs stiffened like they just shit themselves.