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This entire interaction is fascinating, it's like you've realized that the internet actually being filled with bots that just simulate fake outrage actually really fucking sucks and you can't even bring yourself to defend it even ironically (makes sense, arguing with a bot is just trolling yourself no matter how many mental gymnastics you go through), so you have to obsessively track down people that you believe to be "real" or otherwise assume that anyone you're engaging with is also real - because the human interaction is intrinsically worth more than AI engagement

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In comparison I see people call the PSX translation bad, but I've never heard anyone explain what's actually wrong with it, nothing hits as hard as
>ANIMALS HAVE NO GOD

So now that the arc is over... I dunno, something about it still doesn't sit right with me, in a way that doesn't feel easy to perfectly describe. Kid me definitely would've called it his least favorite Part 1 arc because it has the least action and the Sannin fight was incredibly short, but now that I'm older something about the arc feels kinda "unfinished"? The basic premise of expanding the setting by virtue of getting out of Konoha and searching for Tsunade, who's been alluded to for about 2 arcs now, is a pretty good change of pace after the slugfest of last arc, but it feels like the worldbuilding of stuff that's outside the ninja villages wasn't even remotely expanded upon, and what's real unfortunate to me is that we get some sparse glimpses into the 2nd Shinobi World War, but it feels like Kishi must've hit some kind of writer's block because we get SO MANY flashbacks of Dan and Nawaki (who both barely have any screentime as it is) to the point that it becomes really obvious that he's trying to pad out the arc for lack of ideas, otherwise it would've been extremely short since they collide with Orochimaru and Kabuto pretty quickly as it is (who speaking of which, it also feels like we get really blueballed on actually seeing the Sannin work as a proper team together in the past, especially since at this point we still barely know anything about Orochimaru's Konoha history and broken friendship with Jiraiya/Tsunade to begin with). Maybe I'm just overthinking it all (probably, hindsight is always 20/20) but I feel like the arc has a lot of missing elements to it. Still some pretty good moments here and there though, I particularly like how Tsunade's backstory is a reminder that the setting is honestly really fucking grim to live in.