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Hmm, I'll have to check out this Trinity Blood show since so much is being made out of it.

But I am knee deep in Naruto right now. I had been reading the manga, but it is so ****ing slow that I said screw it and downloaded fan subs of the Anime. I liked it for what it appeared to be, an nice shonen story with a tried and true "Never give up" attitude that is always a winner. But the writer in me was impressed with some of the themes I saw after the show started to develop, even if their execution is sometimes heavy handed or the delivery of a point is sometimes wishy-washy. I absolutely love the similarities and contrasts of the two "monsters." How they are the same with the hell they went through and the how one event creates the differences in the meaning of their existences.

The emotional power the show creates in me impresses me as well. Yu Yu Haksuho can't even compare to how excited I feel during some scenes. Fights are a battle of morals, hearts, and ways of life, where not only the ideals of the people are at stake, but the very core of what a makes a person the way there are will crumble or evolve right along with the bodies of the fighters. Naruto started for me as a distraction that grew in to a favorable interest, and now has become a raging obsession. It went from slightly above average shonen fair, to looking at the abstract and intangible core/heart/soul/pureness-of-existence for its characters, and does it really damn well. Also, the fact that I have been working a story for four years that has a main character very similar to Naruto (except not a dumbass?) makes me like it that much more as well. I can't really articulate how enormously joyous it is for me to discover that something this main stream still has a ton of heart and load of soul. I know that I will be cursing the next filler period (I?m on episode 79), and I acknowledge the possibility of an early peak, but as good as it has been so far, it has nothing else to prove to me.

Edit and a big ass spoiler after seeing episode 80 (Highlight it):

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You know what else I like, having balls enough to kill a character and not resurrect them 20 minuets later. I might bite myself in the ass by saying this, and if I'm wrong, DON'T tell me, but the 3rd is gone, and he ain't coming back. Too many other shows have some half-assed bullshit way of resurrecting dead characters and I have always found that to defeat the purpose of them dieing in the first place in addition to removing me emotionally from the show. If someone died in DBZ, big fucking deal. But if they can't comeback, I care a hell of a lot more. The 3rd gave his life, and it actually meant something. He saved everyone FOR REAL and had to die to do it! His death meant something and one of those half-assed BS revivals would be completely dishonorable. So yeah, I really admired that about the show as well, even though his death does hurt; but it was supposed to.[/COLOR]