#haku — Public Fediverse posts
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Naruto Ultimate Ninja with Cory Byrd (Byrds Eye View Comics)
Grab your custom jutsu hand seals and prepare to feel a crushing sense of inadequacy when comparing your reaction time to a ninja’s because we’re diving shadow clone deep into the first Naruto Ultimate Ninja game on PlayStation 2! This week we’re channeling our inner shinobi to explore how Bandai Namco took Masashi Kishimoto’s legendary manga about a determined orange-suited underdog and transformed it into a frantic button-mashing tournament fighter that somehow convinced an entire generation of fans that they could recreate iconic Naruto moments if they just hit the attack button fast enough and screamed at their TV harder than Naruto himself.
Released during the golden age of anime-to-console adaptations, the Naruto Ultimate Ninja games became the de facto way fans could live out their ninja fantasies—assuming your ninja fantasy involves janky camera angles, occasionally unresponsive inputs, and the kind of special effect visual soup that makes you wonder if you’re actually watching a jutsu or if your PS2 is just having a mild aneurysm. With fighters pulled straight from the Hidden Leaf Village and beyond, these games proved that sometimes the best way to honor a beloved manga is to give players the chance to make Naruto fight characters he had absolutely no reason to fight (looking at you, random filler villains).
This episode, we’re absolutely stoked to welcome Cory Byrd from Byrds Eye View Comics—a fellow enthusiast of all things sequential art and gaming who can probably explain why Naruto’s popularity transcended manga, anime, AND video games with the kind of clarity that makes marketing departments weep with envy. Together, we’ll investigate whether these games managed to capture the heart, humor, and hyperkinetic energy of Kishimoto’s creation, or if they just left us face-first in the dirt like Naruto at the beginning of the series.
So synchronize your chakra, practice your most devastating combo, and prepare for an episode that’s guaranteed to be more chaotic than a Sand Village invasion and infinitely more entertaining than watching filler arcs about onigiri eating contests.
Learn such things as:
- Can a game truly capture the experience of having ninjas solve political problems through friendship when there’s no friendship stat on the screen?
- How many ninja village headbands would it take to actually run an economy, or is that question unanswerable because the series never bothered explaining it?
- Is it more important for characters in a fighter to be balanced or accurate?
- And so much more!
You can find Cory on Instagram @ByrdsEyeOfficial, the Byrds Eye View Comics Facebook page, and of course his website Byrds Eyes View Comics.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
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A big thanks to Gender Pop and the Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who did something really cool but nobody saw it. You know, because of the whole being a ninja thing.
#CoryByrd #CyberConnect2 #Gaara #Haku #HinataHyūga #KakashiHatake #NamcoBanddaiGames #NarutoUzumaki #NejiHyūga #Orochimaru #PS2 #RockLee #SakuraHaruno #SasukeUchiha #ShikamaruNara #Shueisha #VizMedia #ZabuzaMomochi
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Akatemian hankehakemus saa olla 12 sivua pitkä. Mulla on yksi viite, joka menee seuraavalle sivulle. 🫣
No joo, helppohan tämän verran on tiivistää.
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Sain Googlelta ilmoituksen että hakutulos trendaa. En muista saaneeni ihan vastaavanlaista ilmoitusta aiemmin, joten liekö jokin uusi.
Jokatapauksessa: nätisti Googlessa kakkosena Wikipedian ja Wiktionaryn välissä.
Tämä on ainut tapa jolla mitenkään enää tulee tiedettyä jos sivuilla on ruuhkaa: Googlen oman haun analytiikasta. Itse sivuilla ei ole seurantaa, en tiedä enkä välitä kuinka paljon väkeä käy. Numeroilla ei väliä, ihmisillä on.
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We are exactly 66.6% through the year, and I noticed I did one of these on this day last year, so here is the 2023 version of my 11 most-listened to albums of 2023 so far (in order of listens, but since that is influenced by the release date, probably slightly skewed towards releases earlier in the year):
1 - カネコアヤノ (Kaneko Ayano): タオルケットは穏やかな (Japanese singer-songwriter)
2 - Deerhoof: Miracle Level (US alternative/experimental)
3 - Pandagolff: IT’S NOT FOOD!! (Japanese post-punk)
4 - 草東沒有派對 No Party For Cao Dong: 瓦合 (Taiwanese alternative rock)
5 - NUMBER GIRL: 無常の日 (LIVE) (Japanese alternative rock)
6 - Plastic Girl In Closet: Love is on my side (Live at Koenji HIGH, 2012) (Japanese indie/shoegaze/dream pop)
7 - GEZAN & Million Wish Collective : ANOCHI (Japanese noise rock/experimental)
8 - Mong Tong: Tao Fire 道火 (Taiwanese electronic/experimental)
9 - ハク。(Haku.): 僕らじゃなきゃダメになって (Japanese indie pop)
10 - Yonige: Panikhida [2015-2022 Best Song Remixes] (Japanese indie rock)
11 - maya ongaku: Approach to Anima (Japanese acoustic/experimental/psychedelic)
#Music #カネコアヤノ #Deerhoof #Pandagolff #草東沒有派對 #NoPartyForCaoDong #NumberGirl #PlasticGirlInCloset #Gezan #MillionWishCollective #MongTong #ハク。#haku. #Yonige #MayaOngaku
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放牧すると山羊みたいになるボルゾイ🐕🐐💨🎵😅 Borzoi like goats when grazing. https://www.wacoca.com/pets/156590/
##borzaya ##haku ##hime# ##nicedog ##животное ##जानवर ##チャンネル登録お願いします ##トイプー ##トイプーひめ ##トイプーひめちゃん ##ハク ##ハク君の日常 ##ひめ ##ボルゾイハク ##ボルゾイハク君 ##ボルゾイハク君の日常 ##自由 #Borzoi #cutedogs #dog #Inu #toypoodle #toypoodle #борзая #собака #कुत्ता #いぬ #いぬのきもち #おもしろ #かしこい #かわいい #しつけ #トイプードル #ペット #ボルゾイ #可愛い #大型犬 #愛情 #愛犬 #日常 #犬 #犬のいる暮らし #癒し #老犬 #超大型犬 #面白い