Naruto is one of the most legendary anime-manga series, featuring a wide variety of characters and numerous villages. It is packed with action, plot twists, suspense, and soul-shattering deaths. Masashi Kishimoto has penned multiple arcs, with one of the most legendary arcs being the Chunin Exam arc, which significantly altered the flow of the story.
Mangaka Masashi Kishimoto. | Credit: Screengrab from Star Session’s interview on YouTube.
Despite being one of the strongest and most fan-favorite arcs, we might never have seen it if Masashi Kishimoto’s editors hadn’t forced him to draw it. The author revealed that he was not into the idea of drawing any tournament arcs because it would “kill” him; however, he had to give in to his editor’s persuasion, as they clearly stated to him that he had to do it even if it killed him, resulting in one of the greatest arcs ever.
Mangaka Masashi Kishimoto. | Credit: Screengrab from Star Session’s interview on YouTube.
Despite being one of the strongest and most fan-favorite arcs, we might never have seen it if Masashi Kishimoto’s editors hadn’t forced him to draw it. The author revealed that he was not into the idea of drawing any tournament arcs because it would “kill” him; however, he had to give in to his editor’s persuasion, as they clearly stated to him that he had to do it even if it killed him, resulting in one of the greatest arcs ever.
- 4/27/2024
- by Jiyad Shaikh
- FandomWire
Jelly Roll’s Stagecoach set was a wild one.
The musician took the stage on Friday night, shortly before Eric Church’s headlining slot, for a performance of some of his biggest country hits, even bringing on T-Pain for a duet of Toby Keith’s “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” and Maddie & Tae to sing unreleased song “Liar.”
Just three songs into @JellyRoll615’s #Stagecoach set, he’s brought out three special guests. Currently it’s @MaddieandTae for the unreleased song “Liar” pic.twitter.com/UowUVxG7UD
— Niki Kottmann...
The musician took the stage on Friday night, shortly before Eric Church’s headlining slot, for a performance of some of his biggest country hits, even bringing on T-Pain for a duet of Toby Keith’s “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” and Maddie & Tae to sing unreleased song “Liar.”
Just three songs into @JellyRoll615’s #Stagecoach set, he’s brought out three special guests. Currently it’s @MaddieandTae for the unreleased song “Liar” pic.twitter.com/UowUVxG7UD
— Niki Kottmann...
- 4/27/2024
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Grammy winner Meghan Trainor and T-Pain recently dropped a new collaboration, ‘Been Like This’, the singer’s upcoming sixth album. For her, working with the rapper was a “dream come true.”
Trainor thanked the rapper via a full-page Atlanta newspaper advertisement.
The ‘All About The Bass’ hitmaker spoke about her excitement for the collaboration and how it came together. Initially, Trainor made the song on her own before sending it to T-Pain, who “didn’t respond” for some time, reports People.
He finally heard ‘Been Like This’, Trainor recalled, while talking on Live with Kelly and Mark.
“He was like, ‘I love it, whoa!’ And I was like, ‘Are you going to do a verse?’ And he’s like, ‘For sure.’ And then like, never responded. I was like, ‘He hates me.’”
Trainor shared that T-Pain is her “favourite artist,” so she felt compelled to ask about the collaboration once again.
Trainor thanked the rapper via a full-page Atlanta newspaper advertisement.
The ‘All About The Bass’ hitmaker spoke about her excitement for the collaboration and how it came together. Initially, Trainor made the song on her own before sending it to T-Pain, who “didn’t respond” for some time, reports People.
He finally heard ‘Been Like This’, Trainor recalled, while talking on Live with Kelly and Mark.
“He was like, ‘I love it, whoa!’ And I was like, ‘Are you going to do a verse?’ And he’s like, ‘For sure.’ And then like, never responded. I was like, ‘He hates me.’”
Trainor shared that T-Pain is her “favourite artist,” so she felt compelled to ask about the collaboration once again.
- 3/20/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Boruto has taken a massive jump into its story with it Boruto: Two Blue Vortex Arc. Unlike the Naruto series, the show has suddenly become darker as Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga have been sealed away. Everyone’s memories have been fabricated, as they steadfastly believe that Kawaki is the savior of the Hidden Lead Village and Boruto Uzumaki has become a rogue shinobi.
Boruto Uzumaki
While fans of the show are not much interested in reading the manga as there are only seven chapters. However, it looks like the new as well as the Og fans of the series are set to return to read the 8th chapter of the manga, as Jūra, who made a brief appearance in the 5th chapter is planning to attack and destroy the Hidden Leaf Village similar to what fans saw in the Pain Arc.
Boruto: Two Blue Vortex’s Upcoming Chapter...
Boruto Uzumaki
While fans of the show are not much interested in reading the manga as there are only seven chapters. However, it looks like the new as well as the Og fans of the series are set to return to read the 8th chapter of the manga, as Jūra, who made a brief appearance in the 5th chapter is planning to attack and destroy the Hidden Leaf Village similar to what fans saw in the Pain Arc.
Boruto: Two Blue Vortex’s Upcoming Chapter...
- 3/11/2024
- by Tushar Auddy
- FandomWire
Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto has had its fair share of battles that are considered some of the biggest fights in anime history. Be it the battle between Itachi and Sasuke or the epic fight between Naruto and Pain, the series has never disappointed in terms of fight developments and power-ups of the characters.
Naruto
One such fight that is considered one of the best fights in the entire series is that of Might Guy and Madara Uchiha. The fight made Madara recognize the strength of Might Guy and gave him the title of the Strongest Taijutsu User in the world. The fight had some epic moments that made the battle intriguing and thrilling.
The main aspect of the battle was Might Guy unlocking the Eight Gates, the strongest Taijutsu technique in the entire Narutoverse. The technique shocked the fans and one Naruto theory proves that Madara Uchiha fought at least...
Naruto
One such fight that is considered one of the best fights in the entire series is that of Might Guy and Madara Uchiha. The fight made Madara recognize the strength of Might Guy and gave him the title of the Strongest Taijutsu User in the world. The fight had some epic moments that made the battle intriguing and thrilling.
The main aspect of the battle was Might Guy unlocking the Eight Gates, the strongest Taijutsu technique in the entire Narutoverse. The technique shocked the fans and one Naruto theory proves that Madara Uchiha fought at least...
- 3/1/2024
- by Tarun Kohli
- FandomWire
Naruto Uzumaki has inspired a generation of shinobi and humans. Even though the character was based on an anime, he had an immense presence, and his words always found their way into people’s hearts. But there were times when the Seventh Hokage was depressed and needed a support system. Anyhow, he never lost sight of his goal and always had a smile on his face.
Most of the fans who have watched Naruto, consider Jiraiya to be the perfect mentor. The closest one that came to him was Kakashi Hatake. But there were times when Tsunade excelled at being a mentor. So, let us see three incidents when Tsunade was a better mentor than Jiraiya and three reasons why the latter excelled as a mentor.
3. Tsunade Is More Practical Tsunade
Tsunade was more mature and practical as a mentor. When she was mentoring Sakura and Ino, she carefully read...
Most of the fans who have watched Naruto, consider Jiraiya to be the perfect mentor. The closest one that came to him was Kakashi Hatake. But there were times when Tsunade excelled at being a mentor. So, let us see three incidents when Tsunade was a better mentor than Jiraiya and three reasons why the latter excelled as a mentor.
3. Tsunade Is More Practical Tsunade
Tsunade was more mature and practical as a mentor. When she was mentoring Sakura and Ino, she carefully read...
- 2/27/2024
- by Priyanko Chakraborty
- FandomWire
The animation industry is divided between a limited number of animation studios, where each one of them has an outstanding collection of anime series. While some are renowned for their plot, and some for their animation, among so many studios comes Studio Pierrot which has a history of producing some excellent shonen titles. The studio’s collection is massive and equally impressive as it has created anime series like Tokyo Ghoul, Black Clover, Naruto, Bleach, and many more.
Naruto Uzumaki
However, Studio Pierrot would have lost its impressive anime collection, had the studio failed to pay its loans. The studio had used the intellectual property of different anime series, which also included Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto. Although Pierrot used it to finance its projects which generated massive profits, but its chilling to think that the beloved Naruto series would have ended up in a different animation studio.
Studio Pierrot Used...
Naruto Uzumaki
However, Studio Pierrot would have lost its impressive anime collection, had the studio failed to pay its loans. The studio had used the intellectual property of different anime series, which also included Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto. Although Pierrot used it to finance its projects which generated massive profits, but its chilling to think that the beloved Naruto series would have ended up in a different animation studio.
Studio Pierrot Used...
- 2/17/2024
- by Tushar Auddy
- FandomWire
This article contains Pain Hustlers spoilers.
The opening moments of Pain Hustlers play a clever bit of reversal on audiences accustomed to watching movies “inspired by real events.” Driving a too-cool-for-school convertible across a vast southeastern bridge, Emily Blunt’s Liza Drake is introduced like many other cinematic devils. Here is a villain whose rise to a real-world throne of vice and corruption is so seductive, they’re going to spend the entire movie bragging about it to us. While Liza doesn’t quite reach the heights of Henry Hill’s opening gloats in Goodfellas—who famously began that movie by saying, “As long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster”—she is plenty prideful as her voiceover announces, “Throw the first stone, sure, but this is my story. And I did it for the right reasons.”
The audience is then bombarded with contradictory information from Liza’s colleagues,...
The opening moments of Pain Hustlers play a clever bit of reversal on audiences accustomed to watching movies “inspired by real events.” Driving a too-cool-for-school convertible across a vast southeastern bridge, Emily Blunt’s Liza Drake is introduced like many other cinematic devils. Here is a villain whose rise to a real-world throne of vice and corruption is so seductive, they’re going to spend the entire movie bragging about it to us. While Liza doesn’t quite reach the heights of Henry Hill’s opening gloats in Goodfellas—who famously began that movie by saying, “As long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster”—she is plenty prideful as her voiceover announces, “Throw the first stone, sure, but this is my story. And I did it for the right reasons.”
The audience is then bombarded with contradictory information from Liza’s colleagues,...
- 10/31/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
David Yates’s Pain Hustlers puffs itself up as a dynamic epic about the American dream but ends up glorifying some truly grotesque characters. Wells Tower’s script pulls loosely from Evan Hughes’s book about how executives at pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics were convicted in 2019 of conspiring to bribe doctors to overprescribe the fentanyl spray Subsys. The story has every ingredient for gripping melodrama: greed, timeliness, money, drugs, death, betrayal, and an Icarus-like fall. Thomas Jennings’s Frontline episode “Opioids, Inc.” and the second part of Alex Gibney’s The Crime of the Century have already turned the sordid tale into powerful, infuriating nonfiction. But in the course of fictionalizing the Insys story, Yates and Tower lose sight of what made it compelling to begin with.
Though ostensibly about the 2010s’ epidemic of synthetic opioid overdoses, Pain Hustlers really hangs its story on the oh-so American grit and determination...
Though ostensibly about the 2010s’ epidemic of synthetic opioid overdoses, Pain Hustlers really hangs its story on the oh-so American grit and determination...
- 10/26/2023
- by Chris Barsanti
- Slant Magazine
When it comes to Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchise filmmaker David Yates returning to the Max TV series, he tells Deadline, “Never say never.”
Yates was at our TIFF studio talking up his new Netflix movie, Pain Hustlers, starring Chris Evans and Emily Blunt, which made its world premiere at the fest.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav confirmed that Max was making a Harry Potter TV series back in April at the streamer’s press day, one which would revisit the iconic books over the course of a decade-long series. When the series was made official earlier this spring, a search for a showrunner was underway in addition to a fresh-face cast. J.K. Rowling and longtime confederates Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts are exec producing. David Heyman, who developed the films, was in talks to do the same. Rowling’s Brontë Film and TV is producing with Warner Bros. Television.
Yates was at our TIFF studio talking up his new Netflix movie, Pain Hustlers, starring Chris Evans and Emily Blunt, which made its world premiere at the fest.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav confirmed that Max was making a Harry Potter TV series back in April at the streamer’s press day, one which would revisit the iconic books over the course of a decade-long series. When the series was made official earlier this spring, a search for a showrunner was underway in addition to a fresh-face cast. J.K. Rowling and longtime confederates Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts are exec producing. David Heyman, who developed the films, was in talks to do the same. Rowling’s Brontë Film and TV is producing with Warner Bros. Television.
- 9/12/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro, Natalie Sitek and Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s always fun to see a mini-genre blooming, and right now we’re in the middle of a run of thrillers based on the boardroom machinations of big pharma companies. We’ve had Matthew Broderick creeping it up in Painkiller, Michael Keaton in Dopesick, and a whole blister pack of documentaries to keep us hooked too. Now, the trailer has dropped for Emily Blunt and Chris Evans’ new addition David Yates is on directing duties. Watch it here:
Blunt is Liza Darke, a high school dropout who finds herself working at a cruddy pharmaceuticals company in a cruddy mall somewhere in cruddy Central Florida. But Evans’ Pete Brenner is a man with a plan to see them all make massive wads of cash, and Darke falls in line with him. “Cast the first stone if you will,” Darke says in the trailer. “But this is my story. And I...
Blunt is Liza Darke, a high school dropout who finds herself working at a cruddy pharmaceuticals company in a cruddy mall somewhere in cruddy Central Florida. But Evans’ Pete Brenner is a man with a plan to see them all make massive wads of cash, and Darke falls in line with him. “Cast the first stone if you will,” Darke says in the trailer. “But this is my story. And I...
- 9/6/2023
- by Tom Nicholson
- Empire - Movies
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