{"id":208,"date":"2006-12-30T12:08:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T20:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2006\/12\/30\/blog-022-hey-surprise-ninja-attack\/"},"modified":"2009-01-17T02:18:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T10:18:47","slug":"blog-022-hey-surprise-ninja-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/12\/30\/blog-022-hey-surprise-ninja-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 022 > Hey, Surprise Ninja Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=center><a target=new href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-content\/wallpapers-anime\/xjaymanx_naruto_0001_1280.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 id=\"image227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/xjaymanx_naruto_01sm.jpg\" alt=\"Naruto\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Naruto | Image from Google Search | Enlarge Wallpaper<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>my speed review: &#8220;DOUBLE WOW! Unexpectedly engaging and heartbreaking!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>yesterday, finished my LAST anime of the year &#8220;<strong>naruto<\/strong>&#8221; season 1 (of 9 so far!)&#8230; okay, now prior to starting this series, i&#8217;ve heard the mocking rants against it, and at first glance, i chuckled with the jokes&#8230; after all, naruto looked like just another loud-and-crazy teenaged boy on his quest to be the number one ninja, attracting anime fanboys and fangirls who seemed to be just as loud and crazy&#8230; but without having seen it, i figured why not, i&#8217;d see what everyone got so worked up about&#8230; <em>and wow, was i surprised!!!<\/em>&#8230; i admit, the first 5-10 minutes of each episode seems to be a repetitive rehash of the previous episode, but overlooking that, the eye-grabbing series is amazingly action-packed, cleverly choreographed, and unexpectedly tearful&#8230; revolving around the still loud-and-crazy yet complex Naruto, the quieter dark-haired ninja-genius Sasuke, and the book-smart pink-haired Sakura, these three rookie ninjas must learn to work as a team, endure unpredictably bloody missions, confront tragic deaths, and strive to advance to the next challenging level of their ongoing training, without tripping over each other&#8230; this is another comedic-yet-dramatic tale of friendship and personal dreams that&#8217;s worth checking out&#8230; 5 of 5 stars!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/anime\/anime-viewing-list\/\">My Anime Viewing List ><\/a><br \/>\n<a target=new href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/xjaymanxcom-20\">My Naruto Anime Store ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naruto | Image from Google Search | Enlarge Wallpaper my speed review: &#8220;DOUBLE WOW! Unexpectedly engaging and heartbreaking!&#8221; yesterday, finished my LAST anime of the year &#8220;naruto&#8221; season 1 (of 9 so far!)&#8230; okay, now prior to starting this series, i&#8217;ve heard the mocking rants against it, and at first glance, i chuckled with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/12\/30\/blog-022-hey-surprise-ninja-attack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-reviews","category-naruto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}