Naruto Manga/Anime Discussion IV

[The Transient Guest]

hhhheeeeeyyyyyyyy. So this apparently happened.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...elevision.html

The boy was reportedly devastated after seeing the death of the character Itachi Uchiha in the animated movie 'Naruto - Hurricane Chronicle'. So he took a 100 foot leap in response.

Anyone else heard anything about this?

[Robotech Master]

hhhheeeeeyyyyyyyy. So this apparently happened.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...elevision.html

The boy was reportedly devastated after seeing the death of the character Itachi Uchiha in the animated movie 'Naruto - Hurricane Chronicle'. So he took a 100 foot leap in response.

Anyone else heard anything about this?

Yep. An already tragic occurrence made all the more tragic by the fact that it only happened because someone became too absorbed into something fictional. The father was actually quoted as saying something like "I always told him he watched too much television. He didn't know what was real anymore," something to that effect.

The fact that he would have gotten to see Itachi again, and with a more positive good-bye, but he didn't know this just makes me even more sad.

[Len Ikari145]

hhhheeeeeyyyyyyyy. So this apparently happened.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...elevision.html

The boy was reportedly devastated after seeing the death of the character Itachi Uchiha in the animated movie 'Naruto - Hurricane Chronicle'. So he took a 100 foot leap in response.

Anyone else heard anything about this?

Dafuq?!

[HollowKyubi Espada]

Not really surprising since their has been death over Naruto related things in real life. I mean a few years ago didn't a teen die fro
Imitating Gaara?

[Robotech Master]

Not really surprising since their has been death over Naruto related things in real life. I mean a few years ago didn't a teen die fro
Imitating Gaara?

Different context though; that was a kid trying to play that he was Gaara and the death was an accident related to sand pits. This was literally someone who took the in-universe death of a fictional character so hard that they decided life wasn't worth living anymore.

Part of me wonders if there was a lot more we don't know about that was making him depressed, and Itachi's death was just one more saddening thing that pushed him past his limit, but that's something we'll probably never know.

[Ghost]

Part of me wonders if there was a lot more we don't know about that was making him depressed, and Itachi's death was just one more saddening thing that pushed him past his limit, but that's something we'll probably never know.

People who do stuff like this almost always have some crucial underlying issues - no healthy person takes fictional stories that seriously. Nobody actually becomes delusional just from watching too many cartoons; no normal person becomes suicidal from the death of a fictional character, same way normal people don't become spree killers from playing too many violent video games. We're looking at a sympton, not the disease. This kid must have been in a very dark place for something like this to become that important to him.

[Guy1]

Nobody else except Naruto really had a problem with Raikage going after Sasuke. Some people were sad, sure, but not defensive. Shikamaru theorized that if Sasuke were to be killed by the Cloud, it would mainly be Naruto and Sakura who might retaliate,

*Bursts out laughing.*

[Hazard]

In a different world, the nine powerful hosts gather under one banner.

[1505627]

In a different world, the nine powerful hosts gather under one banner.

i believe the proper response is "Like a Boss!"

[Omegastorm]

hhhheeeeeyyyyyyyy. So this apparently happened.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...elevision.html

The boy was reportedly devastated after seeing the death of the character Itachi Uchiha in the animated movie 'Naruto - Hurricane Chronicle'. So he took a 100 foot leap in response.

Anyone else heard anything about this?

I have never heard of anything like that happening. Ever. That's crazy. and wow. His poor parents and that poor child.

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[Siriel]

paulo10171, please keep your posts about Naruto in the actual Naruto discussion thread, without also posting it in another thread and making a thread about it.

[The Dog]

In a different world, the nine powerful hosts gather under one banner.

You mean three powerful hosts and six cannon fodders.

So, basically it'd be like Itachi, Deidara, and Pein teaming up with six Zetsus.

[Hazard]

You mean three powerful hosts and six cannon fodders.

So, basically it'd be like Itachi, Deidara, and Pein teaming up with six Zetsus.

Nope. I very much mean what I said. You are just extremely biased. As usual.

[Nik Hasta]

Nope. I very much mean what I said. You are just extremely biased. As usual.

Dog? Being biased and negative about Naruto?

Surely not.

[The Dog]

Nope. I very much mean what I said. You are just extremely biased. As usual.

Biased? How exactly am I biased?

Six of these 'powerful hosts' were taken out off-screen by ninja who these three managed to take out... Well, Roshi was taken by Kisame, so he gets a pass. But the others were taken out by guys like Hidan and Kakuzu. And we're not talking 'Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2' Kakuzu or fanfic Kakuzu, we're talking a Kakuzu who was fooled by the oldest trick in the ninja book and looked genuinely shocked by it.

And it's not just they were defeated. Gaara is one of the three powerful ones, and he was defeated. But it was by Deidara, who, as shown in his Sasuke fight, is a monster in his own right.