Jiraiya died in the last installment of Naruto Shippuuden (issue 382). Sorry if I spoiled it, for you Anime watchers out there (the Anime, by the way, is probably two years behind the Manga storyline)...
Jiraiya was slain by Pain, whom we have yet to identify (both who "he" is, and what "his" powers are). Pain "occupies" six bodies simultaneously, each possessed of the Rinneigan, a special eye that allows, among other things, mastery of all elements. Jiraiya hypothesized that the special eye allows all six bodies to see what all others see, in the same manner as the multiple perspectives allowed by security cameras... Jiraiya managed to "salvage" one of Pain's bodies, and send it back as evidence to the Hidden Leaf Village... No doubt, what will eventually happen is that Jiraiya's corpse will now replace that missing body...
Simultaneously, there are two battles looming: that between Sasuke and his brother Itachi Uchiha... and another between a group of Hidden Leaf Ninjas and the mysterious Tobi/Madara Uchiha... SO MANY QUESTIONS.
[please bear with me, those of you who don't read manga or watch anime...]
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Monday, December 17, 2007
Friday, November 30, 2007
Deidara
This halloween, I tried to dress up as Deidara (^), from Naruto.
Deidara is a member of Akatsuki, which in the Narutoverse is a criminal organization. All Akatsuki members (of which there are nine known, at least as of now) wear these black cloaks with red clouds on them. The Akatsuki members usually move in pairs.
My favorite character, Deidara, comes from the Hidden Boulder village. He has mouths on both hands (and a hidden mouth on his chest). He always carries a pouch filled with clay (of the C3 C4 variety). He is able to shape that clay into any form that he wishes, by using the mouths on his hands to "chew" the clay and spit it out into a finished form. He fashions spiders, birds, anything. The shaped clay is able to move, fly, whatever, and explode either when contacting a target, or when Deidara makes a hand symbol ("Katsu!").
Deidara considers himself an artist. His partner (former) was named Sasori, and was also an artist, in his own fashion. Sasori was a master puppeteer. He created deadly puppets, and considered each creation an "exercise in eternity," in staving off the effects of time. Sasori, in fact, became a puppet himself, immortal, with only his heart serving as a remnant of his mortal body, only his heart pulling the strings.
While Sasori considered art a striving for eternity, Deidara, by contrast, repeatedly states, "ART IS A BANG!" A fleeting, and terribly explosive, act. In fact, Deidara's objective, if anything, is to (literally) create an impression...
I appreciate the desperation in Deidara. Art is a terribly desperate thing. Without it, we implode. The nothing that is outside puts a steady and sometimes overwhelming pressure on the fragile world we contain within us. Sometimes it is only by means of a desperate "explosion," a "BANG," that we are able to assert our perspective on the world.
(Not that I'm going to be the next UNA bomber, or anything...)
Deidara is a member of Akatsuki, which in the Narutoverse is a criminal organization. All Akatsuki members (of which there are nine known, at least as of now) wear these black cloaks with red clouds on them. The Akatsuki members usually move in pairs.
My favorite character, Deidara, comes from the Hidden Boulder village. He has mouths on both hands (and a hidden mouth on his chest). He always carries a pouch filled with clay (of the C3 C4 variety). He is able to shape that clay into any form that he wishes, by using the mouths on his hands to "chew" the clay and spit it out into a finished form. He fashions spiders, birds, anything. The shaped clay is able to move, fly, whatever, and explode either when contacting a target, or when Deidara makes a hand symbol ("Katsu!").
Deidara considers himself an artist. His partner (former) was named Sasori, and was also an artist, in his own fashion. Sasori was a master puppeteer. He created deadly puppets, and considered each creation an "exercise in eternity," in staving off the effects of time. Sasori, in fact, became a puppet himself, immortal, with only his heart serving as a remnant of his mortal body, only his heart pulling the strings.
While Sasori considered art a striving for eternity, Deidara, by contrast, repeatedly states, "ART IS A BANG!" A fleeting, and terribly explosive, act. In fact, Deidara's objective, if anything, is to (literally) create an impression...
I appreciate the desperation in Deidara. Art is a terribly desperate thing. Without it, we implode. The nothing that is outside puts a steady and sometimes overwhelming pressure on the fragile world we contain within us. Sometimes it is only by means of a desperate "explosion," a "BANG," that we are able to assert our perspective on the world.
(Not that I'm going to be the next UNA bomber, or anything...)
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