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As if it wasn’t bad enough that the JC gang got me hooked on the wonderful (-ly addictive) game of mahjong, evil Dumbo decided to unload her entire collection of ‘Naruto’ on me, causing me to have less of a life than I already have.

For the anime-ignorant, Naruto is this wildly popular japanese anime following the lives of a young boy named Naruto (duh!) and his fellow ninja-in-training friends and enemies.

10 reasons why Naruto is such a good anime :-

1) The animation is probably one of the best I’ve ever seen, with great character designs.

2) It has plots, good ones (yes! finally an anime with good plots!).

3) It is so thrilling that the suspense at the end of each episode simply kills me. Next episode, quick!

4) Some episodes give me food-for-thought, or are inspiring.

5) It doesn’t forget to be funny.

6) There are many intriguing characters and they are developed well as the series progresses.

7) The music that accompanies the anime? Excellent.

All that ninja knowledge is fascinating.

9) Who can resist stories about battles between good and evil? heroes against villains?

10)It has cuties (little Konohamaru) and handsome, cool, powerful guys (Kakashi sensei and Sasuke-kun)!

This is Sasuke-kun and I’m smittened/enamored with him.

Naruto the anime is filling up my days and nights. It’s been 5 days since I first started on it and I’m already on my 70th episode (there are 118 episodes and counting) now. It is so addictive, I’m keeping up late nights to watch it. I don’t wish to go out cos I want to watch it. I even dreamt about it whilst I was asleep - of Kakashi and his cool fighting moves, of the scary Gaara, of Sasuke and how his name rhymes with Bakuteh or is similar to Sakae Sushi (that’s really out of point and spastic but hey, I can’t control my dreams!) and of ninjas. Gosh. I suspect it’s an evil ploy of Dumbo to prevent me from sleeping - doing the ’since-I’m-having-insomnia-I-won’t-allow-you-to-sleep-too’ routine.

Should have listened to Beebs about the dangers of Naruto.

s t a r m | s t January 18th, 2005

• the bimbotic reviewer , the college girl