Spoiler-jutsu kicks my ass

[rachelmanija]

I went to the manga shop to pick up the latest volumes of Naruto. As I grabbed the latest one, one of the two ten or eleven-year-old boys standing there examining them said, "Oh, that's the one where [GINORMOUS AND TOTALLY UNEXPECTED SPOILER HAPPENS!]"

"...what?" I said. "WHAT?! HEY! I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!!!"

I had the volume in my hand, and I bopped him atop the head with it. (Not hard!)

"Dude!" said his friend. "Don't blurt out spoilers like that."

"Uh, sorry," said Spoiler Boy.

"You SHOULD be sorry!" I retorted ungracefully.

The shop employees attempted to console me ("you should have hit him harder!"), but the damage was done. It was just like Kakashi getting spoiler-attacked, only worse.

And then I went home and tried to console myself by printing the yaoi-illusion since stupid Viz censored it by transforming it into a silhouette, only the site linked on reread_no_jutsu is virus-infected and completely crashed my computer, forcing me to type from a net cafe until tomorrow, when hopefully the computer repair place can fix it. (Details at oyceter.)

...please do not put spoilers in comments, or I will hit you with a shrink-wrapped volume of Naruto.

Comments

[octopedingenue]

AGH. I will go de-link the site now!

[octopedingenue]

I am so so so sorry! I have most site ads blocked off with Adblock Plus / Spybot / WinPatrol / Flashblock, so I didn't even notice that MangaFox had ads, let alone spyware-y ones. I've changed the Read Online link to OneManga.com, which rashaka recommended, so I hope that it's clean. And the Canon Yaoi of awesome is now here.

The Spoiler Boy will burn in hell. As will Viz, which has also removed all of Sai's references to Naruto's penis!

[re-weird.livejournal.com]

How is that even possible? IIRC, he references it a lot (to my discomfort when I first read that).

[octopedingenue]

Now Sai just says some vaguely emasculating things and Naruto reacts with seemingly over-the-top rage. It's very weird.

(I think all the PENIS PENIS PENIS also made me uncomfortable when I first read it, but I was also busy hating Sai for not being Sasuke at the time, so I am biased. I didn't start finding him hilarious until [ch304 spoilers] this exchange [/304]. And now it's too late for me, I'm all "SAI, YOU SOCIALLY MALADJUSTED SPACE ALIEN, I LOVE YOU," full stop.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I was hating Sai for being YET ANOTHER NEW CHARACTER, and a boy at that, when very girl but Sakura was apparently twiddling her thumbs back home.

[octopedingenue]

...huh? Maybe she gets left behind on a later mission I haven't read yet, but Sakura was with them all the way on this round of ZOMG Rescue Sasuke that introduced Sai. In fact I adore the Sakura/Sai dynamic; he magically brings out the het around her, because she tops him SO HARD.

Nonetheless: another female character would've been awesome. Sigh.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

That's why I said "every girl but Sakura"!

Also, it couldn't be a girl because it would have violated the sacred rule that every ninja team must be 2 boys and 1 girl. A team of 1 boy and 2 girls would have resulted in the destruction of the universe as we know it.

[octopedingenue]

Noooo, you said "very girl but Sakura," which I thought meant "the extremely female but cripplingly Sakura-esque Sakura was left behind." ;P

I'm relieved you understand these important things so well!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Pft. I thought I had you trained to automatically fix my typos in your head!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

You know, I stopped reading Naruto before Sai made it stateside. Did they just edit out every single thing that made me utterly convinced that he was gaygaygay?

[octopedingenue]

Inexplicably, they kept his random bellyshirt!