Interview Nippon.com with Kishimoto Masashi (eng translation)

[Avani]

Why am I trolling? Your point doesn't even make any sense.

Still much better pieces of literature that Kishimoto can never even dream of touching. I haven't read from Duma, so I wouldn't know. But let's not sling dirt at Three Musketeers because you love to lean on Kishimoto a lot. Sure, those are anti-feministic pieces, but so what? An over-whelming majority of women didn't belong to any other estate other than wives and clergy anyway, so I don't see your point. Their limited scope within society reduced them to this. If you want to put blame on someone, blame women.

Paper-bag princess? Never heard of it.

This manga already has covered all major literary devices. There is no such thing as literary bases. Either a work is fiction or it is non-fiction. In case of the former, it has certain genre conventions. That is all.

P.s: Are you talking about Alexandre Dumas and the entirety of his works? I don't even ... :|

If not trolling then I will go with pretentious. :shrug:

That's a kid's story from 1980 or around.

Nah I was referring to the Three Musketeers in particular. I liked most of the story till I reached the finale of Milady's 'execution' - that kind of left a really bad taste in my mouth. But that's for some other discussion.

I loved most of the Shaw's women though. I read all I could find just for them. <3

 

[Chie]

Some of the characters that have resonated most with him, in addition to the obvious picks of Naruto and Sasuke, are Haku (a fair-faced young ninja who has gone rogue and left his homeland behind) and Jiraiya, an acclaimed warrior who takes on Naruto as his final student.

“You might describe Haku as a guide to Naruto, who inspired him when it came time to select his nindō, or the personal belief that forms the basis for his life as a ninja.
Jiraiya, meanwhile, despite being a master to Naruto, was a terrible ninja, ignoring the ‘three prohibitions’ against drinking, womanizing, and pursuing money.
He’s one character who remains very vivid in my mind.”

^I just found this part to be the most interesting and agree with him on Haku and Jiraiya.

 

[shelke]

If not trolling then I will go with pretentious. :shrug:

That's a kid's story from 1980 or around.

Nah I was referring to the Three Musketeers in particular. I liked most of the story till I reached the finale of Milady's 'execution' - that kind of left a really bad taste in my mouth. But that's for some other discussion.

I loved most of the Shaw's women though. I read all I could find just for them. <3

Okay.

I don't read children's stories, may be that's why I never stumbled upon it. I am reading The lovely bones these days, and so far, it's a solid novel. I left Shades of Gray at the tenth chapter. This novel blew me away on how utterly vapid it was. I had heard nothing but good things about it, but goddammit. I believe I have wasted my precious life reading those chapters. The lovely bones has a very strong female lead and a sensitive subject. You should read it, if you haven't already.

I would also recommend Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. The females are in passive role, but I don't think I have come across any novel in the post modern era that even touches it. It handles everything very delicately despite the complete absence of lead female characters.

My point is, that an author can always make a story decent as long as he plays with his strength. This guy just cannot write female characters, so he should reduce them to the background.

 

[1Told]

Lmao. Either you are trolling or that's one pretentious post.

The classical literature you seem to be so fond of is ridden with female stereotypes. Duma's treatment of the females is worse than Kishi. D'Artagnan is the lead and the guy is having an affair with a married woman and at the same time practically raping another one(seducing under false name and cover of darkness). The three musketeers couldn't be more hypocrite. It didn't stop him from writing women or making money of that "literature" and or his character being popular.

It's somewhat funny when I see people getting this angry over Sakura marrying Sasuke. The paper-bag-princess is one lovely story for kids but one may be surprised how many dislike it and call her 'mean; because the princess rejected the prince in the end. It's an interesting world we live in.

Anyway I don't expect mangas to cover all the literary bases anymore than I expect McDonalds to serve seven course French cuisine just because one of the items may be labelled as "French Fries" .

french fries are not even from our cuisine, it's from Belgium the part where they speak french Lol

 

[Natsu Shazneel]

I enjoyed that interview.

 

[MAN OF SIN]

Wow. So he knew he wanted Sasuke vs Naruto from the very beginning yet their fight seemed so forced and contrived it was ridiculous. Why not carefully craft the lead up to the fight instead of shoe- horning it in the end?

All those chapters wasted on Kaguya. I just don't get this guy. SMDH.....I will never read another 1 of his works.

Naruto vs Sasuke should have happened before the war. Then Sasuke could have gone a Zuko-like redemption.

 

[1Told]

I enjoyed that interview.

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