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I woke up with the bright idea of rewatching hands down one of the best anime I've ever watched- Naruto... from the beginning.

Yep, you read that right from the very freaking beginning.

I've recently finished the first season, and I figured we could make a series about this. I'll be very brief with my show's synopsis because you really should if you haven't watched it yet.

Naruto originally aired from 2002 to 2007, with Naruto Shippuden airing from 2007 to 2017. So it's been around for some time.

The series contains a total of 726 episodes and 10 movies ( it's actual 11, but Boruto doesn't count)

Before we meet our adorable hero, we learn that the 4th Hokage trapped a nine-tail fox demon in the body of a newborn baby boy. We then flash forward to meet a mischievous Naruto Uzumaki, a 12-year-old orphan who is learning how to become a ninja and dreams of becoming to Hokage of his village.

In this series, we meet the principal cast: Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura & Kakashi (he's everything, don't @ me). We don't actually know his parents or what happened to them, but Naruto is alone, and the villagers treat him like scum.

Naruto is influenced to steal a scroll containing forbidden Jutsu, and with this scroll, he learns to create multiple shadow clones.

Once he graduates, he joins Team 7. After a hilarious initiation day, Naruto carries out tasks for the village with his team. Then, craving adventure Naruto asks for something more challenging and heads off to escort a traveller to his town.

Little do they know, the traveller lied about why he requested protection and is hunted down by hired ninja goons trying to stop him from reaching his home and completing his task of creating a bridge to connect his island village to the mainland.

The group is attacked by a ninja known as Zabuza during this mission. While fighting, we learn that daddy Kakashi possesses something exciting- a Sharingan, an ability for those who have this to see an opponent's attacks before they happen. This gift is passed down through the Uchiha clan, which Sasuke happens to belong to. They believed Zabuza was dead after their fight was interrupted by a member of the tracking squad, or so they thought.

Haku is Zabuza's, right-hand man. His companion was found orphaned on the streets and has stuck by his side.

During a climactic fight on the unfinished bridge with Haku, Sasuke's Sharingan is triggered while trying to protect Naruto, but he's unable to beat him. This is where we learn the truth- Naruto is the baby that the 4th Hokage sealed the demon.

In the end, Zabuza and Haku are killed, and there is not a person who has a dry eye.

Thank you from the villagers for his enthusiasm and contagious smile; the villagers named the bridge the great Naruto bridge.

After returning from their mission, Team 7 is informed of the upcoming Chunin exams. During the exam, the rookies are tested and must go through these challenges to have their Ninja status upgraded.

During each test, they have to use their ability as ninjas from their ability to be discreet and survive, with the goal being to stay each task and make it to the final level.

That's all for this post. Make sure to check back soon for the next post!

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T'was December 22,
and Netflix released,
Season 2 of Emily of Paris,
"oh fuck" I shrieked.

Hello everyone and Happy New Year!

I hope you all had an amazing and safe time during the holidays and I wish you all the very best for this year.

When the first season of this show came out, it left the audience's head spinning and for good reason; it was fucking horrible.

The show portrayed the French as obnoxious pricks that should be grateful for their American Saviour; the bratty, "I'm always right" Emily.

With this new season, we've picked up where season 1 left off and Emily has to deal with the repercussions of her sexual adventures with Gabriel and is abandoned by Mathew at the train station when he's discovered what happened.

She feels horribly guilty about what she's done to Camille, ~~thankfully,~~ but just moves on with her life and even goes on with her St. Tropez trip with Camille and Mindy. Eventually, Camille finds out about what happened between her former friend and ex-boyfriend because of a frying pan Emily had with Gabriel's initials... which I mean, is the weirdest thing ever.

Ever thought that maybe he let her borrow it???

If you recall, in the first season Emily was attending a French class and she is so fucking thick that she failed the class and had to retake it.

She gets paired with Petra, a Ukrainian woman who happens to be in Emily's class and while working on an out-of-class assignment, Petra decided that she could just steal a bunch of these designer items, the entire scene was probably the most cringest thing I had seen until another episode, which we will get to later.

While the stereotypes and the sex constantly being thrown in your face were turned down a bit, that doesn't mean that dear Emily is without a love interest, enter Alfie, a British Banker who was in Paris for work and also attended Emily's French class. There was also a horrible no-nip sex scene filled with the walk of shame awkwardness.

Much like a Bollywood movie of yester-year, the love triangle plot for season 1 was rinsed and repeated.

As some might remember, Emily is supposed to be in Paris for a year and then run back to Chicago where she will become an executive at her marketing firm.

Due to the lack of Savoir's interest in a blatantly clear copy of the Pelaton that was looking to marketing, Emily's boss, Madeline, comes to Paris to "restructure" the French office, even though she didn't come to Paris before because she found out she was pregnant.

As much as I love Kate Walsh, I've never hated a character more. She emulates the annoying character that Emily has, just slightly more annoying because she speaks French like I do.

During the course of these episodes, it is very clear that Emily's attitude and her approach to work have been moulded by Madeline.

When the French firm walks out after Madeline tried to fire Sylvie, Madeline told Emily that it's perfect, because they can get young, fresh people to work there and they can be moulded into what they want and told Emily that she would have to essentially be her bitch until she hires other people.

This is probably the only time during the course of this show so far that I've felt bad for Emily in a way until she gets a text from Sylvie who is opening a new marketing firm and wanted her to join.

Emily then goes to Gabriel to tell him what is going on and finds out that he and Camille (who have gotten back together) have moved in together.

The show ends with Emily on the phone with Sylvie, and we are left wondering if she is staying in Paris or if she is staying with Madeline.

Truth is, as horrible as this show is, it's addicting to watch because it's so bad.

There hasn't been any news on a season 3, but let's hope we hear something soon!