Naruto-AMVs

Episode 73 is finally here to end the fillers but I haven't watched it yet so just a brief description. Last week we saw the Akatsuki chasing a Jinchuuriki and this weeks description from Tv.com suggests that they captured her. The episode is titled 'Invasion of Akatsuki' and the description from Tv.com is as follows: Hidan and Kakuzu infiltrate the Fire Temple in an effort to assassinate Chiriku. Watch it here to find out what happens.

As the last episode in the Sora filler arc finally dragged its way off our screens we got a glimpse of what should be an exciting few months (at least) with the Akatsuki making an appearance in the closing scenes of ep 71. The episode begins with Naruto trying to control the Kyuubi within him whilst trying to help Sora do the same himself. Meanwhile, Kazuma (Sora's Father) is defeated by Asuma and Sai. Sora then manages to recover from the damage caused by the Kyuubi's chakra and leaves Konoha to travel the world. The closing scenes show a girl - who is revealed to be the two-tailed Jinchuuriki, being chased by the Akatsuki duo Hidan and Kakuzu - roll on next Friday!

The series of Shippuden fillers have been ongoing now for quite a few episodes and we are currently at ep 70. The last of the fillers is confirmed to be episode 71!! The fillers are mainly about a boy named Sora who has powers similar to Naruto's and a mysterious group who want to get rid of the Hokage so that the fire country will only have one ruler. The group want to get a hold of Sora to take advantage of his powers to help with the assassination of the Hokage and the destruction of Konoha, along with an extremely powerful Raiton (lightning) jutsu named 'Limelight' which can reduce a village to ash in a matter of seconds. The fillers occasionally touch on Naruto's Futon (wind) nature but one more week and we will finally see the end of the fillers and some Akatsuki action.

Naruto continues his Shadow Clone training. Last episode he learned that he has a chakra element which is wind. Which only few Shinobi in the world have. Naruto goes to get tips from Asuma Sensei. Later Naruto has to halt his training to go on a mission. After a long time as well Team 10 goes on a mission for the first time together in a while. Do they still work well as a team after such a long time?

Naruto returns from his mission from trying to bring Sasuke back again but fails. Kakashi Sensei is now able to leave the hospital while in the hospital he has thought of a way to train Naruto using shadow clones. Naruto is able to create a new technique which would take others years but because of the shadow clones he can cut that into a week. Will Naruto be able to learn a new technique in time for the Akatsuki? Watch the episode and you'll find out.

Welcome to the newest staff member Roman, anybody looking for a position in the staff, again just feel free to ask.

Our first contest has now been and gone and was quite a success with 15 entries, despite claims that the 'best' vid didn't win, all the top four amvs were brilliant and we will have more judges for next week to give more accurate results from now on. Monday 5th of May will see the start of the weekly contests and hopefully things will start to kick off even more, if you have any suggestions for categories like Naruto&Hinata for example, feel free to say so in the chatbox.

Here are the rest of the results for the April contest

StoryTeller017 - (6.5) - Good choice of song, vid was a bit flashy at the start though
Falconk7 - (6.5) - Great intro and overall a good vid
driveshaft9 - (6.5) - Very nice intro again
Freakshow - (6.5) - Nice work overall Freaky
TOniii - (6.5) - Not a great song but you made it work well
espadajustin - (6.5) - Intro timing was excellent. good song choice, liked this one alot
CrimsonHavoc - (6.5) - Great AMV overall Crimson
Nikki1r0x - (5.5) - Great editing, failed on the song
Blackflame - (5.5) - Average AMV, basic editing
bluekills29 - (5) - Basic editing, failed on the song
Bobrath - (5) - Ok editing towards 1.00, but not that good overall

As you may know we have other projects line up as well as N-AMVs development which will hopefully see the blog feeding to a larger AMV site. Other works in progress are two sites which will complete the trio and will effectively feed into one another, I should have mentioned this in the post below as there is not much need for a coder in a blog.

Currently we have three members of staff in the N-AMV team, we are in need of somebody skilled with HTML/CSS/PHP or generally good at web construction, and also anybody wanting to be a member for admin ad general duties to assist Freakshow.

Only eight days left for entries which is plenty of time for most of you, also just to let you know, judging for April will take place on the 30th, any last minute entries should be made before Mid-night (GMT) on the 30th.

Well, its the 22nd of April, and we have exceeded our first target of 5 entries, which was then changed to a target of 10. It seems we have overcome both these targets even with two vids being removed by TV Tokyo on Youtube, so I think we will be going for the big 20 before the end of April.

This week we have made some major and hopefully beneficial changes to the blog, one of them was to change the page layout so it was not auto adjusting and so it stays centered no matter what your screen size, still a few minor probs to root out but we are still working on it. Also next month will hopefully see the 'dawn of a new age' as we start the weekly competitions. Changes coming with the weekly comps. will be that videos will be submitted in a comment on a post entitled 'Entry for this Week' (thankyou Tanera), as opposed to posting the links in the chatbox - this seemed to confuse a lot of people,

Some random news for techies out there about the Internet. It was recently announced that computing engineers are working on something to take over the internet called 'the Grid.' It will apparently have speeds of up to 10,000 times faster than current broadband net speeds meaning you can download enough music to fill your iPod in a matter of seconds and online gaming will be a whole new experience, you will also be able to send holographic images over the Grid (somehow).

we now have four members in the N-AMV team so welcome to our newest member Freakshow, we are always looking for staff so if you want to be a part of the N-AMV team, just ask.

welcome to the newest member of the Naruto-Links AMV team, DarkSkywalker, we are still recruiting anybody who wants to help out and has an interest in naruto - we have 4 posts still available, email us, and if you have an AMV to submit about Naruto, post it in the chatbox.

we have 5 positions available for judges. Your duties will include judging the AMV comps which will become more regular over time with different sections coming in, and you will be required to promote the site and spread the word about us by various means such as finding other Naruto sites to link to etc. If your interested, email narutolinksadmin@googlemail.com with your name, experience with AMVs (if any), and a bit about your interest in Naruto. Submit your requests by 15th May 2008

the Naruto-Links staff will be focusing on the AMV side of the site from now on as there seems to be a big interest in this area - an AMV site is now on the agenda to follow up this blog as well as other projects. After April if we get enough interest in the AMVs we will be making different sections like action,romantic etc. Also we will be changing the judging for the competitions after April, we will have five judges as well as a voting system.