I was always was kinda fuzzy on this. Are the hunter-nins a subsection of ANBU or a completely different organization? Or are they part of the police force that the Uchiha headed? Either way they're shitty because non-hunter-nin are always the ones taking the rouge ninjas out.

Naruto is the type of person who learns through action instead of words or reading, but I'm still surprised he managed to graduate. Forget not knowing bunshin; how the fuck did you pass the final exams? It'd be like me taking a math test and not knowing what a variable is.

And that was the first and last time Sakura seemed impressive in part 1.

The anime really cleaned Haku up; he's virtually unrecognizable here. Everything is just wrong with the proportions and his face almost seems smushed. I'm glad they decided to completely revamp him, much like Square did with Amano's character designs.

I mentioned in the last post that some things are not easily transferable to animation, but conversely animation can provide things that comics cannot. For example, voice acting. I fucking loved this moment in the anime: Instead of being a little side thing whilst the focus is on Sasuke, the director gave it a scene all of its own with Takeuchi Junko perfectly expressing the confusion in Naruto's voice. I spent many times rewinding these ten seconds over and over because I found it so funny.

Jesus Christ, they toned this own in the anime. At least he still had, you know, arms.