Naruto Shippuden The Movie: The Lost Tower

If there’s one thing that I enjoy about really successful anime series is their one-off movies that have absolutely nothing to do with the canon episodes. Their creators always have an interesting way of getting their characters into sordid adventures.

I honestly can’t think of a bad movie version of some of the more popular shonen series. I mean, One Piece has great movies, Dragonball Z had tons of great flicks, and even Naruto has had some good ones. Yesterday Viz dropped Naruto Shippuden The Movie: The Lost Tower (that’s a big title) which is fourth in the series of Shippuden movies.

This adventure features Naruto being transported back in time after confronting Mukade (one of the missing-nin) where he and his team 7 captain, Yamato, ultimately are destined to face off against the big baddie. If you’ve ever seen an OVA or movie for a popular series, you know exactly how things go… I mean come on, it’s anime, it’s not the destination that matters but the fun and drama that happens along the way, ne?

Anyway, the movie was released yesterday on Blu-ray ($24.98) and DVD ($19.98) and has tons of special features and a comedic short included on the disc. Go, purchase, consume, and let us know what you think!

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

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