Whether you call it dorky (and yes, I do think the idea is still dorky to an extent), I went to a Naruto movie party. The party consisted of three people: Me, Zoe, and Sam. We all branded something Naruto. I put on my brother’s wristband, Zoe had her headband on, and Sam wore her oh-so-awesome Sasuke T-shirt.

A small surprise came to me when I walked through the threshold of Zoe’s house. I was welcomed by a bee sting, the first one I’ve ever had. There was a little paranoia (would I be allergic?) but after a couple minutes and I showed no sign of throat closing up or of me passing out, we all went back to watching Zoe prepare stove-top rice and ramen.

We watched the movie without any incidents. There were instances where we wanted to kill the commercials because, let’s face it, Toonami is horrible at showing anything. They show about 5-10 minutes of something and cut right back to commercial. Though I suppose we all could’ve watched it separately at our own houses, I think it was nice that we all got together. Funny parts are funnier when watched with someone else and let’s face it, we’re dramatic when we watch our anime. We gasp, giggle, and roll our eyes at all cliches. How many times was Naruto going to come up after a ridiculous fall? And we all nearly died at the part where Sasuke was muttering about how it was all up to Naruto when he was collapsing. The way “NARUTO!” was screamed as his last word was just priceless. We ended up rewinding (oh digital cable, how I miss you so!) just to watch that part again.

I think we may end up doing this again for the second movie, whenever they decide to dub it. We joked it’ll be four years later, and like the characters in the movie, our clothes will be a little different but we’ll look the same and be sitting in the same positions.

Moving on to something else, hours after the initial bee sting, it still burns a bit.