| there are 300 shows i'd rather watch than naruto that's just me |
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| I decided to rewatch in 5 weeks (during quarantine) and my eyes have never looked the same since. My Issues: - Sakura / Sasuke had way too much screen time. Sasuke should’ve been axed after the original. Sakura shouldn’t have existed. - Team Asuma and Team Guy (especially Tenten) had too little screen time. - The Shinobi war shouldn’t have existed. 200 episodes of sleep. - There’s too many fillers (I would drop the show when filler arcs aired.) - Talk no justu ruined the pain arc and many others. - Too many flashbacks, it got ridiculous. There was once a Kakashi flashback, in a flashback, in a flashback. - Naruto never retook his Chuunin exam (the one in the special doesn’t count) - Last but not least, Naruto should’ve pulled out. Overall, it’s still a very good show. It just shouldn’t be your priority. |
Mo168Apr 9, 2021 10:09 AM
| Major Issues: - war arc fillers and pacing - side characters being axed out of existence - narrowed down the scope of the original series by making the entire series about getting chased because Naruto had the 9 tails -> this narrow the scope of the world - the over the top escalation of power where unless the character had a magic eye ball or a tailed beast, he or she was practically useless - Sasuke's confusing motivation - Sakura and Naruto over attachment to Sasuke made both of them seem out of character most of the time If naruto would have ended at the pain arc, it would have been a solid 7, but the war arc dragged it down to a 4. |
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| Fillers, too less screen time for Guy's team, flashbacks (like Jesus, I know every single moment in Naruto's life by heart), some really boring fights during the shinobi war And one more thing at the end of the series: And yeah, why is this in the recommendation board |
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| My issues with Naruto are: Fillers Flashbacks Sakura (her character development in the whole show is just shit. Also, despise her character. She's way too easy to hate) The plot holes The war arc The pairings at the end of the series. Just... why? The fangirl and the stalker... just what the hell was Kishimoto smoking?! |
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RilestX said: It is if you watched when it was airing.duchessliz87 said: My issues with Naruto are: Fillers Flashbacks Sakura (her character development in the whole show is just shit. Also, despise her character. She's way too easy to hate) The plot holes The war arc The pairings at the end of the series. Just... why? The fangirl and the stalker... just what the hell was Kishimoto smoking?! fillers to be honest is not really a worthy complain you can just skip them |
| There are way too many fillers and I don't like that every major fight has like 40 minutes worth of flashbacks to get through. The characters and stories are too generic for me. I really got into anime in 2015, so I have already seen a bunch of action/shoenen anime from that time, so I can't really get into older shows that are more than 100 episodes long. Also the first 10 episodes of Naruto are a bore to get into. Like I honestly don't care about when they were kids. Sorry dudes but in my opinion Naruto is boring and really difficult to get into if you weren't watching anime when it came out. There are a lot more better shows out there than Naruto. Look at me for example I have watched more than 200 shows and have never once thought of watching Naruto. |
TheSunLifeApr 9, 2021 4:32 PM
| "Bro, if you set your mind to it. You can jack off to anything." ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| I could watch about 9 million other shows in the same amount of time it'd take me to watch this 720 episode series. |
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| This thread has been moved to the correct sub-board. "Anime/Manga specific threads should go into their respective sub-boards." |
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| i think og naruto was decent but shippuden was pretty bad, most of the side characters barely saw any screentime, plus the war arc was a huge mess |
| I haven't finished the series. I'm right before the 4th shinobi war stars. But maybe my biggest complaint would be how Naruto seems to be the solution to every problem and villain that exists. I mean, sure he's the main character. But aside from Shikamaru defeating Hidan, and Chiyo beating sasori (with Sakura), no one else seems to be able to beat villains. Or at least they don't get screen time when they do. |
| "To keep enduring, no matter what, until things come to pass...perhaps that's what it means to be a ninja." - Uchiha Sasuke |
AnimeDownUnder said: LeEggBread said: I could watch about 9 million other shows in the same amount of time it'd take me to watch this 720 episode series. I don't like that logic at all, one piece is my favourite anime and watching a lot of other anime doesn't make up for missing out on potentially one of the best anime series. Naruto is worth watching, despite the hate it gets there was a time when it was the best anime around I do realize this show is getting too much hate. Which makes me sad. Because aside from the fillers and maybe too much flashbacks at some point, I feel like it's a really well written plot (so far). I haven't really finished it hehe |
| "To keep enduring, no matter what, until things come to pass...perhaps that's what it means to be a ninja." - Uchiha Sasuke |
| I just wish Madara was the final antagonist instead |
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| In all long running anime, there are going to be things we find annoying, but I will just focus on the major ones. 1 - Naruto vs Kakuzu. One of my favourite seasons in the entire show had one of the worst endings. I hated that Kakashi, Shikamaru, Choji and Ino struggled so badly and Naruto just shows up and conveniently tricks him with his shadow clones to hit him with his new move. After all of that, this was how it ended? Naruto's shadow clones don't work against anybody worth their salt, but it works so easily against one of the most experienced shinobi's in the show? It always felt like lazy writing, because up to this point, Naruto had done nothing of note for a very long time and it just seemed like a moment to force Naruto to do something big. 2 - The team 7 relationship. Sasuke gets so much criticism, but it's Naruto and Sakura I have the biggest problem with. Naruto's obsession with Sasuke is weird. I don't care what kind of excuse people have come up with over the years, Naruto's behaviour was unhealthy to the very end. Nobody can convince me they were best friends, they were rivals, nothing more. I can't remember a single time that they really bonded, Sasuke shown no interest in Naruto's life, I can't even remember a single normal conversation that they had throughout the show. Almost every character Naruto interacted with was a better friend than Sasuke. As for Sakura.........what is she so obsessed about exactly? Okay, she thinks he's cool and hot, but what else? She knows next to nothing about Sasuke as a person, Sasuke barely said a word to her, he pretty much blanked her throughout the show. She was so selfish until the end, she wanted Sasuke back for herself, without any consideration for what Sasuke wanted or his mental state, or if it was even good for the entire shinobi world. She just want Sasuke bought back to her, even though he was never hers in the first place. The way they treated Sai when he first joined the team still irritates me when I think about it. He was the only one talking sense when it came to discussions about Sasuke, but Naruto and Sakura were so obsessed that they couldn't see it and even threatened to kill Sai if he hurt Sasuke. It was just before the war arc where this got so out of control though. Naruto collapsing from a panic attack and taking a beating for Sasuke was laughable. Naruto was so far gone at this point. His obsession had reached levels where he needed serious help, something he should have received from Jiraiya and Kakashi much earlier. Sasuke was a serious threat to the world at this point, he needed to be stopped and killed if necessary, and this was on top of the fact that a war was just about to begin and the entire leaf village was just destroyed. I said it in another thread, but I think every other team in the show had a better bond and friendship than Team 7. Team 7 was a toxic mess. 3 - The war arc. I enjoyed it in parts, some of it was fantastic, but it just spiraled out of control the longer it went on. The power ups, the ridiculous twists, the constant fillers and padded flashbacks and to top it off........aliens. Madara should have been the final antagonist, it felt like everything was leading to this moment, but they had to throw one curve ball too many into the mix. The Otsutsuki clan was a bad idea, and it's led to the worst thing that happened to the Naruto universe with the creation of Boruto. 4 - Fillers, padding and flashbacks. None of these things are bad on their own, but the overuse of them almost killed the show at times. Towards the end, I was so ready for Naruto to finish. All of these issues had reached ridiculous levels. We couldn't go more than a handful of episodes without fillers or long, drawn out flashbacks. It became a chore to watch. People say "just skip it" but honestly, it's hard to do that when they would inject filler and padded flashbacks into canon episodes. Some of the flashbacks were canon themselves, but they were so drawn out it became ridiculous. There was a war going on but we would stop for a load of episodes to focus on the back story of a character that should have either come sooner or kept short so we could get back to the main story taking place. It was insane, and it's the one reason why I would be hesitant to rewatch Naruto again. |
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