from some reason, i find the ending little underwhelming, it's seems to me they more cared about finishing adapting the novel and finishing the arc than finishing shippuuden.
that's not gonna say though i didn't find the episode bad, it was actually very good and very directed that most of the arc revolves around iruka, and starting the ep with events from ep1 of naruto, closing the circle with iruka at the beginning and at the end, only that now naruto has all his friends, heck, the scene where naruto ask iruka attend as his father was tearful.
hinata sure is great women for naruto for understanding him, and yeah i'm talking about that last scene, i actually happy not to see naruto acting as hokage - the purpose of the series is his adventure going there, heck, the minute naruto got recognised by everyone he's hokage already, from there it was just matter of time and this wedding arc.
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now for the series, it's kinda hard since there's a lot to talk about, and i don't want this comment to be review like, so i will summarise my opinion at explaining why the heck i scored it -
9/10
usually when i score anime, i'm not meaning round 6/7/8/9 and even 10 (there's some anime that deserves more than 10 :p), but naruto is round 9, why is that?
first i have to say that - i skipped most of the filler, when i say most, i mean i actually went and watched several filler arcs, mostly the first two, kakashi anbu arc (which i hardly considering filler) and itachi arc. (and some partially canon episodes as well).
what i got from that is probably what most people complained - too much fillers, since that i skipped them (since there's not truly motive to watch them) the story felt really flaw to me, but that didn't made naruto perfect.
without going story details, the studio is at fault for many things, first of all, the 2 first arcs - kazekage retrieval and reunion arc, was very very slow, the pace really killed me even though marathoned them.
later on, if we will forget pace issues, there's a lot of inconsistent animation quality, and let's not forget that even in some canon episodes they fluid them with tons of flashbacks.
on the other hand with production issues - there's kind of a lot of good animated episode, good paced episode, and if we will consider the fact that naruto was long run series, it's understandable for the animation not to be perfect for most of times, though there was a lot of exceptions where the animation was serious downhill. the OST was consistent for all over the series and was great in any way you want it to. the voice cast was good all the way around and we got tons of good pieces of music on the opening, while the ending had bunch of average.
the story, which kishimoto thought about of course, is another part on the equation, there were lot of good arcs:
pain invasion arc, taming kyuubi arc, sasuke and naruto arc, hidan and kazuko arc, vengeance arc, some parts of the fourth great war arc was good too - sasuke & itachi part and more. though the other arcs didn't stand out as the arcs i mentioned, they had good moments too, like sasori fight, kyuubi vs orichimaru battle, sasuke vs danzou battle, some parts of the kage summit arc and more. though it was long ride (even without fillers), when summarising the events and the arcs of shippuuden, it's actually not seems a lot, especially since paing invasion arc events leading directly toward the war arc. like every story that have downhills, shippuuden is like that, and as long run story it have quite a bit, especially during the war arc. though all downhills, kishimoto still managed to build good story here, with good characters, good villains (except kyouga maybe), good depth background story, mostly the history setting he had written that seems more important at some parts than the action, while the action had some downhills toward the end 'till naruto vs sasuke.
that's why naruto isn't perfect, especially the anime, but even though the studio had much more downhills than naruto's story had, they still managed to bring some justice to the good parts of the story, and that's says the they knew what they doing, because of that i can give naruto more than 9, but more than 9 will be insult to other anime, i'm considering even the fact that they had to use ton of fillers even when the manga reached it's end, pierrot didn't made it easy on the fans, but the good they brought it making me giving it
round 9.0000000/10.
about boruto - forget it pierrot, even when it will be finished i may consider not watching it. |