| Excluding the mind-numbing filler, Naruto and Naruto Shippuden were actually great anime. Change my mind. |
Aldnox said: I can't. I dropped Naruto and Shippuden, but I didn't have a bad time with them, just lost interest. Fair enough. That shit had me hooked when I was a teenager. |
| I saw a couple of episodes of Naruto when it first aired on TV in my country, and it wasn't my cup of tea at all. Naruto, along with FMA, Bleach, Death Note, Witch Hunter Robin and Gundam SEED made me start to hate Anime for many years, and I ended up going from around 2003 to 2010 without watching any Anime. |
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Seiya said: I saw a couple of episodes of Naruto when it first aired on TV in my country, and it wasn't my cup of tea at all. Naruto, along with FMA, Bleach, Death Note, Witch Hunter Robin and Gundam SEED made me start to hate Anime for many years, and I ended up going from around 2003 to 2010 without watching any Anime. Damn, those anime must have hurt you. |
BrokenPhoenix said: Seiya said: I saw a couple of episodes of Naruto when it first aired on TV in my country, and it wasn't my cup of tea at all. Naruto, along with FMA, Bleach, Death Note, Witch Hunter Robin and Gundam SEED made me start to hate Anime for many years, and I ended up going from around 2003 to 2010 without watching any Anime. Damn, those anime must have hurt you. I grew up as a kid in the 90s, and most of the Anime I watched was either on TV, or tapes that I rented from the store, so most of what I saw was from the 80s & 90s. Anime from the 2000s that I saw back then wasn't really my cup of tea. Of course, there are good Anime from the 2000s, but the good stuff didn't air on any TV channels I had. |
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| I've only been here like 22 months but I swear I see a "Naruto is great minus the filler" thread every week. I first watched Naruto because I liked everything about it. I was 14 when picked it up again to continue the experience I had as a kid. 1st arc was pretty good, but the absolutely horrendous pacing, bad comedy, inconsistency, and crap story in Shippuden totally killed it for me. The fight scenes are pretty awesome though, but I wish I never watched it. That and Fairy Tail. |
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| i actually thought it was decent despite the fillers. i liked the animation during fight scenes a lot |
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pure said: i actually thought it was decent despite the fillers. i liked the animation during fight scenes a lot  I liked the animation during the fight scenes too, truly a masterclass in how to animate. |
BrokenPhoenix said: pure said: i actually thought it was decent despite the fillers. i liked the animation during fight scenes a lot I liked the animation during the fight scenes too, truly a masterclass in how to animate. that animation is appropriate and actually "good" for that scene between naruto and pain. it was even explained to prove why it was necessary and how it fit the fight well |
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pure said: BrokenPhoenix said: I liked the animation during the fight scenes too, truly a masterclass in how to animate. that animation is appropriate and actually "good" for that scene between naruto and pain. it was even explained to prove why it was necessary and how it fit the fight well Yes, I'm well aware. I actually meant what I said, unironically. |
BrokenPhoenix said: pure said: that animation is appropriate and actually "good" for that scene between naruto and pain. it was even explained to prove why it was necessary and how it fit the fight well Yes, I'm well aware. I actually meant what I said, unironically. oh oops i couldn't help but read that as a joke... since a lot of people do make fun of that scene a lot |
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pure said: oh oops i couldn't help but read that as a joke... since a lot of people do make fun of that scene a lot No harm done, it's just one of my favourite fight scenes in the series. |
BrokenPhoenix said: pure said: oh oops i couldn't help but read that as a joke... since a lot of people do make fun of that scene a lot No harm done, it's just one of my favourite fight scenes in the series. it really is great! i thought it was portrayed waaay better in the anime than the manga. tbh i personally think naruto went downhill after the pain arc |
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pure said: it really is great! i thought it was portrayed waaay better in the anime than the manga. tbh i personally think naruto went downhill after the pain arc Yeah, you have a lot of advantages when portraying fights in anime as opposed to in manga (i.e., animation, duh, music, actual speech etc).. yeah, the latter of stages of Shippuden weren't great |
| even without the filler they're ok at best. extremely lazy production. boring, predictable, and cliche characters and storyline. meh meh meh meh you're so shit |
BorisM3 said: even without the filler they're ok at best. extremely lazy production. boring, predictable, and cliche characters and storyline. meh meh meh meh you're so shit The edge lord returns. Swords at the ready men! |
BrokenPhoenix said: BorisM3 said: even without the filler they're ok at best. extremely lazy production. boring, predictable, and cliche characters and storyline. meh meh meh meh you're so shit The edge lord returns. Swords at the ready men! *shoots you dead* get a life. bin that knife. |
Fuck, he's an asterik roleplayer... this is gonna take some beating. |
| Havent even watched the filler and without it i can say it is OK its your typical well done Shounen with some great fights that wouldve made History if the build up wouldve been better I gave both a 6/10 |
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| "minus the bad part, every anime is a great anime" I would say that fillers are basically a part of Naruto, and while true that Naruto is a great anime without the filler, I think it's basically impossible to look over all the flashback and useless arcs. |
WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS. |
| Naruto, definitly. Without fillers I would probably place it in my top 10. Shippuden, just till Pain´s arc. |
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| Shippuden would still be a bit mediocre overall, even with the fillers taken out. But Naruto would be a great anime. |
| I agree, it's great, just too many fillers. I only thought it was a shame how the animation got worse over time (when it went on in Shippuuden) |
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| naruto has many flaws even without the fillers, doesn't stop me from loving naruto tho |
BrokenPhoenix said: Excluding the mind-numbing filler, Naruto and Naruto Shippuden were actually great anime. Change my mind. Naruto (Part 1) is really one of the best shounen anime. A coming-of-age story with a lot of heavy themes (Murder, War, Revenge, Death, Love, Dreams, Ideals, PTSD, and even being a (child) soldier as well). The characters are also really engaging, with the exception of someone like Sakura and Ino. Some fans actually don't like Part 1 because, some of the times, they act kinda 'bratty', but what do you expect considering that Part 1 is a coming-of-age story about 12-year-olds as Ninjas or (child) soldiers? (8.6/10) Naruto Shippuden (Part 2), in my opinion, is truly a letdown, especially the last arc of it. After the time skip, the plot feels more action-heavy. The beginning of Shippuden is not bad. Kishimoto gave us more action that the fanbase wanted and Sakura actually became so good, I fell in love with her in the Gaara Rescue Arc... too bad she never really got that momentum again. The shining points of Part 2 are the Itachi Revelation and the Pain Arc, where Kishimoto basically went full fucking overdrive on 'Ideals'. But after that, Part 2 really goes downhill. One of the issues I have with Part 2 is Sasuke's characterization, where he went from an alternative perspective of the main protagonist to someone that needs saving, and we could see that in The Five Kage Summit Arc. That arc was also really not living to the hype after the Pain Arc, where the state of affairs of other villages are just given a passing glimpse, where Sakura became useless again, and where Sasuke gets villainized too fucking much (cringey lines and full-blown evil laugh... yikes) And then there's the 4th Ninja War Arc... there's just too much shit I don't like in this arc but I'm just gonna name two of the biggest. They are, of course, the reincarnation thing, which is basically Kishimoto giving us the middle finger, and Boruto! (nuff said). Overall, Part 2 could've been so much better... but ended up as a disappointment. (6.1/10) |
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| It's a masterpiece, fillers were good too but the bad ones were really awful. Wouldn't have found other classics like FT, HxH without it. |
xfinityretaile1 said: It's a masterpiece, fillers were good too but the bad ones were really awful. Wouldn't have found other classics like FT, HxH without it. Is hunter x hunter inspired of Naruto?? |
| Naruto will always be great in my book. I actually rated it counting out the fillers. I'm admittedly biased since it was what got me into anime, but I don't care. Shippuden on the other hand is very debatable. |
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