Reviews

Naruto is one of those animes that everyone has heard about even if you've never watched anime in your life. It's also one of the animes that has ASTOUNDING amounts of potential with the concept. However, the story itself falls far short of what it could be sadly. The fact that this anime is 220 episodes with a sequel anime that has 300+ episodes or something is pretty much the reasoning behind that: They milked this WAY too hard.

There are a lot of truly good moments for this anime, but after Sasuke escapes the leaf village, things start going downhill. It's been a while since I watched Naruto, but I can hardly even remember most of the stuff after that other than the Isarabi(Spelling) arc thing where they meet the fish girl and save her from the evil group/the villagers who hate her, mainly because that was the ONLY good filler arc I found.

What's worse: The fillers don't matter in shippuden at all. It's over 100 episodes of pointless fluff.

That being said, the story could be improved even without the fillers: The potential is there for this to be a giant success, but they limited themselves in the story department to make way for action scenes and a bunch of fighting.

The character development is good, but can be improved on. A lot of characters are flat out predictable whether you like them or not, and interactions can be cheesy due to the attempted comedy where it didn't need to be.

For new anime watchers I would recommend watching Naruto or at least trying it out: It truly is a decent anime, but it could've been a lot better than it is.

~Someone who didn't watch Shippuden, but did watch the entire first season.