The story for this anime is great. Ninja's are awesome and all the missions they went on were very interesting until the end of the show. Now, the main villain is Orochimaru, one of the best and scariest anime villains I have seen thus far and whenever he was on screen was the highlight of the show. He was just there and I was invested. He was a huge part for most of it and I found those episodes the best. And then the whole thing with Sasuke went down and we basically never saw him again, and it got boring. All they did for the rest of the anime was go on missions that were not necessary at all. It made me literally fall asleep because I didn't care what was going on.
The characters were the best part of the series. They all have their unique styles and personalities that make you remember them. The top three that were most memorable, excluding Naruto, were Sasuke, Orochimaru and Gaara. All three of them were so fun to watch on the screen and I never got bored when they showed up. Hinata and Neji are also very interesting alongside Lee. Now of course Naruto, the star of the show. Most of the time he was on screen I was laughing and I was usually cheering for him. Though when Orochimaru came on screen I never really knew who to cheer for. No one hate me but I love Orochimaru, he is one of my favourite characters, behind Neji and in front of Hinata. Like those three, god bless them.
The animation was okay. This was made a while ago so it wasn't the greatest but I've seen worse. Moving to the music, I really liked it. There were some instrumental pieces that were kind of memorable but not as much as I know the music in Shippuuden will be. The openings however always got my attention. They were catchy and fun to sing along to. Especially Go by Flow and Kanashimi o Yasashisa ni by Little by Little.
Overall I enjoyed watching Naruto, it was just the ending that spoiled it for me. I'll watch the sequel and hopefully love this series even more. Hopefully it'll make up for the last few episodes for this anime.
But I give Naruto a 7/10 since I did enjoy myself. Naruto has 220 episode, half of them not even necessary, and aired in 2002-2007. It is from the studio Pierrot and is adapted from the manga of the same name by Masashi Kishimoto.
