My favourite part about the story is that unlike other anime/manga from the battle Shounen category, Naruto Shippuden features the adventures of two main characters, Naruto and Sasuke, as they reach closer to the final stage they will share. Basically it's like watching two different anime at the same time. The main theme of the story is pain and how can we reach to understand each other by understanding each others pain. Besides that the arcs which show us the events from the past and how the world reached to be like this feel just like a history book, not a boring one from school, but one full of action which keeps surprising you till the end.
Some people will most likely say that this anime is not worth watching because of the huge number of fillers which are not even as good as the ones that other big Shounen have. Even though this review is supposed to be about Shippuden I feel responsible to say that the fillers from the original series are awesome. The first anime material I have watched and what convinced me to watch anime in the first place were those fillers. Some of them were just as funny as Gintama and One Piece and it would be a waste to skip them. As for the fillers from Shippuden I must admit that they are not that great, but I still liked them because they gave some characters the screen time that they deserved. And I don' know if naming some arcs is considered spoiler (hope not), but the fillers which show us Kakashis and Itachis pasts are so well made that I consider them canon. And the filler arc about Naruto and a few other characters travelling with a boat in order to reach an island from the land of lightning(an event which is canon) was again extremly funny. And if you are that stubborn that you don't even wanna give those fillers a chance you can just skip and you will still have more than 200 episodes to watch, after all there are people who would say that even 70 episodes is too much.
The artstyle used by Masashi Kishimoto is one of my favourites and the only part which is not perfect about it is the pretty plain hair. As for the animation, it may not be Madhouse level, but that doesn't make the anime less enjoyable. The soundtrack is also amazing being able to bring every emotion from sadness and despair to anger and excitement to its peak.
Unfortunatly some of the main characters have not received enough development, but there are also lots of characters with such great backstories, roles, and well developed personalities that I can honestly call them some of the best characters ever created in the history of anime and manga. Even the less developed characters have matured after the timeskip and evolved without loosing their personalities.
In coclusion Naruto Shippuden is a great anime which I highly recommend to not only the Shounen lovers, but also to the other kinds of fans and it still remains my favourite after watching over 60 different anime from all the genres.
