It's the reason I have for this to steal my heart despite its flaws. The story of a loser who changes the world. Positive symbolism is through everything, characters serving as general explanations for wrong human behaviours and the complexity of life are all stirred in a thick and massive stew of characters, affiliation, thoughts, perspectives, feelings...Naruto is a huge world with lots of stories and depth. And of course with so much time you can tell so much but this also means that the franchise targeted a few stages of teenage years to create something bigger than the story itself by adding the element of time to the viewing experience. Some people will call it undeserved hype, but they also probably masturbate to stuff like Aoi Bungaku, Steins:Gate or animes that did not get a second season but oh boy was it going somewhere.
This anime is timeless, Naruto and Miyazaki are immortal and if we would be fair enough to only grant access at an hypothetical bar in upscale London to animes that were able to obtain such status, the bar would never be short on staff.
Haku should of gotten more screen time, Jiraiya's death was needed but very dramatic, sasuke is ultimately kind of a douche, sakura should of been stronger and knowing that there is traffic on narutopedia is somewhat cool.
