Story: It starts with him beeing an outcast in his own village, joining a group of genin shinobi with the two genins Sakura and Sasuke he begins practically hating Sasuke but they begin earning each others mutual respect and befriending each other as rivals when the antagonist starts appealing to Sasukes dark past and his thirst for revenge it ends up in him leaving the village having Naruto and Sakura desperatly searching for clues on his whereabouts. i give the story10/10
Art and Animation: well its a well drawn anime and compared to the shitty dragonball art it can be counted as epic but ive seen better and animation was pretty good or at least in the fights
and as for the the characters well they were great sure some cliches like iill die protecting my friends and that but that still matches well with the story and though Naruto's character shaping would probably be pretty stereotype in the anime world and sure sakura is the typical schoolgirl personality all of that matches in with the story, and not to mention the awesome support charcters
But the main thing about Naruto is that youll enjoy it very much and if you watch naruto youll never ever consider watching such shitty art as dragonball
