thoughts on naruto manga?

[darkviruzzz]

I, just want it to end already... it's become so cliché

[dearjayycee]

It has.

Here are my thoughts on it.

My Problems With Naruto:

1.Let me start of by saying one thing I really hate about the series is that this (the synopsis) is the back story to the whole entire story until during late Shippuden then all of the sudden there is more than meets the eye to what happened (which was to be expected). I feel like the added information that the reader was given was too late, it felt like an after thought that Kishimoto hadn’t first planed when he was writing the series.

2.Along with adding information too late I feel like the added information the farther along the story got was poorly given to the audience. It makes the story seem as though Kishimoto is just throwing in poorly given excuses for what’s happening. The story at this point in time has stopped flowing, at the beginning the audience could go back and see signs of what was about to come and have that “Ah Ha I knew that was going to happen” moment. Not saying that those “I totally didn’t see that coming” moments aren’t good to have but making everything that happens something that no one saw coming doesn’t make for a good story.

3.Both of the main two characters (Naruto and Sasuke) are Mary Sues, simple as that. Now before anyone says “NO! THEY AREN’T!” let me explain why I say this, I think people can’t see them as Mary sues because they interact a lot thus canceling out each others Sueness, but if you were to take either character and place them in almost any other manga you would see how Sue’d up they are.

4.Masashi Kishimoto has made a wonderful world full of many characters but I always feel like we know nothing about most of them, for all the fillers there are in the anime why cant more of them be strictly about non-main characters?

5.Naruto can change everyone’s mind (mostly) I want just ONE bad guy who is just bad with nothing else fueling his motives other than hatred. I’m sick of everyone always all of the sudden siding with him.

These are just my main problems though I do have many more.

Things I like about Naruto:

1.There is an extremely broad range of characters making it easy for everyone to find a character they can get behind.

2.The broad range of character design (makes it more interesting to look at).

3.The broad range of attacks and powers (the audience isn’t stuck watching the same attacks ever single chapter/episode even if some characters get single attack happy).

4.Extremely intricate backstory.

Final thoughts:

I know (and understand) why Naruto is such an easy target to hate on. Too many people hate it purely because it’s popular and some truly hate it because they dislike it. But what most of these people forget is that Naruto is in fact at least a little bit good, it wouldn’t be so popular, so long, if it was as bad as some people think it is. That’s just the fact of it. Yes there are some manga that are pretty popular that suck, and then there are amazing manga no one’s heard of. But Naruto isn’t one of those. The story at this point has dragged on for too long, and unfortunately you can't just stop reading before shippuden because there are still so many questions left unanswered but I think that would have been the best place to end it.