[Spoilers] Did Naruto as anime and manga become cheezy and uninspiring as you got older?

[RikodouSennin]

Just watched the newest movie after not being around the narutoverse since the last manga chapter (I watched all the movies still) and I gotta say wow a kid who couldn't create over 4 shadow-clones overpowered an extraterrestrial being on crack that seemingly appeared out of nowhere, with a half ass rasengan. Thats after the alien all of a sudden became extremely weak to Taijutsu after eating the amount of chakra that seemed to be worth of like 20 killerbees. This is not just about the movie though, I had this feeling for like the last 1/3 of the manga.

I remember being a kid watching Lee's bones broken during chunin exam by Gaara then Naruto fighting him in the forest later on or the time when Orichimaru fought and cursed Sasuke for the first time. I really remember feeling for the characters, there was unpredictability and mystery. As I got older though, either its just me maturing or the Naruto story became stale and cheesy as **** with most characters being blatant Mary Sues for no reason. It seems that their target market are children, not even teens, who dont care about a serious thought-out story.

Thoughts?

 

[SageNaruto24]

I agree my man.. the first episode where the shit .kishimoto ran out of ideas, especially with boruto...

 

[Ripple Hole]

Not that I got older, it starting feeling cheesy to me when Naruto
kept having the same flashbacks of Sasuke in Part 1. That had always
bothered me and the fact that their relationship was shallow only made
it worse because it became blatantly obvious when the same exact ones kept
reappearing. Just wanted Naruto to move past Sasuke, guy acted like Garaa wasn't enough for his bandwagon.

 

[RikodouSennin]

I didn't think about this but yeah you actually brought up another good point. Their relationship never evolved in to something deep to justify why Naruto pretty much lived to return Sasuke back. I mean it would alright if they just hinted that that was the way Naruto felt about Sasuke, but why keep bringing it up non stop as if they were closer than brothers. All these things just pile up in your head and alot of story and events just start beeing pointless or straight up make no sense.

 

[oxtopus]

pretty much,i didn't even mind or notice fillers when i was young but as i got older started to become annoying,the anime and manga didn't just feel much exciting as before and joining forums also spoils the experience.

 

[DominiqueX]

I agree. The anime/manga became very boring after the Pain Arc and Kage-summit.
After that arc, it not longer felt like the deep, emotional story that Kishimoto once created. The main focus went from "deep stories and uniuque characters" to "explosions, country-scale battles and Sharingan/Rinnegan".

 

[Magi]

Not that I got older, it starting feeling cheesy to me when Naruto
kept having the same flashbacks of Sasuke in Part 1. That had always
bothered me and the fact that their relationship was shallow only made
it worse because it became blatantly obvious when the same exact ones kept
reappearing. Just wanted Naruto to move past Sasuke, guy acted like Garaa wasn't enough for his bandwagon.

Yea, they had nowhere near what I would call a "best friend" relationship. It felt rather forceful, unlike Gon and Killuas.

 

[Angelic.]

friendship power gooo

 

[Anbu Kirito]

Two words sum up the entire idea behind what makes up the essential lore of the Naruverse: Senju and Uchiha
Two more accurate words to sum up the essential lore: Eye Powers

 

[Byron123]

I think that the problem is that Naruto started as a shonen but it should not have ended as such. While I considered Naruto my most favourite manga for many years, the end really disappointed me. The thing is that in the beginning, while the plot was really good, it wasn't touching very sensitive subjects so kishi was pretty free on how to handle them but as the story progressed, it became darker and darker, in fact too dark for a shonen. Thus, he had to change his approach in order to remain acceptable to the audience he aims. As a writer myself, what I see in Kishi's work is a creator who did not respect his masterpiece and let his emotions, ethics and morals got in the way. Naruto could have gone down as one of the best manga in history but instead Kishi chose the easy road, he didn't keep it real to what it really was. This change of approach however had as result him trying to find good excuses to wrap it up quickly and his panic was all too obvious. He simply got bored of it and couldn't go on while keeping the quality as high as it used to be.

In my opinion, he should have re-evaluated what was more important for him: to get as much money as possilbe as well as a huge fandom or a more intellectual selective audience which would had as a result the decrease of the fandom as well as his earinings?