The only accurate one out of your list is Danzo, and Kabuto ... to an extent. The rest of them (bar Sasuke) are Godawful. In fact Shikamaru is a product of lazy, terrible writing; the bizarre axioms established amongst the select portion of Naruto demographic for him being even worthy of a moment's glance on this front just baffles me. In fact, he literally personifies the writer's laziness to even craft something close to possessing a semblance of a caricature, yet alone a character. Itachi stands along the same sidelines. I’ll challenge anyone to prove to me if he isn’t a silly caricature the manga accidently intended him to be.
Sasuke is the sole character in the entire manga with depth, agency, contradicting, unpredictable stances, the realism associated with a man’s psyche; you cannot predict a human being. They are unpredictable creatures, embracing persistent inconsistencies, prone to mistakes, terrible ones, marred by flaws and married to their own romantic notions of life. It’s the flaw in Sasuke, realistic flaws, his shifting personae in the face of events that charge at him and he pushes back relentlessly to get even or fall back down at fate’s mercy. It’s a repetitive cycle of a mortal man who gets no reprieve from the assaults on his soma.
That is all what a human being is; part fate and part agency. Sasuke encapsulates it so brilliantly, that I feel he is beyond the reach of an average anime viewer who hasn’t studied critical thought and various mental attribution theories in regards to understanding the psychology of characters. Honestly, even Danzo is laughable by comparison, despite being well-written for this medium.
The complexity, modern and Classical, in Sasuke’s variegated personality is unmatched in most postmodern works I have come across. He beats out Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell by a fairly large margin; something, I never thought possible. It’s just the sheer brilliance of corrupted mystic philosophy of existence, the modern shenanigans and axioms of societal mores and the cultural dogmas he stands against. He’s the persona non grata, left outside the shores of a juggernaut who faulted and wronged him. It’s … it’s genius writing.
Honestly, Sasuke has never got the recognition and Kishimoto the well-deserved accolades for penning a genuinely accurate character that embodies the vacillating and fickle Nature of a man, the battle against the hard-held, inconceivably corrupt dogmas born of eons of indoctrination, tragedy, peripeteia, the pathos of a man and the gradual catharsis that comes when Sasuke pushes the plot back, taking the reins of chariot of Time and Fate in his own hands.
As I said, most people have never done this character justice. Its depth is a stuff of brilliance; a true literary accomplishment in such an immature medium plagued by the scourge of repetitive, tedious tropes. Sasuke embodies them and the heterogeneous mixture comes out as something astonishingly fresh. Add the symbolic, recurrent motifs of Sharingan, the struggle of clan against its own demons and you have that must more layers added to his varied and remarkably mature characterization from an author that obviously struggles between his own worth as a writer and tug of war with his clumsy editors.
Sigh …
