the original naruto...i remember....kakashi was so cool....orochimaru was akin to the devil himself.....jirayia was like god....naruto, sasuke, lee, shikimaru....all develiping steadily yet surely.......what the hell happened in shippuden???!! We got ten new akatsuki guys out of nowhere...is it just me or could they easily have been replaced with a different ten members and kishi would have still made sense of it? Pain and minato and itachi...all badasses...but all emos if u ask me, kike deidara and sasori...orochimaru made to look so weak, although his days of villainy remain unmatched....kakashi everyones favorite character tossed aside...at least jirayia didnt live long enough to be so direspected!...neiji, lee, kiba, shikamaru, tsunade...where are you guys??? Missed u all. Sakura is the least likeable character in any series also....sorry to sound like its a rant here. Would like to here if anyone feels the same, and if anyone has a reason for why kishi has done this...thankyou