Literally the only reason I prefer Naruto to Sasuke

Bad Touch Yakushi

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It's just that design. That's literally all there is separating these two polar opposite yet exactly identical characters.

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And yeah, it's a cool design. It's probably in my Top 3 (Hanzo, Kabuto & RSM Naruto) but when you think about it, that's not a lot of reason to prefer one protagonist to the other. Makes you think huh.

THEY'RE THE SAME CHARACTER

Equal amount of panel time, similarly dealt out power-ups, equal amount of events/development happening around them rather than to them, both physical brawlers/tool users who become DBZ chakra avatar giants near the end (just different colours) similar origin stories, both surprisingly bland and are the products of people more interested and experienced than them, both struggle with fatherhood and undergo a rather mature late-game personality twist in late age.

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One wants to connect everybody whilst the other sought to disconnect the current world, choosing loneliness. They're the same character with different designs and different colours headed in different directions of the same line.

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They're made to appeal to the two cliches of anime fans. The demographic of 13-18 year old fans are more drawn to the moral grey Vegeta / Shadow the Hedgehog / Zuko type simply because they are 'darker' and appeal more to that edgy fanbase.

And that's fine, you do you. Just don't act like they're completely different characters, drop your petty religious hatred towards a fictional character and realise that the bright-coloured, smiling protagonist archetype whilst simple, is equally as deep and complex as the dark anti-hero type. Don't oversimplify things just bc they're not your preference yo.

Anyway, happy Easter- let's all get along a bit and argue over stuff that actually matters maybe.
 
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Ideals make them different.

I think the whole vengeance path is very typical nowadays and I'm sick of the dark haired quiet emo character

Naruto's character is very cliche also but there's a charm to his ignorance and it works because he doesn't ever sway


However Guy and Lees ideals are the best in the whole series bar none
 

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They are different. Sasuke is actually a ninja and naruto isn't. Naruto was more of a ninja in part 1than he was in part 2
*caring about faithful ninja adaptation in Naruto past 1999* looooool

they both turn into omnipotent glowy laser beam giants by the mid-point so that argument was lost maybe a decade back.
 

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<div class="bbWrapper">I dislike both of em most of the time. Think I'm the only one. I'd make a thread but mods are dicks.</div>
 
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I dislike both of em most of the time. Think I'm pm the only one. I'd make a thread but mods are dicks.
I'm the same. I 'get' them both but both since series start can be extremely obnoxious. They're surrounded by vastly more interesting and complex characters. They're both DBZ / HunterxHunter-based archetypes.
 

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<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=20330824" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-20330824">Bad Touch Yakushi said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent"> I'm the same. I 'get' them both but both since series start can be extremely obnoxious. They're surrounded by vastly more interesting and complex characters. They're both DBZ / HunterxHunter-based archetypes. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink"><a>Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>Kishi literally made Sasuke and Naruto based off of Goku and Vegetas rivalry. Except Sasuke is a complete ****ing psycho, pulling political &amp; ideological 180's every 5 mins at one stage in the story and he's too cocky. People almost dying to bring him back and he's just like &quot;**** em&quot;. Don't even get me started on SS.<br /> <br /> Naruto. &quot;Believe it&quot; nearly made me kill myself at one stage he repeated it so much. He's pretty much retarded at some points. Oblivious, 1 dimensional and boring af. His philosophy makes no sense. A bit more than Sasuke because by the end he went full retard too with the revolution idea but I digress. Cheesey can do attitude got old real quick.<br /> <br /> There's much mor but that's the base of it.</div>
 

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Kishi literally made Sasuke and Naruto based off of Goku and Vegetas rivalry. Except Sasuke is a complete ****ing psycho, pulling political & ideological 180's every 5 mins at one stage in the story and he's too cocky. People almost dying to bring him back and he's just like "**** em". Don't even get me started on SS.

Naruto. "Believe it" nearly made me kill myself at one stage he repeated it so much. He's pretty much retarded at some points. Oblivious, 1 dimensional and boring af. His philosophy makes no sense. A bit more than Sasuke because by the end he went full retard too with the revolution idea but I digress. Cheesey can do attitude got old real quick.

There's much mor but that's the base of it.
Where's Itachi is an average Uchiha sig?

NB shall always remember it's heroes.
 

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<div class="bbWrapper"><blockquote class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-title"> <a href="/goto/post?id=20330845" class="bbCodeBlock-sourceJump" data-xf-click="attribution" data-content-selector="#post-20330845">Vulpepe said:</a> </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-content"> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandContent"> Where's Itachi is an average Uchiha sig?<br /> <br /> NB shall always remember it's heroes. </div> <div class="bbCodeBlock-expandLink"><a>Click to expand...</a></div> </div> </blockquote>It has been temporarily substituted out. Never fear. It shall make it's return soon enough.<br /> <br /> Lol @ Hiroshima btw.</div>
 

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All Sakura needed was like an ounce of development beyond being obsessed with Sasuke in Part 2 and she would have been vastly more interesting than both Naruto and Sasuke
 
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