swaminaruto
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I'm going to get a LOT of flak for saying this but most of the hard-core Naruto fans know deep within their hearts that Naruto is not the brilliant series it once was. Following are the reasons I think Naruto did wrong(I know I'm not a writer and it's Kishi's manga and all but I feel that as an artist, if you set a standard for yourself, you have to live up to that standard and not let slip halfway through).
1) Kurama turning good way too soon:
When I read this part in the manga, it was a shocker for me. The fox and its hatred formed the main core of the series. This moment should have been one of the greatest points in the manga dealt with as much care and attention as the story of Naruto's birth or Jiraya's death. You can't just change its character over the course of a few pages. The series lost most of its emotional pull after this. Also, in all other previous fights in Naruto, there was always that hinting of that sinisterness within. That feeling of 'the rampaging fox can take over any time and destroy everyone and everything'.Now, the once-mighty fox has been reduced to the status of a pet dog.
2) Sasuke turning good:
Initially when I started watching Naruto, I thought Sasuke was going to be the main character's strong friend like in all shonen series. But Sasuke was different. He had his own beliefs and Kishi did a brilliant job of leading Naruto and Sasuke down opposite paths. I always wanted Sasuke to turn good but when he didn't even after Itachi's death, it became clear that he was sort of the final evil of the series.Then Kishi does another ass-pull and makes him good, this time, over the course of a few freaking pages. Now, even if Naruto and Sasuke fight, Kishi will have to pull some strange reason out of a hat rather then use the premise that had already been built very well.
(These two points are my major gripes. The ones below are minor, so, I won't expand upon them).
3) Too many edo tenseis
4) Kishi placed the Pein and Itachi fight too early into the series
5) Final arc lacks a villain who has a sufficiently gruesome backstory like Pein's
6) Juubi was not all that powerful as it was hyped up to be
7) Obito regretting his actions felt repetitive and unnecessary
8) Not enough people are dying in the war
9) The series has started to concentrate on power levels rather than emotions
10)Kakashi has been wasted as a character
11)Naruto no longer has any internal conflicts(Unlike all other fights Naruto has ever had)
12)Naruto has absolutely no seriousness that Neji or some other people have died. In the Pein fight, not once did he laugh or joke about during the fight. Here he is seen joking around and laughing just a few chapters after Neji died.
13)Passing the chakra cloak to everyone and Minato having KCM mode was pretty lame compared to Naruto's original standards
14)The Itachi-Kabuto-Sasuke fight was isolated and could have been incorporated into the main storyline better.
1) Kurama turning good way too soon:
When I read this part in the manga, it was a shocker for me. The fox and its hatred formed the main core of the series. This moment should have been one of the greatest points in the manga dealt with as much care and attention as the story of Naruto's birth or Jiraya's death. You can't just change its character over the course of a few pages. The series lost most of its emotional pull after this. Also, in all other previous fights in Naruto, there was always that hinting of that sinisterness within. That feeling of 'the rampaging fox can take over any time and destroy everyone and everything'.Now, the once-mighty fox has been reduced to the status of a pet dog.
2) Sasuke turning good:
Initially when I started watching Naruto, I thought Sasuke was going to be the main character's strong friend like in all shonen series. But Sasuke was different. He had his own beliefs and Kishi did a brilliant job of leading Naruto and Sasuke down opposite paths. I always wanted Sasuke to turn good but when he didn't even after Itachi's death, it became clear that he was sort of the final evil of the series.Then Kishi does another ass-pull and makes him good, this time, over the course of a few freaking pages. Now, even if Naruto and Sasuke fight, Kishi will have to pull some strange reason out of a hat rather then use the premise that had already been built very well.
(These two points are my major gripes. The ones below are minor, so, I won't expand upon them).
3) Too many edo tenseis
4) Kishi placed the Pein and Itachi fight too early into the series
5) Final arc lacks a villain who has a sufficiently gruesome backstory like Pein's
6) Juubi was not all that powerful as it was hyped up to be
7) Obito regretting his actions felt repetitive and unnecessary
8) Not enough people are dying in the war
9) The series has started to concentrate on power levels rather than emotions
10)Kakashi has been wasted as a character
11)Naruto no longer has any internal conflicts(Unlike all other fights Naruto has ever had)
12)Naruto has absolutely no seriousness that Neji or some other people have died. In the Pein fight, not once did he laugh or joke about during the fight. Here he is seen joking around and laughing just a few chapters after Neji died.
13)Passing the chakra cloak to everyone and Minato having KCM mode was pretty lame compared to Naruto's original standards
14)The Itachi-Kabuto-Sasuke fight was isolated and could have been incorporated into the main storyline better.
