What would animu be like if Naruto never existed?

>>153805592
Pretty much the same. It wasn't that influential to the industry, aside from introducing a large amount of people to anime.

>>153805805
this.
Hunter x Hunter started a whole year earlier, and has tons of features you could consider Naruto having blatantly ripped.

Shit starts to really seem like a rehash when you take into account some ye-olde Shonen action series, like DB and Jojo.

I would have a life maybe

>>153805592
If Naruto continued to improve and expand upon the ninja discipline and tactics aspects of its world, it would have ended up being a more influential series.

It ended up undermining its previous methods in favor of power levels and Shonen tropes.

Remember when it was important to approach situations in different formations? Or when chakra ran out? Yeah.

>>153808558
I remember it ending with Naruto punching his opponents a lot.

>>153805592

Much worse. There would be no anime relevant outside Japan, except maybe SnK.

>>153805805
it brought the huge array of different techniques that characters could use, now people not only fired big lasers like in DBZ, but they had a bunch of elemental techniques, summons, illusions and even weapons, basically anything goes on a fight. See Orochimaru vs 3rd Hokage as an example.

Sadlly it all devolved into big nukes and mechs (bijuu/susanoo) by the end of the series. Even a fun concept like genjutsu stopped being useful after the itachi vs sasuke fight and was nerfed into irrelevancy.

does anyone have that screencap image of karin revealed toe be salads mom.

>>153809065
>it brought the huge array of different techniques that characters could use
That's not unique to Naruto.