Naruto

>>155399623
Too much wasted potential.

It ended.

>>155400622
Nope we Boruto now

>>155399623
Kakashi vs Obito was pure kino

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>>155400724
>Not Naruto vs pain
It was hands down the best fight in the series with great animation

It provided us plenty of development for certain characters and between characters to then makes us actually care when said character died, as well as giving us thematic and narrative resonance that, when used well, worked wonders. These were not simply plot devices, in fact many of them weren't at all, but they instead worked as a way to push the development of certain characters in a powerful and believable way.
Also, for certain mini-arcs between the big arcs, it picked a very specific theme and sticked to it to drive the point home before moving to the next mini-arc, battle, event, or whatever else.

>>155400622
The Bort will preserve the legacy

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>>155400831
>best fight
Absolutely
It was pure KINO

Rock Lee should have been the main character instead.

>>155400945
to then make us* sorry for my retardation.

By the way, here's another nice thing to say about it: it wasn't Bleach.

>>155401015
It was the BEST ANIMATION I HAVE EVER SEEN IN ANY ANIME. 1000% KINO, 1000% GOOD QUALITY.

>>155401030
Yeah as retarded as Naruto got it didn't reach Bleach levels of bad and I kinda liked Madara as the final villain before Kaguya came and ruined him.

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>>155401113
>Not posting gif of the fight
I want the plebs to leave this place.

>>155399623
Despite its missteps I still found it kinda enjoyable and I was satisfied with the ending for the most part. Overall it neither deserves the hate or the praise it receives, its pretty middle of the road.

>>155401233
It was hard to choose just one scene. ALL OF THEM ARE PURE GOLD.

Remember when Kishi waited until the mid point of the post-Timeskip manga to shoehorn an elemental affinity system and rip-off HxH once again?

Oh wait... something nice about Naruto... nevermind...

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>>155401437
Stop it's embarrassing seeing how much of a pleb you are

>>155399623
The Hidan/Kakuzu arc tricked me into thinking Kishi would do justice to his side characters. Could've lived without ending on Big Match Naruto stealing the show at the end with his new Life Risking™ technique.

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>>155399623
This beautiful bastard

>>155399623
Pain's arc and his fight with Naruto was nice,especially Jiraiya's last stand, until it went the dragonball route at the end holy fuck.

>>155402030
I was wholeheartedly waiting for it to go 100% crazy, it was just a matter of when.

Nice try with the matrix/wall-e plotlines.

Shame the execution wasn't good.

Karin's delicious pancake ass still blesses my dreams every other night or so.

>>155402261
>implying that Karin doesn't exist solely to cuck Sakura

>>155401943
Madara was the best character in the show just try to prove me wrong
You can't

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>>155402791
He might have been the best, but he still wasn't the coolest

As shitty as the characters are, the message about politics, sacrifice, and loyalty aren't that bad. You don't get much of that in other shonen besides the power of friendship.

The construction of Kyuubi as a being and not just a monster was kinda cool

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>>155402261
>The fact that Karin is a surviving Uzumaki is never brought up

>>155401532
You mean the leaf test?

>>155403606
>Karin comparing Sasuke's "cold chakra" to Naruto's "warm as the sun"
I actually wanted them to end up together for a while desu.

>>155399623
I enjoyed the way they wrote the fight between Gai and Madara. I still get a bit of a chill when I hear "I MADARA, DECLARE YOU THE STRONGEST!"

>>155403745
Karin and Suigetsu were wasted in Naruto. I really like the team dynamics of the two with Sasuke forming a surrogate Team 7.

Jugo was just a Hulk expy

>>155399623
had some dope OPs

>>155400622
Came to post this
Also dubs confirm

>>155399623
Hidan was a nice villain
There

>>155407495
Hidan was shit though worst akatsuki by far.

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Was it autism?

>>155402722
>cuck Sakura
But Sakura won the Sasuke battle so....

The Shikamaru and Asuma bit were pretty good

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do it for her

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Hashirama is the best and most handsome ninja.
https://youtu.be/xFINbxtFGLs

>>155405084
>Jugo
had to wikia that to remember him

>>155401113
It wasn't actually bad quality though. If anything it was pretty high quality.

I just don't know what they were thinking with.

>>155408041
How does it feel to have taste this shit?

>>155399623
Naruto meeting his mom.

That was nice.

>>155399623
Too much nuruto thread latly. Should be banned for one month.

>>155399623
It was good until they killed puppet man

>>155399623
It gave the finger to NaruSaku shippers

>>155410294
Remember when narutard threads would get spammed and dub'd into oblivion? good times...

>>155399623
...I'm glad they WROTE Shikamaru into the thing without making him retarded.

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duhhhh haha me rin durrrr ha me like kakashi durrrr obito silly dum dum haa

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>>155399623
It had an awesome next generation swordsman, total bro.
Bestboy.

>>155410294
Moot point to be honest. We have a DB Super general that has much more /v/ than any Naruto thread, and god knows what other threads too boot. What's the point of clogging up one hole when there's a shitload of others that go unattended.

>>155405084
>Jugo
who?

>>155410382
this

It kept my interest when I was 15, so that's something

>>155401775
Kek

First arc was fine I guess

I really liked the teacher student dynamic going on with Naruto and Jiraiya. As well as Shikamaru and Asuma.

Hinata winning and the tears afterwards.

>>155410218
his mom was sexy and best girl

they made that nerd hinata into a sexy titty monster

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>>155400831
>>155401015
>>155401113
>>155401233
>>155401775
The animation its self is great, they just went full loony-toons with it, desu.

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Reminder that he did absolutely nothing wrong

>>155417393
Looks stupid even in motion to be honest

>>155402030
I actually hated the end of the pain arc until about 6 months ago when I started listening to University of Toronto Professor of Psychology Jordan Peterson's lectures, and he completely changed the way I look at it.

Basically, the fundamental truth of human existence is that life is suffering, ie, Pain. The fact that life is painful will make you resentful, and that will in turn make you murderous. Pain's whole existence is based around resentment, even is plan for world peace is built upon his assumption that people are stupid and can only be controlled through fear and pain.

So when Pain asks Naruto how he will confront the pain and hatred of the world, his response was to say "I'm going to believe in Pervy Sage's belief - so I won't kill you guys". Effectively saying that he won't let his pain control him and turn him into a puppet of resentment like what happened to Nagato.

(It's also neat that Pain is a puppet like Pinocchio, gotta get rid of them strings and become a real boy)

This also turned into a wall of text so I'd be surprised if anyone actually reads it. Here's (I think) the video where he covers this particular topic in a non-weeb format. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLp7vWB0TeY&list=PL22J3VaeABQD0f71oraDkMv9LfntA2-Sm&index=3

The main problem with Part 2 is it turns into an Uchiha dick sucking manga. It's barely about Naruto at all, a lot of it is dedicated to Sasuke and more and more Uchiha bullshit culminating in "Uchiha Madara" one of the biggest Mary Sue characters I've ever seen.

>>155417556
>nothing wrong
>killed his former teacher and his teacher's wife
>threatened to kill said teacher's newborn son
>used sharingan hax to establish a brutal regime in the Hidden Mist
>Started a war
K

>>155399623
Still remember thinking this cover was really good fan art at the time cause I was still in the middle of the Sound Four arc

Shikamaru had a great development as a character.
Itachi had some moments too.
Every else was shit.

>>155419898
I dont see any problems here

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This was very well done in both the manga and the anime.

>>155399623
If I had to say something positive about the writing, I'd say I was half expecting Kishi to Edo Tensei Jiraiya like every other relevent ninja was for some easy drama. He actually didn't and kept him dead and gone for good.