- How the writers of Naruto treats Sakura is fucking embarrassing. What a joke. Her entire character is how much she loves Sasuke. She just gasps on the sidelines the entire time. Her role is pure wankery, exposition. They should be ashamed of how she is written in the first season.
- In general, the show fails at lack of telegraphing. A ninja will pull out a quadruple switcheroo on something and the viewer will be constantly going "WTF!", there is no way to guess what is happening beforehand
- The first season is also very short on animation. A lot of static images. It still works, but it's not too complex or technically sound. The animation is clearly done on the cheap for the first season at least.
- The battles are great. They are like chess matches
- Naruto is stupidly annoying. Why does he tell everyone about his Hokage dream. I wonder if he has undiagnosed ADHD? He seems to talk about irrelevant things to people who don't know anything about him or his problems.
- "Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life." - Hatake Kakashi
- From S1 E21, the show is instantly better. The Chunin exams are already super interesting. Lots of new characters, interesting dilemma, high stakes. The animation quality is considerably better and more complex from this point on. I wonder what happened during this time.
- Hinata is also such a fucking bad character. Why do they write such poor female characters? Her whole thing is loving Naruto. Fuck. In fact, every female ninja's whole character is just competing for Sasuke's attention. It's fucked up.
- "The condition is"
- "The condition is, to protect the life of someone precious"
- Blowing out the cast to have way more leaf ninja was such a good idea.
- Dattebayo! Believe it! Lol, Naruto's verbal tick.
- Ino being excluded from Chunin third exam training and working in a fucking flower shop. Lol this show is cooked.
- I am loving the politics of Naruto in S3. Interesting. The show just keeps getting better.
- Konohamaru is a great name! I love saying it.
- One Thousand Years of Death
- Naruto no-sells moves. He makes moves look weak and tanks everything.
- During the Gaara fight, Sakura literally taken out of the fight and does nothing. Bullshit. They can't even let her contribute.
- There are a lot of animation tricks used in Naruto, from Kakashi's mouth, meaning no animation required when he talks, Naruto running, reusing older animations.
- Man, Kakashi, what a badass. Such a cool character. He's so chill
- The price of entry
- When Sasuke is leaving the village then knocks out Sakura, that is incredibly fucked up. She is now unconscious in the middle of the only road into town, and it's the middle of the night. Both Naruto and Sasuke express concern for her being out that late, yet Sasuke knocks her out? Shit is cooked bro. She could totally have been assaulted etc.
- Rock Lee could have been the main character
- Wow, Sasuke is the kind of guy to party at a strangers house then take random pills given to him. What a loose unit (when he chooses to go with the Sound Village Ninja).
- Rasengan is badass. Chidori is cool
- Episode 133, the animation quality is just out of this world, amazing. So reactive, so smooth
- There was a lot of love poured into Naruto. From the animation, to the heart of a lot of the stories, even the music is just really great - the start and ending songs.
- One of the reasons I like Naruto, was that it isn't like Dragon Ball Z, where characters had to power up to beat opponents. Strategy almost never played a part, instead it was relegated to power level - surprise attacks or suicide explosions don't matter if your opponent can just tank it. To win in DBZ, you just drink a potion, get touched by a god and just gain a higher power level than them. Goku is just a filthy power-level grinder.
- Sometimes life hits you with a rasengan
- Was Jiriyah the toad sage inspired by Master Roshi, the turtle sage? Both taught their student a nuke attack, kamehameha and rasengan. Both are pervy sages.
- I love Guy Sensei and Rock Lee's relationship. It's not often genuine male affection and wholesome role models are shown in anime. The POWER OF YOUTH - the handsome devil of the leaf village.
- Sakura's first real badass moment was when she fucking slayed the third Kazeikage puppet. Holy shit. Finally, she gets props she deserves. Finally. The entire battle was amazing. Finally - they treated Sakura right. What a badass.
- Why didn't Team Guy just swap opponents when they were battling the clones from the 5 point jutsu? If Rock Lee cant beat clone Rock Lee, why not get Neji to beat clone Rock Lee?
- There were many times characters should have died using suicidal but heroic tactics, but then they live. Choji should have died taking pills, Gaara should have stayed dead, Rock Lee should have stayed paralysed/injuired. It would have done way more for his character.
- Kakashi: "There you are, hugging the earth like a worm"
- The arc that focuses on Shikamaru and his teacher is so fucking good. It's just the best arc I've seen. Shikamaru is the best fucking character in the show. Rock lee is great too though, need moar.
- This show cannot deal with female characters. Even this boss lady who is a warden of a fucking prison just fawns over Sasuke, and that is her character. What a shit.
- I love how they try to make fights all different and unique. They aren't all on repeat. Except for Naruto, who does the same thing every time.
- Jiriyas backstory is amazing. What a great development to an already cool character. His story is like a tale, or a legend. I love the idea that a guy is told his destiny, then follows the foretelling to try and make it a reality. It was fortold he would take an apprentice which would shape the world, so then he goes out of his way to teach and train people in the hopes that he fulfills his destiny. Had he not been told, would he have done this?
- I love the inter-generational storytelling in Naruto. It really puts everything in context. The two Jiraiya ninja scrolls episodes are fucking awesome. I have liked the historical episodes.
- I just noticed something, which is that when Naruto confronts Itachi and Itachi asks him why he is obsessed with his brother Sasuke. Naruto responds saying "He's more of a brother to me than he ever was to you". Itachi then smiles, which I realise now was a smile of happiness. I think he was glad and relieved that Naruto feels that way, because Itachi hasn't been able to be the brother he wanted to be.
- All of Team Kakashi were trained by the sanine
- 153 is a cool show format changeup.
- Holy SHIT Shikamaru's speech to Naruto was fucking good. it was so on point.
- Quotes from message boards: "kishi probably secretly imagines he is itachi or sasuke or something and hence he gives uchiha more screentime cause hes living out his gay fantasies" - babaGAReeb
- Dude Naruto is so gay and he loves Sasuke. I think Sasuke loves Naruto too, he is just in denial.
- Sasuke is an Uchiha-supremecist
- Man, if they wanted to fix Sasuke, they should have kidnapped him and brought him to the magical waterfall where he could have fought himself etc. Would have been much simpler than war.
- Wow, Naruto is really about nuke attacks and stuff now isn't it? Just who has the biggest nuke.
- Changing his most said word to avoid the gourd, wow Darui is so fucking smart. What a cool twist
- Wow, Naruto is really all about powerups and nukes now. Fucking hell. Where is all the tactics of lower level shinobi?
- The sexism of Naruto is so pervasive. Even when they refer to all the Kages as 'The First Kazekagi' or whatever, yet Tsunade is always referred to as 'Lady Tsunade'.
- Why are there so many Hashirama cells floating around? They are the HeLa cells of Naruto.
- Is Madara also gay and loves Hashirama?
- Quotes from message boards: "All Uchiha are gay. They only had sex with women so they can have more gay Uchiha to be gay with."
- Quotes from message boards: "You should have made this thread when Kishi had a chapter about Madara pumping white gunk infused with Hashirama's DNA from a naked statue of him into his backside and making plant-babies combining himself with Hashirama."
- Quotes from message boards: "Hinata is the icon of traditional Japanese feminity: silent, obsessively loyal and obsequious to her man, oh-so delicate... an inanimate sex doll. Naruto is the icon of traditional Japanese masculinity: unrealistically ambitious, earnest, passionate, domineering and athletic. Their relationship is propaganda about classical sexuality."
- Kakashi vs Obito. What a fucking amazing fight. No talking, no bombs, no fucking megazords, just amazingly animated hand to hand taijutsu.
- Sakura massaging Naruto's heart is fucking metal.
- I get original Team 7 being the last left standing during the Infinite Syukiyomi, but I wish Sai and Yamato were also present. That would have been metal. Sai could have stopped people falling in the lava with his ninjutsu, while Yamato could have saved everyone from falling. I miss Yamato, and his presence has been noticeable in the last few arcs of Naruto. His dream state shows how much this is what he wants; approval of Kakashi and to lead the amazing Team 7. I wish he'd been included for this segment of the show.
- Also, the Ten-Ten episodes were fucking amazing. I wish we'd had 100x more of her and that type of episode.
- Having the resurrection jutsu was such a fucking creative but also shitty way of having the writer of Naruto have their cake and eat it too. Like, they get to resolve a whole bunch of things post-death. Classic fanservice. It should have only been up to people living...
- The visit from the Sage of Six Paths was such a deus ex machina. So lame.
- Interesting that Naruto stopped making 100000 shadow clones and now just makes 2 - 4.
- This Obito > Madara > Kaguya bullshit is bullshit. Pick one big bad. Just one.
- Oh my god. I can't beleive I am writing this. Now the final bad guy is Sasuke? What the fuck? This makes no sense. How were they not drained after the last 3 bad guys? I love also how the Sage of Six Paths can't do anything about it now. lol. what a shit writing.
- What the fuck is wrong with the writing, making Sakura still love and have kids with Sasuke after he turns into a homicidal maniac.
- To be fair, Naruto made me realise what good quality animation is. The love and attention that can go into it. They really have a love for animation...when they want to.
- There are a lot of fairly well written characters in Naruto. Primarily, Oorochimaru, Shikamaru, Pain to some degree, Itachi...sorta.
- Oh my god the writers FUCKED Yamato so much. His dream was to lead team 7, so what do they do? Make him guard Oorochimaru as he freely walks about the village...after everything he's done. What the fuck
- I think Ten-Ten has the best character design post-war time-skip. But they are all really good. Even her outfit is fiiire. Even Shino and Kiba look great. The outfits are also great.
- Reincarnation in Naruto is FUUUCKING lame.
- Honestly, Naruto is at its strongest when it's Naruto vs Sasuke. God damn, that animation of the final battle. When they are exhausted and barely able to hit each other. 10/10 animation. I love it. It felt so real.
- Omg, Hinata and Naruto relationship comes out of literally nowhere. Wtf
- I do not buy Oorochimaru's face turn. So cringe
Glad I watched Naruto, if only for the sakuga animation. The fight scenes, when animated well, are some of the best I've ever seen.
