In 2007 I stayed up really late on Saturday night, while watching Cartoon Network it suddenly changed their was this ship, a space guy and something about something called Toonami. Then this show came on called Naruto and that's where it all began when I was eight. I know it's super inappropriate for an eight year old barely in second grade to be watching anime (especially the episode I caught was the first episode which had a lot of violence and the first use sexy jutsu.) As it just so happened their was a marathon from that episode to later learned final episode of the land of waves arc (Yeah I was basically up all night.)
In the end I fell in love with the series because of the world it created, the characters and the story. It inspired me to want to go in a field that involved story telling (either literature or movies) in order to do that because it was so amazing. Naruto made me the person I am today. So Naruto is very important to me and it feels really strange it has ended. It feels like I am officially out of childhood and getting more and more closer to adulthood.
Now my general thoughts is I love the series but that doesn't mean it's always been good, the first part of Naruto is legitimately good throughout the whole thing and is the perfect example of how you should progress a story from a simple one to a bigger world built emotionally deep story, was it perfect heck no it could be inappropriately silly and had not the best female characters but overall it was still good in story, character and emotional development.
Naruto shippuden overall it's hit or miss there are a lot of aspects I really love about it from how they made the new villains and how good the story arcs could get, how dark it could get and again the development of the characters both story wise and emotionally. The miss parts of it were that Sasuke became intolerable to read or watch about because even before or after he got his revenge he was still whiny, annoying and bitchy and it felt infuriating how Naruto and Sakura still wanted Sasuke to turn good because it was a thing of that you could tell he's too far gone. It could also get really convoluted at times and kind of stupid and explain things we didn't need to know.
The worst arc for either part one and shippuden has to be the fourth great war arc which started out great with all the shinobi coming together to fight Tobi, and the action and introductions to characters like Darui and expanding on other characters such as B and A. Yet after the reveal of Tobi it got really convoluted and stupid such as the connection of love and the sharingan, bringing back Orochimaru, the whole chakra-tree-of-Eden-first-shinobi bullshit. I hate when writers try to hide or out right lie about reveals to pull off "clever twists" but it's also infuriating to know the origins of things we didn't need to or want to know such as how Chakra was created.
I do still love the series despite how bad the Fourth shinobi war/final arc got (and at times it got really horrible) and I did like the epilogue which I found really heartwarming and a good send off.
I am writing this to sort of get my feelings out on Naruto and what effect it has on me because, because of Naruto I look at how to write characters and stories very differently and think about what you can really do with it even some of the most insane stuff can be great story telling devices. It's unfortunate how low of an opinion "the mainstream" typically has on anime and manga because it can be really great and while it has many flaws and got really bad near the end I could get really great and I still love it.
So that's my feelings on the end of Naruto and I'm really sad about it now. Also here's my customary list on some Naruto things.
Favorite male character: Kakashi Hatake and/or Gaara
Favorite female character: Hinata Hyuga
Least favorite male character: Sasuke Uchiha
Least favorite female character: Sakura Haruno
Favorite male villian: Haku
Favorite female villian: Konan
Least favorite male villian: Orochimaru
Least favorite female villian: Kaguya Otsutsuki
Favorite story arc: The chunin exams
Least favorite arc: Final arc
Favorite Jutsu: Any and all wood style Jutsu's
Least Favorite Jutsu: Rasengan (lost it's cool factor and it's power threat when it became used so much in Shippuden which was another flaw how often they used the same jutsu in Shippuden.)
So that's it see you later for big hero six review
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