I just threw away 350GB downloading this series. I know 85%+ of 4chan are in their mid to late 30s.Explain to me how you all watched this absolute garbage of a show and got hooked on it when you were 15 years old.The animation is horrible, the art quality is dog shit, the intro and outros are embarassingly bad.Explain yourself for making this anime popular its so bad holy fucking shit.My day is immeasurable, and my disappointment is ruined.
I didn't.
what is with the influx of reddit spacing retards?
>>287113341>the intro and outros are embarassingly badyou can hate naruto but you're a tastelet for not liking the ops. all of them are by classic jrock bands.
>>287113407>NOOOOO YOU HAVE TO WRITE IN A SUPER CRAMPED STYLE FORMATTING IS NOT ALLOWED>soijak.jpeg
>>287113341>The animation is horrible, the art quality is dog shitCorrect>the intro and outros are embarassingly badIncorrect
>>287113341There's a reason why we trolled the shit out of Naruto threads and called it a gateway anime of the worst kind. Most of us didn't watch it.
>>287113539>Most of us didn't watch itcome one now. it was pretty entertaining until after the Naruto - Sasuke fight
>>287113341100 of those gbs were useless filler.
>>287113341you need to be bullied to enjoy it.
>>287113341>Explain to me how you all watched this absolute garbage of a showNever did, I did fap to porn of the girls though
>>287113341>>287113399Are you stupid, zoomer? Everyone knows that battle shounen anime of that era had terrible pacing and a lot of filler - they were things you tolerated/skipped to get to the core story, which was often good (and is in Naruto's case). Alternatively, just read the manga.>the intro and outros are embarassingly badThey're some of the best in the entire anime industry, at least from Shippuden onwards.
>>287113341>I just threw away 350GB downloading this series. I know 85%+ of 4chan are in their mid to late 30s.If you're gonna waste your time on a micro-encode, just go for the ones that make every episode 100mbd
>>287113895many such cases
>>287113447You don't have to write in a specific style, but when you sound like this much of a faggot people start asking style related questions.
>>287113341>oh my hecking animation qualityyou lack a soul
>>287113341>the art quality is dog shitIt's way better than Demon Shitter or Fujoshi KaisenAnd I don't even like NarutoFucking zoomer
>>287113915>They're some of the best in the entire anime industry, at least from Shippuden onwards.>>287113440>you can hate naruto but you're a tastelet for not liking the ops. all of them are by classic jrock bands.Not the faggot zoomer OP but they're okayNowhere near the level of Bleach OP/EDs
>>287113341I thought it was already childish when I was 14.
>>287114146>Dual Audio garbageCan we please genocide mutts?Why does Nyaa even allow this garbage?
>>287114296No it's fucking not, not even in the least bit and I don't even like those other two either.
>>287114379Because audio barely contributes to file size AND you're a retard
>>287113341OPink why do you larp like this?
>>287114245OP is the kind of zoomer who thinks Demon Slayer has good animation, when in fact it looks like some flash animated CG bullshitRock Lee vs Gaara and Naruto vs Sasuke(part 1) mogs this fucking newgrounds-tier bullshit
>>287114296>>287114478And then you watch the other 216 episodes of Naruto and see that the vast, vast, VAST majority of the time it's barely animated, off model, and outright ugly.
>>287114396Yes it is, NIGGERKishimoto(especially on prime) is a pretty top tier artist who cannot be compard to gutter trash like Gege and GotougeThe most popular character in Fujoshi Kaisen is a shitty Kakashi ripoff
>>287114525>talking about ANIME>brings up MANGA art qualityKishimoto's art also goes to complete shit around Chapter 350.
I dropped it in the middle of the chuunin exams.
>>287113341>I just threw away 350GB downloading this series.Why did you download the entire series? Why not download a batch of episodes and see if you like it or not? Don't you have unlimited data plans in your country? Are you from Lesotho or something?>Explain to me how you all watched this absolute garbage of a show and got hooked on it when you were 15 years old.At this age you don't tend to notice garbage animation if its engaging overall.>The animation is horrible, the art quality is dog shit, the intro and outros are embarassingly bad.Read the manga. Seriously. It's better drawn, better paced, better everything.
>>287113341You were supposed to read it, not watch it. The anime was cheap and full of filler, as was the style at the time. Slogging through that shit is the incorrect way to experience it unless you're a masochist with a lot of free time or a kid watching it on TV in the 00s. Not that Naruto is really worth shit either way.
>>287114435>Because audio barely contributes to file sizeThat shit adds up over hundreds of episodesThe worst is when the eng dub is the deault trackFuck you for being a dub apologist
>>287114644>The worst is when the eng dub is the deault trackYou know that you can override this in the codec settings, right?
>>287114611>>287114621>Read the manga. Seriously. It's better drawn, better paced, better everything.>You were supposed to read it, not watch it.Still bad because it's Naruto
>>287113341>the intro and outros are embarassingly bad.i bet you think the dandadan opening is "peak"
>>287114761>Still ba-ACK
>>287114761Hence why I said it wasn't worth shit anyway. Subjecting yourself to the anime is just doubling down on the shit eating.
>>287113341It's like DBZ, absolute peak if you're between the ages of 6-12.
>>287114979And Mid 20s-end of life.13-19 is the edgelord teen phase where you tell yourself you're too grown-up for some of the best drawn, ambitious, most creative manga of all time
>>287114495It at least doesn't look like ugly flash animation bullshit and doesn't have a billion particle effects on screen to try to fool you into thinking it's animatedThe thing with Naruto though is that it doesn't have enough fights on it to begin with, so there's less to animateNot talking about Shippuden though since that's when Kishimoto's style turned flat and ugly for some reason and the same happened to the anime
>>287115020The only reason to come back to Naruto when your 20+ is because of nostalgia
>>287114542The Naruto anime is based on the mangaThe art in Naruto(Part 1) anime looks much betterI don't know how you could possibly think Demon Shitter and Fujo Kaisen have better art quality, they just don'tThe OG Naruto anime is mostly 2D with very little CGDemon Shitter is newgrounds-levels of bullshit with CG tracing, particle effect spam and stupid camera movement everywhereThe same is true of Fujo Kaisen to a somewhat lesser extent but still pretty egregiousJust spam shaky camera and particle effects everywhere and the average midwit anime fan will think the animation is goodThere's a particular scene where 2 demon niggers are just standing there screaming and blasting beams or whatever back and forth and it's covered up in particles with no actual animation going on at tallOne Piece anime also copied UFOtable and it looks like a bunch of trash where you can't tell what the fuck is happening
>>287114621>The anime was cheap and full of filler, as was the style at the time.This is not true except for the filler(which you can skip if it bothers you).Naruto is better animated and directed than garbage ass modern battle series.The same goes for Bleach.The moment they go widescreen(Shippuden for Naruto and Ep168 for Bleach) is when they start going downhill.
>>287114658I shouldn't have to do this shitDubcancer should fuck off
>>287114979>>287115020>>287115100Except it's notNaruto doesn't have nearly as much action as DBZYou posers are a bunch of midwits for comparing them
>>287113915The story of Naruto has some good, but overall falls apart under scrutiny.
>>287113341>I know 85%+ of 4chan are in their mid to late 30s.Posting about Naruto was a bannable offense when we were underage.
>>287113341I quite like Naruto, its only faults in part 1 in my opinion were Gamabunta, as it ruined the powercreep and the end of Sasuke retrieval. I think that Neji and Choji should've died, though perhaps neji couldve lived for some other purpose. With regards to Shippuden, I think that all the pieces were on the board already and that the conflict shouldve been around Sasuke wanting to destroy the village and Naruto wanting to protect it, not out of any one being correct, but out of necessity.Furthermore, I dont think that 90% of these "oldfags" are legit and the hate is unwarranted. It is good for a battle shonen.
>>287113341Early naruto was peak but by the time I found out about it all being on the internet they were already starting shippuden so I skipped all the filler or speed watched>watching all if narutoWhy do this to yourself?
>>287115392The OP didn't even comment on the story or characters(which Naruto was always middle of the road at best and utterly stupid at worst)He commented on the visuals and artHe's wrong because that's one thing Naruto had going for it
>>287113341I'll just say that the manga is A LOT better than the anime, but they're both very weak in the first arc. The manga eventually starts getting good, the anime stays bad and then just gets worse. I don't know why the anime was so popular but I think kids were just enamored with the premise of a show about child ninjas who fight using lots of different magic tricks.
>>287114338>Nowhere near the level of Bleach OP/EDsA lot of Naruto and Bleach's OPs/EDs are done by the exact same artists lol. AKFG, Orange Rock, Aqua Timez, Ikimonogakari, etc.
>>287115234They're pretty objectively cheap. They had to be in order to maintain the constant churn of their production schedule. That's not necessarily a bad thing, though it does result in greater use of static shots and slow pans to stretch out the time. And filler. Modern shows dump a lot of budget into shorter seasons with very long waits between seasons. Each individual episode clearly has more time and effort put into it than a given episode of a classic long-running shounen. But the direction is often dog shit and they splurge on visual effects that take away more than they add, so it's all for nothing.
>>287113407Actually for hundreds of years before reddit or the internet were invented, it was just called, "spacing," and that's why you'll notice that books tend to be "reddit-spaced," and that's actually the whole reason reddit is formatted that way, it's designed for people to write using normal spacing. Actually, even 4chan was mostly full of "reddit-spacing" in the early days, and the people who stopped using it are all "newfags," but I don't want to break your brain too much, little buddy!
>>287113341>Explain to me how you all watched this absolute garbage of a showI was like 4 years old when I started watching it, at that age you don't have critical thinking. While I have fond memories of it, I think the writing is shit
>>287115593>and that's why you'll notice that books tend to be "reddit-spaced,"consider opening a book
>>287115593>and that's actually the whole reason reddit is formatted that wayalso that's not how it works. reddit erases single linebreaks, and forces people to double-linebreak to get a single linebreak. it's "formatted" the way you're supposed to write. people have to type differently to accomplish that. hence reddit spacing.
>>287115593Reddit spacing and separate paragraphs aren't the same thing, idiot
>>287114621>>287115234>>287115582Filler was part of the long journey that defined the genre of battle shonen anyways. You're supposed to watch those beach or snow fest episodes while drunk / high and have a laugh until the show comes back. Seasonal slop and protagonists being overpowered from chapter 1 has completely killed the battle shonen experience. You used to grow up with the shonen MCs, now people just binge watch their twelve episode season in a day and they get discarded for the new flavor of the month aurafarmer edgelord after a few weeks.
>>287113341at what point in naruto shippuden died?for me is the kages summit
>>287116235I think a lot came tumbling down in Akatsuki Supression. He made one arc about jinchuriki and Akatsuki, then one about Naruto trying to get Sasuke back and then didn't seem to know what to do. He introduced a new jinchuriki only to have her instantly die offscreen, then tried to be tragic by killing Asuma without ever giving us a reason to care about him, then gave a really unsatisfying conclusion to the Akatsuki duo, supposedly being pressured to do more Sasuke stuff (which he did in the next arc, but without building on any of the things he did in the previous one).
>>287113447We're zoomers just never taught how to indent paragraphs? Are they really that illiterate?
>>28711334115 years ago you weren't even allowed to post Naruto threads on /a/. I don't even recognize this place anymore.
>>287113341I saw a couple episodes on cartoon network in the mid 2000s and then bought bootleg fansub dvds on ebay for the first 150 episodes, and they were pretty trashy subs with dirty crude language
>>287116758He wanted the whole series to be about Naruto and Sasuke because he was dedicated to the idea of the series ending with a fight between them. But somehow despite making it excessively about them he managed to not develop Sasuke well at all, completely skipped out on his POV even though he was the deuteragonist, and left him as just a sort of plot device for Naruto to defeat and lecture at the end.He started the series off with only the Nine Tails in mind, then made Gaara as a sort of "dark Naruto" parallel to showcase what Naruto "could have been" if Iruka hadn't been nice to him. Shukaku was originally the spirit of a monk sealed in a tea kettle or something, and then after the Akatsuki came after Naruto and Part 1 ended he realized that they would decimate him if they came after him again (since Itachi was fumbling the retrieval on purpose).So he took the Nine Tails and Shukaku and went "one has nine tails and the other has one, let's make seven more of them and give them the numbers in-between, and make it so the Akatsuki has to collect them in order, that way they won't get to Naruto until later". Shukaku was retconned into a "bijuu" and Naruto got to go save Gaara, giving a slow buildup to the Pain attack that was also delayed by the "hidden leader" of the Akatsuki having some kind of agreement with Itachi to not attack the village while he was alive.Apparently he had made Itachi "secretly a good guy" before he debuted, but it would have been a lot better to make him have been blackmailed by "Madara" than by the village, as he introduced a very heavy and political subject that he wasn't able to resolve without retconning Danzo in to take the blame for Hiruzen's actions, because otherwise Hiruzen would have become a monster. All just to turn Sasuke against the village so Sasuke would have a reason to continue opposing Naruto and end up fighting him later on.
>>287114915Itachi is one of the reasons the manga is bad.
>>287118078Kinda funny to imagine he retconned biju into the story just to give a reason why Naruto wasn't captured right away, but considering how he treated them, I believe it.
>>287113341>Explain to me how you all watched this absolute garbage of a show and got hooked on it when you were 15 years old.Kids and teenagers will watch about anything. How is this even a question, you retard?
>>287117532
If the fucking Zabuza and Chounin arc doesn't clock with you then I don't know what to say
>>287115350>>287118449
>>287116758>>287118078>>287118325What makes it even worse is that he could have played it straight with the Uchiha being the "bad guys" and Madara actually being Madara, and still had a decent setup for them fighting. The foreshadowing was already there with Madara and Hashirama's statues so I understand that he wanted to build on that, but making it so that Nagato actually got the Rinnegan from Madara and "Madara" was Kakashi's old teammate Obito who'd been crushed by a rock was so convoluted.He should have just kept the Rinnegan being its own thing and the Akatsuki's plan to capture the bijuu moving slower, while Sasuke had his conflict with Itachi that developed along a different path. The fact that so many jinchuuriki were barely mentioned or shown before jobbing to the Akatsuki in rapid succession made the tension seem flat.He should have introduced them and fleshed them out more gradually while the Akatsuki remained elusive and Sasuke's search for Itachi went on much longer. It didn't make any sense for Naruto to be so obsessed with bringing Sasuke back after Sasuke killed Orochimaru, released his prisoners, and formed his team.I think the main problem he confronted was that, after the time skip, he didn't really have anywhere to go with giving Team 7 better mentors than they'd had under the Sannin. IMO both problems actually could have easily been solved by not having the Akatsuki be inexplicably inactive for three years while they trained off-screen, and just combined the gradual buildup and jinchuuriki development, gradual captures, and portraying their actual training for those three years into one decent chunk of the story in Part 2, which would have given Sasuke way more character development.
>>287113341We didn't use social media until like 2008-ish We spent most of our childhoods playing outside, or playing good video games, or watching cartoons without thinking about the "depth" of the storyThe filler didn't matter because we were kids enjoying life without social media rotting our brains and sucking our souls awayThings were fun and life was good back then.
>>287118449>>287118500He meant 20 years ago.
>>287118524>Naruto is anime/manga.>It has always been welcome in /a/. It will always be welcome in /a/.>""always been welcome"">Naruto is an anime, and anime belongs on /a/. There has been absolutely no change in this policy -- it's always been that way.>""There has been absolutely no change in this policy -- it's always been that way.""
>>287118594>unironically falling for faggot moot's historical revisionism
>>287118594that said it was mostly self-moderation and gatekeeping keeping narutards away from this boardboth things sorely missing todaynow narutards aren't remotely the worst posters on [a/sad times indeed
>>287118643>>287119233you are gay and Naruto is COOL
>>287115182>I don't know how you could possibly think Demon Shitter and Fujo Kaisen have better art quality, they just don'tThey do, because a majority of the time the Naruto anime looks like sloppy dogshit with bad colour grading, off model designs, and it lacks any coherent vision, let alone animation, for a vast majority of its run.
>>287113341>explain to me how you all watched this absolute garbage of a show The mystical ninja themes, aesthetics and vibes of Part 1 were kino. Especially for edgy teens during the 00s. It was raw but not too gory like Hellsing or Ninja scroll so it was more approachable and you could watch it in living room during the day. The mysterious world was brutal, dark, entrancing, moody and had a ton of potential for fan theorizing, fics and OCs. The internet was slower and social media were in their infancy so those things actually mattered. >and got hooked on it when you were 15 years oldI were more like 11-12. By the time I were 15 I was already reading the manga, and mainly out of habit.
>>287113341>The animation is horrible, the art quality is dog shit, the intro and outros are embarassingly bad.6/10 baitAnyway I liked kid Sasuke and honestly thought he was an original archetype, cool yet not seeking any glory. Sakura was annoying but gave me boners. Naruto was annoying but the consistently cool anime moments made me like him. Also Part 1 was surprisingly funny. It was just a good time. With great music and action. What more could a teenager ask for?
>>287113341I didn't, I read the manga instead.Also>threw away 350gb downloading this seriesSo like, 6 minutes?
unfortunately shonen makes the /jp/trannies seethe into the next dimension so discussion about it is difficult here
AHHHH ITS 3:30 PM where is the new thread I'm losing my mind that it's not posted at this exact time
>>287113341>Explain to me how you all watched this absolute garbage of a show and got hooked on it when you were 15 years old.>The animation is horrible, the art quality is dog shit, the intro and outros are embarassingly bad.And yet it's fucking SOVL and kino.
>>2871133414chan used to shun that piece of absolute shit and did a good job of keeping that shit off of /a/, until narutards started flooding the board and moot started banning people who criticized the show.The show pretty much defines the absolute worst aspects of anime and particularly anime fans. It's literally a show for limp-wristed faggots and mentally ill fujos.It's fucking disturbing that fans of that trash actually exist on 4chan and /a/, but that really speaks volumes about what has happened to this board and how absolutely fucked the contemporary anime fandom is. /a/ has become what it used to mock.
>he's now trying to rez /nart/ under the veil of a watchalong
>>287122363whats your favorite animay
Naruto is a gateway anime of the worst kind. It's a bad series, a clusterfuck of story and characterization that isn't very well done by any aspect, but which attempts to compensate for its weaknesses by adding in excessive shipping faggotry and DARKNESS. The normal anon can see this as the shit it is, and may enjoy it, hate it or be indifferent to it, but all the while recognizing that the series itself, regardless of their opinion, is plain bad. However, these very aspects that try to smear over the shit of its core make it a breeding ground for aspie, unsociable underageb& faggots who engage in every kind of faggotry both online and in the real world. The superpowered characters all trying their hardest to look cool, the jutsus, peculiar, colorful clothes, the whole ninja faggotry and everything about the Naruto world fuels their escapist fantasies, while the pity-party character backgrounds, emphasis on revenge, and overall preachiness of the series make it fit just right with the mary-sueish drives of your average preteen and his sense of unwarranted self-importance towards the world. Exactly the kind of shit that makes little kiddies and underageb& retards eat this shit right the fuck up. Naruto is basically THE series to attract the most hated anime fanbase known to /a/, which is why, regardless of individual opinions, it is the responsibility of every anon to troll the fuck out of this show and everyone who likes it, and ensure that no Naruto threads ever encourage the newfriends to show their faces here
>>287113341not my problem
>>287118188You forgot>it was about hard work but then it became about destiny!>Sasuke sucks! where's all the team 11??>IT GOT WORSE AFTER THE TIMESKIPCome on you gotta fill your drone quota.
>>287116235>>287116758>>287118078>>287118509I would add the side cast being horribly underdeveloped to the list of issues. Anyone not named Shikamaru had their character arc ignored or thrown away in part 2. Rock Lee's fight was the standout of chunin exams yet after part 1 he's just a background noice. Kiba was an intense character and then became a fucking joke. Hinata who is technically supposed to be the main love interest barely even interacts with Naruto in part 2 before the Pain arc where we're suddenly supposed to care about her confession.
>>287113341Oh Toonami and then stopped a little after he fought Gara, like a normal person.
daily when
Calling it now, if he actually follows through with this watchalong, he'll probably bump the shit out of these threads and stops flooding the manga daily so he can make snarky remarks about how dead the daily is compared to his new general. on the flipside, we'd be mostly rid of him in the daily and it'd be comfy again
Why is the daily late yet again
>>287122631OP posts whenever. The 3 people that still participate in the daily don't seem to care.
>>287122547The daily has been dead for weeks now.
>>287115350>>287119233>>287122363You faggots hate everything. And you can't even articulate what's so especially "bad" about Naruto. >>287122443 is full of shit, it was a trash copypasta then and it's trash now.
>>287122386>>287122547Ah, nevermind, I was really hoping he'd do something like that to leave the daily alone, so I got too optimistic and didn't bother reading beyond OP subject kek
>>287122470>Sasuke sucks! where's all the team 11??This one is true desu.
>>287122664we're waiting for the 4 episodes soon to be posted in the botted nart/bort official Youtube channel ttebayo
>>287122363>It's fucking disturbing that fans of that trash actually exist on 4chan and /a/, but that really speaks volumes about what has happened to this board and how absolutely fucked the contemporary anime fandom is. /a/ has become what it used to mock.Anon the daily is full of people who read along and comment on the terrible writing and plotholes. People can have fun without being diehard fans. The shipping and other schizoposting is like 2-3 people
>>287122822>the daily is full of peopleLol. Good one
>>287113341you had to have been there
Early naruto had such a great mix of cyberpunk esthetic and japanese mysticism.
>>287122822>The shipping and other schizoposting is like 2-3 peopleAnd those shippers mostly just point out the bad writing and missed opportunities. The ship arguments are actually chill until someone truly deranged comes along. Like that meltdown a few threads ago with some braindamaged faggot trying to make Hinata/Sakurafags fight.
>>287113341Naruto and his son are best girls.
>>287113341the answer will come to you after you kill yourself you fucking faggot.
Back then is was many peoples entry anime. My parents had shitty internet, so an online buddy that was like 20 years older than me burned the first 120 episodes or so to DVD and shipped them to my parents house. He even had personal labels for the package. Watched those episodes like no tomorrow. A couple years later I was deep into /a/ and we regularly made fun of Naruto-fags.Good times.
People re-writing history about the naruto "ban" need to give it a rest. It never had anything to do with its supposed quality, which is right in line with most battle shounen shit give or take some preferences. It was always strictly about the type of poster naruto attracted and how fucking obnoxious they were throughout the internet. I'm not sure what made naruto fans in particular like that but it was the same shit everywhere. Before the culture here took a strong stand they used to flood the board with inanae garbage and shit up everything which was particularly awful pre-catalog days. That said it's pretty ironic that the reasons for the backlash since then have kinda proven to be valid and those kind of posters have infected many other series and flood the board with garbage on a regular basis
>>287123552it's just one piece fans trying to cope with their shit manga
>>287113341I never liked or watched Naruto but the Bluebird cover they did in D4DJ was saweeeeet
>>287113341>Hating Naruto OPsKill yourself zoomer
>>287113341>intro and outros are embarassingly badThis is the kind of faggot who thinks that Bocchi the Rock has his music. I guarantee it.
>>287125554Good music*
>>287113341i think like most people we caught the best bits and pieces that were re-run a lot.then we watched shippuden a bit as teenagers and fell off when edge lord sasuke wasn't on screen anymore.then we watched the ninja war arc and stopped watching when aliens showed up.i too tried to do a serious re-watch in my mid 20s and gave up at the first movie, it doesn't hold up for adults.
>>287113341I didn't, I watched Naruto Kai. The filler kills the it, but it absolutely murdered the sequel, Boruto, where nothing is canon out of nowhere, so you just wasted your time not just reading the manga or sticking to only novel adaptation episodes. Naruto is only really remembered when people want to bully Boruto readers.
>>287114979I'm 25 and I'm watching Naruto with my gf (she's a narutard).We skip all filler ofc.It's alright. By the end of Naruto I wouldn't mind dropping it. Now I'm in too deep and want to see where it goes. Shippuden does feel like fanfiction sometimes, some parts of the plot feel forced. Like >>287115020 anon says, if you don't try to take it too seriously and enjoy it for what it is, it's cool.The reason why I'm replying to your post however is that I recently started watching DBZ (Kai) on my own and I'm enjoying it too, although it feels really slow. I can imagine the pace will pick up after super saiyan shit gets introduced.
>>287115708Nah>>287114761Nah
>>287113407its rage baitand it looks like it worked.
>>287122714Naruto went to shit for the same reasons every long running shonen series goes to shit.But that's besides the point, the hate was mostly directed at the fanbase, not the manga.At the time it was a matter of keeping the undesirables out of the board.But as I said it doesn't matter, because the narutards aren't even on the radar for worst posters here anymore. This place is full of normalfags, underageb& and thirdworlders. The gates are well and truly open.
>>287113407I thought reddit-spacing is when you ONLY use empty lines for new paragraphs and does not include the hybrid approach of having new paragraphs for both with and without an empty line as OP does.
>>287113341subhuman take
>>287122443Naruto is a gateway anime of the best kind. It's a good series, a cohesive vision of story and characterization that is very well done by all aspects, and which attempts to capitalize on its strengths by adding in parallels and visual storytelling. The normal anon can enjoy its themes which appeal to most for being universal. It isn't perfect but its good moments outweigh its flaws. Not only that but this series serves as a breeding ground for passionate fans of all kinds - artists, analysts, cosplayers, kids and adults alike who engage in fun discussions both online and in the real world. The superpowered characters all looking so damn cool, the jutsus, the unique snd memorable character designs, the whole ninja system and world building. Everything about Naruto brings fans together, while the deep backstories, emphasis on the cycle of hatred, and overall relatability of the series make it fit right in with almost anyone and their sense of trying to find their place in the world. Exactly the kind of themes that invite people to share their experiences and have fun with the series. Naruto is basically THE anime series that most people got into as kids and it shows by being so beloved here. Keep sharing your love for Naruto, Anons!
>>287113341>Explain to me how you all watched this absolute garbage of a show and got hooked on it when you were 15 years old.No one did.The people who remember Naruto fondly either(1) Never finished it.(2) Never watched or read it and only played the video games.(3) Became IRL drug addicts and forgot how bad it ended up being.No one who watched or read the entire thing likes Naruto, and if they didn't end up dropping it anyway, it was because they invested too much of their personal time into it to call it quits.
>>287113341Actually I was 13
>>287133225I don't understand (3) or why you included it
>>287133688He's describing himself, obviously.
>>287133704Ooh that makes sense yeah.>>287133225Sorry about your life cracky
>>287131532it's literally just a forced /qa/ discord meme if you ever see people complaining about it just hide the post like I am about to do
>>287113341I didn't.I watched most of part 1, filler included. I became a manga reader not long after. I stopped reading sometime after pain, war itself hadn't started, wasn't even dealing with the 5 kage summit proper. I just dropped the series over the span of like 2 months.In ye olde days, they sometimes tried to make filler entertaining (or expand characters), or at least flow within the 'nothing real can happen, no permanent change can occur'. IIRC part 1 filler tried to flesh out the other kids of nardo's class.Filler is notoriously shit no matter what series you're watching. Why are you surprised, eat shit anime watcher, go read the source, periot or shuesia had paid for the time slot to continue for years, and they weren't going to give it up. Same reason it took until last year for one piece to loose it's time slot and transition to 'seasonal' (be that 13 eps a year or what ever the fuck the plan is). The era of 50 eps a year for decades, seems largely over.
