Literally every character has an explicit and obnoxious amount of screentime dedicated to explaining their backstory and motivations.We know more about this series's supporting cast than some series's main cast. The issue is that despite all this time spent explaining their backstory and motivations, most characters still don't really amount to much, so all the time spent on them just ends up feeling like padding or filler.If Kishimoto just cut the fucking exposition and let the supporting cast just be side characters that show up and help out every now and then, it'd be a lot better and there wouldn't be so many wasted characters, because the audience wouldn't expect anything more than that. But Kishimoto goes into autistic amounts of detail about even the most inconsequential named characters (unless their name is Tenten).
>>287293950It's just a bad story, plain and simple.
Reminder that normies thought this was the face of anime until 2020.
>>287293950kishi is a good worldbuilding writer but so bad at writing characters and their relationships
>>287294499>kishi is a good worldbuilding writerLmao. Maybe before Shippuden started.
