Fillerguy
Veteran
Say what you will about the cult like fanaticism of Jojo and One Piece but Naruto stans will straight up lie to support their anime. Even when they don't like the shyt
Goat Naruto OP
Naruto at its best goes toe-to-toe with anything. It just got some mess in-between. A FMAB style reboot someday with consistent animation and fixed pacing from having to wait for the manga would go hard in the paint
Land of Waves is a fire intro arc with a great ending
Chunin Exams a classic
Search for Tsunade is fun
Sasuke retrieval
First two Shippuden arcs are meh but then it's back to bangers
Shikamaru Shippuden
Sasuke searching for Itachi
Jiraya v Pain --> Sasuke v Itachi --> Pain's invasion this is a holy grail string of episodes
Naruto got some fire ass arcs. A little modern polish is all she needs
Mount Rushmore of shounen? Absolutely.. I would go Goku, Luffy, Naruto, and one of Yusuke/Gon/Ichigo.
Anime in general though?
Nah, that action shounen slot would belong to Goku.
Don't come in here with some bullshyt obscure, niche ass animes talking about they better than Naruto because they ain't....
Because the first one of y'all nikkas come in here with your Attack in Titan, fist of the North Star, Hoe Jo bizarre, cowboy bebop bullshyt.
I'm negging you
Only thing fukkin with Naruto is DBZ.
Kishimoto was in his fukking BAG during the Sasuke retrieval arc
I mean it’s far better than average but I’ll always remember it for fumbling the ending. Pulling a villain out of its ass at the end. That and Sasuke shouldn’t have been redeemed.Naruto definitely belongs on the Mount Rushmore of anime
I saw the quality fall off immediately when they announced a war arc. Reviving every character that ever existed. Checked out immediately. Even funnier, Bleach committing to a war arc also helped shovel it down to a worse manga.I mean it’s far better than average but I’ll always remember it for fumbling the ending. Pulling a villain out of its ass at the end. That and Sasuke shouldn’t have been redeemed.
If Naruto was forced to kill Sasuke at the end of the series and if Sasuke was made into a real villain it would have been a legendary ending.
Instead the final battle is a pointless fight with no real stakes and the final chapter is spend addressing all the underdeveloped romances so a sequel hook could be made.