Part of me sees the appeal. It is definitely very tropey. I think the creator has an issue with women.
i love naruto but god it’s flawed to say the least lol, there’s literally not a single good female character and the ending is so fucking bad
It’s not often I see people trying to get into any of the big 3 at this point in time. Godspeed. I used to really like Naruto when I was younger, I don’t see why people shouldn’t give it a go if they want to.
I had a friend in college who was into Naruto. Dude was super handsome, like model status. Girls would come up to him at parties to try and hit on him but he’d be so busy drunkenly talking to his friends about Naruto that he’d just shoo them away. Absolutely wild, but maybe a testament to the show being good?
I have a few friends like that. Funnily enough, one of them - before he got into anime - would essentially act the same way at parties in HS except it would be him raving about Batman being the best super hero. I used to love finding a seat across the room from him and wait until his drunk ass made eye contact with me, only to dead-pan “Spider-man would kick Batman’s ass in a fight, every day of the week” and watch him spill his beer all over himself & his girlfriend (who was a mutual friend) as he flipped the fuck out. Thanks for the memory lol.
I really like the first series. Never watched Shippuden but from what I’ve seen it gets a little silly. But the original series was just a relatively contained (not a million bazillion episodes long) creative fantasy story about interesting magic powers. I really like how well thought out the magic is. Fights aren’t won because one guy has the bigger numbers. Fights are won because one person effectively countered the other person’s strategy, by identifying its weaknesses and playing to their own strengths.
It has flaws I remember, and I’m sure it has flaws I don’t remember. But overall I liked it.
Naruto is a bad anime. Fight me nerds. Like a lot of long running anime, it starts off fine, but gets worse over time with increasingly large amounts of each (non-filler) episode being spent on flashbacks and still images being panned over.
