Naruto is finally over. after all these years...
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Whoa there buddy, He apologized for all that stuff. That makes everything better. Anyway, the ending was asbad as I thought it was going to be and made just as little sense.Hopefully Bleach can wrap up a lot better than this and I hoe that One Piece doesn't end up having the same fate as the other two series.Hades said:
The ending felt "safe" to me. No one had to face any consequences of their actions. The kids were a lot like their parents. Everyone had a happy ending. It was absolutely boring. But hell, maybe it's just me. I started to outgrow the shonen genre of anime/manga when the Sasuke Retrieval arc started. The only shonen stuff I can stomach these days is One Piece (for the humor and occasional bad ass fight) and Hunter X Hunter (despite being a shonen series, HXH has brought up some really mature content and caused me to have philosophical arguments with other people).
If this ending had happened after the Pain arc, I could call this series the best of the Big Three and call it good.
But no... Kishimoto had to drag the series into the toilet bowl that was the final two arcs, undermine everything he had written for the point of stupid plot twists.
So it's dead, and while the ending was decent, the last part of the series make me say "Thank you for dying" rather than "I'll miss you"
But no... Kishimoto had to drag the series into the toilet bowl that was the final two arcs, undermine everything he had written for the point of stupid plot twists.
So it's dead, and while the ending was decent, the last part of the series make me say "Thank you for dying" rather than "I'll miss you"
Hm,I guess that's something, have some conclusion. Although I don't even ship it and Naruto and Sasuke ending up a couple would have made most sense. (Or rather them realizing their feelings to one another just when one of them is killed by the other)Caramel Frappe said:
More so because both 'main' heterosexual romances were so terribly terribly written...
I could believe Sasuke/Naruto more.
That's hard to believe. But I guess we are all going to have to "believe it."
Yeah that's the only thing I know about that show.
Yeah that's the only thing I know about that show.
Th3Ch33s3Cak3 said:
Yes. By the time of the epilogue (at which point Naruto's generation all have kids of their own) Tsunade had given up the position to Kakashi, and Kakashi had (apparently recently) given it up to Naruto.
Yes. That was revealed a few dozen chapters ago.
No. Konohamaru is not Hokage
Was. See the first answer.
Never shown. Unlikely, considering that the Hokage is apparently elected into office (seen with Jiraya, Tsunade, Danzo and Kakashi's respective nominations earlier in the story) and Konohamaru's deep respect for Naruto.
Yep.
No clue.
Ever see Escher's works?
Yes. That was revealed a few dozen chapters ago.
No. Konohamaru is not Hokage
Was. See the first answer.
Never shown. Unlikely, considering that the Hokage is apparently elected into office (seen with Jiraya, Tsunade, Danzo and Kakashi's respective nominations earlier in the story) and Konohamaru's deep respect for Naruto.
Yep.
No clue.
Ever see Escher's works?
While I cringed at that, "Salad" just made me hoot. That poor kid.MiskWisk said:
The ending was about as underwhelming and predictable as I thought it would be! Ah well, used to love me some Naruto. Blew my mates' minds when I started showing them the anime and came back from a trip to Japan with one of the early GC beat 'em ups.
Honestly I probably will never finish it. I got to the final fight but it dragged on for so long with so many flashbacks I just gave up. I'm still baffled that Naruto started when I was in highschool. It is such a shame that the series got dragged out so much. What could've been a satisfying series just ended up beating the same dead horse for so many years just to bleed out every last yen they could get.
Just read it. Honestly, the final Sasuke x Naruto battle was a pretty good climax tying together all the history between the two, and Sasuke's reasoning for taking another stride through the revolving face-heel door was at least internally consistent. All things considered, this would have been a decent ending for a good series... too bad the the war arc had already driven the series nose-first into godawful territory.
As for the epilogue, it's just cheesy and underwhelming. I especially loved how all the most accepted shipping pairs among the side-cast happened not only off-screen, but those couples are never actually shown in the same frame together! The only couples we see are completely inconsequential and/or people who were not seriously shipped with anyone, like Choji.
And yeah, my personal WTF was the Hinata non-reveal. She not only doesn't get a scene with Naruto (who didn't answer her confession for over two hundred chapters!), but their relationship is only established via circumstantial evidence (like the face-marks on her daughter's face). I know that Kishimoto apparently hated Hinata and probably only paired her off with Naruto because if he ended up with Sakura then Sasuke wouldn't have gotten any pussy, but come on, throw the poor girl a bone will ya?!
Speaking of Sakura... So, her ambition at the end of the war was to become an equal to the two guys and become a hokage herself... And in the epilogue she run a small shop as a single mother with Sasuke wandering around and getting spooked by trees. I didn't know if I should laugh at that or feel sad for her, but then I remembered what a useless waste of screentime she was since almost the very beginning and I laughed.
Aside of that... Yeah, this one could have used a several chapters long epilogue. I mean, it would have dragged out the ending even more, but this was a ridiculously long series with tons of characters and a lot of invested fans, so actually detailing what happened after the war and how the final pairings got set up would have probably offset that in the eyes of most readers.
As for the epilogue, it's just cheesy and underwhelming. I especially loved how all the most accepted shipping pairs among the side-cast happened not only off-screen, but those couples are never actually shown in the same frame together! The only couples we see are completely inconsequential and/or people who were not seriously shipped with anyone, like Choji.
And yeah, my personal WTF was the Hinata non-reveal. She not only doesn't get a scene with Naruto (who didn't answer her confession for over two hundred chapters!), but their relationship is only established via circumstantial evidence (like the face-marks on her daughter's face). I know that Kishimoto apparently hated Hinata and probably only paired her off with Naruto because if he ended up with Sakura then Sasuke wouldn't have gotten any pussy, but come on, throw the poor girl a bone will ya?!
Speaking of Sakura... So, her ambition at the end of the war was to become an equal to the two guys and become a hokage herself... And in the epilogue she run a small shop as a single mother with Sasuke wandering around and getting spooked by trees. I didn't know if I should laugh at that or feel sad for her, but then I remembered what a useless waste of screentime she was since almost the very beginning and I laughed.
Aside of that... Yeah, this one could have used a several chapters long epilogue. I mean, it would have dragged out the ending even more, but this was a ridiculously long series with tons of characters and a lot of invested fans, so actually detailing what happened after the war and how the final pairings got set up would have probably offset that in the eyes of most readers.
I haven't watched any Naruto.
I saw the number of episodes and manga and thought, "FUCK THAT"
Hopefully they'll release a KAI version that will get rid of all the fillers, and it'll end up being 50 episodes or less.
I saw the number of episodes and manga and thought, "FUCK THAT"
Hopefully they'll release a KAI version that will get rid of all the fillers, and it'll end up being 50 episodes or less.
Bolt is a nickname because of his necklace. Naruto's son's actual name is Baruto. And they explain why Sasuke was pardoned. Because without his help, the world would have been destroyed due to the Infintie Tsukuyomi. He literally saved the world. And even then Kakashi said that still wasn't enough and the only reason they hadn't locked him away forever is because Kakashi and Naruto vouched that he wouldn't go crazy and go on another murder spree. Since Naruto and Kakashi are also people who saved the world, their word carried quite a bit of weight.MiskWisk said:
OT: Series isn't over yet. There's still Naruto the Movie: The Last; and also apparently there's going to be a side-series named [Naruto]. Dunno what it's about though.