Why All the Hate on Naruto?

[quantumsoul]

The show is padded to shit. No way fights should last as many episodes as they do.

I've enjoyed it in marathons because then something actually happens. Maybe if they cut out some the needless monologues and other padding so it flows better, I'd like it more.

 

[RaikuFA]

its fans(at least the newer ones) are very closed minded and give all anime fans bad name

i havent read it past when they introduced orochimaru though

 

[ShadowsofHope]

It's the fillers. Definitely the fillers.

I had hoped they would finish up by the end of August, and they'd get to the plot starting this month.

..Depression consumed me upon seeing the contrary.

 

[Ironbat92]

For me, I have 3 reasons why I don't like Naruto. 1 is the pacing. Outside of the the inner monologues, it takes forever for the show to finish something, and it just get's boring. I lost interest in One Piece because, like Naruto, it keeps going for hundred of episodes. 2 is that he is not a ninja. If they called him a fighter, that would be fine. But when I think Ninja, I think someone like Ryu from Ninja Gaiden, a silent killer who's low on words, but speaks with his actions, and where's something stealthy. Naruto is pretty much an annoying little asshole who wears an orange jump suit and screams at his opponent, and don't get me started on the emo known as Sauske and the useless Sakura. And my finally reason is that I've seen idea's that Naruto has done before. I'll say this about Naruto, it's a good starter anime, but for long time fans of anime, I wouldn't recommend it because the characters and stories have been done before. That's my reasons why, and I'm sticking with them.

 

[Smooth Operator]

As with all anime I like the idea far more then the show, I mean it's about a fucking ninja village... it's just pure awesomeness in concept.

But the main guy has ADHD and is an ill mannered retard in all his ninja training sofar he learned about 3 moves, by this point probably even the farmers know more.
I'm still predicting the only reason they let him tag along is so he doesn't flip his shit and unleashes the untamable demon.
And the series probably has more filler then actual story, which would be fine they would cover some of the many holes in the story, but instead they spin off to tell the story of a cat, or frog, or goat,... maybe it's a social experiment on howfar the fans are willing to be pushed.

 

[newwiseman]

I highly enjoy Naruto, I read the manga every week, but the filler really is shit.

To often Kishimoto writes a really engaging arc that ends in a drawn out fight, then the animators rush the story and cut the fight in half. That forces horribly written filler to be aired.

It' sad and I really wish that Naruto, and Bleach, would adopt a season schedule and do maybe 25 episodes a year.

That whole subgenre of anime is like watching someone level grind in a terrible European RPG.

The more I run that analogy through my head, the more I find myself agreeing with it. Episode start: yap yap yap. Ad break: yapping through an attack. Episode end: first attack has just been countered amidst more yapping. Next episode: repeat.

I've kind of completely turned away from the fighting animes. I only really watch dramas/certain comedies these days...

I can't agree more with this. But I blame the studios more than the source material.

 

[sheah1]

It might have something to do with some rather shitty animation, a bridge battle that lasts for way too many episodes, and a godawful english dub.

Noooooo you watched the dub how could you!!! Watch with subs or you ear will burn...

Listen, I know the sub vs dub argument inside and out. Despite efforts by people to insist watching in the original language, the vast majority still only watch in the language they speak.

Hmm, I may have an interesting diversion for you two. I'm trying to get into Gurren Lagaan (enjoying it immensely) and the only two places I've been able to find it show two different versions; The English high-quality dub, and the low quality Japanese sub. I can't decide which to watch because the dub isn't that bad, if anything it makes me nostalgic, but the high quality is a massive boon in an anime with such epic fights.

So; which do I watch?

OT: Naruto was one of the first animes I saw (apart from DBZ and Gundam Wing and such as a kid) and, manga wise, I've read a lot of much better stuff, but I never saw anything particularly bad about it, plus the dude with the giant sword had a pretty god damn epic death.

 

[The Lunatic]

I just generally don't like anime.

Regard it as kinda childish really. You're welcome to like it, but, it's just not my thing.

Not to say all are like that, but, those that aren't, I still just don't really care for.

I guess, it's mostly due to it being focused around Japanese culture, not something I have a lot of interest in.

 

[grimgor42]

SASUKE!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!! thats all i got out of the show after a while so i stopped. it was stupid. From day one the guy explains he's leaving of his own free will and thats that. But they have to obsess over "saving" him anyway. It's plain sappy.

 

[tzimize]

firstly, FRIENDLY MUSHROOM

and i love Naruto, it's may favourite anime. sure there are a lot of filler episodes but the rest of it is pure awesomeness

Agreed.

Its a great series, with great characters. Especially naruto. It has imo a fantastic emotional depth and is a show that is relatively available to kids and at the same time tackles a lot of stuff thats relevant for both grown ups and kids. Plus its about fucking awesome ninjas.

The animation is mostly very good, the music is GREAT, the character diversity great, the story is quite good...I love it. I just wish sasuke would FUCKING DIE. I'm so tired of that emo idiot words cannot express it. I wish they would finally give up on him and just kill him. But if they did it wouldnt be naruto I guess.

 

[mitchell271]

I love Naruto! the anime goes on and on and on though. I really hope the manga finishes soon because it feels like it's been dragged on a little now

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

My guess is that it just won't die already. It's been going on for hundreds of episodes. I'm sorry, but there is no anime plot of out there that requires hundreds of episodes to tell. It locked and loaded with more filler than an applie pie and about as stale as two day old bread. The plots tend to be unoriginal and the characters are horribly 2-dimensional. It should have had its run like everything else, then stopped. Right now, it's just being milked for everything it's worth.

 

[zehydra]

I don't know about you, but I don't watch tv shows for battles. I watch them for story, and characters. I feel like in Naruto, it's just a bunch of random shit made up on the fly. Like I'm watching power rangers or something.

I don't watch much anime, but an example of one I do like, is モンスター, or Monster, based off of Naoki somebody's graphic novel (manga, after it was completed).

 

[Hawk eye1466]

Because this is a ninja

NOT THIS

I'm sorry but ninja's are suppose to be quiet sneak in take out the target or steal something and get out without being caught, NOT wear bright orange jumpsuits and summon giant frogs.

 

[hazabaza1]

I dislike it be 'cause of the whole "EVERYBODY JUST DIED-whoops, no they didn't" thing that they pulled. At least in the manga.

 

[EHKOS]

Because it killed One Piece. Toonami kept Naruto and canceled One Piece because people watched Naruto more

 

[Broax]

I'm starting to notice a trend in these forums... People are start to post way too many "Y U NO LIKE X?"... People dislike stuff... some people like chocolate, some people like beer, some people like wine, etc. Some people hate that stuff... some are more outspoken then others...

The thing is... Who cares what everybody hates? Just get over it... Some people are xbox fanboys, some are ps3 fanboys, some are cod fanboys, some are moh fanboys, etc... It's the internet! People will always ***** about what they dislike... Even more on the internet...

That's life... Deal with it...

EDIT: I don't really watch anime so I don't really know that much on the subject... But naruto looks like the justin bieber of anime... If he's supposed to be a ninja then there's something really wrong with the definition. But, again... I don't really know what I'm talking about so I'm supposed to be impartial...

 

[TsunamiWombat]

The format just does not work well in an animated show (it works far better in the Manga), there is inteirly too much exposistion and the action is stretched out way too long. It's the DBZ effect turned to 11 - I watched an episode where Naruto spends the entire episode chasing some flying ninja who throws explosives back at him. He tries a thing and that doesn't work. He tries another thing and that doesn't work. To be countinued next episode.

This was the second episode in which he has been fighting this enemy.

It works far better in the Manga because in the manga things are usually resolved in a few issues, and the inward monologing characters have can be rationalized away as a 'time freeze' or 'simultanious events', whereas in an Anime thats just not possible.

Also the formulaic nature of combat in Naruto - try something try something try something HAH I FOOLED YOU THE WHOLE TIME I WAS ACTUALLY DOING THIS MNIGHT TWIST! does not work well for Animated.

The exception of course is anything with Rock Lee/Rock Lee being drunk, because Rock Lee doesn't HAVE long windy strategies or powered up Ninjitsu, he just punches people hella good.

Note that this isn't just a Naruto thing, this is endemic from Shonen in general, largely because they are all adapted from manga which requires exposition to tell the audience whats going on. Someone above mentioned Rurouni Kenshin and this is absolutly true.

What is badass in print will not be badass in animation if you do a DIRECT TRANSLATION.

 

[attackshark]

Kishimoto has NOTHING to do with the Naruto anime, NOTHING, at most the anime production team will ask him to do character design for movie original charactes.

Kishimoto creates a manga which Studio Pierrot then adapts into an anime, which makes Studio Pierrot no money directly only through the associated merchanising i.e Video games, toys, posters etc does Studio Pierrot get profit just like with all daytime tv anime.

looks like i gave them too much credit. apparently they're just bad at their jobs.

i apologize to Kishimoto.

 

[kouriichi]

Good series end. Bad series drag on and get milked, essentially turning into a DBZ clone.

Good series: Outlaw Star. 26 Episodes. Any more and there would have been filler.

Good Series: Cowboy Bebop. Again, 26 episodes. The entire series was itself, nothing but filler, only 4 or 5 of the episodes actually having anything to do with an actual story.

Good Series: Rurouni Kenshin. 95 episodes. It ended up dragging on, but they did it in a graceful way, ending the series when it needed to be end, before things got bad.

Bad Series: Naruto. 220 Episodes. I will say, the first and most of the second season were good. I used to enjoy it alot. In fact, im sure if i dig through my closet i can find a headband or two. But it drags on and on and on and on. And its still going. WHY? Why must you still keep going?

Bad Series: Full Metal Alchemist. 111 Episodes. Again, at first, it was a great anime. I liked it for about the first 30 or so episodes. But then they decide, lets tank the series with another 21 episodes, full of massive plot holes you can fly a Gundam through. But that wasnt enough. Then, they wonder how they can milk its fame more. OH! I know! Lets redo the entire series a little more true to the story this time, but make it drag on for an additional 13 episodes, bringing its total to 64. A combined 111 episodes, half of which you already watched, because you saw the first series.

Theres a difference between a "Bad Anime" and a "Bad series". Look at Star Wars. The first 3 made were a Master Piece of cinema. The following 3, which were a prequel to the first 3, were pretty bad. The series itself was bad, because 3 really bad movies are involved in it.

Naruto is by no means a Bad Anime. And i dont hate it. I hate where it went.