I swear if you can honestly predict everything that is happening in the manga and anime, then nothing will be unpredictable for you. Was it predictable that PainCrimsane said:
Blew Up Konoha?
Or when Itachi
Was forced to annihilate his own clan at the behest of his village?
Or when
Sasuke Joined Akatsuki?
Or when
Kabuto absorbed Orochimaru's corpse?
And I can actually keep going. If you are going to tell me that all of those were predictable, then a picture paints a thousand words
There are hardly too many episodes, most of what has happened arc wise had to happen, it's not like other anime when if things were cut out everything would still make sense. I've been hearing that Bleach is suffering for copypasta syndrome as of late, if you want you can have that, I only watch the anime. But Naruto hasn't really had two arcs that are really similar. If you compare it with, say, Tenjho Tenge where Oh! Great doesn't really know what he's doing any more, so it's dragging on, Kishimoto seems to have a grand plan with the entire story, as more revelations come and certain motives are changed. It's far from it's peak in my opinion.
I think the character design is pretty good, but I also think that he has far far too many characters in one series, and doesn't know what to do with them. But each to his own.
That was never an arc, it was a character motive. The fact remains that he is giving characters underlying motives that change over time, the rescue of his friend overrode his desire to be Hokage at the time. Besides that I can't see the plot actually derailing, it just changes over time. As for boring, see above.
The only truly cliche villain they had was orochimaru, he wanted power for no reason. Right now this could also be applied to Kisame if you wish, but we know nothing about him as of late. Itachi is an interesting villain, and so was Pain to a degree (you could say he was half and half between cliche and interesting) and
Right now, Sasuke as a villain is irritating, but far from cliche, and that is mainly because he is almost without motive in a sense
Hmmm. Written out? I guess that's subjective in a sense because it depends on who you find interesting. I like the original rookies because they were entertaining, but they weren't interesting in the sense that I know everything about them.
Kakashi is another one who is interesting, and hasn't been written out or killed yet. There are others also.
Bah, that's nonsense. Bleach is more like DBZ than Naruto is, both authors have named DBZ as one of their influences, but Bleach Reeks of it through it's scale of fighting. From the flight to the abilities, they are being purposely held back for no reason at times. Naruto I disagree with.
