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• tetris11@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mine too. But I stayed as I watched him compete and fail with his peers, reach their level through sheer force of will, and then come into his own.

  I stayed because that world has fought 4 world wars in a very short amount of time, mostly with child soldiers and the wounds of the last war are still fresh.

  I stayed because of the coup d'etat that threatened the destruction of the whole village was subverted in the worst way possible, and the redemption arc that led up to its revelation bore out throughout the entire series.

  I stayed because even the worst of the worst were still redeemable in the eyes of this single child who grew up ostracized from the community he was raised in.

  Naruto breaks my damn heart.

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  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The real hero of Naruto rock lee and Guy Sensei as some random YouTube video I watched years ago explained it 100% correctly.

    To sum it up, basically Naruto says he’s going to be the best through hard work and being the best ninja and the only person who actually does that is rock lee and eventually guy sensei. Naruto cheats with his free power-ups and sacrificing his allies throughout the series and Guy is the ultimate ninja for obvious reasons for those who finish the series- I could not get past the point where they split the stories and started doing giant animal battles, but did get a summary video that explained as much as I needed

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    • tetris11@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Guy is genuinely amazing, agreed.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To me it was the constant flashbacks and slow pace story telling.

  Seriously, the first battle in Naruto against that mist ninja took literally 9 episodes.

  In Dragonball Z there was an entire episode about drawing names for the upcoming tournament.

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