Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25139119-20150901145048/@comment-3279282-20150902003527

I destroyed it for myself by focusing my whole free time on it for seven years. I read it over and over, analysed it to its very core, discussed every new chapter, created at least three timelines and all that stuff. It became more than it was supposed to be, it turned from a light manga that I'd read every week to an obsession. And that destroyed it. But since it's a bad manga on it's own, it didn't really matter. I didn't lose that much. Except for the time I spent on it, of course.

As for why the Naruto manga is bad you just need to compare it to One Piece. It's like night and day, One Piece has everything Naruto lacks and more. It has consistency, it has character depth and development, it has a story that's thought through from its beginning to its end, hell, even its timeline is worked out. Naruto has no consistency (from a Ninja manga to some superpower alien shit), 90% of the characters are underdeveloped (Itachi being one of the only ones who get an actual development), the story isn't thought through ("hurrdurr, how do you beat Madara, I dunno even though I'm the creator") and I don't have to explain how fucked up Naruto's timeline is, right?

Basically, compared to fast food, Naruto would be McDonald's and One Piece would be Subway. You can like McD more, but it's more than obvious that it's not as high quality as Subway.