Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4437326-20150209145643/@comment-25632268-20150209221031

@Elveonora

Many part 1 characters were either reduced or killed in Part 2. Kurenai? Lets get her pregnant and she is out of picture. Asuma? Right, kill him (at least it has a meaning and helped with Shikamaru's development), Lee, TenTen and Neji - pretty much don't exist till war, and even then it was Neji's death that matter the most. Team 8, with a little exception of Hinata, didn't do a shit. Kishimoto probably introduced too many characters, manga was focused on Naruto and Sasuke after all.