Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3261234-20141020221217/@comment-25478058-20141021084034

Tsunade has a really interesting personality. She has had a lot of psychological issues (alcoholism, gambling, vanity, phobia, etc etc) but puts it all aside in the name of protecting the village. She never even wanted to be the Hokage and has to fight against the elders to get anything done. But then despite being this jaded individual she still manages to put her faith in Naruto. The Sannin in general are all kind of crazy, and all very interesting, but Tsunade gets stereotyped as an angry alcoholic a lot. She's actually really complicated. She's an old woman who knows better than to believe in ideals but still has hope and still does her job and protects the village even if she's not sure of herself.

So I definitely find Tsunade to be one of the most interesting characters. I also like Kakashi. I think Naruto himself is more interesting than people give him credit for. A lot of the time he is just cheerful and talk no jutsu but in those moments like after jiraiya's death or in the land of iron you can see that's he's still a "real" person.

I don't want to like start a huge debate but I also think Sakura is interesting. She always wants to change herself. She's insecure and people hate her for that, but to me that's interesting. In the Naruto world being insecure about yourself is like, pretty much forbidden, but Sakura is. It's an especially weird flaw on her team since Naruto and Sasuke are completely confident in themselves. She constantly compares herself to others. In that respect, she's a lot like Kakashi, who is also pretty self-critical. But she is a lot younger than Kakashi and hasn't completely turned her insecurity into self-loathing the way he has. She uses her insecurity to always be trying to better herself, and she's become an extremely powerful ninja because of it. But to her that's still not enough.