Board Thread:Naruto Gaiden/@comment-4271790-20150625052107/@comment-26388300-20150625165331

TheSooped wrote: Once again Kishimoto makes his main character look like shit.

I was literally just coming here to say the same thing. One of my core desires to begin Naruto:Shippuden was to see how far Naruto had progressed in his training with Jiraiya over the years; similarly, one of my reasons for picking up Gaiden was to see how old characters had grown, emotionally and Shinobi-wise. So far I've been disappointed in Naruto's power.

Consider it: we saw Madara Uchiha -- a character that Naruto, in part, triumphed over -- jump into a sea of shinobi and OVERWHELM them with almost exclusively taijutsu. He wasn't even challenged, he looks nearly bored! Here, we have a smaller sea of Shin clones... capable, I'm sure, but also children. Wouldn't it be not only fitting but more exciting to see Naruto -- even without his Shadow Clones -- overwhelm these guys in combat? Instead we get the Shadow Clones creating a one-on-one situation with each Shin, and insofar as we can see, it looks mostly even. The Seventh Hokage, folks.

I want to see Naruto as a total boss. And what about his comment regarding Sasuke? "As expected, Sasuke with his eye powers back is a force to be reckoned with..." I'd expect Sasuke to be a force to be reckoned with -- and defeat the present threat -- with or without his ocular jutsu. I want to see these two main characters as juggernauts, fear-inspiring shinobi with untouchable confidence. Not this, necessarily.