Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4700229-20141027210331/@comment-28861328-20141105213643

Reliops wrote: Ten Tailed Fox wrote: @Reliops: I read the entire series and watched every movie. There are scant few moments I don't like. As an aspiring author, Rowling is an inspiration for me (as is Kishi, I might add: I have no shame in admitting that). I would not pretend to tell her how to end a series she spent so long writing herself. That is not my decision.

I can like it or not (I did, but that's besides the point): Still doesn't qualify me to tell her how to end a series that she spent her own time writing. And, here's the kicker, neither are you.

Nobody is telling Kishi how to handle his story. Readers are complaining and criticising something they don't like, which is their right. For you to claim everybody should just shut up unless they can do what Kishi can is silly. One doesn't have to be an author to know what shit writing is.

Kishi created this world and he invited us all in it. We all invested our time and engaged with it. We came to hold certain hopes and expectations - many of which he betrayed over time. Readers have every right to express their disappointment.

Ah, see, I expected this argument.

It is the typical fall back of a reader who values their opinion of a work more than the author's opinion of their own work. Kishi spends 15 years writing, drawing, researching for, and publishing this manga; you spend how ever long you have reading it, and you think that makes you entitled to your recommendations. Well, I'm here to burst that bubble. It doesn't.

You can be discontent. Yes. That is your right. Yes. I actually stated that in a previous post, had you been reading rather than looking for material to counter. Many people were discontent with how Charles Dickens' Great Expectations ended, because they had a preconceived notion of how it should end, and Dickens though they were looney. What did he do? Wrote an ending to appease the unruly masses, and wrote an ending true to his story.

Can you guess which version gets printed most in the modern day?

See, you are neither a critic nor a writer (if you are either, please correct me). So while you can give your discontent all you wish, you do not have the credentials, or frankly the ability, to instruct someone who has been writing a series for 15 years on how it should end. No argument you come up with can, nor ever will, justify that.

Edit: And, for the record, you are correct that non-writers can tell what "shitty writing" is, pretty easily. A basic grasp on the language grants this. Though, your definition of "shitty writing" is certainly not mine, and given you aren't any sort of authority on writing, your opinion is just that: an opinion. One of millions who read the series and among a severe minority, given Naruto's continued tremendous success.