Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24373005-20140831023026/@comment-2120712-20140901021712

I felt it went down with 4th Ninja War Arc. So many new characters were introduced but we knew nothing beyond what jutsu they used(barely as some of it needed explaining), name, and what village they were from. So much potential for character building that was thrown away. The biggest culprit being Kakashi going on a rampage but the rampage occurred off panel. Its like Kishi made the arc with the anime in mind since they were able to extract so much filler material out of it. Naruto as a series just rushed itself with the War arc. We have so many concepts such a Kekkei Touta and such that only get mentioned in passing. Its like Kishi gave up on the world building at that point and moved to end the manga. I wonder how much of what is going on with Naruto has to do with the higher ups at Jump interfering, it was done to Dragon Ball and apparently Yu Yu Hakusho but I guess we won't know for years after Naruto is over.