Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28319199-20160427133424/@comment-28319199-20160427164219

I agree, I never liked Sasuke that much.Even though at the beginning, Sasuke was interesting, had some potential of nice arguements and battles mixed along with friendship towards Naruto. He was secretive, intellectual and strong. Then, we discovered his past.

A little too much, if you ask me. Within this manga, we had to see the flashbacks over and over again, once or twice, why not thrice even, but then, having the scene each times whenever someone mentioned the Uchiha and Itachi rapidly grew tiring.

Sasuke even became the show's main character at some point, (due to fan-service). He was never even a vilain! He started being an ally, living at the village, then left. He killed Itachi, Danzo, Orochimaru, Deidara... Who were actual vilains! (Even if Itachi was not really a vilain and kind of let Sasuke murder him, and that Deidara killed himself, and Danzo did the same, and that technically, Orochimaru is not dead yet). He only shows himself off and moan. His quotes are always the same old: "No one can understand my hatred, you have no clue how much I suffer", "Hatred consumed me, and the world must pay." blah blah blah. The only "evil thing" he has done was stab karin in order to go for Danzo.

At some point, Sasuke passes by the village within which Naruto is, there, he could have burned the village down, kill people, do something, anything, I don't know, but, then, he would have been interesting, and some real storyplay could have been written.

When he learns the truth on about Itachi and gets his eyes, he goes for the battlefields' frontlines, and the first thing he says: "I want to be Hokage." I thought that was a huge joke! But the guy was dead serious. And people love it?! At the moment you are epecting him to become truly evil, and join Madara and co. against the Shinobi alliance, Kishimoto makes him become good. Then back to evil, then good again. I found him troublesome, typical and just another annoyance to the batch.

Sakura, I found her hypocritical at first -and she was- but eventually, she grew out of it, but why is she still in love with Sasuke? I mean, he treated her like dirt, she is so juvenile. Plus, he is a traitor. She was first in love with him because he was the "star" and good looking. She is uninteresting, in my opinion. Between Sasuke being horrible to her and telling her to leave him alone, there is no real development that could make us think of any romance (except, maybe, the little "thank you." from Sasuke as he left the villagein order to be joining Orochimaru). The more he is being horrible withh her, the more she loves him, where is the logical explanation in there? Before, she was there to be shouting "Naruto! Sasuke!" during skirmishes, now it's still the same, but once in a while, she heals others. She is also naive, so was Hinata, Which is what really disapointed me, because I had started to really sympathize with Hinata's character, her growing up, silly shyness, gaining more strength both mentally, and physically. Yet, Kishimoto never really worked on her that much. But she had quite some potential! This is such a loss, in my opinion.

One thing that was really well-done, was Jiraiya's death. This character, I enjoyed every minutes of it. It had flaws and was not perfect, but in general quite well made, and his death was quite something.

Too much flashbacks,too much similarities between all the characters, same pasts, goals, ...

I wish Naruto could have been developed more. With Boruto, maybe Kishimoto will even slowly (unlike how he did during the war). Using new characters, along with old ones, bring in new subjects, evolve the screenplay, modify slowly the old characters with changes, evoluations. Less putting Naruto on the side, developing Boruto and Himawari, set up real bases.

Kishimoto is a good mangaka, but for some reasons, he messed up. And it is okay, he could fix it, by finding the right ways for doing so.