Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25139119-20150901145048/@comment-26518343-20150903234855

5 of 10, average.

The best parts were sensational and the worst were unwatchable. Everything else was middle of the road.

Too many characters, no sense of community even inside the Leaf Village. The average characters knew nothing about other clans inside the Leaf or the background of other ninja in the village.

Gossip and legends alone should have told people all they needed to know about guys like Kakashi (and thus his old teammates), Sasuke and his ancestors, Naruto and his parentage, Kabuto and his background (seeing that he took several exams) or other ninja in the village before they were even done at the Academy.

Instead you have people at the Exams basically going "Whoa! Whose this dude with the bugs in his body?" who by the way had been living right under their noises in Konoha with an extended family who also had bugs living in their body for generations.

Unless they ended up on missions together, the whole village was full of people who knew squat about each other apparently.