Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24860855-20150514231249/@comment-25093611-20150516192103

Ten Tailed Fox wrote: Let's do a little math here, shall we?

One Piece, Naruto, and Dragon Ball were rated just this week as the top three money-makers in Japan from the anime/manga world. This statistic comes from Bandai-Namco, if I'm not mistaken. Furthermore, in an interview recently released on Saiyanisland, which was a joint interview between Kishi and Oda, Naruto was said to be one of the most popular international manga/anime series at the moment and Oda himself admitted it was more popular than One Piece.

That is not a "failed" story by any stretch of the term, my friend. did i ever say naruto wasnt popular? im referring to the chars and the story, naurto did exactly that over the whole shippuden-story what he told to obito that is was "bad" and "wrong", and than he succeeded because saskes mind got retconned, his whole plan for peace was non-existent and through otbitos and madaras efforts he managed to gain a temporary peace which will be gone after at most 100 or 200 years,

pretty sure it can be labelled as "failed", not as "not popular" ^_^