Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4437326-20150209145643/@comment-25349026-20150210020658

Abbzworld wrote: But to start petitions to BAN the manga from being published in North America and force users on forums and Twitter to be blocked/banned JUST because they didn't get their OTP made canon is so ridiculous it's not even funny!

wait...what? Did I miss something?

Granted, I don't really follow Naruto much now that its done, I just sort of poke my head in every now and then to stir the pot and hopefully make people laugh or think. First I will say that if you look at my posts you'll find I'm extremely critical of Kishimoto. However, I don't really hate him. That being said, he needs to learn a LOT about writing. The main reason a lot of people got pissed about the series is that its started so strong and ended so weak. And there are very simple literary reasons for this that man people here have already pointed out.

What killed Kishi was simple, characters. He made TOO DAMN MANY of them. By the end of part 1 there were tons of characters that by the time you took a poll, you found Naruto maybe barely making the top 10 of favorite characters in the fan base. There is a serious problem when your titular character isn't the significant favorite. So then part 2 comes out and he had this time to redeem himself and add to the stories of these characters...NOPE let's add an entire nation of ganguros, led by a guy who will die from excessively high blood pressure, his brother that takes rapping lessions from some guy with a raccoon named Ponta, and a slew of other characters with names and no real depth. Please note I pointed out the name of the raccoon. WHY THE HELL DO WE KNOW THE NAME OF THE DAMN RACCOON!? Why is there even a raccoon, or this guy present at the fight with Kisame? Instead of wrapping up loose ends and working on character development, he created MORE characters that he started developing a tiny bit and just dropped.

Add in the fact that he has a veritable armory of Chekhov's Guns on the wall (Plotline devices) that NEVER GET TOUCHED, or explained, and reduces even NINJA women to basically Betty Crocker, its no wonder people are pissed off at him. In part 1 I kept hoping Sakura would die, cause it seemed the only way she'd ever be useful to the plot (see Rin).

tl;dr - Kishimoto is "hated" cause he's a damn troll. Does he deserve it...maybe, depends on how angry of a person you are.