Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24098614-20140411233703/@comment-5110462-20140615163737

Xconduitx14 wrote: I don't really blame sasuke for being the way he was. No one is born evil, it's the world that makes them that way. Sasuke was similar to Naruto, except sasuke didn't get the luxury of love and friends like naruto did when he needed them the most.

I agree Naruto is a bit more "cliche" character when it comes to not giving up. A real person when put through his situations would break and loose hope a hundred times over

But i dont agree with you that Naruto got his friends when he needed them the most, i think you need to watch the series again, the kid was always alone. No one helped him, parents (shinobis) would tell their children to stay away from him, he wanted to be recognized so he became the class clown and decided to get noticed. The only people who did notice him after seeing Naruto put up with all that shit for all those years were Shikamaru and Choji. He slowly gained his friends over the years because he tried. Naruto never stopped trying and thus gained the admiration of almost every shinobi in the present Ninja world.

He didn't sit around like an anti-social loner with his "Too cool for School" attitude like Sasuke who didn't accept anyone from the looks of it (although thats what a real person who went through all that would do). Sasuke still fails to understand friendship as seen with his attitude towards his Taka team-mates.

Neither Sasuke nor Naruto got friends when they needed them the most, Naruto tried hard and thus gained friends but Sasuke didn't try and remained "cool"-- look where thats got him now.

I am not a Naruto fan, nor a Sasuke fan. But i know Sasuke is a good character, he did move to save Naruto while they were fighting Haku after all. That earned him my respect, although his attitude doesn't fit him. His attitude is poorly depicted by Kishimoto, i have seen many characters with a superiority complex, characters with a God-complex, they all seem well depicted but Sasuke's character development is rather poorly depicted in my opinion.

Regardless, i am a fan of neither of them since i consider both of them as immature brats who are getting all this love from fans because they are the central characters. I dont despise them but i am not a big fan of them either.

Naruto is meant to inspire people into never giving up, and also to show people that you can talk your way out of any shit XD

Sasuke's character, well i am not sure what it is meant to depict, but i think it is a message to people that- "Whatever you do dont end up like him"

To me, Shikamaru, Gaara and Kimimaro have been developed in a much better fashion (There are better characters but only these 3 are of the same age as Naruto and Sasuke)