Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26403664-20160228225013/@comment-734582-20160417225453

BakumatsuWarrior wrote: Personally, a lot of these half-truths and misinformation made me so hooked into Naruto that waiting 7 days for a new manga chapter was literally painful. And even though many of these claims turned out to be false, they added a layer of complexity and excitement to the manga. Hyping up a character to the point of exaggeration does the trick in generating fan interest. A ninja must see through deception. It's very clear that the Ninja World is filled with lies and half-truths, and sometimes plain lack of information. People lie and manipulate to achieve their goals. For example, Itachi lied about how Madara obtained MS/EMS to make Sasuke distrust him (which clearly did not work). Kakashi lied about how the Sharingan worked to Zabuza to trick him. And then there are Hiden techniques like Shino's insects that sound more like those scary tales teenagers tell eachother than a real technique.