Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1018594-20150519012755

Just wondering, what's your opinion on this whole Naruto Project gamut? A lot of people, myself included, were sorely disappointed by the complete, for lack of a better word, clusterfuck that was the manga's final arc. I was hoping that this project would at least offer a decent consolation.

It hasn't, so far. I feel like this project is taking Naruto in a very Star Wars-ish direction: the amount of supplementary material necessary to tie up loose ends is too goddamn much.


 * This project came way too soon. The manga hasn't been over for a year yet and we already have two canon movies and a spin-off.
 * The fourth databook was filled with inconsistencies (more so than all the others) and damn near threw this wiki into a frenzy.
 * I do like the Hiden novels, but the main problem everyone has is whether we should count them as canon (we totally should, just saying tho).

And none of this helped by the fact that Kishimoto:
 * pulls plot devices out of nowhere and then never explains them, and;
 * adds useless details instead of explaining what's already been established: We didn't need to know that there's a Hatake Clan (or what Kakashi's face really looked like), but how about some explanations on why Sasuke only has one Rinnegan, or why Naruto suddenly gained the ability to heal people?

But there's my diatribe. Let's all try to keep this civil; how do you feel about all of this? 