Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24098614-20141114234521/@comment-25690287-20141115180001

I can't speak for everyone but myself, and most of the people I've talked to who didn't like the ending, felt that it cheapened everything that came before it. Besides Naruto and Sasuke being insanely OP there's no difference between the 1st and 2nd fights at the VOTE. The series could have ended at the end of part 1 and it would have been exactly the same. So why should I care? Why should I care that Naruto trained himself to the bone to bring Sasuke home if he's just going to give up in the end? Why should I care about all the character development Sasuke went through if he's just going to turn right back into the lonely misunderstood boy from when team 7 first formed? That's the main reason, but it's not the only one.

The pairings are tacked on. I can understand NaruHina. That makes sense. They were already somewhat close so of course they are going to get closer over the time skip. What makes no sense is SasuSaku. He goes straight from calling her annoying and putting her in a Genjutsu where he's killing her, to saying he's always loved her. No time skip, nothing. WTF? You expect me to believe that? The other pairings aren't much better. At least Ino and Sai meet. Why should I care at all about Choji and Kba's relatonships when the driving force behind them is "The author didn't know who else to stick them with, so here's who they're stuck with. Deal with it."

The manga ignores the lessons it's trying to teach. Revenge is bad. That's what Naruto has been telling us for 15 years. Yet Sasuke runs off and spends 3 years murdering, or attempting to murder, everyone who he feels wronged him, or his family, has all his dreams come true, and comes home, not only with no punishment for his actions, but as a better person because of them. How is revenge bad again? That's not the only time Naruto has done this, but it is the worst.

So that's why I believe prople are mad at Masashi. I understand that no manga can be perfect and sometimes plot points will slip through the cracks. But when you ignore what you've spent 15 years writing for the sake of pandering to the base and promoting a movie, you can't be surprised when intelligent people get upset.