Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25139119-20150901145048/@comment-5936871-20150902011925

Seelentau wrote: I destroyed it for myself by focusing my whole free time on it for seven years. I read it over and over, analysed it to its very core, discussed every new chapter, created at least three timelines and all that stuff. It became more than it was supposed to be, it turned from a light manga that I'd read every week to an obsession. And that destroyed it. But since it's a bad manga on it's own, it didn't really matter. I didn't lose that much. Except for the time I spent on it, of course.

As for why the Naruto manga is bad you just need to compare it to One Piece. It's like night and day, One Piece has everything Naruto lacks and more. It has consistency, it has character depth and development, it has a story that's thought through from its beginning to its end, hell, even its timeline is worked out. Naruto has no consistency (from a Ninja manga to some superpower alien shit), 90% of the characters are underdeveloped (Itachi being one of the only ones who get an actual development), the story isn't thought through ("hurrdurr, how do you beat Madara, I dunno even though I'm the creator") and I don't have to explain how fucked up Naruto's timeline is, right?

Basically, compared to fast food, Naruto would be McDonald's and One Piece would be Subway. You can like McD more, but it's more than obvious that it's not as high quality as Subway. Naruto's inconsistent timeline is Kishi's own fault for never establishing one. The "from ninja to superpowered alien shit" isn't really true. The series has always been supernatural and otherwordly, Naruto had a freaking demon fox inside of him, Gaara was thought to have a demon that was an old priest inside of him, there was giant talking animals everywhere, and we had a pedophilic Snake Demon running around possessing people's bodies.

I honestly don't think it's that surprising or shocking how it evolved into what it is now. I also think the Otsutsuki Clan background is pretty interesting. Also, I don't see how 90% of it's characters are undeveloped. It does have some underdeveloped ones, but most of them are decently developed and their backgrounds have already been established. As for Madara, I believe in the interview he said in the interview that Madara had no weakness and that was a very long time ago. He most likely only said that to hype up Madara. As for the One Piece comparisons, I can't argue against it since I don't watch or read One Piece.