Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24098614-20141114234521/@comment-25690287-20141116172107

Eric Burrell wrote: It's such a blasted shame that Kishimoto put hard work in 15 years, just so people can harass him based on the last 2 chapters. Ungrateful twats. How do people say Kishimoto ruined his own manga... I will never know. This was his intention from the get go. Who's fault is it that you read it wrong? People act like Kishimoto didn't contribute to anything to this manga until these last 2 chapters. Like someone else was working on it and then Kishi decided to take control and "ruin it".

That's the problem. Kishimoto spent 15 years working himself to the bone. He created these characters, wrote these stories, shaped this world. Then he threw it all away for a quick easy fix of an ending. And saying he had this ending planned from the beginning makes it worse because it means he wrote the story knowing it would fly in the face of the planned ending. And why can I not like the ending just because it took 15 years to reach? I am very grateful. Naruto is one of my all time favorite series. So I'm not allowed to say anything bad about it? That's not how the real world works. I loved the characters, I followed the story, I got immersed in the world. And the ending ruined all of it. If you liked it fine. That's your opinion. You're entitled to it and I don't disrespect you for having it. But I'm allowed my own opinion and I hated it.

@Blackchaos27 It doesn't matter if the fight was foreshadowed or not. What matters is it ruined everything. Before that fight this series was about Sasuke's quest to avenge all the wrongs the Uchiha had suffered over the years, while Naruto struggled to save his friend from the darkness he was slowly drowning himself in. After the fight the seres became about Sasuke throwing a hissy fit to get his teammates attention, while Naruto cleaned up his mess until he calmed down enough to come home. That's why it sucked. Because now Kurenai's daughter, Ino, and Shikamaru don't have fathers. Hanabi and Hinata lost their cousin, and Hiashi lost the last piece of his brother. Dozens of cites are leveled and hundreds of thousands of shinobi are dead. All so Sasuke could throw a 3 year temper tantrum. That's why people don't like the ending. Because it turned one of the most meaningful conflicts in all of anime, into a temper tantrum.