Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-12509038-20141124214040/@comment-17623-20150105121740

KirinNOTKarin98 wrote: @@TU#- Glad to see someone of your caliber join the discussion! :D

I read through your post and I gotta say that I need more time to give a full response. Until then, I'll say this- what about some of the more personal categories (characters, arcs, fights, etc)?

'''Favorite Characters: None. Honorable Mention: Pain''' Overall, all the characters that were fine I enjoyed. The characters I didn't like were not enjoyed. If I had a favorite character it would have been Tobi pre-reveal, when he was a villain with no redeeming qualities who was dead set on his conquest of the world. Yeah he had the whole "I'm going to make a perfect world" thing going on, but when Naruto confronted him and told him he just wanted control of everything, he didn't deny it. And he was awesome for it. Then the mask came off and we were left with Obito. Lame.

Pain gets an honorable mention in how ruthless he was during his invasion. He was the leader Akatsuki and that made him mysterious and cool. Until Tobi revealed himself, it was not mistaken to think he was the big bad of the series and when he did show up he did not disapoint. The only reason he is not my total main character is because he was only relevant in the story for a single arc.

Favorite Arc (Part I): Chunin Exams-Invasion of Konoha Just about the last time the story was actually about ninja. The Chunin Exams gave us a real look into the political structure of being a shinobi in such a world, how one would advance and all that stuff. Actual shinobi skills were needed to be put to use, and the fights were interesting. That arc lead to the Invasion of Konoha, which was a very ninja like invasion, with spies jumping out of nowhere, epic battles between the jinchuriki and Orochimaru v Third. The characters that showed up in the arc preformed and were not glorified cheerleaders and it was the last time Orochimaru showed up as a credible villain, as all subsequent appearances either had him manhandled by a demonic fox or he became Sasuke's cheerleader.

Favorite Arc (Part II): Invasion of Pain Believe I've stated this before.

Favorite Technique/Nature/Ect: None, Honorable Mention: Rinnegan (Pre-Madara) Overall, most of the techniques used were okay techniques and I don't have a problem with most of them (sans Susanoo). However, I as Pain was up there as one of my favorite characters, his eyes the Rinnegan deserve an honorable mention to me. Back when he first showed them, they were clearly powerful, but to me far less asspully with it. The bodies shared vision, which was neat, granted abilities, which was neat, but did not (seemingly) make the wielder an unbeatable god unless they specifically designed their fighting style around being an unbeatable god (See Pain's Six Paths of Pain verses Madara). When Madara got his Rinnegan was when the appeal faded because on him, the Rinnegan just made the Madara an unbeatable boring monster whom Kishimoto had to use a plot device to get rid of.