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AsianReaper wrote: Naruto had way too many flaws and plotholes.

But I enjoyed most of the cast of characters and the theme it was driving home. It had so many flaws and so many inconsistencies, but I still really did like the series. I think the series survived mostly because of characters and that the setting of the show is really really good.

Ninjutsu is a reasonably explained form of magic that allows pretty much anything to be possible (control shadows? Sure. Paper? Why not? explosions? Of course! puppets, hell yea). Ninja are thematically cool. It was about war but also ideology. It had many cool characters and designs.

Sadly the Anime had way too much filler (about 40% is filler) of way too low quality. When they really set their mind to it they were able to surpass the manga yet sadly mostly it was padding. I've never ever seen a show with this much filler.