Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-12509038-20141124214040/@comment-8284722-20141231193109

@TU3 You took the words about Sasuke right out of my mouth. ALso agree with Anko and Yamato, the themes, the artwork, and the mythology. Gotta disagree with the action, character punshiments, and the plot, though. For action, I actually liked how it went from more realism to flat-out nuclear explosions and practical seas of blood. It shows just how much people grow, in this case Naruto. Sure it takes away from the ninja concept, but then again, the ninja weren't at all like ninja the moment we all laid eyes on them. For character punishments, what would YOU have done? You can't give greater punishments than death. That's inhumane. And this is coming from a guy who's in support of the death penalty. For the plot, I didn't really think it was going anywhere much. Orochimaru just didn't seem like a legitly personal villain, and there wasn't much going on outside of Hiruzen's death. Once Sasuke defected and the timeskip happened, though, Akatsuki came in and made everything seem so much darker. And it all came to a head in the war, which had several great moments. My only problem with it was that it dragged on and on, making up more than 26% of the manga (just did the math; 184/700 x 100 = 26.2857). As for Invasion of Pain - YES! YES!