Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-33953813-20180101184529/@comment-734582-20180102084247

Gagua2028 wrote: All the fights you mentioned always had a normal start and later went to the power loaded stuff but when you see Kaguya vs Naruto and Sasuke, it's just all power from the very start. Naruto vs Orochimaru then (Forest of Death, bridge fight)? Some fights have long preliminary phases where they feel one another out (e.g. Sasuke Vs Itachi has a genjutsu battle before the real fight starts), others are ninjutsu battles from the start. Kaguya belongs to the latter phase, but at that point Naruto and Sasuke had already been in full fight mode from the start of their ressurection, and before that already had been fighting for the better part of a day.

Gagua2028 wrote: This isn't my opinion but some of my friends were saying this. They say that fighting with human characters were more relatable than fighting with aliens. They say it's becoming more like DBZ. DBZ itself is a sequel to Dragon Ball, and DBZ is a hugely popular series whereas i never hear anyone talk about DB. The sayain godmode fights are what drew people.

In the case of Naruto, the height of popularity was with the Akatsuki arc, so evidently most people came for that. Sure, most on the board here started with Part 1, but the internet isn't representative for any fandom.

While i agree that human-to-human combat is more relatable, i blame this more on vague powers and unclear limits. Intuitively we understand the limits of the human body, so there's no need to explain to an audience that getting cut is bad etc. but when Naruto is in Sage Mode, he doesn't seem to get hurt at all, so it's difficult to understand if a hit is lethal or not. And when it comes down to Chakra avatars, it's even less clear.

Kaguya was clear in that sense, since she could instakill even Naruto and Sasuke, so the stakes were clear.