The series is fine, to say the least, not too good, not too bad, just somewhere in the middle, I guess.

The lore about the Nine Tailed Beast and how Naruto was ostracized and outcasted by everyone around him is pretty cool and I can't wait to learn more about the lore in the future!

The fight scenes, or what comes to close to fight scenes are pretty cool and the action sequences are really interesting as well, I hope there will be more action scenes in the future as well!

However, the main problem I have with this series is how all the major characters seem very… unlikable, as all of them are pretty rude, mean, and downright insufferable, even the main protagonist, who I personally find to be unlikable at times.

The only people I find to be likable are Iruka, Third Hokage, and maybe Hinata, Choji and Kakashi, but I have to wait and see in order to form a good opinion on them so far.

Overall, Naruto is a fine series, but I hope my opinion on the series will change as it goes forward.

Gaara in my opinion is one of the strongest characters outside of all the Otsutsuki and Otsutsuki Bloodline B.S. Gaara was able to catch fused Momoshiki with his sand and was capable of fighting against Matsuri. He’s one of the Shippuden Era characters that got powercrept but can still hold his own in the Boruto Era.

He became a Kage at age 15, and was the commander of the Allied Shinobi Forces during the Fourth Shinobi World War, even after Shukaku was removed from his body he maintained his power plus more

hi all! i actually used to frequent this forum years ago on a different account and while i've long since moved on from naruto itself it's always in my recurring thoughts as the series i grew up with. though my memory of it is all decently foggy.

anyway-- i was thinking more or less about the series as a whole and a thought that was

" hmm, naruto became friends with kurama a bit fast.. "

...went to

" hey, how /did/ he even manage to steal his chakra even with kushina's help? "

aaand that thought eventually came to the thought in the title! i ask this because pain's deva path really is pulling out all the stops in order to keep naruto's 6-tailed form down and even then... it never seemed to actually work, given how his 8 tailed form popped out of chibaku tensei right after?

i really got the impression that even if naruto didn't resist it, pain was kinda screwed either way

the only real conclusion i came up with is that maybe nagato was mainly accounting for the other akatsuki members being there to add support ( particularly itachi and and obito for their sharingan genjutsu, which is a definite wincon ) but they died of course and obito never stepped in, for some reason? so he had to do it himself

curious to know what everyone else thinks on this

This is such a very heavy song!

https://youtu.be/BQbT1E2GKSk?si=JqAiIrYxj2Nfho31

If not in the pic, name it.

If you could have a contract with any type of animal which one would you want? I’m not limiting this to the main ones we see, or even just the types shown being summoned in canon, but any animal you want. You can specify a specific type/breed, or just be general.

Why that animal? What would you use it for (movement, communication, combat, fun, etc.)?

What powers do you think it would have?

I’m very curious to see what other fans of the series think.