Masterjc wrote...
Enlighten me more of how the "quality" of Naruto dropped.
Kakuu was dumbed down horribly. Seriously he has lived for hundreds of years(i for some reason remember him living for about 1200 years, but i could be wrong on that) and he was defeated by a trick Naruto made...as a fucking genin.
The series doing a total 360 on revenge. Pre-timeskip we were taught that revenge is BAD BAD BAD. But then Shikaramu does it and its totally cool.
Naruto being the most naive, annoying, one dimensional main character i have ever seen. Seriously, i was hoping he would have grown up, but nooo. I mean, he was STILL obsessed with saving Sasuke. And him yelling about peace while not giving any sort of plan to actually accomplish that when asked by pain didn't help either.
Oh, on the subject of Nagato, worst villian redemption ever. Seriously, a man who has been killing jiinchuurikis and attack a village to further his goal is swayed by words from a book and naruto repeating the word "peace' and how he is going to find it without telling how?
The pain arc amounting to nothing. Seriously, nagato resurrecting everybody basically made the arc pointless. Oh, and Yamato can fix the village no problem,meaning Nagato's invasion DID NOTHING(with the exception of Danzou becoming hokage).
I could list more, but i can't think of them now. But basically, Post-timeskip the naruto manga seemed torn between actually becoming more mature and still staying a shonen. And thus you get a confused manga that tries to shove in cliche shonen answers to complex questions(the prime example of this being naruto spouting off how he is going to bring about peace without saying how).
I haven't seen the Kakuu thing, so I have nothin to say 'bout that.
Naruto trained for 2 1/2 years to SAVE Sasuke, since both of them have been best friends. Plus he's pretty much stuck on Sasuke since he made a promise with Sakura that he'll drag Sasuke's sorry ass back to Konoha. Do remember that his Way of a Ninja is to "never go back on his word"
And Naruto screaming about peace... This is the part before Naruto was overwhelmed by Kyuubi, right? The part where they 'talked'. Well, Nagato was right then. Naruto was stumped by the absolute truth that Nagato presented before him.
Need I remind again that the book is based on Nagato himself. Yahiko got killed, and Nagato picked up his ideals, mostly forgetting about the peace that Jiraiya's talkin about, since it is pretty much impossible to obtain. Then Naruto showed a crude and simple answer. "I'm gonna believe in his peace. So I won't kill you". This means that he hasn't found the "peace" Jiraiya is talkin about, but he is searching for it. How he's gonna find it is pretty much unknown, since nothing can provide a definite answer right now. Maybe in the future.
And YES! The end of the Pain Arc fuckin sucks. Reviving most of the dead was probably, like the others have said, to appeal to the fanboys that love the supposed-to-be-dead-characters. This is a wrong turn that Masashi made, although it kinda helps that Kakashi is alive.
And you do know that the original would always be better than the sequels. Or in this case, they kicked more ass when they were kids than they do now.