One of the early boss fights in the game is never topped

shikamaru is lame as fuck dude

as a character hes cool and alright but his powers are so boring

This fight was amazing but I think naruto x pain takes the cake as best in the series

Tsunade
Hinata
Temari

the holy trinity.

The Last Hinata
Konan
Kiba's mom

Heck off, shadow manipulation is a cool ability, but he was more a strategist than a fighter anyway.

The anime doesn't give him enough justice. The manga is where he shines.

Anko
Hinata
Tsunade

In that order.

Based and blackpilled

>people suck nardo's dick, it's mainstream enough to get on the news and have shit named after it
>watch the first 100 episodes to see the hype
>exams are the peak of the series, rest of it is predictable or filler

why the fuck do people like this show

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His ultimate power was using his brain which was way more interesting than "HURR BLOODLINE NO JUTSU"

all of them

His fight against Hidan was cool as fuck even if it was wildly unbelievable. The whole spraying blood on his weapon while feigning damage was literally fucking insane. I get that he's a top level ninja, but that level of accuracy, timing, and luck is bullshit.

because it tries to push the BOOTSTRAPS meme which doesn't work and is an anime only thing. Real life is pure RNG and we need to reduce that by giving everyone 1000 jutsus a month.

it's Dragonball Z for the kids who came after Dragonball Z

Shippuden ruined Naruto. There are some parts of it at the beginning that are good but overall Shippuden was an utter detriment to the series and changed things for the worse.

Ino
the girl with the fishnet shirt
kurenai
yes, i only like them for the porn.

>Old Hinata
>Young Hinata
>Haku

when it jumped the shark was when akatsuki became larger-than-life supervillains that want to destroy the world rather than what they started as. ever since that point the entire story and all the characters got worse overall

Just temari

That's literally every anime. Good for 2-3 season then garbo

Naruto
Naruto' clone
Naruto's other clone

Pain arc was good tho

He's the best. Just the fucking best. I always liked him but the way he handled his shit with Hidan made him eternally a bro. Sasuke spends not one, but TWO entire shows getting revenge. Shikamaru grieves for like one episode and gets even like 3 later. Like the show or not, he's just the best.

This, sasuke barely even works for anything and is basically as powerful as the main character who had to put in marginally less work as well.

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they didn't want to destroy the world at all

Orochimaru has potential to be a better villain. His build up in the earlier episodes was pretty good

Because a lot of kids grew up with it. I watched all of the first series as well as a good amount of the Shippuden, but even I don't care that much for it. Was just something to marathon during Summer to stave off boredom.

no it wasnt

I died so many times bros.

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Hinata
Tsunade
I dunno, Kurenai I guess

Around the end of the Pain arc is when things turned. When they pulled the shit with Nagato instantly undoing his nuke and killed all stakes, then did the "Tobi is actually a secret mastermind controlled by a mastermind who's controlled by another mastermind and so on" shit, they killed it.

>Ueki keeps talking about how hard work and his morals are his power
>he's a Heavenly Being, which have increased endurance and regenerative abilities
At least Fukuchi got better later on

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I agree. It became more magic instead of ninja fights.

Shikamaru's shippuden arc was pretty good.

Sakura, Ino and Temari.

>series starts off as ninjas with minor superpowers to keep things interesting but not ridiculous
>by the end of the series Naruto is DBZ-tier overpowered with attacks and techniques that could destroy entire civilizations
>later on he has to fight aliens
I hate powercreep. It ruins everything.

Because otherwise he would completely overshadow the protagonist.

>final Nardo vs. Sauce starts out as a basic ninja fight before escalating
was pretty cool

when is the last time they've actually done ninja shit like sneaking around

>Bayonetta 2
>Game starts at 110% intensity for the first hour
>Cools to 75% for the rest of the game

It's not even a creep. It's a fucking jump, with everyone besides the main 2 left in the dust.

Temari
Tenten
Tayuya

The good parts are stolen from Hunter x Hunter as well.
And Hunter x Hunter is also mostly shit.

Why doesn't he just take a bag of water from the pond and drown himself in that

>all that time wasted on stupid DBZ ripoff bugman

Is FMA:B the only Shouen show that stayed consistent with it's quality? I've never met anyone that really disliked the show because it dropped n quality or anything. Though also because it knew when to end as well.

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They never did. Ninjas in naruto world for all intents and purposes is a regular fucking army.

Because kids simultaneously want "anyone can succeed" and "I'm special!"
The author picked the stupider option for merch potential.

Its shorter than all of them, so probably.

Man you're right and I hate it. Shiiiit, bleach got fucked by powercreep too, it used to be a villain of the week type deal where it'd be some sweet personal story about a hollow, but then it turned into fighting... well, whatever the fuck they were fighting at the end. I could barely understand a thing that was happening after hueco mundo.

Chimera Ant would be a great arc if it was the ending. As just another random story thrown in the mess where you're supposed to go back to sympathizing with the protagonists, it's a travesty.

I still don't get how technology works in Naruto. They are advanced enough to have surveillance cameras and monitors during the Chunin Exams but live air television didn't become a civilian thing until Boruto.

hxh 2011 started great and kept on getting better

Because Japan still believes in heritage as a major source of value in a person.
Hence, if you don't have a super special person in your ancestry, you ain't shit
That's why Lee and Gai get the short-end of the stick all the time, they don't have a literal god in their ancestry like Naruto or Sasuke do, so they aren't important.
They don't have an important family bloodline or anything shown in the show, so they get no mentions.
Hell, after the epilogue where they show off all the characters who got paired up, they don't even show Lee's wife with whom he must've had Metal with.
And why? Because Shonen stories can't into hard-work, there has to be revelations to make characters seem important.
Can't just have Naruto be some random nobody with the Kyubey because then people start asking why doesn't everybody just train like he does?

Nah. Arakawa lost her balls after killing Hughes. There's way too many cop outs later on.

JoJo is basically shonen shit with how its formatted, and it works for JoJo because instead of been one ongoing story since the '80s, it's been several.

>wall of text that is never useful beyond that chapter the manga
Um no sweaty.

>neji attempts to redpill everyone about fate early on
>Gets killed in Shinobi war
>Only character that doesn't get revived by Naruto Jesus.

Ueki also had a hyberbolic time chamber too, used 2-3 times throughout the series. I am almost certain the last time he used it there was the dreaded "totally a chance of dying when using this technique/machine" plot device.

They want to be told that anyone can succeed while, themselves, being special and unbeatable
Basically, it's a self-insert situation wherein they want the validation of being a hard-worker but the actual results (and effort-input) of being born special

I felt like Dragonball was consistently solid. The sequels, lol, but the original never really declined.

>The show pretends the moral lesson is that hard work is more important than talent but
It doesn't claim that. The theme of the show was bonds and the cycle of hatred.

Skip the filler episodes and finish Shippuden you babbies. The pay off at the end is great.

>Might Guy's final battle
>The Sage of Six Paths Hagoromo and his sons flashback
>Sasuke's entire edgelord side exposed, then he matures as a character and becomes Boruto's caring uncle

Naruto is literally too high IQ for most of you.

That killed HxH for me to be honest. Greed Island was mildly entertaining even if pretty bad, amd evn then mostly because i fucking love mmo world interpretations in anime. But ants ark is fucking disgrace and murdered the series. Thank god YYH knew when to stop and Saint Seiya together with Hokuto no Ken transcended space and time and stayed mostly somehow.

Yeah, it's on the longer side for most shows, but it remains consistent. Nothing is ever a surprise in terms of power and everything feels believable within the world that's built. Characters are strong, arcs feel rewarding, and it has the right mix of drama, comedy, and action. The rules are established early and the show sticks to it pretty strongly which makes everything feel coherent.

Yeah, thanks for elaborating on what I just said. Shonen manga tend more towards specialness because it helps the self insert fantasy and means more toys.