Naruto anyone?
 

Hey everyone, I saw my first episode of this show the other day, and for the first time, became interested in watching it. The episode was called Demon in the Snow, and to my surprise, I had my eyes glued. I'd like to check out this show a little more, but I'm still not sure if its what I'm looking for. The show seems to get a lot of fuss, and I've even heard it called the "next DBZ", but at the same time, it seems a little aimed toward kids. I was wondering if you guys could give me your opinion on the show and lemme know if you think its worth checking out. Thanks!

I tried getting into it, I honestly did. But like most any other Shonen Jump anime, it takes like 50 episodes to get any one thing done. It's unbearably annoying and stupid. Like, I seriously watched one episode where they had like 5 characters explain the same thing over and over.

I'm pretty up to date on the manga. I stopped watching the anime at around episode 191, because after 135 it went to Filler Hell.

the show finally ended in Japan.
now we are back to the canon story for the anime!! yay!!!

technically speaking "Naruto" ended. now they're starting anew with "Naruto: Shippuden (Hurricane Chronicles)."

I loved the original series until it hit fillers. A few of the filler arcs weren't half bad but most of them were horrible. Thank god it's finally over. I'm also big into the Gamecube games. Naruto GNT 4 is so awesome.

Yeah, I don't want to call it that so I'm going to keep calling it Naruto.

No thanks, I'm full. I get my fill of anime from Digimon. ROALZ! That's right, I went there.

Few shows earn the title "most overrated anime", this one does in more than spades, it earns it in BUCKETS. Too many fillers exist to pad things along in between adaptations, annoying characters, cliches of anime style writing that cry out for originality.

*shrug* I don't really like anime, but a friend introduced me to the show and I've watched all the episodes. The fillers are dang annoying, but the original story is cool, even if some parts take forever to tell. I'm also a sucker for ninjas, so that helps it a lot for me.

I guess since I don't like anime in general too much, I don't see the "anime cliches" that are apparently rife in this... hey, I can handle being ignorant. :D I don't try to pretend this is the "best show ev4r," because yeah... those talking/flashback episodes drive me nuts. But I get some enjoyment out of it, yes.

I once was a big Dragon ball (DB, DBZ and DBGT... yeah even GT) fan, well I'm still one, but not as much as I was 2 years ago. Fillers were there but they were ok. Its pretty much the only anime I ever got into. All the ''fighter'' animes are all the same now. Its annoying. Always the same thing over and over again.

I saw maybe 5 eps of Naruto. Liked it, but its really like ''talk, talk, fight, talk, fight, talk, talk, fight, talk, episode ends.'' So much fun... Things take forever to happen, fights are predictable, there's always a moment where everybody's like ''oh no, (insert bad guy's name) is too strong ! How (insert good guy's name) will be able to win.... WOW HE'S SO STRONG !! WOW! YOU SAW THAT ! GO NARUTO!! WHERE DID HE LEARNED THAT MOVE?!...'' etc...

Boring really. Dragon Ball Z is just like that, but since it was the very first anime I saw, it was ok.

An anime won't be good just because there's some blood here and there... Just look at Bleach. Lots of blood, lots of action, but still pretty much the same thing happening over and over again...

So, I'm done ranting here.. Long live the anime !

I liked the first couple of Manga voumes but everything after that is god awful. It's basically one boring fight after the other. In that aspect Naruto is actually very similar to Bleach.

Quite honestly, I think it's very far from being my so-called favorite. I've seen many other animes that can kick Naruto's ass anyday. One thing about Naruto is that's it's secondary characters are way more interesting than the main characters themselves.

Although I stopped watching at episode 135 due to the fillers, I thought the rest of the series was pretty fun to watch. Sure, there are a lot of pacing problems and predictable storylines, but I've certainly seen worse.

I watched a good 10 episodes of this show and came to the conclusion that it's all been done before. The characters aren't even all that lovable. The story is stagnant and awfully written.

Oh, and that Naruto kid from here two years ago turned me off to the anime, too.

I lol'd...really hard.

I like it, myself, but I haven't watch it that much. Personally, I think One Piece should have had all the acclaim this show had, buyt 4Kids... well, you know.

Personally, I don't get why the shell they bothered bringing Prince of Tennis over here. I mean, does anyone actually watch that thing?

Good series, but predictable. Reminds me a lot of dBZ. Lots of standoffs' before fighting even begins. Then an even stronger bad guy enters. Repeat
Haku and Zabuza Arc was my favorite. (HAKU!)


Is One Piece subbed really that good? I can't get into the Cartoon NetWork's version.

Prince of Tennis:lol: (What is that About?)

If you want to get into One Piece I strongly recommend to read the manga. It takes everything people like about shônen manga, adds some extremely quirky humour and puts it into a gargantuan world filled with life and its own rules. The art needs some getting used to in the beginning but gets really fantastic towards later volumes with a ridiculous amount of detail. The anime on the other hand can be really painful to watch because of some incredibly stupid filler episodes and some of the worst animation you'll ever see in any cartoon (voice acting and music is top notch though).

I really don't see it subbed. IOt's supposedly available on Line, but I can't watch it without a computer. I've been buying bootlegg Korean store VHS for the last couple of months. I will agree a lot of it does drag one, but in the case of Naruto/DBZ/ and pretty much any other anime I've ever seen (which isn't so much, actually) they all have long filler eps. This is basically to keep the cartoon from going beyond the manga's continuity. But I feel that One Piece is pretty close to the manga. Unlike Sailor Moon or Kinnikuman Ni sei, which they totally changed. But in any case, the manga is usually better, though some parts look better animated.


One thing I will never get... girls that watch animes/read manga souly because they think the guys are drawn sexy or attractive. That's pretty much the only reason this thing exists. It's basically every single cliche from every single sports anime of all time. I'm just ticked they don't have Bobobobo Bobobo any more to accomodate it.

My friend does. Passionately... :|

Naruto isn't that great of an anime, but it's certainly entertaining if you don't have anything to watch. Some of the stories are pretty good (My favorite thus far is the Haku/Zabuza arc), and you can't help but laugh in some moments. But then there comes the pacing and that...shmeh, even as an anime nut, it's not my place to rant about that *shrugs*