Why do so many people hate Naruto?

[maninahat]

I just don't like Shonen in general. They use certain conventions which I generally dislike, over and over: (extremely loud, tenatious ten year old wants/needs to become the greatest Pokemon trainer/hunter/ninja/pirate/*insert social elite here*. His willpower overcomes his casual stupidity and wrecklessness, he turns out to be uncommonly talented, to the point that he can hold-his-own against significantly more advanced adults practitioners. He'll often have a female sidekick who acts as the voice of reason/planner/support/damsel in distress and takes a back seat during the fighting. Fights themselves become longer and longer as the series progresses, mostly due to the fight featuring ever more amounts of extranious dialogue and fight analysis)

I also dislike the length of them. I like my stories to be shown with brevity. I'm not reading War and Peace, I'm watching a twenty minute show. Shonen seem to love grandious stories which feature huge amounts of fight analysis, extranious exposition, and filler episodes. To hell with that, stop wasting my time!

Of all the Shonen I have seen, I guess I like One Piece best. Despite exhibiting all th eprevious mentioned short comings I despise, I do like the unusual art style, the boisterous story and the colourfulness of the characters.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

People hate it because it's popular and because it's been bastardized by the dub (Probably more the latter than the former.)

It actually used to be good before the filler season, but during and after that it just got steadily worse and incredibly boring. I just stopped watching after he started training with frogs. Again. I lost all interest by then.

THis X 1000000%


It only had maybe 80-120 bad eps out of what 400 so far? And some of the fillers were not that bad.

 

[likalaruku]

1)It's a less than mediocre anime/manga that's way more popular than it should be, crushing far better animes & mangas under it's girth. & how did it get to be so popular? Advertising & because it's on cable TV.

2)Naruto is to anime conventions what Twilight is to Comic Cons. The only difference is that insteado of taking up lines & hoarding seats, the Naruto cosplayers drown out the other cosplayers & cause a huge lack of variety as well as an eyesore you can't escape.

3)For fansubbers, it can stand for everything that's wrong with editing & dubbing.

4)DeviantArt is absolutely flooded with Naruto fanart, & a great deal of it is borderline porn, nude pinups, poorly drawn, or shipping couples.

5)It's got Funimation taint on it.

6)I've been watching anime for 18 years & as a veteran otaku, I don't care for noob otaku. Naruto is a noob otaku magnet.

 

[EricGossett]

The english dub is terrible....


Watching the jap version with subs isnt bad, I like shippuden alot more than the 1st series tho. The first one was way to dry and filler at times like everyone said.

 

[Marik2]

I just hate anime that is really long and feels that its just pulling the plot out of their ass. I like my anime short those anime tend to tell a good story with good character development in like 13 episodes.

 

[HaloHappy]

I think it's mainly because of some of the more important characters are annoying. Naruto had his catch phrase early on, Sasuke gives off a vibe that he wants to kill everyone, Sakura complains too much, etc., etc. The only character I truly like is Kakashi.

 

[A random person]

Because there's MUCH better anime out there that people could be watching? Because Narutards exemplify every negative stereotype about fans of Japanese culture not from Japan? How about because yes, the show is all filler...and thus refers back to stereotypes previously referenced?

Pretty much this. People who dislike anime hate it because it exemplifies what's wrong with mainstream anime. Anime fans hate it for the exact same reason and the resulting blockage of good series (fun fact: most anime series have a pre-defined length, often topping out at 26 episodes).

Personally though, I didn't hate what I've read of it (Shippouden looks awful, though), but even within long-running shonen series there's better (like FMA and Mahou Sensei Negima).

 

[p3t3r]

well the part that got me was that it didn't move very fast with lots of pointless fights and 80% of all fights were conversations and flash backs.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Because I hate everything from Japan, AKA Land of the Legally Married Body Pillows, And Those Things Are Actually Relativly Normal Compared to the Other Shit We've Got Festering Over Here.

The nickname didn't really survive the translation very well, as these things seldom do.


(joke)

Seriously, though. I really don't like any anime/manga. It's just not my thing.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Not a fan of anime myself, but I feel it is because Naruto became too mainstream. The same thing happened to Pokemon, then Digimon, then Yu-Gi-Oh, and so on.

They all became the stereotypical anime shows which were rabidly devoured by insane fans, leading to a massive backlash.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

I never watched or read, I played Rise of a Ninja and while the game was good the story was meh and the voicing in both english and japanese was ear-rippingly horrifying, The english killed my ears so I got the japanese voices and they were better bu still horrible

 

[myogaman]

Dumb cliches and stereotypical characters drag down a good storyline.

and he's annoying, BELIEVE IT!

 

[Canid117]

I hate it because a ninja wears a bright orange jump suit and a shiny metal plate on his head that lets everyone in a hundred yard radius know that "I R DOWNS SYNDROME NINJA!" Seriously that makes no sense to me. Oh and the thing that SimuLord said about their fans being annoying. That too.

 

[Not So Tuesday]

Fillers, 8 Year Old Fans, Shitty Dubs, and a storyline about a NINJA in an ORANGE jumpsuit.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

I'm not sure why it's so hated either. It doesnt even have as much filler as a lot of people think. At least half of what some people call "filler" in naruto is just episodes where they focused on the plot instead of having a great big ninja fight. Maybe they just don't like the character naruto? idk.

Filler is episodes that don't follow the original Manga storyline (ie. invented stories for the anime version only). Filler is 99% garbage, 1% is good. I won't sift through 99 episodes of trash for one gem.

For Bleach and Naruto, I only watch episodes that are cannon. And only subtitled.

Please note: I like other animes as well.

agreed on all points. i hate the dubs and the filler. ive been trying to get into bleach, but ive only made it like 6 episodes in. when does it get good?

(in case you were wondering, i love naruto, but have been trying to get really into something else.)

Stick with Bleach until the end of the Soul Society Arc.
You won't be disappointed.

After that, it's touch and go.

I find myself agreeing, I like Bleach, I like the characters but I'm waiting until the current hueco mundo story finishes so I can stop watching.

 

[Mstrswrd]

I don't hate it, but I do hate some of the stuff that has been going on in the Manga.

Spoiler: Recent stupid events

Naruto hyperventilating for no reason.

Pein turns out to be a giant *censoed*.

The Man-Crush is the most powerful thing in the Naruto-verse.

Danzo had a Man-Crush on the Sandaime.

Much, much more.

On the other hand, some of the really recent stuff has gone back to form.

Spoiler: Recent awesome stuff

Naruto in Sage form.

Kirabi (anything with Kirabi/Killerbee, really).

 

[Swifteye]

It's annoying. It's dumb. And everything wrong or bothersome you could write in a story they do. And in pure twilight fashion they take the familiar and mess them up by making them do nothing that that said characters do or are known for do (I guess lots of people are victim to this). Also naruto is one of the worst protagnist of all time. When people say they hate child protagonist they are referring to naruto. I could honestly go on all day about how bad this character is but I don't want to.

 

[Deleric]

I just don't like shounen in general. If I'm gonna watch a shoenen anime, there BETTER be some fucking kamehamehas or some shit.

 

[Arisato-kun]

It's not that people hate Naruto itself. They hate the fanbase it's generated. When I'm in Borders and get a copy of Genshiken, One Piece or Soul Eater slapped out of my hands and I'm told to "read Naruto because it's better," then I rage.

Yes, this has happened. Three separate occasions. I'm always thanked for driving this same group from the store.

 

[acosn]

Briefly,

1) It's the atypical "TRY HARDER!" anime. Rather than actually having a sensible plot characters just get stronger.

2) Starting a cartoon, anime, series, anything that doesn't have the ending outlined when you start it is rigging itself up to be bad.

3) Filler is bad. In a show that's supposed to be continuous in story filler wrecks that.

4) English dub isn't inherently bad, but what they do to make it work with minimal editing is.

5) Working yourself into a plot hole the likes of which can only be dug out of by literally ending the show, and restarting it at another point in time is bad.

6) The fan base is just plain stupid. It's atrocious that people can claim themselves to be fans of anime (Or even otakus for that matter) having only watched Naruto, whatever turns up on Cartoon Swim and the occasional animoo that circulates on adult swim.