Why do so many people hate Naruto?

[Necrofudge]

...If I can't include Megas ^_^

You can and I'll be damned if anyone says otherwise.

 

[icaritos]

The characters are annoying; why are we supposed to root for this upbeat twat, or have sympathy for the emo, or ignore the obvious uselessness of the stock love interest-ish?

The fillers...ok, blanket statement: if you don't want to overrun the manga, take a few months off. But don't make ~100 episodes of fillers, which only annoy people. And absolutely do not make pointless cooking fillers (cake in Bleach, some ramen malarkey in Naruto)

The story; it might be due to the fillers, but I'm pretty sure that the actual story was no longer than 50 episodes. Twat becomes ninja, twat's buddy falls to the dark side to kill his brother, twat's buddy kills his mentor and his brother, twat still looking for him. Is that about right?

But more importantly, it's in the nature of anime, or something I call Dragonball Z syndrome. Basically, you have a fairly average protagonist who must overcome some much stronger opponent. He (for the protagonist is ~99% sure to be male) eventually does after getting his arse handed to him a few times and subsequently training. But where from here? Well, how about a new, more powerful villain? Sure, so the protagonist is already stronger from the previous bout, so the new villain must be more powerful still. Keep this up for a while and you'll get characters that could probably annihilate the universe by farting, which is incredibly boring, and ludicrously contrived. Remember how quickly over 9000 became over one million?

Oh, and the whole "Believe it!" Is that also in the original japanese? If so, does it actually translate to believe it?

Dattebayo has no real translation (which is why they make it into a generic "believe it") but it is equally annoying. And i agree with the 50 episodes plot statement, any semblance of plot died long ago all he does now is get stronger to save a emo kid only fangirls like (and for weird reasons).

 

[Wintermoot]

the dub was horrible
its over rated
th Ninja,s in Naruto are in the same way ninja,s as vamires in twilight
BELIEVE IT!

 

[WrathOfAchilles]

Because it takes 5 episodes just to see one fight?

 

[Angryman101]

One sasuke went super-sayajin 3 right before the time skip, it's been nothing but one cliche after another. It's not funny, uninspired, and uninteresting.

 

[Bek359]

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Take Naruto himself. He seems like a rather obnoxious brat, but from the very first episode, they explain why. Having to constantly live in amongst those who ostracize him as a monster made him an obnoxious brat. Becoming a ninja, having those adventures and experiences, and most important companionship with his fellow ninja, matured him as a character. The current Naruto is an almost completely different character than the annoying little kid, rather a respected, charismatic young man revered as a hero amongst his village yet still morally conflicted over how to act on a former comrade turned maniacally evil.

Character development yo.

To quote Yahtzee, "Deliberately annoying is still annoying". I personally have better things to do with my time than watch a series whose central character makes me want to beat him to death with a ladle for an extended period of time, even if he does get better a few seasons in.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

I did try to enjoy Naruto, and I watched 20+ episodes before I gave up on it. (I did it at my boyfriend's request, as he is a Naruto fan. Yes, I will do ANYTHING for love.)

I'm not violently opposed to the series, I just really don't care for it. There are some rather amusing moments in the series if you skip around a little, but I didn't feel any connection to the characters (and I want to punch Naruto's voice actor in the throat. Oh god fuck you dattebayo). It reminds me of DBZ in all the worst ways.

If you like it, hey, good for you. Enjoy it. I still have a deep and abiding love for two of the worst anime series in the history of time. But I won't force you to watch them with me, and if you try to force me to watch them with you I will refuse. I did, however, watch a few episodes with my boyfriend recently, and it was better than I'd expected.

 

[Bek359]

Simply put, pacing. Naruto has some great fight scenes and some interesting plot lines and characterization, and maybe the writer could be given credit for trying to create huge, epic story, but nothing in the series is good enough to keep me interested over 100 non-filler episodes. Pacing is necessary, and at times, closure.

Here is a question, has any series EVER been still good aftet 100 episodes, or maybe 15 volumes of a manga?

Well, there's Stargate SG-1, but you're probably just talking about anime...

 

[Daipire]

I hate it cause nothing happens, too many filler episodes.

 

[Danglybits]

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?

All very true. Also, its more of those overly talented youth/youth centric series where twelve year olds act like adults. I think Naruto has some good points, the main character was an outcast but he doesn't ***** about it all the time for one, but they have way too many characters with increasingly ridiculous specials. That's fine for Ranma 1/2 and the ramen-round-up-noodle-noose, but Naruto seems to want to be taken seriously. My other misgiving is that with the exception of Tsunade the women are kind of sidelined. Some of them have really cool powers but they never get a chance to use them. Hinata could be a monster if she we're such a wet sponge. Even when the ever-annoying Sakura gets an upgrade she gets thrown into the healer role, oh wow, 'the Girl' gets to be the healer! that's new! I'm pretty sure that Ino starts to join her in the med-nin training. Besides all of that, 100+ filler episodes is pretty heinous.

 

[Aschenkatza]

Because no real ninja wears bright orange.

 

[Lynxan]

I don't mind the show, I'll fallow it when it's on, but I have to agree, most of them being ninjas is a stretch, but I do find the odd power face offs rather entertaining. Naruto himself.. well, he's a dork... there's no way about it, but at least he is an actual force to be reckoned with.

As for the ones that talk about the dub, go and find a few episodes of Force Five, Star Blazers ((good even with the bad dub)) or Macron 1 if you want to see what a bad dub really is because while not the most perfect thing, it can be far far worse.

 

[lorddraethos]

So much filler. It's not hard to find better shows out there. If you dig ninja, check out Basilisk. Okay, so it's not as family-friendly...

 

[Kwaren]

I hate it because no self respecting ninja would try to be sneaky in a bright orange jumpsuit while screaming "Believe It!!!" oh right.. and the fans who make all the other anime fans look bad.

 

[joshthor]

i hate it cause its anime.

 

[Tdc2182]

Because I rarely like any anime pre 2004. It was all bastardized by us Americans. And it just seems like such an annoying fucking show. God damn, I hate the main character.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Nothing with that many episodes can be good.
Especially in translation its 60% idiotic blabla and 40% unecessary long battles.And 0% interesting plot
copy this for every anime over 30 episodes.

 

[Miumaru]

It seems childish, corny, and way too long. The best animes tend to end under 30 episodes. (Even if you removed the filler, it is still too long)
Plus the people who seem to love it so much annoy me.