After chapter 698 I also thought: hopefully they'll die, even though I rationally knew that they would not. I felt ashamed of it, but it meant I realized how tired I had become of the manga.
Sasuke's weird ideal of how to be a Hokage was out of character, his attack against Naruto was without any understandable motivation, and now he is no longer himself.
Actually I liked the manga when it started. It was just a nice adventure story for children, but as such it was okay (though even in the first season, mostly during the Chuunin exam, there were huge problems - you should not risk a child's life during a mere exam.) Also, during the first season Naruto made a stand against what he perceived as injustice, even though he was not able to act yet. Still shouting "I'll end the injustice in the Hyuuga clan when I am Hokage!" was endearing.
I wonder where the charme got lost. It must have been somewhere during chapters 400 and 500 when Naruto has difficulties judging the Uchiha massacre, while normally he takes no time to make a judgement. I wonder whether during those two years they were doing some kind of experiment, testing whether a darker story where Konoha is seriously questioned, would go well with the target audience. Or maybe some editor encouraged the idea, and then there was another one, discouraging it. So Danzou gets killed thirty chapters after he became Hokage, meaning less than a year for the readers. The story of Naruto's birth meant another turn, as from that point we are expected to believe that sealing the kyuubi into Naruto was not that bad - you just need enough love, and then everything will be okay. From that point it was just good versus evil with everything good inside and everything evil outside, The problem is that there's no way back to innocence. You cannot undo the Uchiha massacre, or the fact that the kyuubi was sealed into Naruto by his own father.
When the story starts, Konoha is far from perfect. It's that evil either, so it makes sense that Naruto tries to find friends who'll accept him. But it's not the epitome of LOVE.
Sasuke's weird ideal of how to be a Hokage was out of character, his attack against Naruto was without any understandable motivation, and now he is no longer himself.
Actually I liked the manga when it started. It was just a nice adventure story for children, but as such it was okay (though even in the first season, mostly during the Chuunin exam, there were huge problems - you should not risk a child's life during a mere exam.) Also, during the first season Naruto made a stand against what he perceived as injustice, even though he was not able to act yet. Still shouting "I'll end the injustice in the Hyuuga clan when I am Hokage!" was endearing.
I wonder where the charme got lost. It must have been somewhere during chapters 400 and 500 when Naruto has difficulties judging the Uchiha massacre, while normally he takes no time to make a judgement. I wonder whether during those two years they were doing some kind of experiment, testing whether a darker story where Konoha is seriously questioned, would go well with the target audience. Or maybe some editor encouraged the idea, and then there was another one, discouraging it. So Danzou gets killed thirty chapters after he became Hokage, meaning less than a year for the readers. The story of Naruto's birth meant another turn, as from that point we are expected to believe that sealing the kyuubi into Naruto was not that bad - you just need enough love, and then everything will be okay. From that point it was just good versus evil with everything good inside and everything evil outside, The problem is that there's no way back to innocence. You cannot undo the Uchiha massacre, or the fact that the kyuubi was sealed into Naruto by his own father.
When the story starts, Konoha is far from perfect. It's that evil either, so it makes sense that Naruto tries to find friends who'll accept him. But it's not the epitome of LOVE.
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