So I finally started watching Naruto on Netflix, I few questions.

1. Is the dub or sub better? I started watching it in sub.

2. Is the anime or manga better in your opinion?

3. When do Naruto characters start getting really powerful, like which episode does shit start getting real?

Please try to not spoil if you can.

@notcensored@animefreak1 You're the only Naruto guys I truly know alot and can remember lol.

My top tip for watching Naruto is not to watch it

ProfessorRespect, my favorite anime/manga expert.

You're just gonna end up feeling like you wasted your time lol

How so?

Oh also, forgot about you.

@gokukid2005

Every plot point that gets you interested in the first half has an extremely lazy, anti-climatic, dumb resolution. Also, do not become a fan of any of the female characters because they're only there to cry over the male characters and get saved, outside a handful of moments.

Well, f$%k.

Yeah, i'm not even exaggerating this point, but it's worse than Bleach when it comes to the treatment of it's female characters, and most of the time it felt like female characters in Bleach were just there to show off their chest lmao that's saying something. I can't think of one decent major female character in Naruto.

Why? Nothing is resolved in fitting manner. It's like he started all these interesting, exciting narratives but didn't have the balls to pull the trigger. Off the top of my head,

• Itachi....wtf is that...tease him as this cold blooded traitor who slaughtered his entire clan, women and children included, then reveal he's actually a good guy in the most convoluted, stupid way possible??
• Sasuke betrays the village, attacks them, and does a bunch of other villainous things, but still ends up never really going villain and is basically a good guy in the end? Why even give him a heel turn if literally nothing came out of it? Seriously, hardly anything about the manga would change if Sasuke stayed good lol
• Orochimaru....what was his purpose and why was he forgiven?
• Same goes for Kabuto
• So the Akatsuki were just pawns for Madara, who were just pawns for Zetsu, who was a pawn for the alien god lady thing? Wtf??
• Anko??
• A ninja fan service war where only one mid level character dies?? Worse than GoT lol
• No balls to kill Kakashi
• And definitely no balls to kill Guy. The consequence of the 8 gates was teased since the Chunin exams and the one time we get to see it our expectations are subverted with a cop out :/

I can go on, but damn that manga becomes trash post Jirayas death.

@buttersdaman000:

Everything you just mentioned had nothing to do with Part 1 Naruto.

And I'm happy a lot the things you mentioned didn't happen personally.

Anime for me is more enjoyable with the animation and music but manga is more interesting and feels organic cus I’m the type of guy that only cares about main story not filler and side arcs that aren’t canon. So when it comes to that its easier to just go straight to manga, plus the manga gets a story first and not always is it that every great manga gets a anime series.

There are so many trash anime compared to awesome manga that deserve anime adaption.

When you’re a true fan you read the manga and canon material first.

Heres a list of all the canon episodes:

1–25, 27–96, 98, 100, 107–135, 220

It can go faster if you solely focus on naruto and Sasuke paths and their fights especially during Chunin exams

Half of the time i didn’t know about a series until I saw a anime preview of it. As a kid I was watching Naruto anime since it was on Cartoon Network so by the time i read the part 1 manga from local libraries the series was already in beginning of Shippuden.

ProfessorSavage

@takenstew22:

1. Is the dub or sub better? I started watching it in sub.

2. Is the anime or manga better in your opinion?

3. When do Naruto characters start getting really powerful, like which episode does shit start getting real?

1. In all honesty both sub/dub are amazing. Some parts of the show are better Japanese/subbed some are better dubbed. In short u can watch in either versions and you'll get full satisfaction.

Tho its kinda odd to find that someone hasn't watched the original series.

2. the anime adds extra fight sequences, and also includes everything from the manga(obviously, but probs not the gruesome stuff), and the filler arcs are also interesting bcuz it involves Konoha 12 teams in various missions, so its cool to see them get screen time apart from the chunin exams and of course shippuden.

3. honestly stuff gets real from the get go, 1-10ep maybe, but power ups/savage moments start/happen in the land of waves arc

@takenstew22:

1-Watch it on Sub way better to actually do it

2- i havent read the manga so i Say for now anime

3-Exams/land of waves/Shippuden are examples of it

Since many people have shared his opinións without spoilers i whould Say that compared to most animes out there recently Naruto is a fun ride to get along with it however the filler parts became too Dull and unnneccesary to see so i whould reccomend skiping it to enjoy the actual story.

On a more critical note if i whould have to rank the series on a top it makes 15 place but nowhere top 10.

My biggest grip with Naruto is that there are so many characters that could potentially be your favorite but it isn't possible to focus on all of them.

It has the most diverse cast of characters and abilities then any other anime I know.

But as you know, there are chosen ones. Just like any other anime series.

And the world building is insane too.

There is already a history of 3 World Wars, 5 Nations, a foundation and system of how things work from the very beginning.

Is there a "Piccolo" of Naruto? I know that Naruto is basically Goku and Sasuke is basically Vegeta, but if there was a character like Piccolo I might like him the best.

Also, forgot another tag. @mattyboi

Personally wise, Kakashi is similar to Piccolo.

He is a big fan favorite as well as Rock Lee or Gaara.

1. What's so "convoluted and stupid" about Itachi's turn? What makes it the most convoluted and stupid way possible? Simply because it "subverted your expectation" of him being a murderer? He went undercover to infiltrate the Akatsuki and killed his family so that they wouldn't enact a coup de etat and weaken his village, making it open for invasion. This is more of a personal gripe than an "extremely lazy, anti-climatic, dumb resolution".

2. Sasuke never really goes villain? What does "really become a villain" even mean? He betrayed his village, tried to kill his comrades and old teammates, joined an evil organization that held terrorists and hired killers, captured all the Tailed Beasts, planned to kill all of the Hokage, but didn't really go villain? What more did you want him to do? Did Darth Vader never really go villain because he was a good guy at the end? Why even give him a turn then? Again, another personal gripe with the series and not an "extremely lazy, anti-climatic, dumb resolution".

3. What was Orochimaru's purpose? I'm not following, unless you somehow didn't read or watch nearly half of Part 1? Curses Sasuke, baits him with power to kill Itachi (his goal for half of the series), attacks Konoha with Suna, sends the Sound 4 to bring Sasuke to him, I mean this is all easily covered, you can't tell me you don't know his purpose. And he was forgiven because he helped out towards the end of the War, and by helped out I mean healed Tsunade, which helped heal the other Kage, and summoned the previous four Hokage. Naruto and his big heart was the one who forgave him, unless I missed something in the anime about Kakashi doing that. Again, personal gripe with the choices the series took, but this time with a little addition of "forgetting the villain of Part 1 of the manga".

4. I don't know about Kabuto.

5. What's wrong with the pawns? Zetsu made Madara believe that he needed to cast the IT, he died before he could accomplish that, so he found and molded Obito into thinking he needed to cast IT as well, who created and used the Akatsuki to make this happen. If that confuses you, there are simpler stories to read. you should try One Piece, which is easy to follow because the story is "pirate tries to find treasure". Sounding like a broken record here, but nothing about one pawn using another pawn using another pawn is lazy or anti-climatic.

6. If you're trying to say Anko was an "interesting, exciting narrative", or that Anko was a plot point that was "extremely lazy, anti-climatic", and ended with a "dumb resolution", then you need to reevaluate what you think a plot point is.

7. If you viewed the Fourth Shinobi War as nothing more than a "ninja fan service", then I don't need to go any further on this point.

8. When were there plans to kill Kakashi? Not sure how you can complain about "no balls" and "didn't have the balls to pull the trigger" when Kishimoto killed Jiraiya before fake killing Kakashi? Just because you wanted Kakashi to die doesn't mean Kishi choosing to not kill him was an "extremely lazy, anti-climatic, dumb resolution".

9. Guy was saved because Naruto was granted power by basically the god of the verse. Would you complain that Tolkien had "no balls" or "didn't have the balls to pull the trigger" because he didn't have Gandalf die? Seeing the Eight Gates on-screen or on-panel was an amazing moment in the series, but you're mad that your expectations were subverted cause you wanted Guy to die when he didn't (which he would have under normal circumstances if Naruto wasn't granted an insane power boost and the ability to make a moon). Konohamaru said he was going to be the 7th Hokage but he isn't, should I be mad that something that was teased since the Chunin Exams didn't come true and subverted my expectations?

I can go on

You can't, really. You're better off talking about how Kishi handled female characters not named Tsunade, how he "handled" the rest of the Konoha 11, how the war was paced, or the quick pace of the Kaguya fight and subsequently quicker pace of the Naruto and Sasuke finale fight in a rush to end the manga on 700 chapters.

@takenstew22:

1) Sub, especially if you're teenage or older & hold no nostalgic ties to Naruto.

2) Manga. No filler & Kishimoto can be a pretty talented artist at some cover spreads.

3) Shit starts getting real at a certain villain's introduction, let's just say he's a snake dude who likes to pray on Sasuke's young body (sounds weird? Yeah, should be) When they get powerful? You mean the origin of big boom gg? First actual big boom is Deidara vs Sasuke which is Chapters 355-363 or Naruto Shippuden episodes 122-125. People might say Naruto having his first TBB but that destruction is kinda lame imo.

@takenstew22

Is there a "Piccolo" of Naruto? I know that Naruto is basically Goku and Sasuke is basically Vegeta, but if there was a character like Piccolo I might like him the best.

An original bad guy who has a great fight with the MC, becomes a friend, but really does nothing that big after they're established friends?

Gaara.

@faradaysloth: Spoilers...

@wushu59: Oh well.

Bruh, you could at least delete it or something.

Half of it is wrong anyways.

1. Dub isn't terrible, but subbed. And I say that as someone who usually defaults to the dubbed.

2. Anime. But the downside is there's filler content. Both Naruto and Naruto Shippuden are roughly 40% filler content.

3. In Naruto Shippuden (aka Part II, Post-timeskip). Nothing in part I/Regular Naruto is gonna compare.

**Anything else?

It's fine.

Part 1 of Naruto is great. Its really Shippuden when the quality goes down hill. All the best fights and best character moments containing the main cast happen in part 1. However the fillers go crazy at a certain point lol

Don't need to be a expert to know crap when you notice it

I actually disagree.

The quality of the fights of Shippudden are much better then Part 1, asides from that one legendary fight in the Chunin Exams.

Story in first half of Shippuden a lot of people prefer over Part 1 as well.

Yeah... If I made a Top 10 fights list, 7 or 8 of them are going to be from Shippuden.

And first half of Shippudden is way crazier then Part 1 Naruto.

The 2nd half of Shippudden isn't as critically acclaimed story wise but it had some of the better fights in the series.

Nah.

And Gaara has his moments in Kage+War Arc, but he never achieves the same role he had in Part 1.

@aldoronthegoat: Agree to disagree then. Part 1 had a certain amount of grittiness with Naruto also being the underdog and actually captured more of the ninja stuff, which the show is suppose to be about. Watching or reading for the first time you aren't certain what could happen by the time Shippuden comes around the series became a bit predictable, the characters don't really even progress that much from their tween years, except the main team. None of the characters were blown out the water in power scaling yet so they had more to do. Taijustsu becomes pretty much an after thought and the series starts looking like DBZ. The fighting may have been flashier in Shippuden, but as stated earlier they were more gritter and meant more in part 1. The Bridge fights, The Chunin Fights, The Sannin fights, the first valley fight were all more interesting than most in Shippuden

To me, Shippuden really only expands the world of Naruto. Similar to how the prequels expand Star Wars, but overall the originals are better material.

Then I might like that one more (if I get to it). I prefer action packed stuff.

@faradaysloth:

If anything, he achieved greater heights in Shippudden.

He doesn't have to be a main villain or protagonist to do great things in the story.

Lmao, I was gonna talk about this shit and what kind of weird points these are but @thevivas already explained why this is what it is.

I agree most plot points tie in very unsatisfying ways but the journey up until like the last third of Shippuden are very much worth watching. There's a reason Naruto was one of the most popular anime out there.

He became more powerful, sure, that's a given. He became Kazekage after all.

The second part...no where did I claim that...

@takenstew22: tag @noone1996

Also what PR said

Everyone I know who watches it says you gotta watch subs and the show doesn't really pick up until a time skip or they grow up or something.

I have never seen the show, so I don't know. But this is what they've said when recommending it.

Thanks for reading,

Floopay

i tried watching naruto on netflix

only got till season 2

Comic book fans just can't stop themselves from hating on anime lol