Naruto: How The Anime Lost What Made It Special.

ever since the year 2007 I have been a massive fan of the anime and manga known as Naruto every single night before school I would set my alarm for 7:00 a.m. so that I could wake up and watch a program on TV here in Australia called toaster TV on this program we were introduced to shows like one piece eager GX Pokemon Diamond and Pearl and more specifically for the sake of this very video part 1 of the anime Naruto an anime that just about every anime fan has no doubt ibly heard of and usually I myself I have a list of 5 anime that I consider the biggest enemies of all time Dragon Ball Z Sailor Moon Pokemon yu-gi-oh followed by good old Naruto without fail I made myself get up every single morning so that I could enjoy things like these apples are and Haku Ark which to this very day is one of my favorite arcs in all of anime period I also enjoyed the training exams and I also enjoyed one of the most iconic fights in anime and manga Rocklea vs. Gaara are you watching Neji I was saving this ace in the hole to use against you see what you have to look forward to yeah to finish it [Music] wait a second wait am I even allowed to upload rape to YouTube what the [ __ ] I honestly believe that you could show the fight of roughly versus gara to just about anybody I mean just about anybody even someone who dislikes enemy and I guarantee my left testicle that are they would enjoy it even the slightest bit and you know why because it's an amazing fight now Naruto in general for me as a young kid was amazing I was obsessed with the opening for Naruto the music in the background during fight scenes the hand signs used to create attacks the fight choreography the characters and just all in all I was obsessed with the show of Naruto itself opposed to TV at the time only aired Naruto up until the moment that Naruto met Jiraiya so I didn't really get to see much of it at age 10 and I ended up continuing Naruto at age 14 when I stumbled across an app called crunchyroll on my shitty ass ipod that I owned at the time now on the app I watched every single episode of Naruto as if it was going out of fashion and I was caught up to date with the anime at that time within weeks and for the next four years after that i religiously watched and read naruto like a madman and i remember reading the very last chapter of naruto shippuden the day that it was released so what made naruto so goddamn special now the obvious answer for most people would be to say that hey it was just a good anime and manga but let's let's not be that cut-and-dry Naruto was good for a number of reasons one because well the fights were amazing the osts were amazing the story was amazing and maybe it's also the fact that Naruto at the time was one of the first enemies to ever really touch on the underdog type story and when I say that I'm referring to the fact that when you look at something like your Hakka sure Dragon Ball Z in one piece all of the main characters were not losses by any stretch of the imagination nor were they oppressed to the degree that Naruto was throughout his childhood I believe that this series genuinely touched a lot of people and really related to a lot of those who have been through hardships throughout their lives and kishimoto really conveyed a story where he showed you that even though you can go through absolute hell you can still be the hero at the end of the day and Naruto his entire goal throughout his whole life and the very story of na return was to become Hokage who was essentially the leader of his village and the one that would end up being loved by everybody and if you do compare now return to his counterparts and Shonen Jump magazine he is definitely a lot different to the characters like Ichigo from Bleach who was more laid back and somewhat carefree you skate from you haka sure who was a laid-back delinquent believer from one piece who was a genuine dumbass that when it's become Pirate King and was more so just a positive character all round and even Goku from Dragon Ball who just wanted nothing more than to be the best fighter to exist now for me personally I didn't have the the nicest half childhoods growing up to say and seeing the number one hyperactive knucklehead ninja growing as a person learn new abilities mature and even grow out of liking a girl who made him nothing but miserable I uh I definitely did relate to him also maybe the fact that I have blond hair and blue eyes like him but you know maybe not but was that the main reason why Nara toe was so liked so popular and so well regarded by its community he'll know part one of Naruto had so many amazing moments like hitters and verses of rich Amira which was massively vital to the flow of the story due to the fact that hitters and had nerfed Orochimaru by a mile and basically saved the day Itachi vs. Kakashi which showed a of how powerful the Uchiha actually were when Itachi put Kakashi into a genjutsu and I think we can all remember that moment because of how overpowered that [ __ ] genjutsu was Rock Lee's drunken fighting style against kimimaro which was just genuinely hilarious and the end of series fight involving Naruto and Sasuke in the valley of the end which if I'm to be honest is a lot more iconic than Gaara vs. Rock Lee then when you move on to part two of Naruto things improved tenfold with the Akatsuki in my opinion with them being the main problems that had to be dealt with throughout the start of shipping and we also had sasuke vs deidara which has some of the best display of tactical fighting in anime and both swag car gay and i both agree that that's one of our favorite fights in the series of Naruto just in general we also had naruto vs pain which showed naruto develop he learnt new abilities and it also gave us a little look into a potential future pairing with Hinata now usually I wouldn't mention stuff to do with shippings but yeah that Hinata scene where she's confessing her love to know her to a Midway being absolutely [ __ ] destroyed by our pain I've actually never cried more than that moment in animes so yeah but that speaks volumes basically the entire series of the whole during that period of naruto and naruto shippuden they were strong [ __ ] times for the series then when you think things can't get any better we had a huge moment in the series the introduction of my personal favorite villain of all time Madara [ __ ] ichi ha the reveal of murderer was a massive changing point in this series we went from a boring war art which basically involved bringing back a lot of characters which was you know it was somewhat cool but it was fading people's interest because it got very repetitive and it was very boring now we did go like it I said from a boring war arc to the hype of the series actually skyrocketing by a mile thanks to the introduction of modern murderers name had power he appeared destroyed all of the car gay at once who were regarded as formidable characters and he did it with absolute ease I mean this fellow was so strong that he made the main character run away he absolutely destroyed the shinobi alliance he even made the series be renamed to water a ship it in which was a pretty good idea by Kishimoto I'm glad did that and also made the series improved astronomically to the point where Kishimoto himself decided to keep Madara as it is widely known that Madara wasn't really planned to last that long in the story now mara was fantastic he then went on to entertain us for three straight years and latera could spend an entire chapter just blatantly talking out his ass crack and people would be entertained on a weekly basis when reading the actual manga but where did it all go wrong well there are plenty of reasons and many reasons that most of you might not agree with me on number one being the fillers a lot of you will say straight away that this isn't even relevant because they're not Canon and yeah that is 100% true and the fillers don't define Naruto as a series nor are they really relevant in general but we are talking about the hype of the series as a whole most people most normal everyday anime fans they only watch the anime they don't know about the manga and this was exactly how I was when I was younger I didn't know what fillers were I just assumed that they were normal episodes and I kept thinking to myself holy crap why are these episodes so [ __ ] boring and they have nothing to do with the story that I was just watching an episode ago what the [ __ ] well i sat through all of them and it burned me out very fast and well why is this it's all because Studio periodically milked the series drier than my grandmother's tan and they truly messed up a lot of hype stuff in the series and this was also seen with the enemy of all each so it wasn't just Naruto that was affected by this but it is as clear as day that this was a marketing strategy that they had to extend the series as much as possible and milk the series we went from hype moment hype moment hype moment then BAM a [ __ ] filler arc and it was gross the flashbacks were just as bad it was truly disgusting to sit there being sucked into an episode enjoying the fights the action the suspense the dialogue and then having Naruto's childhood being told to us for the 63rd [ __ ] time I can confidently say that I probably know Naruto's childhood from moment to moment better than my own the Warhawk was kind of the same deal too because like there were some really good amazing moments in the series but the series became copy and paste and the characters were repetitive we were also getting stories and fights from characters that we we had already seen in the past and it was pretty bad a lot of ways it did have its good moments like I said but until murderer was introduced the series didn't get good until he was introduced and then it got [ __ ] fantastic but that only lasted so long we went from hand signs amazing hand-to-hand combat dark gritty fighting cool characters to even one of the best characters in the series Madara Uchiha getting shafted as if he would nothing but a side villian now I made a pretty good video recently that goes in-depth of basically what happened to modernize and in the series of Naruto and bleach which I think you should go check out if you get a chance it's a pretty good video and it basically explains how they were wasted when murderer was introduced he gave us the same Hyper's arcs like a few slashes elbows up the Chunin exams pretty much any other arc in the series that you guys loved and then he just vanished as if he was fodder and this was all because of two main reasons number one obviously kishimoto did ride himself into a corner there is a copypasta going around that says that oh he was too strong so Kishimoto had no idea how to kill him even if you don't like disagree or agree with that statement it's true it's as plain as day the Kishimoto made moderate way too strong because even after Naruto and Sasuke were given power-ups by the sage of six paths that's a huge [ __ ] deal they were given direct power-ups by him and they were still in a position where they most likely could not have beaten Madara and the other reason is that well shounen jump wants to make money just like any other business on planet earth and part three of Naruto was inevitable because it makes money not only in Japan but it's also extremely popular around the rest of the world so by introducing a boring-ass villain like Kagura who was not compelling not cool and not even an interesting character in general they were able to add it in all of these early and Eska backstories a whole lot of crappy villains and a high way to continue milking the series with the series of Bora Tori which frankly just isn't that good of a series objectively at all sure some things about it are good here and there but it's definitely not Naruto when I think of the old Naruto I think of captivating moments in the series that motivated me I think of all the moments I was entertained by the fights by the speeches by Naruto's motivation to never give up and even the fact that he as a character and the series in general changed me as a person growing up I grew up with Naruto I grew with Naruto I love this series of Naruto all throughout my childhood and teens to see a series that meant so much to be turned into what it did waste an amazing villain and even disappoint a lot of people that I know who loved Naruto just as much as myself it was sad and a waste of an amazing series now I've pretty much covered everything in this video but I want to say that if Naruto had have kept the same sort of tactical fighting that we've seen in Sasuke vs. data our Sasuke vs. thongs our naruto vs pain Jiraiya vs. pain majority of the fires throughout part 1 of no-return kept that sort of fighting chemistry all throughout the series because it was the stakes were high and that's what made the fights very interesting because characters could die at any moment if they [ __ ] up one decision if they made one wrong move they could die then as we got to the war Ark had started to introduce things like Dragon Ball Z type attacks with the Bijoux bombs which hate like that they were cool but it wasn't Naruto now return was about ninjas it was about people who were like borderline people right they weren't any much stronger than you and I if you see Naruto and Sasuke vs. doubles are the thing that makes them different from someone like a professional UFC fighter is the fact that they can use jutsus when they fire flames and each other and throw bloody crew knives and stuff like there weren't that much different from you and I which made them kind of relatable in a physical sense and it was also cool because you knew that they weren't immortal and they could diet whereas in the war arc they kind of strayed away from that and it got very shown and asked like I said it's not entirely a bad thing but it definitely did drift away from the vibe of what Naruto was and what made us love Naruto to begin with now I'd just like to add one more thing before I end off the video and that is the fact that at the end of Naruto Shippuden we seen Naruto and Sasuke have their final fight this fight was extremely well regarded everybody had no complaints about the fight and I myself I loved it I kind of dropped Naruto around the end of 2016 but I went back and watched that fight and I loved it I really [ __ ] did but what made it so special well there are two things they brought back the hand signs which were seen multiple times throughout that fight and the taijutsu was very heavy in the fight another thing to back up this point is that when we see nobita versus Kakashi in Obito escamole world which was a couple of years ago I remember when the episode came out because people were nothing but positive about it that fight revolved around one thing and that was taijutsu for basically 5 minutes straight so it's not just me and a group of others holding on to nasty it's the fact that Naruto really did drift away from the things that made it special when we first started watching the series and people miss that about the series but with that being said I really hope you guys enjoyed the video and as always if you enjoyed the video please press the like button it literally takes you two seconds and it helps me out a lot subscribe if you're new and with that being said I just want to say that this video was happily sponsored by my good man Misaki from samurai buyer all the way over in Japan Samurai via in the past have done a lot of work with I dubs I'm sure you guys have seen him make a lot of videos about samurai buyer it's 100 percent legit they're an awesome sight Misaki was super nice he did not rush me for the video I'm glad that he was patient because I didn't want to rush this video and I wanted to make sure that it was really good for him because he was so supportive he sent me a tatsumaki 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I appreciate the fact that he's supported this channel and I appreciate the fact that he's supported this video sorry with that being said I just want to say thanks for watching the video and I hope you all have yourselves a great day [Music] oh yeah and can we talk about the fact that Mike guy survived the eight gates and Kakashi used his Sharingan like a [ __ ] machine gun throughout the entire war what the [ __ ]

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Length: 15min 44sec (944 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 07 2017