Why is Naruto so popular?
I have intensively been watching Anime for quite some years now.
I'v seen shit and I'v seen stuff that moved me alot(im an insenstive cock so that's quite something)
Then right out of the blue comes the story about a little ninja boy and his little friends who can spit fire and the world is hooked.
WHY? why in the hell are we enjoying Naruto so much? What does Naruto have that makes us watch it over and over again and discus countless trivial subjects?
For the hell of it?
I guess not, just downright genuine interest in this thing. Most of the forum users are over 16 is my guess..The anime is about 12 year olds. Can we identify ourselves with them? I once read this article that the majority of Anime/Manga fans enjoy it somuch because they see themselves in her/his favorite character in some way.
Im 20...how COULD I indentify myself with Naruto..But the strange thing is, when it comes to Naruto we tend to throw our maturity to the side for a minute and talk about these things..During my social life I would never dare to speak such matters, then why is is just with Naruto that my interest is aroused to the point to actually participate in debates as these?
The Ninja genre is overall accepted as "cool" that's one point for sure..
And as all anime's they do shit we could never do, like summoning a 50 feet talking frog. The fact that everything is possible always hit's a right note in my brain..
Or maybe Naruto just has a perfect mix of immature style/action/drama/humor
that's absent in other anime's.
Enough with my story, spit your thoughts, what's the true reason Naruto appeals so much to you?
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My question is, why is the thread starter now able to type with perfect grammar and sentence structure, but is unable to do so in most of his other posts?
It's fun. If you can get though the angst (in 12 year olds wtf man?) the action and humor nicely balanced. Because it has a large number of archetypal characters almost everyone can find someone almost exactly like him/herself.
Bildungsroman (or as my mother once put it "omg teenagers") is a popular style because everybody has developed over the course of their lives. Not to mention it gives a built in plot line that can be taken into half a dozen different directions (which Naruto does quite nicely IMO).
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I have no clue as to why I'm hooked on it. I think there is some kind of subliminal messaging or something going on because Naruto is about the only series I can watch more than just a couple of times. I've seen the Japanese version twice, and still watch the american one, and read the manga. It's got humor while also having it's serious moments. Then it also has the guys you like to hate, the guys you think are cool, and the people you find funny yet annoying at the same time. Then there is the Gaara/Naruto thing where you see how they grow up to be completely different yet there life was almost the same. I also like the fact that the strongest in the show isn't the main character, and the main character isn't the one to always win. He has his moments to shine sure but it also has other people it shows winning against some of the major villains.
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dude bleach and DBZ are way better shows and have some or most the stuff u decribed. i watched the entire dbz series(276 episodes) about 6 times, and some of the movies twice or 3 times, and right now im downloading the enitre series to my computer(can you say yay 3 weeks of downloading to go?) bleach is a GREAT show and is way more enticing than naruto.
if you want character drama great fights and good subplots its called yu yu hakusho. i put that show in my 2nd place behind dbz. it pwns. naruto hard.
I'm not a big fan of DBZ. It's all spamming ki blasts, and the person with the biggest ki wins, and not really any martial arts. I've watched all of Z plenty of times when I was younger, and a big fan of it. Then I watched other anime and realized...compared to them DBZ sucks, and Naruto is one of them. Dragonball Z has very little like Naruto. Yu Yu Hakusho..watched the whole series straight through once because my g/f has it and I can't watch it again. It didn't have the appeal to me. Yusuke, and Raizen were the only real people to appeal to me. Maybe because YYH reminds me sort of Flame of Recca but I find FOR a lot more entertaining, and I like a lot more characters. Bleach..it's okay but it's not one of the manga I really try to keep up with. Naruto isn't really on top of my list either but it's close enough and keeps me entertained enough to want more. Plus there are plenty of people I like, and even the people I don't like (ie Sasuke, and Itachi for the moment) I want to see how the battle plays out against them. And in DB..somebody dies..it's not a big deal while Sarutobi dying was and it's one of the few times I felt bad about a character dying. Sure in DBZ I like a few characters though Tien is really the only canon one I like. Broli and Bardock being my top 2 and Tien 3rd.
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It has some great fight scenes (even I'll admit that) but lack of interesting powers seriously detracts from how interesting a fight scene can be. Scale of a fight isn't everything, there's an incredible fight in Haruhi where the only thing that gets damages is a few desks but it's done well enough to blow most of DBZ out of the water.
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i thought the powers were awesome. i never said scale had to matter, YYH had some AWESOME fights the werent as big as did bleach. so did RRK. DBZ just happens to be my fav because its.....awesome
Naruto was great up until the time-skip; now it just sucks. The main characters hardly progressed at all in terms of development (with the exceptions of Sakura and Shikamaru), the secondary characters outside of Team Kaskashi hardly have any more screen time, and the author seems to be taking tips from One Piece and taking his damn sweet time with the plot.
As for Dragonball (which is inevitably brought up in every single topic it seems), the problem there is that people seem to keep remembering it for it's last couple of seasons, which weren't that great either. If you want fun fight scenes from that series that don't revolve around energy beams, just look back to the first half of the series when Goku was a kid. That portion had a good deal of fights that involved as much MA skill as they did powers and they had some fair amount of humor in them as well.