Naruto: Shippuuden

It has been two and a half years since Naruto Uzumaki left Konohagakure, the Hidden Leaf Village, for intense training following events which fueled his desire to be stronger. Now Akatsuki, the mysterious organization of elite rogue ninja, is closing in on their grand plan which may threaten the safety of the entire shinobi world.

Although Naruto is older and sinister events loom on the horizon, he has changed little in personality—still rambunctious and childish—though he is now far more confident and possesses an even greater determination to protect his friends and home. Come whatever may, Naruto will carry on with the fight for what is important to him, even at the expense of his own body, in the continuation of the saga about the boy who wishes to become Hokage.

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Uzumaki, Naruto Main

Takeuchi, Junko Japanese

Hatake, Kakashi Main

Inoue, Kazuhiko Japanese

Uchiha, Sasuke Main

Sugiyama, Noriaki Japanese

Haruno, Sakura Main

Nakamura, Chie Japanese

Uchiha, Itachi Supporting

Ishikawa, Hideo Japanese

Nara, Shikamaru Supporting

Morikubo, Shoutarou Japanese

Jiraiya Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu Japanese

Uchiha, Madara Supporting

Uchida, Naoya Japanese

Gaara Supporting

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Hyuuga, Hinata Supporting

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

Simone, Jamie Producer, ADR Director, Casting Director

Shiraishi, Makoto Producer

Hijikata, Makoto Producer

Azuma, Fukashi Producer

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Oct 13, 2024

ggol

Recommended

TLDR: A Shonen series that is set in a ninja world with a massive amount of flashbacks.

This review will be based on the whole Naruto series from the beginning to the last movie. Boruto will be excluded.

Story 7/10
Set's straight after the last Arc of Naruto where Orochimaru have taken Sasuke as a hostage. Meanwhile, Naruto is at a mission to save his close friend Sasuke and getting stronger to become a Hokage at the same time. The main story is great, but they implemented so many flashbacks towards the original Naruto as fillers throughout the series. It is unnecessary to add so many flashbacks from ... the original Naruto as we already have witnessed it from the beginning to the end. A good flashback would be outside of the original Naruto such as Hashirama's time period as it tells how the hidden leaf is built or a small flashback that talks about how Hinata fell in love with Naruto. Also, another good flashback would be Kakashi's story as he is a former student of one of the Hokage. Another thing that ruins this series is the romance. The story is trying to incorporate the romance genre too much into the series which it limits the world we get to witness as the story already has tons of flashbacks and the romance genre doesn't fit into Naruto. This is because it makes the series look like another typical school romance drama which it does not fit into the action, emotional, and rich story world of Naruto. Generally, it's a great story but with so many flashbacks and character focus narrative it limits the world we get to see in Naruto such as the Samurai's, Hidden Mist Village, and Iwagakure. Even if they show other villages and places it is not much and it feels/looks more or less the same as all other places that Naruto has visited. The most strangest thing is that they incorporated so many unnecessary modern technology into the world of Naruto such as that fucken ninja using a world war 2 radioman to operate during combat when they already have one of the mind-jutsu that lets one of them communicate through all other Ninjas mindset. I won't be surprised that they would use fucking Gun's in Naruto maybe AK47-jutsu next.

Characters 7/10
The characters is definitely well-written but the problem with the characters is that each character's relationship doesn't fit well within other characters. I give you an example throughout the series they keep trying to say that Sasuke is basically like a brother to Naruto and Naruto is trying to get him back to the good side. Now everything is well written but truthfully Sasuke and Naruto don't work well compared to Naruto and Gaara. If you take a step back and look at it. Both of them understand the same pain and suffering from their childhood when they first met no one understands what Gaara is talking about however Naruto is the only one there that totally understands him because he knows that type of pain and loneliness while Sasuke does not fit in because he already had a family from the start while both of them don't. Another problem is Sasuke and Sakura. Throughout the series, they keep implying that despite all the evilness that Sasuke has done Sakura, still loves him even towards the very end. However, most of the time the relationship between Sakura and Naruto is deeper than Sasuke and Sakura if you look at it. Naruto was there when the Hidden Leaf was about to get destroyed and he was also there during the great ninja war. Both Naruto and Sakura share a very powerful bond with each other as both of them witness catastrophic destruction multiple times. Yes, Hinata was there at the same time but it's only for a brief moment compared to Sakura and Naruto. This is why romance does not fit into this series when the author is trying to make everyone fell in love instead most of the intended characters have barely any relationship development at all. Another problem is the Hierarchy system of Naruto. In the series within a village, the Hokage is usually the strongest one however, during Tsunade's reign most of the time there is so many other candidates that is stronger or at least have more knowledge than Tsunade. A couple of examples would Kakashi, Guy and most importantly Danzo. Aside from all that Naruto is portrayed very well within the Series because if you look at it Naruto was never the strongest or the smartest character within the series. He makes mistakes and those mistakes are learning experiences to make him into a great person which those mistakes gain him trust and allies who share the pain with him within the series.

Animation 5/10
The animation suffers the same thing as One Piece it is a coin-flipping type of animation. However, I have never seen anything that is so well-animated yet bad at the same time. One perfect example is the fight with Pain. They drew the fps well but fuck if you look at the face it looks abysmally towards the point that is funny. Otherwise the animation is not bad for the most part but there is time to time when some part is poorly animated and times when the animation that looks goot yet bad at the same time.

Conclusion
It's not a bad story if you can ignore the massive amount of flashbacks and the ridiculous modern technology that is used in the ninja world. The characters are good but matched towards the wrong characters when they should've been matched towards the character that understands them the most and the animation is a coin-flipping quality where sometimes the animation can look good yet bad at the same time.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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May 3, 2024

Curryplanettv

Mixed Feelings

This show has way too many badly written retcons and nonsense trash filler to justify giving this show a higher rating. If you want to watch good shounen anime without those problems watch Hunter x Hunter or Dragon Ball since a lot good things about this show just copies those two shows. don't get me wrong This show also had its good moments for example any time Kakashi, Madara, Itatchi and Ochiumaru are around.
what ruined this show the most is how annoying Naruto and Sakura were and especially their dumb obsession with Sasuke. The most unrealistic part is the end were Sasuke was let ... out of prison despite being a world terrorist. Overall this show is just mostly a DBZ wannabe and you should just watch that instead. unless you want a DBZ ripoff this is the show for you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 15, 2024

ObsceneCatGravy

Not Recommended

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I downloaded a special version of this anime that had the filler cut out and even that was still filled with flashbacks. Why? Because every other scene relies on it. Some of the scenes would not have made sense without the flashback. That said, I skipped most of them anyway. Honestly, the pacing can be so slow that I just completely lose interest and find myself not paying attention.

I'll just sum up my feelings here:

- The soundtracks are really good, especially some of the villains like Nagato and Madara.
- Animations are typically lackluster and dull
- There's little to no real character development
- A lot of ... characters are very forced and just cringe

I have to rant about two characters that I really disliked: Sakura and Shikamaru.

Sakura is a one dimensional character who's only reason for existing is her insane, unjustified love for Sasuke. She's actually crazy in that regard. Sasuke couldn't care less for her and yet she doesn't take no for an answer. Also, she's mostly useless. Sure, at the end she gets some offensive 'power' but literally doesn't use it except for one time. But for the most part, she's unnecessary. The entire show could have gone on without her and it would have been the same, nay, better.

Shikamaru is literally one of the dumbest, weakest, and most plot-armored character in the show. I don't know what the author's obsession with him is but he's really cringe. He's given way too much attention. For one thing, he's supposed to be one of the smartest characters, coming up with "brilliant" strategies and yet his strategies are always simple. Not to mention it takes him a long time to even come up with them in the first place. Even Naruto has better strategies. There's one scene where he and his master are battling a villain, and the villain takes his time to draw a circle on the ground afterwhich he gains a power. Anyone with half a brain can see the circle is giving him his power and yet Shikamaru had to think about it before reaching that conclusion.

Another thing I hate about Shikamaru is that he's so arrogant. He self-appointed himself as Naruto's strategist, just lol.

Sasuke also becomes a really cringy character in the second half of the anime. His story was interesting prior to the reveal.

The story in general was good until the Pain Arc ended then it went downhill quickly.

Also, good god are there so many forced emotional scenes. Putting on sad music and having flashback after flashback isn't going to make anyone with half a brain get emotional, it's just dumb.

Moreover, the dialog is predictable and the justifications of most the character's actions is downright stupid. I hate the whole "friends" justification. That's Naruto's entire reasoning behind everything he does. "I won't let my friends die", "I'm going to save my friends". Just stop with this dumb friend thing, every other anime has stupid trope and I absolutely hate it.

Lastly, in every fight, Naruto's main strategy is: Shadow Clone Jutsu. This is literally the only thing he can do, aside from his beast power and that move he learned from his master. He can also use a summon jutsu but I think he only used it twice in the entire run of the anime and the first time being him learning it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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