I'm going to say it: this manga is bad. Shots fired. I'm undoubtedly a minority, seeing as how most people enjoy Naruto a lot, but I stand firmly by my opinion. Let's start from the beginning.
Surprisingly enough, the manga starts out very good. It has an interesting set of characters (with the exception of Sasuke), mixes comedy and drama well, and has an enticing storyline. This manga truly had a lot of potential. This all applies for the first part of the manga. Afterwards, it falls flat on it's a$$. Naruto, perfectly demonstrates the problem with manga that overstay their welcome. It starts resorting to
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May 27, 2014
Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna
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NOTE: This is my personal opinion and should be understood as such.
Where to begin with this manga? Well, to say that this is a shounen manga is a joke, it's clearly shoujou-oriented, especially the art. The boys look like girls, the panels overlap and you have flowers and sparkles on every other page. The characters are two-dimensional and follow a clichéd formula (the protagonist who has an inferiority complex that stems from being compared to his brother; the goofy, disgustingly cute sidekick; the villains who seem evil at first but are actually misunderstood but you can't sympathize for them because they're complete d*cks). The mysteries ... |