QUOTE (Aethos @ Mar 11 2009, 11:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Well Kishimoto could have at least tried to make them seem more like ninja. Instead of making them more like mercenaries or your typical army. What I mean is if he was going for the ninja angle. He should have tried to keep then a little more secretive. Not have them walking around in broad daylight in front of civilians while wearing your ninja headband. Tha's just blowing your cover. It's no different from a soldier wearing his uniform among regular people. You get what I'm saying? Ninja's shouldn't be announcing to the world their profession by making it completely obvious.
And you forget where they cause huge explosions as well.
But then why call them ninja's when you can just call them magic mercenaries or magic soldiers? If Kishimoto didn't want to follow the ninja motif at all he shouldn't have bothered. Actually I don't even remember how we got on this subject considering my problem is more with the whole Hinata thing, but since we're on the subject I might as well say what I think.
Meh I was a huge Naruto fan, and being in that mindset I used to look into this series far more than I should have. I even was one of those people who called Kishimoto a genius writer and called Naruto a masterpiece. Kinda weird huh considering how I am now?
If it's considered overrated it's probably because Naruto seems to be still heavily popular despite all the bad writing. Sort of how Bleach is still popular despite how bad that has become.
Ya know what? You're right. Perhaps I just go looking for a fight.
I'm just saying that it's no surprise Kishimoto adapts a lot of things from other series into his own. The only problem with that though is that he OVER does it. He adapts way too many elements of other series into his own, and yet never comes up with his own original ideas. It's one thing to be inspired by something and create an original idea of your own from someone else's work. It's completely another to copy that other person's work, and just give it another name.
And yet during the time Sasuke had the spotlight. What was Naruto doing? Sitting on his ass in Konoha. When he wasn't out running around the forest looking for Sasuke. Some main character, and you honestly don't remember where Konohamaru did a yuri as well as yaoi jutsu? Even then though the point stands that during Kishimoto's Uchiha fest Naruto barely did anything. He seemed more like a side character than a main one. It was like Sasuke goes around fighting Akatsuki. Oh wait it's time to cut back to Konoha to see what crazy shenanigans Naruto's up too.
And you forget where they cause huge explosions as well.
But then why call them ninja's when you can just call them magic mercenaries or magic soldiers? If Kishimoto didn't want to follow the ninja motif at all he shouldn't have bothered. Actually I don't even remember how we got on this subject considering my problem is more with the whole Hinata thing, but since we're on the subject I might as well say what I think.
Meh I was a huge Naruto fan, and being in that mindset I used to look into this series far more than I should have. I even was one of those people who called Kishimoto a genius writer and called Naruto a masterpiece. Kinda weird huh considering how I am now?
If it's considered overrated it's probably because Naruto seems to be still heavily popular despite all the bad writing. Sort of how Bleach is still popular despite how bad that has become.
Ya know what? You're right. Perhaps I just go looking for a fight.
I'm just saying that it's no surprise Kishimoto adapts a lot of things from other series into his own. The only problem with that though is that he OVER does it. He adapts way too many elements of other series into his own, and yet never comes up with his own original ideas. It's one thing to be inspired by something and create an original idea of your own from someone else's work. It's completely another to copy that other person's work, and just give it another name.
And yet during the time Sasuke had the spotlight. What was Naruto doing? Sitting on his ass in Konoha. When he wasn't out running around the forest looking for Sasuke. Some main character, and you honestly don't remember where Konohamaru did a yuri as well as yaoi jutsu? Even then though the point stands that during Kishimoto's Uchiha fest Naruto barely did anything. He seemed more like a side character than a main one. It was like Sasuke goes around fighting Akatsuki. Oh wait it's time to cut back to Konoha to see what crazy shenanigans Naruto's up too.
You still don't see Jenskott's point, do you?
Kishimoto didn't want to follow the typical "I'm a sneaky ninja theme", there is still stealth in the manga, but he wanted to make characters appear more human. Kishi's ninja is a complete opposite of what ninja means sometimes. A regular ninja might be sneaky, yes.
You forget the basic fundamentals of being a ninja. Nin, stands for resist/endure, Ja, meaning person. A ninja is a person who endures. Now if he wanted to make a manga about regular ninja, I think people would have lost interest a long time ago. Moving on...
Just because the ninja in Naruto announce their presence and tell everybody they're a ninja, doesn't mean they're also shouting out what they can do and preform. Enter the stealth theme, they hide their abilities and they trick the enemy into a false sense of safety.
Oh, and I suppose One Piece's author doesn't take bits and pieces from other manga either? Or other series of media? Listen, Aethos. Your opinion towards Naruto is too biased. Like Jenskott stated, if you don't like the manga, stop reading. Find a better use for your time, visit a One Piece forum. If you're going to hate on a manga on this forum, it's gonna annoy too many people.
Btw, the Sasuke part? Kishimoto was asked to make Sasuke a central character in one arc to develop him a bit more. Every character gets their share of the spotlight. He might have hogged it for a few chapters, but this series is still called Naruto for a reason. Naruto gets the badass power up skills and is still way more developed in skill than Sasuke.