Let me just say I'm not a fan of Naruto, during the time it came out I was reading Ranma 1/2. When I got to read it about 50 chapters out of boredom I just stopped, never thinking that this was going to be well-known. Sadly, I was wrong Naturo had become a hugely favorite manga in the US of A, and i still can't see how. To me, the people reading Naruto are either Young Boys, Teenage boys who have yet to hit puberty or have totally skipped it and teenage girls who all their care about is Sasuke. And that leads me to the characters; The three main characters are unlikable in different ways and intensities. Naruto, is Obnoxious, Rude, and overly unlikeable. Some people would want to defend him about that other village people hate him because he holds a demon in him. People can't hold a grudge about him for that long. No-one feels pity which makes the whole common village people unlikable. And second, what the hell is on his face? they are like cat whiskers or something. The next character on the hate list is Sasuke. The manga and all the fan-boys and fan-girls call him a cool person? What is cool about him? Al he does is stay silent and hold a grudge for killing his family, all the while not showing emotion and dedicating his life to hate. Sakura is ok, for an obsessed and hopeless lover can be.

After reading the first Tankobon. Naruto keeps on turning himself into a naked girl and makes some of the adult's nose bleed. It's like they forgot it is Naruto transforming himself into the girl, Which makes almost all the guys that all for it completely stupid. At one point there is a Fat ninja, which is a complete oxymoron. First, Ninjas in the Naruto world have to be fit for it, then if you are obese you would get forced into training because these ninjas "hide in the shadows". For a bit of reality, Ninjas were peasants and farmers who didn't like the Shogun's rule and their weapons were mainly farming weapons, they did have the stars but theyi were ill-fit for throwing stuff like needles.

The last thing to point out is the character development. Crap, complete and utter crap. Do you know why? The mangaka made a time skip. Making all the characters change. How the hell did they change. Like for instance, Naruto becomes a little more hardworking and a little less obnoxious. How? did he get attacked by the Naruto + Sasuke Yoai Fan-girls and fan-boys? We don't know. basically, the Mangaka ran out of ideas and had no imagination for character development.

In the end there are a couple nice things about it. The artwork is sorta nice, and the Plot line could've been good but only if they actually had different characters than the dull ones now it could've been enjoyable. I'd say read it when your young (like 7-12) than just move on and don't get into the over-hype by the vast amount of stupidity