''Yep I'm such an idiot. Believe it''

I suggest you read before looking at the score and clicking not helpful. knowing that this is not a well rounded franchise and I'll explain why.

So here is the thing you see, I used to love ninjas that I've seen in some anime and video games such as mortal kombat, shinobi, ninja gaiden and so on.
but ever since I started reading this manga that fans claimed it was about ninjas, my love for ninjas as a whole after reading this started to turn to hate right away.
You see this manga pulled me in like a moron only to be slapped in the face by these damaged controlled wannabe childlike ninjas.

I just marathon the entire manga last year and needless to say I am an idiot
''believe it'' there was zero sense to be made with each chapter, every character trait, every character interaction, almost every battle felt like the same rinse and repeat method we heard all before since the very beginning of the naruto manga itself and I could not be any more happier finishing this before life starts to derail around me into another great ninja war joke with a lot of plot holes around its surface.

Call me crazy but the reason I started reading shippuden was to see how far in terms of maturity the characters became. I was thinking something along the lines of being a true ninja but all i got was a parody.

This manga is like a parady now when it shouldn't have been.
its kinda like how korra is compared with the original last airbender series except both of these are way better than shippuden and they are not even Japanese animes.

story - 3 (Like the WWE wrestler john cena, Same old shit!)

First off the original story premise of kishimoto's naruto is dashed out the window by the moment naruto comes back to the village with his sensei jaraiya after 2 years of doing absolutely zero training gaining zero development. So now the story has to force you in watching every inch of progression that naruto makes and to force characters around this moron like he is a messiah?,
The point is kishimoto's writing had changed drastically towards naruto being blessed like this saviour crap which gives the story no real meaning behind the actions of characters aka Ninjas in this story.
The only thing that is demonstrated here is severing bonds and repairing bonds again and again and again and again and again with many characters and not just the main and supporting characters but also villains too featuring a entire army of flashbacks and flashbacks within flashbacks and so forth.

Art - 7
pretty good, its the only saving grace. fights look good but at times it looks too much like a Michael Bay movie. Flashy explosions here and there For fuck sake they are ninjas not fucking fireworks!!

Characters - 3
Stereotypical for the most part, Apart from mainly a noteworthy few like Pain, Gaara and Jaraiya are the only really good ones in the entirety of the story and the others are just stereotypical and predictable not to mention lazily written most of the time.
many new characters get introduce later on but are hardly noteworthy or memorable in any way.

Now for the main characters brief description
Naruto was written well at first glance despite him being irritating at times
and became more of a hypocrite of a character instead of having this so called hard working young ninja resented by his own village to strive up the ninja rankings to becoming Hokage (the village's top ninja which hilariously is still a genin up until the very last chapter)
but then again at the same time I can't say he is a hard working ninja considering his power mostly comes from the nine-tail fox beast that gives him 80% of his chakra and not to mention at the very beginning he cheated on learning his most well known jutsu the shadow clone jutsu which he learn by reading a forbidden scroll ask yourself this whoever is reading is that really the essence of hard work?
then when things couldn't get more dumber Naruto then turned into NARUJESUS the saviour from a long line of boy love and hate Bullshit
Huh????........Is this writing for real????.

Sasuke is a typical tragic anti hero with a confused ambition most of the time that gets power ups every time up the wazoo did I mention that he also wanted to be hokage at one point? ummm....... Naay?.

Sakura is Sakura. (LAMEST FEMALE CHARACTER IN SHOUNEN PERIOD.)
and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Kakashi was cool at first but then sucked big time as the story went on.

Now there are quite a lot of female characters (kunoichi) in the series but kishimoto's writing shows very little respect for them in the way they are presented as there own person in their own progression since kishi cannot write female characters to save his life and unfortunately a lot can be said with loads of the other characters in his story who suddenly just fade into the background.

So I'm wondering to myself should I care now up to this point when reading the story with this amount of lazy half ass writing??

Enjoyment - 1
Just peachy :)
Yaaayyy!! cannot wait for more milk products on offer.


Overall / Final Rating - 2.5
If i were to review this any further there would be a lot of people crying and also feeling dishearten for what I've mentioned and I do not want that because I know many people will think my review of is just a rant/outburst or just some personal hate speech lol, which I can honestly assure you it isn't.

why did I drop something I didn't like to the end?
well my friends because Idiocy is who I am and idiocy can lead to
some really cool conclusions along the journey am i wrong?
But unfortunately I've explained why in this review that it isn't the case. that doesn't mean this franchise as a whole is bad, I'm saying it lacked a lot of quality in terms of an objective writing standpoint and characterisation.
So if you think I'm trolling or hating your sadly mistaken if you feel that way about my review and opinion.

Final thought

Well there you go, I've pretty much summarised the Naruto manga for what it is and If you still like it more power to you, but to me its wasted too much of my time, joy, patience and can thankfully be laid to rest
so more power to me,

and for others more milk to you.