I like Kakuzu because he looks the closest to a ninja, has lived since the time of the first Hokage, and is extremely strong.
Who is your favorite NARUTO character?
For me it's Guy, he improved himself physically minimizing magical chakra
Fuck this faggot for replacing Rock Lee
Wouldn't Hokage have been able to kill the Otonin 4 instantly if he had sent one Guy to defeat them instead of sending Naruto, Kiba, or Shikamaru with a lower class Ninja?
It might be some connection with naruto manga being the best during his arc but Kakuzu has the best arc and he's great.
Tayuya, hands down. I still write letters to the publishing house in Japanese to beg them to please allow more stories about her to be told. I miss her very much.
you mean like flashbacks? tayuyu is dead anon
Guy is a good guy so he'd kill Sasuke too.
The characters that I hate the most are the ones like Itachi or Minato, who are extremely powerful mega geniuses for no reason other than because they were simply born that way. They really feel like shitty selfinserts from some kid's fanfiction and they just shit on the world building of the story.
actually loyal
doesnt rat out his friends
is a pretty decent guy all things considered
went down swinging and never bitched about it
THE TAILLESS TAILED BEAST
you mean like flashbacks? tayuyu is dead anon
Yes but obito was thought of to be dead at one point till a bit of writing changed him from being crushed to death under a large rock to surviving and taking on a new identity and so was the old pervert toad sage till they cloned him back to life. Anything is possible anon if they actually tried.
yeah he was pretty good
The truth is Tayuya survived and has been living as my wife since the day she disappeared.
The truth is Tayuya survived and has been living as my wife since the day she disappeared.
I fucking wish
Iruka. I love how he taught Naruto Talk no Jutsu and how he acted as a surrogate father.
Does anyone know where I can find all the hanabi x Sasuke comics?
Otakurepublic. Guys helped me out a lot when I was trying to get my hands on safe for work tayuya doujinshi.
Temari.
She has a cool and unique weapon & summon, is one of the few competent females in naruto, and her relationship with shikamaru is entertaining.
Also love her design and how commited she is to the yotsuba hairdo
Tobirama
He punches Uchihas and doesn't afraid of anything.
Madara Uchiha of course. The man died twice along the way but still never wavered from his own method of ending the cycle of hatred.
Kishimoto didn't even use his few lines of dialogue with Naruto for the protagonist to attempt talk no jutsu on him. Naruto couldn't possibly refute ending human suffering forever.
That's why all Naruto's focus was on talking to Obito because he was the Uchiha with a bunch of contradictions. Madara has no such points to exploit, the moon's eye plan is entirely noble to attempt even if it turned out to be an otsutsuki's trick.
My feels weren't ready for Naruto asking Iruka to attend his wedding as his father.
He was cool
Somehow his brand of transhumanism won out on being creepier than Kakuzu's or Orochimaru's.
Boruto era having generic sci fi tech instead of using the unique puppet aesthetic as a foundation is criminal.
I loved Tobi as the comic relief new hire in the Akatsuki and him revealing himself as Madara was maybe the hypest I've ever felt watching anime
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Shame he eventually turned out to be Obito, but whatever I've accepted it
Sasori is such a weird character when you stop and think about it.
arguably one of the strongest akatsuki behind Pain and Itachi
he was the akatsuki spymaster and had people literally everywhere
was basically the hidden sands boogie man
one of the only antagonists to actually achieve his goals while adhering to his personal philosophy with the end results leaving him a suicidal monster
Everything about him was unique compared to what came later.
The manga had some editors/assistants that did some heavy lifting during the good parts
I liked Gaara in part 1, he was pretty menacing during the chunin exams. It would've been cool to see more of him redeeming himself, at least with him fixing his relationship with kankuro and temari.
Sasori
Orochimaru
Deidara
In retrospect I think it’s hilarious that the Akatsuki (or someone affiliated with them at some point) killed the last 3 Kazekage, Hidden Sand really can’t catch a break
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This is the reason why the Uchiha clan is inbred.
The Fuma clan is distantly related to the Uchiha and does not have the Sharingan.
You guys are all just pretending that Shikamaru isn't your favorite character right?
A true professional to the end.
Shikamaru became the self-insert of above average midwits after a certain point.
he suffers from being a smart person written by a not very smart person
The problem with Might Guy is that he could have easily solved most of the problems in the series and just happened to be somewhere else at the time.
But it is pretty based that he came extremely close to outright killing Madara and ending the series early, with the only reason he failed being that he isn't Naruto/Sasuke and therefore not allowed to get the win.
Who is your favorite NARUTO character?
Yugito Nii has the most interesting design out of every side characters in the show.
Baryon mode
I wish we could see her using that and stomping those two akatsuki retards that captured & killed her.
Reminder that by scaling Shikamaru can run circles around Yugito and Matatabi
6 of the 9 Jinchuriki being an afterthought is one of Kishimoto’s biggest mistakes. I wish Shippuden focused on them and fleshed all of them out. They all are some of Kishimoto’s best designs hands down.
Scaling is irrelevant if he never has that kind of speed in the series. That’s why most Naruto characters are capped at sound speed.
I always liked Tobi before he revealed being manipulating everyone, seeing such a goober fanboying over the other villains and have an amazing skill to warp down the ground and still doing it wrong bunch of times was too fun to follow
No, he's one of the shittiest characters in this series. The story keeps deepthroating him like an ultra genius by making him have the most average plans or solutions possible while everyone else is made to look like a retard for not thinking what he's thinking.
Like the other guy said, he feels like a shitty self insert.
What the fuck are you talking about, she's the most generic looking character out of all of the jinchurikis, lmao.
Cope CHADkamaru wipes the floor with that female and her cat!
Shikamaru spilling that Ketchup on Hidan’s blade is the most impressive feat in the Naruto series.
Itachi is Uchiha tho? Every character in Naruto is strong solely because of their heritage or some other ass pull. At least Minato worked for it
He stomped Bee like nothing
Nard meets Zabuza
Zabuza defected from Kirigakure to overthrow Yagura
Kirigakure the shithole where everyone murdered ninja kids for being symbols of war
Nard meets Yagura
Yagura makes fun of him for kissing SauceGay
Bravo, Kishimoto
I liked Kabuto. He felt like a genius but one that earned his power later.
Also
Sage Kabuto > Hokage Minato
There's something poetic about the desert people constantly having their government thrown into chaos and having their economy destabilized by some combination of rogue internal elements and foreign agents.
She's the most generic looking character out of all of the jinchurikis, lmao.
Nah, that would be Narutard.
I was totally fine with him not actually being Madara and just being a LARPer using the name for clout because of the weight it carried. Hell, right up until he was unmasked Tobi managed to be pretty menacing while scheming behind the scenes. Once the mask came off and he had to explain himself, he lost a lot of what made him interesting. I'm not even talking about the
muh Rin
memes either. His ideology just holds up like a sheet of wet paper full of holes.
he kind of looks like the chainsaw man
was Akatsuki level at a younger age than Itachi
was young as fuck when he died so had he lived he'd have even more room for growth
calls out Uchigger bullshit
Sasuke, the plot armor master, nearly gets killed even while having the perfect counter to his style and having the curse mark that he didn't earn, without just one of those he'd lose big time
in a rematch with Itachi he'd likely win since Itachi doesn't have lightning style
the most unique fighting style in the series
Kabuto honestly worked much better as a hyper-intelligent character than Shikamaru did. The shit he was pulling off in his fight with Tsunade was pretty crazy.
The shit he was pulling off in his fight with Tsunade was pretty crazy.
Like slapping her titties?
His ideology just holds up like a sheet of wet paper full of holes.
It also doesn't help how it felt like Kishimoto was just copy-pasting Nagato's character onto him.
last line before his death is literally “you don’t care about me at all, do you”
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Or him immediately learning how to control his joints after his movements got fucked. Or when he used his forehead protector to block Shizune's poisoned needles. It was pretty cool.
An alt idea for Obito is that it’s not Obito pretending to be Tobi/Madara but rather black Zetsu controling Obito’s body while he is either dead or unconcious ever since that rock destroyed his body.
(In this scenario I would thing the resolution would be Kakashi sacrificing his life to save Obito and give him a chance at life. He later becomes Hokage like he dreamed (since he doesn’t have any crimes technically) or just becomes a top ninja for the village like Sasuke)
Mine is also Kakuzu but for different red board reasons
Shouldn't he have been completely overpowered as a reanimation? He could've just spammed the C0 bomb constantly while regenerating.
He didn’t give much indication of it in his debut or when he evaded Team 7, but he was obsessed with ‘art’ to the extent that he didn’t want to. When he’s reanimated he mentions wanting to make even greater techniques than C0.
Realistically he'd only be able to do it like once.
He didn't want to do it at all since he says showing off his once in a lifetime one of a kind ultimate art multiple times would lessen the appeal and by the time he was forced into trying it he got blitzed by lightning style.
If he was out in the open he could pull it off once, then by the time it ended and he regenerated you'd just have someone blitz him with lightning style to immobilize him
Itachi is Uchiha tho?
At least Minato worked for it
They're still shitty Gary Stus. Those excuses don't fix that.
Jiraiya.
I really like how much of an earnest fuckup he is in the grand scheme of things. All of his fights were fun even though we never get to see him go all-in until he fights Pain, but he has such an interesting style and variety of techniques while still largely staying on-brand with them. I'm also a sucker for characters with a flair for dramatics who can also reign it in and get serious when they need to.
His final scene was especially touching and was a perfect sendoff for his character because it shows him acknowledging and coming to terms with all of the mistakes he made throughout his life that led things to that point.
Would you add Madara and Hashirama to this category?
Nah, Minato was too much of a failure to be a Stu. He failed to save his student, he failed to protect his wife, he failed to be there for his son, and he failed in the final battle as well.
He was a prodigy, but look where that got him. He died young even if he became a legend in his time.
They're exceptionally bad because Madara being so much stronger than all the 5 kage combined and pretty much everyone else really shits on the whole "muh newer generation surpasses the old" moral.
I think Itachi is the biggest example of a Gary Stu since Kishimoto literally never had him lose a fight. You can't even count the fight against Sasuke as a loss since he just died of aids
Minato was at least outclassed by Juubito and Juubidara.
Itachi would have just asspulled some victory against them the same way he did against Kabuto despite objectively being weaker than them
Puppets became an afterthought after Kakuzu fell. Kankuro's puppets all being revealed to be Sasori's old ones and him never creating his own original one is lame.
He was literally able to take on the nine tails by himself and was feared as the "run away if you see him" guy in the war, and all he ever did to get strong was train, something which every other character did.
He's a massive Gary Stu, lmao.
How did Minato worked for it again?
Anon, a bunch of shinobi have reputations like that. A guy being known for shanking people faster than you can typically react is just one of them. Remember that Zabuza of all people got hyped to fuck when he was first introduced.
He was literally able to take on the nine tails by himself
Clearly not when it killed him to do so. Hashirama did the same but better and that was decades prior.
Being good at things does not make you a Stu. You're only a Stu if you are never at fault for anything and are treated as too perfect to the point that even your mistakes are treated as a good thing. He failed multiple times and being good at his job for a while doesn't change that.
all he ever did to get strong was train, something which every other character did
And just like in real life, not all training is equal and not all people get the same results from training. Do you walk around calling real world geniuses, prodigies, and success stories Gary Stus or Mary Sues or do you just accept that some people just have a better lot in life?
I don't disagree that Minato is one of the most overhyped characters of all time, but he's far from the only legendary character in the series.
Nah, because Madara is the product of the newer generation. He was only as strong as he was because Kabuto modified his Edo Tensei body to be better than he was in life. Madara didn't get to be that good because he was just that amazing. He needed a second chance at life given to him by a genius necromancer of the modern day to be that strong.
His involvement in the war arc was still poorly executed no matter how much people freak out over his "hype" entrance and fights.
Oro's the most iconic Naruto villain desu. Dude was disturbing as fuck in so many ways. It's a shame that Shippuden turned him into a joke.
More importantly in Itachi's case, everyone and their mother bends over backwards to suck his dick and insist he was the true essence of a shinobi and that he did the best he could in the situation he was placed. Itachi was a basket case, but gets treated like some kind of ninja Jesus martyr for killing his entire family and then joining a terrorist cell. He's also the first character who always seemed to have a new tool for whatever challenge he found himself up against.
Kishimoto should have let him take over Sasuke’s body for a while desu.
Where’s my storytime, I need to see children have epic kaiju fights
sees the tragedy of war and becomes a pacifist at a young age, understandable
absolute dipshit that is forced to kill his own clan and has no input on the decision whatsoever, he is literally backed into a corner with no way out, it's not his decision
even gets punked by being told "you can either kill the clan yourself and spare your brother or watch as we kill him and everyone else ourselves"
doesn't even fucking kill the real conspirators himself, just the old people and children who would have totally been a threat to the village
when he joins the Akatsuki he kills people for them and never leaks any intel to other villages
Hashirama: "Haha Itachi was a better shinobi than I am"
Yeah his wank is absurd
speaking of cool
I exist
no nevermind *kysses*
Im fine with her death, but she could have had a real fight with someone beforehand.
It's hard to say who's cooler, Tayuya or Konan
He should've just taken over Kabuto's body and be the one to have fought Itachi and Sasuke.
I really don't feel like Kabuto worked as a big villain, especially since his personality just became Orochimaru 2.0.
Konan is sexo
35 year old goth mommy
But Shikamaru isn't supposed to be a genius. He's just too lazy for action and that's why he sits there plotting. Doesn't make him a genius
Too lazy and yet was able to outspeed someone faster than a bijuu?
She mogs all the genin girls at that age too
Remember when Neji was said to be the biggest prodigy in the history of the Hyuuga clan?
Maybe it's just me being autistic, but I would've liked to see her and Shino have a 1on1 during Pain's Assault.
Shino was debatably the strongest rookie in early part 1, so seeing him able to fight one of the Akatsuki members by himself would've been kind of neat.
Kishimoto was just copy-pasting Nagato's character onto him
It was similar but infinately worse
Nagato suffered immesurably more than Obito thus making Nagato's conclusions and ideology at least understandable
Nagato's plan also essentially involved a nuclear deterent, whereas Obito's involved putting everyone in a faggy dream world, which barely makes sense
Also Obito's backstory and motivation had to be handwaved by the actual old man Madara who just HAPPENED to be where Obito gets crushed
Sure. But buff Shino’s performace and have her win. Both end up looking strong as hell.
He may have been one of the strongest of Konoha 12 but there's no way he's beating an Akatsuki member by himself.
Shikamaru was only able to beat the objectively weakest member himself by seeing Asuma die to learn his abilities and having a ton of prep time.
Sakura obviously was carried by Chiyo and Sasori committing suicide.
Lee's last relevant moment was him being rescued by the guy that crippled him, is replaced completely by Gai in part 2
Neji was a joke in part 2 (even though he became a jonin) and got one of the most anticlimactic deaths in the series
Tenten can't even be considered a character
Gai's team... had it rough.
Shikamaru was only able to beat the objectively weakest member himself by seeing Asuma die to learn his abilities and having a ton of prep time.
How did that increase his speed?
In a better version of Shippuden Lee unlocks 7th gate and has a fight with Sasuke which will be a mirror later of 8th gate Guy vs Madara.
Lee's bald in Boruto too.
He didn't need to increase his speed, Hidan himself admits his attacks are the slowest in the Akatsuki.
Also powercaling is retarded
Didn't Kabuto's modifications only allow him to use the Rinnegan? He was already able to steamroll through an entire army of shinobi with only his Sharingan and he was comparable to Hashirama while alive, who could probably solo all of the Akatsuki combined.
Would you agree that Obito/Nagato were retarded in not utilizing Hidan’s abilities for assassinating strong opponents?
shes made of paper, anyone with any level of fire style jutsu would literally immolate her.
I know it's not canon but I sorta liked Torune Aburame's story so Shino being kept away from serious shit for the most part is ok with me.
The slowest of the akatsuki but still faster than the 2 tails.
Job style
Lmao
Outside of the 64 palm scene, nothing Neji does in part 2 makes you think he's supposed to be a super genius compared to Hinata.
There should've been an arc after the chuunin exams involving the anbu and introducing the other villages in full havinf a summit or something after the Kazekage got killed, the anbu never really getting a focus arc feels weird actually
They could follow up on the thing with Hayate's waifu and Gaara's sensei there too
Baki? Facing consequences!?
NEVER!!!
Kisame
Madara
Pain
He had one of the best fights in the series and it was with fucking Sakura of all people
6 of the 9 Jinchuriki being an afterthought is one of Kishimoto’s biggest mistakes.
Yep and it really shows how poor he can juggle multiple things at once. All the uchiha stuff along with the other tailed beasts. He clearly ate more than he can chew and just skimmed over what he could get away with
early Shippuden makes you think that Sakura will finally become a good character
then the story starts focusing on Sasuke and she becomes even worse than her part 1 self where she was 100% useless
lmao
where everyone murdered ninja kids for being symbols of war
What?
Male
Kakashi
Female
Hinata
We should've gotten the 3 rookie 9 kunoichi fight with her that that one opening teased. Of course, it would be hard to write a battle between a long range specialist and 3 characters who have zero long range abilities, one long range but slow and risky ability, and one long range ability respectively.