Why is Naruto so popular?

[Tonitonichopchop]

One Piece is complete crap. I didn't know they had that much of a bad taste, in Japan.

I know this comment is gonna come off as fanboyish, but have you even seen a good portion of it to know? Pretty much everyone who has seen One Piece and hated it has judged it on a very shallow level.

From the beginning up to the Skypiea arc, then followed the Enies Lobby arc a while. After that I couldn't stand it anymore.
...Does that suffice?

I'll have to say no. You missed a lot of the character development that went on in the early episodes. Especially for Usopp and Robin. Not to mention the Skypiea arc is probably the worst major One Piece arc.

 

[raulpica]

One Piece is complete crap. I didn't know they had that much of a bad taste, in Japan.

I know this comment is gonna come off as fanboyish, but have you even seen a good portion of it to know? Pretty much everyone who has seen One Piece and hated it has judged it on a very shallow level.

From the beginning up to the Skypiea arc, then followed the Enies Lobby arc a while. After that I couldn't stand it anymore.
...Does that suffice?

I'll have to say no. You missed a lot of the character development that went on in the early episodes. Especially for Usopp and Robin. Not to mention the Skypiea arc is probably the worst major One Piece arc.

But I _saw_ the early episodes. And also the Enies Lobby arc.

Trust me, if I have to read/watch something for more than 250 episodes and 40 volumes before it gets any good... that means it sucks.

 

[machomuu]

One Piece is complete crap. I didn't know they had that much of a bad taste, in Japan.

I know this comment is gonna come off as fanboyish, but have you even seen a good portion of it to know? Pretty much everyone who has seen One Piece and hated it has judged it on a very shallow level.

From the beginning up to the Skypiea arc, then followed the Enies Lobby arc a while. After that I couldn't stand it anymore.
...Does that suffice?

I'll have to say no. You missed a lot of the character development that went on in the early episodes. Especially for Usopp and Robin. Not to mention the Skypiea arc is probably the worst major One Piece arc.

But I _saw_ the early episodes. And also the Enies Lobby arc.

Trust me, if I have to read/watch something for more than 250 episodes and 40 volumes before it gets any good... that means it sucks.

I'm not going to disagree with you, there.

 

[Tonitonichopchop]

But I _saw_ the early episodes. And also the Enies Lobby arc.

Trust me, if I have to read/watch something for more than 250 episodes and 40 volumes before it gets any good... that means it sucks.

I can understand your way of thinking. The thing is, One Piece has been going on for ten years at one episode a week, and a lot of us started watching closer to five years ago when it was much shorter. The length is worth it if you enjoy the characters and art style, but it probably is difficult for newcomers who watch that many episodes in such a short length of time. When I first watched it, I was 13 and it was with 4kids. Then I dropped it, then I learned about fansubs and watched the series once or twice a day for a year until I caught up. Just be glad it isn't as long as the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure manga.

Anyway, to put this back on topic, I read the Naruto manga up until the Chunin exam arc. Then I dropped it because I felt the series wasn't going anywhere. It wasn't too bad, but I wasn't particularly attached to any of the characters.

 

[raulpica]

But I _saw_ the early episodes. And also the Enies Lobby arc.

Trust me, if I have to read/watch something for more than 250 episodes and 40 volumes before it gets any good... that means it sucks.

I can understand your way of thinking. The thing is, One Piece has been going on for ten years at one episode a week, and a lot of us started watching closer to five years ago when it was much shorter. The length is worth it if you enjoy the characters and art style, but it probably is difficult for newcomers who watch that many episodes in such a short length of time. When I first watched it, I was 13 and it was with 4kids. Then I dropped it, then I learned about fansubs and watched the series once or twice a day for a year until I caught up. Just be glad it isn't as long as the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure manga.

Anyway, to put this back on topic, I read the Naruto manga up until the Chunin exam arc. Then I dropped it because I felt the series wasn't going anywhere. It wasn't too bad, but I wasn't particularly attached to any of the characters.

Well... Same here! I started watching it in 2001 (the time when it started airing here), when I was 13, and I stopped following it something like 2 years ago. That means I've watched it for... almost 8 years.
(I've read the entire Jojo's Bizarre Adventure manga in 2 weeks

And something like 330 chapters of GANTZ in just one night

Gantz hooked me massively. With Jojo it was hard to find all the scanlations, and at the time Part 6 wasn't even entirely finished. I'm now buying the manga because I really like the series

)

By the way, trying to steer this ontopic again, I sincerely hate Sasuke. It's an uber-stereotypated whiny character. Naruto's a LOT better. And the Chuunin exam arc was AWESOME. One of my favourite arcs. Back then, Naruto was still a manga about a kid who had problems getting acknowledged... now's a it's all about kids fighting in a world-war

 

[Deleted member 473940]

But I _saw_ the early episodes. And also the Enies Lobby arc.

Trust me, if I have to read/watch something for more than 250 episodes and 40 volumes before it gets any good... that means it sucks.

I can understand your way of thinking. The thing is, One Piece has been going on for ten years at one episode a week, and a lot of us started watching closer to five years ago when it was much shorter. The length is worth it if you enjoy the characters and art style, but it probably is difficult for newcomers who watch that many episodes in such a short length of time. When I first watched it, I was 13 and it was with 4kids. Then I dropped it, then I learned about fansubs and watched the series once or twice a day for a year until I caught up. Just be glad it isn't as long as the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure manga.

Anyway, to put this back on topic, I read the Naruto manga up until the Chunin exam arc. Then I dropped it because I felt the series wasn't going anywhere. It wasn't too bad, but I wasn't particularly attached to any of the characters.

Well... Same here! I started watching it in 2001 (the time when it started airing here), when I was 13, and I stopped following it something like 2 years ago. That means I've watched it for... almost 8 years.
(I've read the entire Jojo's Bizarre Adventure manga in 2 weeks

And something like 330 chapters of GANTZ in just one night

Gantz hooked me massively. With Jojo it was hard to find all the scanlations, and at the time Part 6 wasn't even entirely finished. I'm now buying the manga because I really like the series

)

By the way, trying to steer this ontopic again, I sincerely hate Sasuke. It's an uber-stereotypated whiny character. Naruto's a LOT better. And the Chuunin exam arc was AWESOME. One of my favourite arcs. Back then, Naruto was still a manga about a kid who had problems getting acknowledged... now's a it's all about kids fighting in a world-war

4th Shinobi World War! lol
My little bro wants to take side with Madara LOL.

I really hope they are done with the fillers now and get going with the War -.-

 

[Tonitonichopchop]

But I _saw_ the early episodes. And also the Enies Lobby arc.

Trust me, if I have to read/watch something for more than 250 episodes and 40 volumes before it gets any good... that means it sucks.

I can understand your way of thinking. The thing is, One Piece has been going on for ten years at one episode a week, and a lot of us started watching closer to five years ago when it was much shorter. The length is worth it if you enjoy the characters and art style, but it probably is difficult for newcomers who watch that many episodes in such a short length of time. When I first watched it, I was 13 and it was with 4kids. Then I dropped it, then I learned about fansubs and watched the series once or twice a day for a year until I caught up. Just be glad it isn't as long as the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure manga.

Anyway, to put this back on topic, I read the Naruto manga up until the Chunin exam arc. Then I dropped it because I felt the series wasn't going anywhere. It wasn't too bad, but I wasn't particularly attached to any of the characters.

Well... Same here! I started watching it in 2001 (the time when it started airing here), when I was 13, and I stopped following it something like 2 years ago. That means I've watched it for... almost 8 years.
(I've read the entire Jojo's Bizarre Adventure manga in 2 weeks

And something like 330 chapters of GANTZ in just one night

Gantz hooked me massively. With Jojo it was hard to find all the scanlations, and at the time Part 6 wasn't even entirely finished. I'm now buying the manga because I really like the series

)

Well dip me and call me a nacho

(No idea what this means)

 

[Deleted member 473940]

Tomorrows episode is going to be interesting, hopefully.
Finally done with the fillers(I think o.o).

 

[Jolan]

My god, this was...an awesome manga chapter.

 

[Deleted member 473940]

Just more filler and the way its heading a lot more "waste of time" to come.

I just did the maths.. its like 50 episodes per year and from that, more than 30 episodes are fillers lol.
Will the story ever finish

I dont think there will be an end. Same with almost all anime.. Naruto will NEVER be a Hokage.
Luffy will never be Pirate King :/

 

[nryn99]

My god, this was...an awesome manga chapter.

Itachi and his crow?

 

[kevan]

Luffy is too cool to be pirate fag!

 

[hunter291]

Luffy is too cool to be pirate fag!

Que ?¿

 

[Chikaku-chan]

The simple reason for it being so popular is that people started watching it from the start and got entangled into the story line of the loner naruto befriended by others and sasuke the so called last of his clan finding out the truth of his clan and how they got exterminated, wrap all that and add in a bunch of ninjas with kick arse abilities make one hell of an anime in my opinion.

 

[kevan]

Luffy is too cool to be pirate fag!

Que ?¿

I dunno, I just said it lol.

 

[Deleted member 473940]

Luffy is too cool to be pirate fag!

Que ?¿

It was redirected to me probably, because I said animes never really have a proper ending.
Luffy will never be the Pirate King or Naruto will NEVER be hokage.
Its just how Anime's end.

I cant even remember how Ranma 1/2 ended. I always wished that Ranma turns normal and marries Akane, but it was just too long ago.. I cant even remember what happend lol.

Back to Naruto: More filler in the anime -.- I will probably skip the next few weeks.

edit: lol kevan. or maybe wasnt refering to me

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[machomuu]

Luffy is too cool to be pirate fag!

Que ?¿

It was redirected to me probably, because I said animes never really have a proper ending.
Luffy will never be the Pirate King or Naruto will NEVER be hokage.
Its just how Anime's end.

I cant even remember how Ranma 1/2 ended. I always wished that Ranma turns normal and marries Akane, but it was just too long ago.. I cant even remember what happend lol.

Back to Naruto: More filler in the anime -.- I will probably skip the next few weeks.

edit: lol kevan. or maybe wasnt refering to me

.

I know, Ranma and Akane seemed like a good couple, but the miracle never happen.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

The Naruto, Bleach and One Piece Anime sucks ASS. Their Manga counterparts are far superior.

 

[kevan]

The Naruto, Bleach and One Piece Anime sucks ASS. Their Manga counterparts are far superior.

What are these counterparts

 

[Hyro-Sama]

The Naruto, Bleach and One Piece Anime sucks ASS. Their Manga counterparts are far superior.

What are these counterparts

Please explain what you mean.