*ahem* Naruto was one of the first anime that I have every got into! I was introduced to it by my friends actually, but my cousin is the one that really got me into it. He was able to find all the episodes for me to watch, and I did just that! I actually really liked Naruto at the time! I felt like Naruto was someone like me, who wanted to be accepted into society, and I grew rather fond of the character himself. Also, the Haku story arc was what really drew me in, just because Haku was just super awesome. The Chuunin Exam did keep things interesting actually, but it did last for QUITE a long while, and I was wondering when it was going to end. I mean, they had the Written Exam, the Forest of Death, and then the tournament! The tournament which, obviously lasted quite a while as they had to depict fight after fight. The anime did a pretty good job with it though, even adding the Tenten vs. Temari fight, which was over too quickly to even notice in the manga.Anywho, I really felt my interest in the series waning significantly once Sasuke actually did something dumb and went to join Orochimaru. Sasuke is a character I have never liked throughout the series, he just always irritated me with his emoness. Ugh, I always even liked Sakura better than Sasuke! Although a lot of people disagree with me here, but that's for you guys to argue with me about, because I frankly just don't care for Sasuke. Anywho, I was interested after the Time Jump and followed it in the manga until after the whole Rescue Gaara arc, which wasn't too too bad, it actually gave Sakura some growth as a character, which was great. But in the end, it would be mostly focused on Naruto of course, I just find it odd how they have so many characters, yet only so few are so important. One Piece does a good job with distributing character's time in it's koma pages, as everyone in the crew has their own thing. Anywho, I honestly think that Naruto is overrated now, and I haven't been following the series for a long while, but I'm led to believe that it is currently going downhill.
Oh, and I also recently heard from my cousin that Sasuke actually DOES get his revenge against Itachi! Great, now Elizabeth is going to be super devastated, oh well. Hinata needs more koma time IMO, she's an awesome character. ~end rant~
