SharkVice's manga / #Ninjas(5)

Even the historical tag can't save this one for me. The girl is annoying af. Even when they're like "omg she's grown so much and she's dependable now" PSYCHE motherfucker that girl is the embodiment of whininess and immaturity. I kept reading cas I thought she was gon grow up and the story was gon get better but I should've known better considering who the author is.

It was a great story overall. Personally, I find Kishimoto's ability to connect characters to the story unmatched. I had never read a story where all characters were so interwined to each other. Characters from early in the manga were relevant even in the later half of the story or after their deaths. There honestly werent that many characters given the length of the manga but they were all memorable and they were all necessary to the story to the point where if you took one out you would be left with a gap. It was brilliant storytelling and that made Naruto spectacular to me. The only thing that could've been better was the romance as it was something that Kishimoto obviously struggled with but it's not a big deal since shounen manga don't need to be romantic. There are other shounen manga such as One Piece, Dragon Ball, HunterXHunter, and Captain Tsubasa that don't focus much on romance development. Kishimoto still tried though but the result came out bland though the extra episodes after the end of the manga (the shippuden season 21 episodes) have romantic moments worth noting (specially Naruto's wedding).