>>9426992Yeah if I had to analyze naruto and think "What was that show's strength" I think it would be the creativity of the justus and the "magic system" for lack of a better term. The themed villages, (village of fire, water, thunder, wind, etc), Many secondary, tertiary characters that had their defined theme so that it would be easy to have a "favorite" ninja. The innovative ways that Naruto used his clone jutsu and built his other stuff based on that, like having his clones help him spin the chakra rotation needed for the rasengan.
But with that quantity of characters and wide scope of world building, does create characters with very little depth and the plot-writing post time skip was bad, simply put. It's like the mangaka of naruto had a really good idea before he put pencil to paper, and then once all that got spent, by then it was massively popular and he had to keep writing, and it just wasn't as inspired.
Kinda like when bands have their debut and sophomore album, and they are great because they were songs they refined for years playing small shows, but once they got a record deal and had to, legally obligated to, crank out new songs in a short time period, things often start to feel phoned in. Not all bands, but more than most.
