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Naruto is what around the age of 10-12 years old when the series starts. It is perfectly natural for a kid that age to be hyper and bouncing around like that. As for him being emotionally troubled, that really isn't the case. He had a sucky past sure, but he dealt with it extremely well so it doesn't mess with his day to day living as emotional problems would. He does carry the perceived burden of taking care of reuniting his team or taking care of sasuke by himself. That really isn't a problem and earns him man points there for taking care of a friend who has fallen off the path. Geez Sakura having a crush on Sasuke, is again a perfectly normal thing. Schoolgirls be crushing, it's what they do. Sasuke does have sever emotional problems, I'll give you that, but they are well explained so you can't dock the story points for it. First off is his inferiority complex which was fueled by his parents paying the majority of their attention to his prodigy brother. Then before that get resolved in a normal manner, his brother who he idolized and believed could do no wrong annihilates his family and kin. Then he lives in this culture where the aspirations of all boys and girls is to become a state mandated killing machine and they receive training in this from an early age. So issues contributing to his emotional state, inferiority complex, unresolved issues with parents and bro, had his childhood stolen, was exposed to scarring events, and is a killing machine with something to prove. Really that last point about the other characters doesn't make much sense. They have been well fleshed out with backstory and whatnot along with them frequently engaging in conversations. I don't know if you actually pay attention or not, but other characters from konoha besides naruto are often engaged in fighting.
2. The plot is also very annoying. Firstly, the series for some strange reasonis split into naruto and naruto shippuden..
Yes, Naruto is split between his more childlike years and the years where he has been forced to grow up. If I were to guess at a reason for this, I would say it is because the author wanted to progress the story to a certain point so he could do things without it growing old and stale.
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I'd say the kind that is responsible for an entire people group and decides to take the burden into his own family instead of casting it on someone elses. Besides it's not like this an unusual method for dealing with the tailed beasts.
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First off how does his loneliness and people not liking him even lead into him being on a team. It is made extremely clear that being put on a team to further their learning is standard there.
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That is kind of abridging it, but yes that does happen.
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Reaaally weren't paying attention here were you ?
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This is simplifying things a little too much isn't it. It is more like Sand and Sound had been being manipulated by Orichimaru to break the cease-fire between the ninja countries and attack Konoha during the Chuunin exams when they wouldn't be expecting it. All so Orichimaru could gain revenge for being kicked out. Sasuke joined Orichimaru to gain power at any cost, you know that whole revenge thing you are fond of pointing out. He was manipulating Orichi just as much as he himself was being manipulated, it was a two way street.
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You left out the part where the supporting cast gets a major battle arc. He leaves to train under orichimaru, professor of forbidden jutsu. We have already been over this, sasuke has childhood trauma and grew up in a society where bathing in the blood of your enemies was acceptable, of course he is out for his brother's head. Not only will he gain revenge, but he will finally prove that he is better then his brother to his dead parents. With the way sasuke was written it would be weird if he wasn't so desperate for revenge.
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Oooooh, there is your problem, you only watched the anime. You see the manga ends only an arc or so after the sasuke retrieval arc. No having to deal with the rather ridiculous filler.
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Really boy, do you pay any attention at all to the story? Sakura nor her forehead were the driving factor behind Sasori's defeat, the old woman was. Old woman (OW from here on out), had taught Sasori everything he knew about puppets and was in fact manipulating Sakura that whole time as if she was a puppet, improving her combat potential roughly potential.
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I think you mean that on occurrence an akutsuki member or two will fight a rather drawn out battle against a relatively large group of ninja which has a teen or two on it. They don't even die all that frequently.
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You kind of missed the point of that fight from a discerning viewers point of view. It wasn't a "We are going to have two main characters fight then skip out on having a fulfilling ending" it was more like "Man let's show that Sasuke is badass now and is stronger then naruto to give naruto a reason to get more serious and so we can have some chara.cter development"
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Let me rewrite that for you.
Being the manipulative jerk he is, Sasuke recruits various people around his own age that he had found about through orichimaru's files after killing him. Sasuke doesn't actually care about his new teammates but sees them as a means to an end. Sasuke finally tracks down Itachi and mortally wounds Itachi, but soon learns that the Uchiha clan had been plotting a rebellion and Itachi being loyal member of the Anbu agreed to wipe out his family, and to preserve unity agreed to leave the village and take the rap for genocide. Sasuke having lived on rage and revenge for so long now finds he can't live without it so he sets his sights on Konoha.
See now wasn't that much more accurate.
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Not surprised by now, but you really haven't been paying attention if you think a satisfactory ending can come about in a short time......
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Waaaaait, what's this??? An author who actually kills off the villains permanently in a shonen jump manga , this can't be!
Really what kind of soft ninja story are you expecting if ninja who are bred from birth to be soldiers and killers leave their enemies alive.
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First of rarely do any of Naruto's peers even damage an akatsuki member to any noticeable degree. Second his friends are pretty underpowered considering the level range of the enemies they are fighting. For normal ninja they are pretty average, but for the s rank kage level enemies being fought they are really underpowred. Only a few of the top tier elder ninja are even able to barely keep pace with them. So calling his friends superpowered is a bit silly.
Despite your horrible comprehension of Naruto, I must thank you for writing your post. It has shown me why bleach prospers, it is obviously for those like you who have survived fetal alcohol syndrome (You have come far to be able to post in your mostly coherent method on the internet), its action, light story, and never killing someone is perfect for people like you who lack the comprehension skills to grasp anything other then the barest threads of a plot.
To help you with your struggle, might I, if I am not being too forward. Suggest you trying reading any number of the fine books at your local library. I guarantee that within 2-6 months of decent reading your comprehension skills will increase one hundred fold.
