Originally Posted by
Dontrike
The universe actually starts to make less sense after everything goes on. Hand signs were the way everyone did anything and later on Pain is just nuking entire cities by holding his hand out. Now I understand the the stronger you get the less time you need, but even at the end Naruto is still making hand signs for a move that requires a plus sign being made and he is in the top 10 before the end while everyone else is just sprouting stuff everywhere. Sasuke does increasingly stupider and stupider things throughout the entire series. Oh my brother did all this to save the village he loves? Well I guess I will go and do the complete opposite and continue to want to do the opposite thing of that even after my brother told me why and explained it without a hint of anger towards it. Sakura is completely useless throughout the entire series, even when she is supposed to be great, and only really does around 3 things total and even then goes to the side of Naruto and Sasuke all the time. She is even more useless now as out of nowhere she passes out and "has always done that since she was a kid"........wait, when did she ever pass out constantly?
The animation definitely got better as things went on, but you could tell when something huge wasn't happening as they used less talented animators. Even when the animation was great, like Pain vs. Naruto, the direction was quite absurd what with Pain going all Sonic the Hedgehog or that scene where he goes so fast his face contorts into a cone head. Don't get me wrong, the fight was amazingly animated, but man did it look silly.
Naruto filler is some of the worst I have ever seen. It isn't as bad as Bleach's, as it does connect some story from time to time, but it is some of the most boring stuff I have seen. The only one I can say was good was the 6 episode filler called Power, or something like that, it had great animation, oddly, and seemed like a movie. The rest is so incredibly boring that it becomes unwatchable during that entire time. Take for instance all of the filler that litters the War arc, where it barely connects to anything and is just all about "what if an old character tried fighting the same character again" and the good guy wins unsurprisingly, or the one where that kid also has 9-Tailed Fox powers for no reason. Filler should not be 20-40+ episodes. Hell, let's not forget the episode where Orochimaru walks down a bridge before he fights Naruto, something that could have been 6 minutes took an entire episode, you do not extend an episode to create more suspense for something that already has it. Dragonball did that multiple times and no one liked it then either. Bleach's filler was worse though, as has some of the longest filler out there and the worst in almost every other way, but we also have another titan of Shonen, One Piece, where filler there has only lasted between 4-~10 episodes.
I enjoy Naruto, when it wasn't being completely stupid, but in no way is Naruto the best since Dragonball. The show opened up spectacularly, showed how the characters felt, even the villains (which became the mos popular ones in the series), and everything was a lot more fleshed out, but as time went on things just went down hill. Sure there were some great moment afterwards, but it never really could match the first arc.