/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>7596377
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Naruto originally started as an outsider with a complex to become the best and change the way people around him did things. It's probably the closest you hit to "I want to save all the people!", but isn't spot-on. "I want to stop pointless bloodshed and sadness" is Naruto's gimmick, and it isn't one he's born with/bakstoried with, but one that's expressed through each of the characters he meets and interacts with.

Sasuke's personal vengeance, Haku and Zabuza's brutal way of life. Neji's outright horrific upbringing and the chip it grew on his shoulder, Lee's self-brutalizing when faced with the prospect of being completely worthless due to lack of talent. People that lamented about living in fear of those that stole, killed, and pillaged with no consequence, Jiraiya's sometimes sad lament that he couldn't effect the change that Naruto was growing to want in himself. Absolute monsters being born like Orochimaru. Absolute tragedies born like Gaara, or Pein.

And then that theme is almost completely lost two-ways: Sasuke's revenge completely overtaking all the parroting-ish development Naruto had in the first half of the story, turning him into a fangirl's dream of "omg they're going to die together sooooo romantic schlick schlick schlick". And Kishimoto throwing what remained of a cool world completely on hold to throw out a pointless masturbatory salute to Micheal Bay as done through undead plant ninja warfare. Naruto's theme is all but buried at this stage in time.