Naruto - Review

If someone says they aren't familiar with NARUTO, then they have no right to call themselves an Otaku.

Synopsis:

Moments prior to Naruto Uzumaki's birth, a huge demon known as the Kyuubi, the Nine-Tailed Fox, attacked Konohagakure, the Hidden Leaf Village, and wreaked havoc. In order to put an end to the Kyuubi's rampage, the leader of the village, the Fourth Hokage, sacrificed his life and sealed the monstrous beast inside the newborn Naruto.
Now, Naruto is a hyperactive and knuckle-headed ninja still living in Konohagakure. Shunned because of the Kyuubi inside him, Naruto struggles to find his place in the village, while his burning desire to become the Hokage of Konohagakure leads him not only to some great new friends, but also some deadly foes.

Naruto:

Naruto is the story of battling ninjas, sure, but on the more personal level, it's a story of growing up. At the start, the main three characters, Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke, are very much children. They go to school, have classes, and are assigned to their very first team as apprentices to a master ninja. Then the story transitions into their learning to be a team and facing conflicts in their local area before moving on to steadily grander threats.

Naruto will be an addiction to anyone who watches the opening 4-5 episodes.

Graduation exam, team division, sensei introduction scenes are the type of ones every anime would like to as it's opening arc.

Zabuza arc is excellently illustrated and animated which will be a teaser for the insane fights that are to come in the anime.Especially, Kakashi vs. Zabuza is an obsolute bliss to watch.

The fights are well balanced with action and mind tactics, which is a very rare-ish thing to find in most of the anime world.

Next comes the Chunin Exam Arc followed by Destruction of Hidden Leaf by Sand which will be enough to make us watch the show no matter how long it is!

we can enjoy the action sequences which can be called as brains with beauty.

After Sasuke left the village with Hidden Sound's 5, Sasuke-Retrieval Arc begins and each character's true power is unleashed.

Until this arc, we won't find a single filler in the anime and is an obsolute delight to watch.

Naruto Shippuden:

The main strength of the series is It's characters that drives the plot. which we will discuss in detail later. After the first 70 episodes , things begins to get lot more interesting really fast. The world of shinobi gets expanded exponentially , and If you're a fan of deep lore in stories , this will fit right in your wheel house because it begins to explore the roots of it's world , the history very deeply. 
A thing that the series does very well is explaining it's concepts to the viewer. The techniques that characters use , How the things in shinobi world works are explained in detail and the concept of Chakra , and what a versatile power system it is compared to other shounens really stands out.

The amount of themes explored in the series are vast , It explores all the basic themes and as it goes on it delves into themes such as the nature of humans , self sacrifice , discrimination , manipulation , roots of war and peace , difference of perceptions , the line between good and evil , alienation as such. It manages to deal with all these themes without abandoning the feel.

You will see friends become foes , foes become friends , Unlikely alliances formed and broken , That precious character you loved die. revenge plots , plot twists , characters grow , politics , romances , the world itself change. There are some flaws but it's a full package and the writer always seemed to have the ending and everything planned out from the very beginning.

Music:

One word - FANTASTIC MUSIC, I repeat it's FANTASTIC!. Yasuharu Takanashi (Music Composer) have made a masterpiece of an soundtrack for this series that manages to highlight the intensity , the tragedies and sorrow when the series needs to. The emotions that Kishimoto (creator) wants to portray makes it through to us so well because of this soundtrack , it connects us with the world of Naruto Shippuden in an odd way.

Soundtracks like Orochimaru's theme and pain's theme will haunt you.

I would give 11/10 rating! It's that good.

Flaws:

1. Fillers
2. Fillers
3. Repetitive Flashbacks / Backstories 
4. Fillers
5. Fillers

Overall:

Naruto Shippuden is more of an experience that needs to be experienced than just a mere show. It played with our emotions for over a decade and now it has been concluded. The enjoyment of Naruto Shippuden goes beyond just the series itself. 

This series got a very big community and fanbase that you could interact with. And it's lore is so vast that you would never run out of things to discuss about it. 

Although it has it share of major flaws , This series is an journey that shouldn't be missed if you're fine with being committed to the series.

This is a series that defined a generation.

I would definitely say that it is a MUST WATCH!

Rating:   9/10