The Challenge

Since Naruto regular story episodes started sucking (to me anyway) after the first arc of Shippuuden, with some moments of indulgence and only Sai and Bee tolerable new entries, I'll watch every episode of the series prior to Shippuuden to see if I can still enjoy the show, 5 episodes a day, starting now

Episode 1:

Starts with "Once upon a fairytale, there was a monster and a hero who sacrificed his life to defeat the beast" cliche, very inspiring
All these young ninjas with higher ranks than the guy who is still not a genin can't catch him, and he evades them using a skill he can't perform? WTF?
After failing some tests, Iruka tells Naruto to clean the monument or he won't go home, but Naruto saying he has no home we see where he lives two episodes later. Screw that
Dinner time, Naruto says he knows who Hokages are, and he wants to surpass them, but he's a little twat
Flashback time: Iruka remembers Hokage telling him he doesn't know his parents, immediately a flashback to Iruka wanting to help his parents he know
Why the fuck would a scroll of seals carry a cloning technique? SEALS
Ah yes, what a classy line "Don't give him the very dangerous weapon even if you die", cause we all know the dead person can give or forbid people to take stuff
In all anguish and anger, the kid wastes plenty of energy standing where he is
Mizuki wants to kill Naaruto and Iruka, but he has such great openings he wastes by the obligation of giving watchers the story. Crummy PIS
The damn leader sees everything, but does nothing about it to retrieve what was stolen
Back to PIS saying no kill just to give us a show of the main dork newly acquired skill, and have Mizuki shit in his pants
Wait, if the Hokage can see all, why didn't he keep an eye on the highly classified scroll?
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I remember this stupid episode being better, I see myself now partially agreeing with Baal on how shitty this series is

Keep a count of how many times someone says "Believe it!"

Also the first episode is the only episode of naruto I've seen; I watched it and decided that if I hate the main character then I probably won't like the show very much.

Not watching a dub, I'll have to keep count of the thousand times Dattebayo flies out of his mouth

Episode 2:

What does this episode teach people?
-Take a dorky picture, and to convince people receiving registration form with bad picture to take it bring in a nude sexy chick (cause I aint no shape shifter)
-Brag about how elite you are, and tell ones who know your name your entire name turning your head one moment and not noticing them escape
-Be someones slave to learn something
-Do stupid stuff and confuse names
-Only those who fought the 9 tailed beast know the secret, but the previous episode shows different people with such knowledge
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Episode 3:

How was this kid allowed to have the calendar he has?
Sakura sucks
Just as Sakura threw Naruto aside, all girls want to sit near Sasuke
Bad rivals joke
Girls are too preoccupied with their sex fantasy with Sasuke to notice what happened
Naruto, the overconfident slob, what genius?
Mad love Harley has for Joker is understandable, but Naruto being horny for Sakura as he is.....
Ino: "Naruto, do anything to the boy every girl is madly in love with......" followed by "Of course, Sasuke is cool, Naruto is a loser"
Jump to Sakura's stupid sex fantasy, pretty much like all cock tease romance in this series. Bullshit waste
Flashback and Sasuke, followed by cheesiness and bad jokes
Naruto is close to Sasuke, he's magically a bit far and about to attack with his shadow clone jutsu, the Narutos attack closing in circling around Sasuke, suddenly they fall too far like no move forward was done. BULLSHIT
Sasuke's reaction to the situation is funny
How inconsiderate of Sakura, calling a guy with an obvious stomach issue an idiot
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What a load of crap. Does Kishimoto get high and work on the series or what? That's a large dose of crap, not watching past 3 episodes today

I like when sasuke tells sakura shes a bitch.

Dr. Faust wrote:

What a load of crap. Does Kishimoto get high and work on the series or what? That's a large dose of crap, not watching past 3 episodes today

Kishimoto is also a bit of a plagiarist, apparently.

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I know, I know, Unnecessary nitpicking. But dude, That's from a manga that started in 1990 with the anime starting in 1993. ...Just saying.

Kishimoto pretty much copied every shonen hero and rival in general to make Narutard and Saucegay. Slam Dunk's characters shouldn't be particularly credited alone(in fact, they're probably part of the few less significant influences), but pretty much every single shonen series rivalry ever prior to Naruto's inception.

Naruto is the Goku to Sasuke's Vegeta.

eh, Chalk it up to me looking too deeply into something again.

It's not, because you hit the nail on the head. He is indeed a plagiarist. Except, instead of one particular series, he pretty much copied countless ones.

Yeah, a bit is little, he's extreme in plagiarism

Episode 4:

Late upper class ninja falls for a very obvious trap
First impression is a bitch
Introductions is normal enough, but not the way the introduce themselves

• Sakura saw she has something in common with Naruto, she still disliked him. What ambitions she have
  Naruto, lives in Ramen heaven and wants to become Hokage

"Skip breakfast, we'll meat at 5 a.m", but he reaches them at noon with one of the lamest excuses, bad mofo, not a good test for patience
"I'll eat lunch in front of you" Bastard
What a dork, after being easily captured with his kunai on his neck he avoids concealing himself and faces the jounin head on
"Taijustsu technique No.1: Read ecchi books in survival training" That was funny the first time
500 seconds to escape, and both guys stand completely still when Kakashi is behind Naruto.
Hey dork, you open your mouth
Typical anime 500 seconds of flashback and very long running 1 meter, and standing still while Kakashi thinks, genius
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Episode 5:

Pretty reasonable compared to the episodes before it
Sakura is by far a more useless rookie than Naruto
And we have an announcement, Sasuke is an Avenger

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Still, I love how every episode so far has a picture expressing disappointment to be used

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Episode 6:

Missions for Genins:

• Find a runaway cat, check
  Escort someone shopping in another village, decent
  Extracting potatoes from ground........What kind of ninja missions is that?

I'm with Naruto in thinking better missions are in order
Then enters the drunk bridge builder badmouthing, get sober you snob punk
Shuriken + Kunai can hold a hard chain and bind two supposedly strong men to a tree and they can't move
Don't you just love these scales? Guy almost sticking his face to another's back and they move 3 yards in that one's direction
Kakashi's prowes tells him when there is poison in a needle, and he didn't use sharingan
Goofy use of a tune
Kakashi puppet beside Naruto's bed in the flashback, what is he thinking?
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Episode 7:

So a guy taking control of all traffic and transport means in a country can't violently own bridge transporting thus he wants to kill an old man building a bridge? Nitwit
How can a very very poor country afford to build a bridge?
That bridge builder is an asshole, can't he just ease up the tension he built? There is such a need to make them worry about being hated
Oh, ok, he wins, but why is he pointing at the camera on top of his shoulder? He can break the fourth wall or something?
You can obviously get out of the frame to move lightning speed in a cheap boat
We then move to asshole idiot Naruto pretending to be cool and wasting his weapons, just to have a punch on the head from Sakura
Bugs bunny is in a shock
A heavy long sword goes spirally downwards to shit it's direction upwards and hit a tree to make a platform for Zabuza. GTFO
Sharingan, power from the pupil, in the iris
Heavy energy suffocating, just like the Reiatsu
You know Zabu, or your water clone, you had the chance to kill the old man silently instead of saying: "Kakashi, I'm between them"
And the ever glorious flush-back, knife to the throat, aaaand cliffhanger
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Episode 8:

Zabuza has to explain his status instead of Kakashi cutting his throat to discover he's a water clone, or killing him from behind while Kakashi is busy with the water clone
Water prison surrounding a person entirely in heavy water, but not suffocating him
Kick the brats asses water clone, do that while original you is holding the water prison instead of completing your job and killing Tazuna, bravo
Yes yes, I'm sorry, just kick the title character once calling the kids brats who shouldn't be branded ninjas, and hold still in silence the rest of the time, smarter plan
Flashback, but very brief
Zabuza clone you moron, instead of saving us long arcs of this avenger and Madara/Tobi and Itachi drama BS by breaking Sasuke's neck, you hold him from the neck and toss him away, alive, brilliant plan
And many flashbacks
More PIS and no kill, I hate you Zabuza
Yes yes, perfect time to brag after getting your stomach kicked again, and that old moron thinks you're not useless as he initially thought
Tune of war ends, nothing moving happens, only people standing
Hey Zabuzaaaa, Kakashi just reminded you of your job, finish it instead of holding Kakashi able to breath and keeping your clone on a pause, enough pausing
Ah, more useless hitting with no use of iron or any sort of weapon, preventing the death of Sasuke again
Moron Naruto needs to shout his move
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I remember manag adaptions being wonderful and fillers are awful, glad I decided not to watch fillers at all

Episode 9:

Kakashi is freed, and he bleeds to stop the shuriken with his fist so it won't hurt his comrades, but the fuuma shuriken only cuts a flesh wound
Naruto in the water explains his plan by the detail to a free Zabuza standing on the side of Kakashi
Water clone of Zabuza was defeated, off screen?
Stupid kids and old man, they stand in the way of a wave of heavy water just blocking their faces, and hardly any drop touched their faces
Useless flashbacks to frames we watched, why?
After a while and more than two episodes of speaking about the copy ninja, and after witnessing copying a technique once, everyone is stunned by how Kakashi copies a second technique
Yes yes, get aggressively mad at the guy who (apparently) killed a guy who was about to kill you and your comrades, plus ninjas are trained to accept death and murder
Wait, genius Kakashi, cause the kid killed a tired man by two needles you suddenly determine he's stronger than you?
Kid, you are people trained to kill if the missions requires it, stop being pissed you annoying punk, you're pissing people
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Episode 10:

So someone needs to take the full body to dispose of it cause that's the person's job, why didn't he take the head alone as a proof of kill? Baka sensei
Fuck, is there a real need for a moment of flashback to Kakashi examining Zabuza's neck when status could use explaining in words only?
Stupid brash kid, happy for the possibility the guy who almost killed them is alive
Again with repeating "I'll be a hokage" shit, but is it necessary to say superhero?
"Top secret" on a scroll = extra suspicion stupid forehead girl. No bad sketches like Rukia does disappointed me
You know something you stupid scarecrow? You had a closer tree to walk on while depending on canes to walk
Why is Haku so horny for Zabuza?
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Pepsi is a source of chakara?

Episode 11:

Man, Sakura and Naruto are such easy targets, they get ticked so quickly
Again with mentioning the super poor country in need of building a bridge to bring in resources. Of course Kishimoto outsmarts himself by not explaining how they afford machines, materials and energy to build the bridge, nor how would the poor people afford those materials they care to bring in..........
Grabbing the bag feels like grabbing the ass? Forehead ugly girl
Naruto really took his time to follow Sakura's tip
A family so poor in such a poor country can suddenly afford to feed all these extra mouths? How high does he get making up this stuff?
"There seems to be a story behind this" Do tell, I never heard of people getting upset over random loss of people share pictures with them

There's that one scene reminding me of "Death in the Family" scene when Joker and his goons trapped Jason Todd and Joker hits him with the crowbar
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I forgot how weak drawing was since the start, it improves little by little as the scribbling used increases

Didn't Kishimoto actually admit Sasuke was an amalgation of every rival character known to man? His original story outline didn't even have a rival, but his editor forced it upon him and that made him quickly create Sasuke.

And then he fell in love with the character.

I think I read about that before

Not sure if I heard about the editor bit before or not, but yes, Sasuke was made by copying various traits from different rivals and other so-called "cool" characters(angsty assholes).

There was a decent review of the manga on TGWTG waaaaaaaay back which brought up that and pointed out how freaking stupid it was to do that.