Naruto's ending

[Mr Khan]

amp316 said:

Mr Khan said:

amp316 said:

Sasuke and Naruto kill each other.

Konohamaru becomes Hokage. 

Shikamaru gets zero screen time and I get angry.

Shikamaru practically got a whole arc to himself (granted it was a whole arc of wangsting about Asuma, but still). That arc annoyed me (mostly because we as viewers/readers had been given little reason to care about Asuma, but suddenly his death is supposed to be so damn tragic. The out-of-the-blue romance with Kurenai only mucked it further, and ruined Kurenai's character in the process)

Though sadly none of the other nine (teams Kurenai, Gai, and Asuma) really get enough screentime anymore, but that's like a lot of shonen series where characters introduced earlier are simply replaced by stronger new characters rather than get stronger themselves (Dragonball/Z/GT being the perfect example of this)

*gasp*

That was one of the best arcs that was.  All of the stuff with Shikamaru and Asuma playing shogi was awesome and relating the pieces to the types of people that they were and the moves to actual moves in battle was awesome.  I agree that there wasn't nearly enough about Asuma up until that point, but that shouldn't detract from the arc.  The battle that Shikamaru had with Hidan was one of Naruto's best moments IMO.

Are you saying that you don't like Shikamaru or are you saying that you'd rather have a Ino arc or someting?   

It was Asuma's death and the way they handled it that soured that arc on me overall. If you want us to care about dead characters, you should let us get to know them more then "Hey, i was this badass in the background for a while, now i'm suddenly the Third's son and in love with this other chick whom i've randomly impregnated, and now i'm dead."

I will agree that Shikamaru vs Hidan was one of the better fights in the series, and i do like seeing Shikamaru fight because it reminds the viewers that the series was, at one point, about ninja, who are supposed to fight with stealth and outsmarting their foe, but the botched emotional investment of that arc (and its utter destruction of one of the series' strong female characters) soured it overall