Why The Naruto Manga Is So Much Better Than The Anime

The Naruto Manga is much better than the Naruto Anime. The Naruto manga and Naruto anime have several differences and similarities, but one is much better than the other. The Naruto anime has some pretty terrible animation ati times while the Naruto Manga has a more consistent art and beautiful two page spreads.

But the main issue with the Naruto anime is the pacing. The Naruto filler arcs, the slow animation, long recaps, extended and unnecessary flashbacks, and the additional useless scenes added in the anime do a lot of harm to the anime series. The Naruto Manga has an extremely fast pace which is not translated to the anime at all, unfortunately.

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[Zandrsson]

We for sure need a naruto remaster/re-release without all the filler and all the recaps and all the FLASHBACKS. I rewatched naruto recently and when you skip all this, episodes run from 20 minutes to like, 8 minutes

[odiwalker]

I'd argue that watching Naruto fighting an ostrich during the Pain Arc only adds to the overall theme of that arc, meaning, the pain. Its clearly the superior version

[PikachuODST]

One thing that has always killed me to this day is the Final Fight. There's one panel in the Manga they left out in the anime and it holds ALOT of meaning. When Sasuke says to Naruto he has no family, there's a panel in the Manga of Jiraiya's grave Naruto made for him. That would have meant SO MUCH to put in that fight. I still can't believe they left it out.

[Vorusen]

We need a "Naruto Kai" like DBZ got. No filler, no recaps, better animation, more streamlined, etc. If they did that it could be the best way to enjoy naruto.

[nxkx]

the rock that crushed obito and the swing have more screentime than tenten

[perr]

It took me more than 10 years to finish Naruto because I got bored constantly.
I tried the manga and I finally did it.

[godzilla]

i wonder what naruto would feel like with modern pacing, animation techniques and a good 4-5 seasons. probably would outsell most current shows

[SpanishCebolleta]

I remember back in the old days, during early Shippuden, having to wait a week for an episode full of flashbacks, redundance, and very little plot happening overall.

That's when I decided to read the manga instead.

[vconti]

My biggest issue for the anime is honesty how they treat sasuke leaving the village in part 1. In the manga, sasuke leaves with the sound four essentially straight after his run in with Itachi and his fight with Naruto at the hospital. This setting is much more fitting for sasuke to run because he realized he wasn’t making any progress on catching itachi and Naruto was caught up with him so something needed to change. IN THE ANIME THO, Sasuke comes back from seeing Itachi and just is kinda fine. They then had a filler arc with that electric sword dude where Naruto saves the day WHICH MAKES SASUKE SALTY AND LEAVE THE VILLAGE because Naruto had the final blow

My favorite character in all of anime is Sasuke but the anime really does make him way more of a jealous kid instead of the avenger of the Uchiha that the manga better portrays him as

[neoshenlong]

A lot of people hated the fourth ninja war, and I really didn't get why. Then I realized the anime has an absurd amount of filler that 100% killed the pace of an arc that's huge moment after huge moment. I read the whole arc in the manga when it was almost over and, tbh, I really liked it.

[BluePhoenix_]

There are two filler segments in Naruto that i like.
One is the one with the crystal kekkei genkai lady and the other is the stuff that shows how the infinite tsukuyomi looks like, from the perspective of one's that are trapped.
Even though the latter one is pretty long, and does kill the pacing in a mayor way, it's just interesting to me.


I hate pretty much all "oh no, fillergakure is in danger, we need to help them" filler arcs.

[edwardnowakowski]

I will say, my favorite episode of the whole show is mostly anime original content. The way episode 82 of shippuden expands on shikamaru’s response to asuma’s death in chapter 330 is fantastic, and his conversation with his dad is to this day one of the my favorite moments in anime history, and I’m glad you brought it up

But one golden exception doesn’t disprove a rule.

[RendererEP]

Minor point but the anime studio also seemed to go out of their way to make Sakura weaker and unlikeable, (on top of Kishimoto often faltering with her character).
There's quite some difference in her actions and character in the manga and light novels to the anime. They even did that in one of the last arcs of Boruto. By excluding, changing or adding new things

[Douge]

We need 26 episode seasons. For pretty much every show. Fewer pointless cliffhangers, but more room for expanded character moments. Pacing would be so much better

[jayfiggs]

I really believe that the Kaguya/Black Zetsu arc were meant for Boruto. Madara was built up since the OG Naruto as the main antagonist. And given the fact that the whole Otsutsuki clan is explored in Boruto gives even more credence to the fact.

Now why would Kishimoto add (shove) Kaguya into Naruto?

Simple, Naruto was still in peak popularity and corporate strong armed him to extend the series further.

Again, its just something I still strongly believe til this day.

[rkthetrashartist]

THANK YOU. I would like a FMAB-like treatment for Naruto where everything adapts the manga but adds some great scenes from the ninja storm games.

[hiagustres]

Dropped the anime in the final war arc. Now I'm reading the manga from the start and it's just flying by, so much better

[coag]

This applied to the Dragon ball Z manga too when i read it for the first time...no 3-minute stare, and the fights were actually fast paced!

[baitreview]

The thing with the Naruto anime is that there are some moments of brilliance that far outweigh the manga. Both fights between Naruto and Sasuke, Kakashi vs Obito, Rock Lee vs Gaara and so many other fights were handled so perfectly that even if you prefer the manga overall, you would still be missing out by not watching the anime

[apratimsingh]

being an anime only, I dont feel angry when someone says manga is better, instead I feel happy that one of my favourite shows is actually even better in the original source and makes my love for this series and respect for the author grow even deeper