Is ? Homie is insanely popular, internet folks hate him but like I dunno who cares. He's still gonna be in every jump crossoever game
Dude is either directly or indirectly responsible for a lot of deaths. And attempted to kill a lot of people.
Yeah, they ninja. Its what they do. Attempted murder isn't really the barometer for hate in naruto
Now the terrorism shit ,while justified. I fully understand folks not liking him for that.
Never understood the love for itachi. Following orders aside, the one guy he wanted to spare he put through a crazy amount of trauma, then comes around a few years later and exacerbated the trauma by putting him through it on repeat for a day. What a piece of shit brother.
Even the more we'll liked Naruto characters were written like shit.
I like to think that people only liked him for his great OST.
Itachi is strait up a coward and folks get wild ancy when you bring that up because they want to pretend sasuke went crazy out of nowhere.
There's litterally a plot point where itachi is fresh from being dead and is like "Yo naruto I fucked up my brother bad , I need you to unfuck him " because he knows he fucked up so bad.
I would agree with all of this if Part II didn't exist.
...but Part II exists. From what he does to Karin and Sakura after the Kage summit all the way to his final fight with Naruto, dude's actions and supporting logic were a jumbled mess.
And even if you argue that the trauma he endured coupled with the revelation of what the village and Uchiha clan put his brother through, he still does some irredeemable shit.
I always rooted for Sasuke's redemption but flipping the script to pretend that Naruto and Sakura were the "real problem" is wildly backwards.
Kishimoto likes to do this thing where he likes to knock on the door of bigger complicated issues, but like run away before it actually answers he door. And that's sort of sasuke's problem. Like it really seems like at multiple points he wanted to adress how fucked up the ninja villages actually are even back in part 1. And just...never did anything with it
You remember the samurai? Its like that, shit shows up and either gets time skipped or ignored.
And Naruto was orphaned as a baby and hated by his own village for over a decade in his youth because he didn't know they shoved a demon inside him. What of it.
Eh Sasuke went though MUCH MUCH worse, and trying to compare naruto to sasuke's truma is laughable. Naruto was , as bad as childhood was born with priviliges that sasuke would never have