Kishimoto has said he initially conceptualized Naruto as a horror/battle royal. You can see this in the early manga and the ideas that carried over from the start that had the rough edges smoothed down. The art style was graphic in the beginning and Gara and crew were more violent. The Konoha 12 were meant to be killed off as time went on. But Naruto ballooned and took off fast globally. So it was sanitized to take in the cash.
Maaaan, yes… You can REALLY see it, I wondered for a while why early Naruto and later Naruto/Shippuden felt very different. The art style was big, and the brutality was big. I miss it, especially watching the show now. That eerie, deadly factor with high stakes really kept me on the edge, then Chuunin exams finished up and that seemed to be the end of it. Funny thing I noticed while typing: HxH did the opposite of this it seems, only watched it for the first time years ago (started watching Naruto looooong ago) and was surprised with how brutal and cruel things turn out to be.
@@gallenberger1 yes Naruto was never going to have chuninn exams, sasuke, or hokages without his editor. The editor left after pain arc and guess what that was Naruto’s worst period.
exactly my thoughts as well! i really like haku because his choice to stay with zabuza despite the constantly cold demeanor he showed was really intriguing to me while i watched it
@@gallenberger1 Bruh not to mention the art style detail to expressions and the darker tone that was left off to what B-A Rank missions could look like
Love this quick take on Zabuza and Haku, but I do want to point out something some miss. Haku truly helped shape Naruto's Nindo, Ninja Way, of which he carried through the series. Yes, they are only in the first few episodes, but were actually instrumental in the development of some of the main characters throughout the rest of the show. Thats why their impact is still felt even 100s of episodes later, why people still love them to this day...ontop of everything you already pointed out. It was the first 'talk no jutsu', the first true teamwork between Naruto and Sasuke, and Naruto's meeting with Haku in the woods, their conversation, pushed him towards his desire to protect everyone, just like Haku desired to protect Zabuza.
@SparksHardcoreMusic Excellent point! Glad you caught it because that adds even more to them are characters. That's a bigger impact than I even thought they had
I love how in the war arc the same situation happens but this time he actually cut haku showing the first time in the land of waves he couldn’t bring himself to do it and hesitated
I would like to see what a series based more off the style of episode 2. Sakura showing she is shallow with the orphan hate, that should have changed things more.
I got REALLY invested ever since the Land of Waves Arc! I got into the anime a year and a half ago! Such an amazing franchise! (Manga is definitely much better in most places for Shippuden and Sakura's character lol)
@@gallenberger1 I finished the series recently. Sage Mode Naruto’s entrance was awesome. I binge watched all of Attack of Titan in like a month last month lol. I took a big break from anime, manga and video games to focus on making video game test stuff on unity game engine, as well as playing minecraft again with family (plan to make this new world last forever! I have a big attachment to it despite playing for only a month now!) and even Club Penguin cause I found the minigames to be well designed and wanted to study ways to improve them as a training thing for games design. I plan to watch some other anime like Sonic X, Mushoku Tensei, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (watched up to part 3, gonna restart part 4 cause I stopped at like episode 15 years ago), Spy X Family, starting the Pokemon anime (I got into it at like 2010 as a kid but barely remember most of it aside from Sun and Moon and XY & Z, One Piece, Dragon Ball (watched most of Z and all of Super but I never watched the OG properly as a kid and wanted to rewatch EVERYTHING after Toriyama passed away), Sonic X (subbed cause the dubs use the 4Kids english dub that ruins A LOT), as well as watch the last season of My Hero Academia (I read the manga and want to see the anime version cause I know they’ll enhance loads of stuff). I’ve been wanting to get into some non-Japanese shows as well like Amphibia, Adventure Time, Owl House, Steven Universe, Rick and Morty, as well as rewatch some super old shows like Regular Show and Gravity Falls! Super long list but I’ve got time lol.
@@gallenberger1 basically making 3D games and ideas in uni classes (like a sort of box that spawns a steel cable that you can walk across for about 3-8 seconds depending on the distance and it lets you travel to different platforms to activate switches and pathways, plus you have to angle the steel cable so it latches on these black pipes) in a Wall-E 2.5D game in an abandoned factory. I was mainly messing around with the physics and just polishing some platforms and tweaking puzzles to be more complex and fun, as well as making it actually function, cause making platforms spawn after pressing a button and making manual rail guards takes SO long lol. AoT was phenomenal and a good lesson on treating others with care and respect (ay, a certain country beginning with “I” and ending with “l” can certainly treat this other state beginning with “P” and ending with “e” much better).
@@eemilyy it’s my first time making that joke and I’m not chronically online so from my perspective it’s not overused. Thank you for your input though!
I don't think either of those fit. Neither Byakuya or Mihawk are given the same depth Zabuza is early on. Both of them are brief appearances and then they get developed much later. Zabuza's arc has concluded by episode 19 after starting around episode 6. Mihawk and Byakuya combined aren't around that long early on.
highly disagree. og naruto has the most packed series of arcs which shippuden has the highest peaks of naruto. infact the whole run from akatsuki suppression arc to the 5 kage summit arc is consistently great!
@@gallenberger1 og naruto has one of the best naruto arcs and did an amazing job with setups, each arc is at worst 8/10. shippuden probably has one of the best of naruto. Pain & Jiraya + Sasuke/Itachi + Pain assault is the best run of naruto. kazekage rescue and immortal duo arc gave us 2 amazing stories without even focusing on the main character. 5 kage summit did a decent job with widening the naruto world and an amazing arc for sasukes development and progression as a character. war SAGA is filled with tons of great moments, confrontation arc being probably the weakest section in it
Land of Waves Arc was an incredible way to get invested!
@@deandredukes95 Right? Such a good start
Kishimoto has said he initially conceptualized Naruto as a horror/battle royal. You can see this in the early manga and the ideas that carried over from the start that had the rough edges smoothed down. The art style was graphic in the beginning and Gara and crew were more violent. The Konoha 12 were meant to be killed off as time went on.
But Naruto ballooned and took off fast globally. So it was sanitized to take in the cash.
Maaaan, yes… You can REALLY see it, I wondered for a while why early Naruto and later Naruto/Shippuden felt very different. The art style was big, and the brutality was big. I miss it, especially watching the show now. That eerie, deadly factor with high stakes really kept me on the edge, then Chuunin exams finished up and that seemed to be the end of it.
Funny thing I noticed while typing: HxH did the opposite of this it seems, only watched it for the first time years ago (started watching Naruto looooong ago) and was surprised with how brutal and cruel things turn out to be.
@@QuantumMechaYou only watched it that why , in the manga early HxH sas graphic especialy when Hisoka was on screen
Lands of waves and early Chunin Exams almost feel like a different series compared to the last couple of arcs
@skatemo100 To be fair there's soooo many content in between them
I found out it’s because kishimoto was carried by his editor. Every single thing I loved about Naruto was his editor
@@Grind2Excellence Really?
@@gallenberger1 yes Naruto was never going to have chuninn exams, sasuke, or hokages without his editor. The editor left after pain arc and guess what that was Naruto’s worst period.
@@Grind2Excellencekishi still wrote those arcs lmao just because he had help from his editor doesn’t discredit what kishi accomplished
exactly my thoughts as well! i really like haku because his choice to stay with zabuza despite the constantly cold demeanor he showed was really intriguing to me while i watched it
@@ADIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Yeah their relationship was really well done
The land of waves is my favorite Naruto arc it’s so underrated
No doubt! Whole arc was different
@@gallenberger1good stuff my dude, God bless ya and Jesus loves ya :)
I've been saying it for years Land of Waves-Final Valley was Peak
It's so good. Complexity for days and so early into a series...that's rare.
@@gallenberger1 Bruh not to mention the art style detail to expressions and the darker tone that was left off to what B-A Rank missions could look like
Love this quick take on Zabuza and Haku, but I do want to point out something some miss. Haku truly helped shape Naruto's Nindo, Ninja Way, of which he carried through the series. Yes, they are only in the first few episodes, but were actually instrumental in the development of some of the main characters throughout the rest of the show. Thats why their impact is still felt even 100s of episodes later, why people still love them to this day...ontop of everything you already pointed out. It was the first 'talk no jutsu', the first true teamwork between Naruto and Sasuke, and Naruto's meeting with Haku in the woods, their conversation, pushed him towards his desire to protect everyone, just like Haku desired to protect Zabuza.
@SparksHardcoreMusic Excellent point! Glad you caught it because that adds even more to them are characters. That's a bigger impact than I even thought they had
I love how in the war arc the same situation happens but this time he actually cut haku showing the first time in the land of waves he couldn’t bring himself to do it and hesitated
Early Chainsaw man was different and Early hunter x hunter too
Chainsaw man pilot was insane
I'll be talking about the start to Chainsaw Man coming up!
I don't know any other anime vilans that made us shed tears, or made us hope that they survived somehow.
Especially that early into a series!
@@gallenberger1 yea true, wish rest of Naruto had kept making such storys
@@LuckyMark777-z3x Pain did 😎
Land of waves arc IS peak
@@catnaut9035 Such a great intro to the series
I would like to see what a series based more off the style of episode 2. Sakura showing she is shallow with the orphan hate, that should have changed things more.
I got REALLY invested ever since the Land of Waves Arc! I got into the anime a year and a half ago! Such an amazing franchise! (Manga is definitely much better in most places for Shippuden and Sakura's character lol)
@@sonicgamer178 That's awesome! Seen Pain yet? What else are you watching?
@@gallenberger1 I finished the series recently. Sage Mode Naruto’s entrance was awesome. I binge watched all of Attack of Titan in like a month last month lol. I took a big break from anime, manga and video games to focus on making video game test stuff on unity game engine, as well as playing minecraft again with family (plan to make this new world last forever! I have a big attachment to it despite playing for only a month now!) and even Club Penguin cause I found the minigames to be well designed and wanted to study ways to improve them as a training thing for games design.
I plan to watch some other anime like Sonic X, Mushoku Tensei, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (watched up to part 3, gonna restart part 4 cause I stopped at like episode 15 years ago), Spy X Family, starting the Pokemon anime (I got into it at like 2010 as a kid but barely remember most of it aside from Sun and Moon and XY & Z, One Piece, Dragon Ball (watched most of Z and all of Super but I never watched the OG properly as a kid and wanted to rewatch EVERYTHING after Toriyama passed away), Sonic X (subbed cause the dubs use the 4Kids english dub that ruins A LOT), as well as watch the last season of My Hero Academia (I read the manga and want to see the anime version cause I know they’ll enhance loads of stuff).
I’ve been wanting to get into some non-Japanese shows as well like Amphibia, Adventure Time, Owl House, Steven Universe, Rick and Morty, as well as rewatch some super old shows like Regular Show and Gravity Falls! Super long list but I’ve got time lol.
@sonicgamer178 Sounds interesting, what type of testing? What'd you think of AoT?
@@gallenberger1 basically making 3D games and ideas in uni classes (like a sort of box that spawns a steel cable that you can walk across for about 3-8 seconds depending on the distance and it lets you travel to different platforms to activate switches and pathways, plus you have to angle the steel cable so it latches on these black pipes) in a Wall-E 2.5D game in an abandoned factory. I was mainly messing around with the physics and just polishing some platforms and tweaking puzzles to be more complex and fun, as well as making it actually function, cause making platforms spawn after pressing a button and making manual rail guards takes SO long lol.
AoT was phenomenal and a good lesson on treating others with care and respect (ay, a certain country beginning with “I” and ending with “l” can certainly treat this other state beginning with “P” and ending with “e” much better).
@sonicgamer178 Oh that's sick. AoT is my GOAT so I had to ask 🤣
Yes.
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please make some videos on the underrated animes too bro
@@Frez.am-yt What did you have in mind?
@@gallenberger1 d gray man
Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Naruto was good until the Pain Arc (included except everyone being revived) after that it went downhil hard and fast
@@maomi1852 Have a video on Pain 😎
Haku is still one of the finest girls in anime.
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*boy
:)
also, weirdo!!
@@eemilyy ikr, making jokes is so weird🤪
@@OddHarvey overused🤷♀️
@@eemilyy it’s my first time making that joke and I’m not chronically online so from my perspective it’s not overused. Thank you for your input though!
And then shippuden improved everything about it
@@tristantorres3558 Watch the Pain vid for that 😏
Hey, do you do character analysis videos? I have an entire essay but idk how to make a video from it.
@lunarhinata8889 I do, just did a Pain one today!
@gallenberger1 Oh really? Might check that out then!
@@lunarhinata8889 Please do! Let me know what you think
One piece had Mihawk that was on that A+ and bleach had byakuya as a B++. Not soooo different as you claim.
I don't think either of those fit. Neither Byakuya or Mihawk are given the same depth Zabuza is early on. Both of them are brief appearances and then they get developed much later. Zabuza's arc has concluded by episode 19 after starting around episode 6. Mihawk and Byakuya combined aren't around that long early on.
They're not dead
They're supposed to be rivals to the main cast
Zabuza and haku were supposed to show you how wrong the ninja world is
@@bandarsalh1338 Great way of putting it
early naruto was peak anime..shippuden is garbage in comparison..boruto is just raw sewage
@@Alucard632 Early Naruto was super cool. Shippuden did have some special tough too
highly disagree. og naruto has the most packed series of arcs which shippuden has the highest peaks of naruto. infact the whole run from akatsuki suppression arc to the 5 kage summit arc is consistently great!
@@gallenberger1 og naruto has one of the best naruto arcs and did an amazing job with setups, each arc is at worst 8/10. shippuden probably has one of the best of naruto. Pain & Jiraya + Sasuke/Itachi + Pain assault is the best run of naruto. kazekage rescue and immortal duo arc gave us 2 amazing stories without even focusing on the main character. 5 kage summit did a decent job with widening the naruto world and an amazing arc for sasukes development and progression as a character. war SAGA is filled with tons of great moments, confrontation arc being probably the weakest section in it
@@UNKNOWNL3G3ND Like the Pain arc? 😏
Early Naruto title was changed to "Rock Lee"
Two words for ya. Rock Lee
This guy gets it
Not even where I went with this 🤣
Early Naruto title should've changed to "Rock Lee" lol