Naruto....that mysterious series that seems to plague everything anime-related these days. Personally I hadn't even heard of that series before Finncon/Animecon 2004 in Jyväskylä, Finland. After that: I felt like strangling the next person who even says the N-word near me.
Well, I got over that eventually and decided that I shouldn't judge a potentially good animeseries just because most of it's fans seem to be complete retards (as in 'Narutards':
http://naruto.hentailord.net/narutard.png).
True, it had a funny beginning and somewhat interesting characters at start, although I must admit I was very disappointed in the fact that the main characters were children and the overall feeling wasn't anything I expected. Well, humor was good. Soon though, I grew tired of it and especially the fightscenes that go on and on for several episodes. Now I know that other series, extremely popular 'Rurouni Kenshin' for example has that too but the pacing and storytelling is completely different and most importantly more mature in my opinion.
