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whiteflame55 said:
It's a dead heat between Naruto and Fate Stay Night for me. Don't get me wrong - there are things I really liked about both series. Naruto started out as a series I was skeptical about and managed to surprise me early and often. What I thought would be just another ninja ipakita turned out to have some interesting characters, an innovative use of "magic", and the fighting was so thoughtful and deep that I could overlook many of the tropes. To this day, I feel that some of the fights in this ipakita would rank highest on my listahan of favorites. Fate Stay Night had an incredibly innovative storyline, one that I could help but feel compelled to watch. The idea of a bunch of mages gaining access to some of history's greatest bayani and using them in combat for both their own goals and those of the bayani was incredible. And that's not to mention that Fate Zero ranks as my all time paborito anime, and it was a prequel to this. So, how do they end up on the bottom of my list? Naruto managed to take any good faith I had in it and dash it completely. What started out as a series of innovative fights with a somewhat dull and simple main cast turned into another DBZ with a somewhat dull and simple main cast. Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke are practically all character tropes, and I can't say I like any of them. It's become much madami about who can launch the biggest and most powerful obliterating attack than anything to do with tactics, and characters keep getting madami obscenely overpowered. That wouldn't put it at the bottom of my listahan if the series learned to grow up, but it never did. Character deaths have increased of late, but on the whole, Naruto has had to suffer very little despite being involved with vary dangerous people and a large scale war. He's still the same person he was at the start - a boy who thought he could do anything if he just tried hard enough. And what's more, he's even proven that he can bring people back from the dead! One of the best fights in the anime, leading to the deaths of several very important people to him, ended with all of them being revived like some giant reset button on greatness. As for Fate Stay Night, it stopped being good at the concept. The mages were mostly kids, and none of them seemed to be all that interesting. Their own fights were just so boring I could practically sleep through them. The bayani themselves were somewhat madami interesting, though several of them were just such basic concepts that I can't say I much appreciated them. Many of them were simply far too different in strength to ever even warrant a reasonable matchup, which just made the whole thing seem pre-planned to let the protagonist win. The fights themselves were rote, mostly very simple and with easily anticipated outcomes. The ending was obvious and annoying. I don't really have much good to say about the series at all. The prequel was so much better because it didn't fall into any of these traps.
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