@deadpool: Wow. I wasn't expecting anyone to actually care about what I posted. Thanks. I guess I can see why Obito went crazy, but I just feel that he just fits the same tortured soul mold of just about every villain in Naruto. Think about it:
1. Orochimaru (orphaned at an early age)
2. Kabuto (doesn't even know who his biological parents are; something happened to his adoptive mother but I forgot what exactly that was)
3. Nagato (orphaned at an early age; lost his best friend Yahiko; noticing a trend?)
4. Sasuke (do I even have to bother?)
Hell, even Madara has a tragic backstory (all of his brothers died during one of the great shinobi wars, and he couldn't even protect Izuna.) I just hoped we Naruto fans would finally get that one irredeemable villain that goes against everything Naruto stands for, but when it finally seems we got that, the villain turns out to be almost a palette swap of Naruto who unfortunately enjoyed a less fortunate childhood/adolescence. I'm very disappointed and I might just end up sticking solely to One Piece as far as manga is concerned. Maybe a few light novels too, but after Naruto ends I'm pretty much finished with manga.
The least Kishi can do is write a little epilogue into the final chapter. I'd be happy with that, I think.
You're absolutely correct. The Narutoverse isn't a place of black & white, and the antagonists are just that because their ideals and goals conflict with Naruto's. Even of the Akatsuki, they were mostly just rogue ninjas that got screwed over by their respective villages, and they mostly weren't any more evil than someone like Kakashi. They are ninjas, they are largely morally ambiguous and they fight, steal, spy, and kill for money.
Even then, Naruto's views and goals are unrealistic and could only exist in a fictional world, and his views of a ninja that he desperately clings to is that of a superhero. What's weird is that he rejects Obito's passive and guaranteed way of bringing peace into the world and instead embraces his way of changing the world is through fascism, beating up anyone that disagrees with him, and somehow might makes right. The stronger he gets, the more people change to his beliefs. Hell, there's only a war right now in the series because nobody wants what Obito's selling, ironically showing how much they don't want peace.
The only real villains, to me, have been Madara, Nagato and Orochimaru.
That's actually pretty funny when you put it that way. If a villain doesn't conform to Naruto's way of thinking, he pulverizes them until they do. I was hoping that Naruto would become a more mature character in part II, but he's more like, "To hell with understanding anyone else's point of view! I'll solve problems with my fists!"
However, I was thinking; if Obito were to succeed with the Moon's Eye Plan, wouldn't that mean at any given time he could decimate everyone as a result of his feeling like it? I mean, all that power would be bound to go to his head at some point. He may have even tried to restart civilization or something by using some yet-unknown power of the Sage of Six Paths (I'm sure he has plenty of abilities that Kishimoto is coming up with as he goes along.) So, in that regard, perhaps Naruto is justified in being opposed to Obito's idea of peace. Just a possibility, though.
As far as the villains, I really was hoping that Orochimaru would get a power boost to compete with some of the more powerful antagonists, but now I see a power boost would ruin the character and put him into psuedo-DBZ territory, which seems to be where the manga is headed.
All I can say is that I really hope the Naruto vs. Madara fight doesn't end the way I think it will. Right now, I'm picturing a final Rasengan/Chidori attack on Madara, followed by a speech about friendship being the ultimate source of power on Naruto's behalf.
The further this manga goes on, the more I realize that Jiraiya was the best thing to ever happen to this story.
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