Kishimoto's biggest mistake with this series has nothing to do with Kaguya or making him a reincarnation...

It was not making that dope ass Sage cloak a permanent part of his outfit... 😮‍💨

Sasuke rescue, pure fire! It's too good, no one can say they disliked it cause that's 🧢🧢🤷🏾‍♂️

Personally the saskue retrieval arc is my absolute favorite arc

sasuke getback arc is underrated asf

I swear sage was spitting for the sasuke retrieval arc seeing sasuke just leave and kakashi not trying to get him hurt me like I wanted to stop watching the show bc I was so hurt

1. Sasuke Retrieval 2. Prophecy & Vengeance 3. Chunin Exams - MY TOP 3 - I've rewatched these hundreds of times

I think Shippuden had higher highs and more interesting characters than Naruto but also Lower lows.. a Really what makes me like Shippuden more is the full circle storytelling and the pacing is much better… I do wish that characters introduced more moves and Jutsu to the series because in Naruto each character’s fighting style felt much more unique.

Five Kage Summit Arch crazy underated

1. Pain Arc
For me, undebatable

Sasuke Retrieval fasho. Tbh, Idgaf bout Choji or Kiba but I cared deeply about Choji's "final moments". And Sasuke leaving genuinely messed me up cause he was always my favorite. Bro he was the reason I started practicing hand signs and trying to do the Chidori. First jutsu hand signs I learned was Fireball Jutsu after watching Sasuke do it against Kakashi. Sasuke's betrayal was probably my first time watching something where I felt that nothing would ever be the same. I was confronted with that feeling and didn't know how to process it.

Maybe it's just me, but I credit this arc as the reason why so many top Shonen shows nowadays always seem to have that one standout arc that changes the series forever. For better or for worse, Naruto as a franchise changed after this arc.

My personal arc list
1. Pain arc
2. Sasuke retrieval
3. Chunin exam
4. tsunade arc
5. Land of waves
6. War arc part 2
7. 5 kage summit
8. Immortal duo
9. Kaguya arc
10. War arc part 1
11. Kazekage rescue
12. Reunion

naruto vs sasuke in the valley after kaguya was peak to me. pain vs naruto is a pretty good consensus tho.

Seeing Naruto growing a tail and Sasuke getting hand wings when I was a kid is clearing anything. Idc. Thats like a mf saying Goku’s first transformation dont clear 😂

If I had to pick my favorite arc, it was hunting down Hidan and Kazuku. That was a great character development arc for Shikamaru, and it's when Naruto learns better use of shadow clones with his training!

The Chunin Exams arc put Naruto in the spotlight, and propelled it as one of the best anime at the time, but the Pain Arc also gives us some development from Naruto, and made the viewers see the black and white of the Naruto World. So idk which one is the best. But I think it’s between these 2

List like this are why I don't put too much stock into "top whatever" lists. There isn't a crazy gap in quality between any of these arcs but folks will argue you down over 1 or 2 spots like there's a huge difference.

Pt 1 is definitely overall my favorite, it was solid up until after saskue and then filler city the rest of the way.

Sasuke retrieveval 1?? BIG W

Out of all the SRA fights, I literally almost cried or did cry when I thought Choji and Neii died after they pulled out the power to win. With Kiba, I was just like “…… damn that’s crazy 🫤.” Even calling back to how the Sand only helped out in the Konoha Crush arc because the didn’t know Orochimaru was the Kazekage the whole time so they were just following what they thought were orders. Kiba is literally the only weak link in that arc


Edit: Aside from Ash constantly losing in the pokemon league every year, I feel like Naruto vs Sasuke was the first time an anime felt comfortable having the MC actually lose. Look at where we are now in anime and it’s more common for the MC to actually lose a big, important story fight

4th great ninja war❤️‍🔥