@FFS: Oh, I have A LOT of problems with Naruto. All of the interesting characters that could lead to cool situations (my favorite fight of the series is probably Shino vs Kankuro, followed by Rock Lee vs Gaara, Rock Lee vs Kimimaro, Kisame vs Guy, and finally Zabuza vs Kakashi. I think it's fairly obvious what kind of character I like >.>) got thrown out in favor of 'muh DBZ transformations', yet more Sharingan bullshit powers, Uchiha clan basically being booked the same as the nWo, Naruto going from an outcast orphan to being the son of the greatest leader in the history of the planet who can pull an Obi-Wan and speak to him after he died like fifteen years ago (which makes little sense to me; even if Naruto's got the Ninetails in him, why the fuck does everyone in Leaf hate him so much? He's Yondaime's son. Wouldn't they be aware of this? And why is his name Uzumaki when his parents were Namikaze? It's dumb as hell) and every advantage in the world it's possible to get, stupid power designs (like that whole 'if you make one million shadow clones and they all run a mile, then when you reabsorb them it's like you ran a million miles!' and while that may not be the actual thing he does the bullshit about clone training being real training is actually true in the series), every villain basically being the same one, characters repeatedly dying and being brought back to life (I think Neji has gotten killed like four times now), Leaf Village being destroyed at least once every ten chapters, so on and so forth.
I think it had a good start, but it quickly became genre trash.