Ask the Commenters: When did You Drop Naruto?28

I dropped it around save sasuke arc because i simply couldn't tolerate anymore annoyance from Sakura. And 'it's my ninja way' from naruto. I only found Naruto good for its sense of humor.

i stopped watching after nagato left akatsuki and death of sasori hidan and kukuzu then diedara then itachi it was sad when sasori and itachi died. now naruto doesn't inspire anyone when half of the akatsuki members are dead and some left akatsuki 

I wont ever drop naruto.... If I drop naruto It mean I dropped Anime at all. It's the only anime that can be as interesting as an amercian tv series.

i dropped the anime. it is a black hole of fillers and more. manga yeah i still read, pretty much because i don't like to start read something and stop in middle. but if it was canceled i am sure that i won't miss it.

I dropped it way too early I think. Naruto was the first anime I've ever watched, and I loved it until the fillers came. (so no shippuuden). At first the fillers of the original Naruto were ok, but they became more and more boring, but when I watch anime I want too see everything, an not skip an episode. At episode 180 I just kinda gave up. I started watching anime like Death Note and other smaller series, and just forgot Naruto. Now a lot of my friends tell me I should start watching Shippuuden, but I'm really enjoying other anime series at the moment, so I don't really feel the urge to start watching Naruto again. Maybe I'll do it when I've finished watching everything else. By the way, the same happened to me while watching Bleach, I got stuck in the first filler arc, it just wasn't interesting enough to keep watching.

I still keep up with the anime and manga. right now, the manga is getting pretty well considering there will be the 4th great ninja war. Should be interesting to see how it is played out now that I know the true intentions of the main antagonist. I still feel that seeing the end f this anime is quite hazy at the moment because you can't really tell what's going to happen after this great war etc.

You are so brave, and full of stamina :)

That's...so quick :)

I dropped Naruto around 20+ episodes into the series which quickly bored me till death. My friends recommended me so I check it out and as it turns out it's not my cup of tea after all. Too many fillers and Man! they can really extent a fight scenes into several episodes. Ya, I totally agree to what guess have said.

The main problem with mainstream shounen anime based off of manga is that though the producers try to follow the storyline as closely as possible, it eventually becomes impossible, because several chapters can fit into one episode, so then the anime will catch up to the manga regardless. That's where diverging stories, half-baked endings and filler episodes come in, stalling the anime until more story can be revealed. Shounen manga seem to me as just a dead-end cash cow. The writers find a story that can continue for as long as possible, but eventually, there is no way to have an ending that will top the previous arcs to please the current readers, and new readers are too intimidated by the large number of chapters to start it up.

i watch naruto until naruto shippuden but in the middle i quit and read the manga only... its kind of tiring waiting for something that you think.. will it still come?

I dropped it when the story drifted far away from the original story in the first season. Then the second season aired and i've been watching it ever since :)

I dropped after the rescue sasuke arc, because after that there was so much filler episodes -_-

I never started Naruto. I wasn't introduced to until late in my discovery of Anime. By that point, I had other interests.

I no longer watch the anime since about 1 year ago but I still read the manga regularly. At least Naruto is a lot better than Bleach. I kinda prefer One Piece though nowadays, although it's even longer than Naruto and will most likely go over 1000 chapters. Still, I tend to prefer long and complex storyline because I hate anime that ends just when I start getting interested into the storyline. "Especially when the Anime started to drive away from the path of the original Manga" Why do you think it drives away from the path of the original manga? I don't know about the anime anymore, but are you talking about the fillers (those fillers are the reason I dropped the anime)? Doesn't the anime mostly follow the storyline in the manga?

Hmm......I recently dropped Naruto from my watching list about 6 months ago. After Itachi died... I have no intention to watch Naruto... >___<"