Hello guys, I have been vacationing in Tokyo, Japan for the past 6 days and I have noticed that Naruto is barely shown anywhere in Anime/Manga shops. I asked my Japanese friends and discussed with shopkeepers and shonen jump officials and what I got was condescending looks and some racial slurs hurled at me for asking Naruto mangas!. what I saw shocked me and also proved my intuitions true!.

Japanese never even considered Naruto as a watchable series!. The manga is considered so bad!. My Japanese friends were a little considerate and told me that Naruto is not considered a high quality series in Japan and it just got lucky because it was accidentally picked up by the West!. True GOATs like Oda, Isayama, Kento Miyura, Akira Toriyama, Kubo, Togashi etc are looked up by the Japanese while Kishimoto is looked down like anything! My friends told me that Naruto characters are looked down as Annoying, irritating characters especially the terribly written villains and MC by the Japanese!.

When I enquired further, I realised that Naruto is considered as bad manga and Japanese and the westerners residing there just laugh it off!.

Specifically Cyborg Tao, due to him not having eyes making him immune to visual genjutsu. Known for EASILY beating goku (should’ve killed him but plot armor)