Originally Posted by
cadesto
Was watching some of the old Naruto fights, you can hate Naruto all you want, but the fights are animated really well.
The fights got worse and worse the more powerful everyone got, particularly when they started bringing in people with extreme gimmicks or high level jutsu.
Oh no, I'm immortal and make a voodoo pact with you and start stabbing myself to hurt you as well, and nobody thinks to JUST FUCKING KEEP ATTACKING HIM SO HE CAN'T MAKE HIS STUPID BLOOD SIGN ON THE GROUND TO ACTUALLY PERFORM THE ATTACK. Like seriously, how fucking retarded do you have to be once you actually learn the gimmick to let him keep doing the gimmick after he gives you a love scratch on the cheek? Heck, how stupid do you have to be to let somebody keep performing an obvious ritual of drawing a sign on the ground even if you don't know what the hell the gimmick is? He takes a good 15 seconds when he's drawing the fucking sign, just throw some goddamn knives at him to force him to step off.
Seriously, the Akatsuki were the worst. Such an overemphasis on gimmicky jutsu that most of the fights with them were the anime equivalent of bad CGi in live action. And the conclusion of any given fight with them was always abrupt and underplayed the competence they had shown up to that point, and underplayed the incompetence everybody fighting them had displayed up to that point. It frequently made the outcome anticlimactic.