Why did their friendship felt so forced?

I guess you've never been in gay with someone before

It needed more build up before Shippuden started. The manga shouldn't have rushed so fast into the chunin exams even though that part is a lot of people's favourite.

Sasuke isn’t worth being gay for

Not at all. What would be forced is something Hol Horse joining and everyone just getting over him killing Avdol in Jojo.

might guy was right ?

That's what being in gay for the first time is like.
You latch on to the nearest person who even hints at also being gay even if they're very ugly.
You need to have the connections with the scene to have a chance at picking, that of be so insanely out you're basically broadcasting to any gays within 100 miles of you you're ready to receive cock, hence drag queens i guess.

This.
Araki never intended for Avdol to die there though, but yeah it would be forced as fuck.

Because they barely even were friends for that long before Naruto started obsessing over Sasuke. He's been through alot with other characters and for similar amounts of time. Why obsess over sasuke?

So basically Kishimoto is projecting years of repression in Naruto’s character?

Because there was no friendship

You mean like Vegeta and Piccolo becoming Goku’s friends? And Super was retarded enough to bring Frieza along as well

Piccolo didn’t kill anyone in his current incarnation and it took the entire series of Z for Vegeta to be treated as a hero.
Frieza isn’t Goku’s friend. He was the secondary villain in the Broly movie.

Frieza is basically team rocket tier now.
He's not a friend, but it's pretty gay anyway.

Just building off of my comment here. It felt forced because they only had one major mission together to bond (and the exams but that mostly doesn't include Kakashi) until everyone was split up after Sasuke leaves Konoha.

No one on team 7 has deep personal relationships with each other that feel genuine. Naruto's obsession with Sasuke is too much for how little time they spent together. I don't even need to elaborate on Sakura and Sasuke. Naruto and Sakura could have had a decent friendship but their fixation on Sasuke never lets it go anywhere.

Kakashi was a PTSD and depression riddled man who should never have been put in charge of kids. He obviously was still fixated on his old team while his new one was just a copy-paste of them. He only ever taught Sasuke anything in part 1. He didn't pay much attention to Naruto at all until part 2 with the clones bit. And he did jack shit with Sakura. And while being a nice throwback to the first few chapters he doesn't even admit he likes them until they defeat Kaguya.

A combination of the team being mostly separated from each other in part 2 and underdeveloped interactions in part 1 makes their big reunion during the war arc fall flat. Every single one of them have better and more meaningful relationships outside of team 7. Naruto with Gaara and Jiraiya. Sasuke with Itachi and even team Taka even though they're irrelevant. Sakura with Chiyo and Tsunade. Kakashi with Obito, Guy, and Yamato. I could go on.

He tried to kill Goku, that’s no excuse, and they’re still letting him live while conquering planets. You’re not making sense

>one of the main themes of the show is devotion to your mission/the rules vs loyalty/unwillingness to abandon your comrades to a cruel fate
>multiple characters in the war arc shown to have grappled with these issues, but in the end developed their character towards the latter principle (kakashi, naruto and sai at the very least)
>like 200 episodes go by where no one lifts a finger to help yamato, he doesn't even cross anyone's mind
Wtf bros.

Kishi did Yamato dirty, same thing with Sai.

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A. Because B. Because Kishimoto rushed the plot of Part 1. Look how long part 2 is compared to 1. Now let's say Kishimoto extended part one to be as long as 2 with arcs focused on forging the bonds between Naruto, Sauske, and Sakura. They'd probably be a lot better.
Instead we went from 'You're a team now' to Land of Waves, to Chuunin, to Search for Tsunade (which the two had next to zero involvement) and then Search for Sauske to sever the bonds that were given to us.

It wasn't given time to develop. Throughout the series Sasuke and Naruto are constantly being separated by the story. That mixed with their initial animocity for each other makes for this really weird turn where suddenly naruto considers sasuke his best friend. I mean outside of the first 2 arcs we hardly really see them interact with each other.Sasuke is either away training or unconscious or naruto is away training or something. Because of that their character interactions never grow past "Ah sasuke, you asshole" and "Ah Naruto you loser"
In Sakura's case it feels like she's just sorta there. While early on the series sorta pushed this trio dynamic she quickly becomes outclassed, outpaced and basically irrelevant amongst them. And any amount of character development she did have just sorta gets pushed aside for her crush on sasuke. Despite the fact that her and naruto probably spend the MOST time together they still feel feel a bit shallow. There's moments in part 2 where I can reasonably believe that Sakura is more of Naruto's friend than Sasuke ever was. But then those moments are quickly pushed aside for shit like the fake confession or having them separate for like 50 chapters so sakura can help heal faceless nobodies in the years long war arc. It's weird to say but Naruto probably would be significantly better if they had let them stay kids longer.

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What's the power level tier list for naruto? This is my first time watching and right now I'm at the part where the hokages have just been rez'd. To me it looks like
>imperfect 10 tails
>hashirama
>madara
>naruto
>obito
>kurama
>bee and 8 tails
>sasuke
And everyone else is an irrelevant jobber. Maybe 4th hokage makes the list too, or itachi because they just love sucking him off. But no one else seems to be in the same league.

>no nagato

They portrayed time progression terribly like in all manga. I'm sure team 7 went on a ton of missions we never got to see, and thats where Naruto solidified his bond with Sasuke. Life or death situations and someone practically sacrificing their life for yours will do that to ya.