Has anyone ever seen the Dasrgonball sagas ( once i again i'm brout back to this)( its the same thing as in Drasgonball the comic never showed Goku traning to get stronger there weren'ty any real sub story lines in the comic but for the episodes there were about 40 made up ones not made up as someone else did the storys just that thet werre never out on the comics but it is ture the chance is high that they will make some sub story line in sted of showing kakishis story of how he got the Shaingun by the way i don't think most of the ppl that read it though he was given it that way lol :P i myself throught he put it in himself :p i was half way there :p lol

From what I've been seeing from the anime lately, it seems that this "development" is only filler so the manga can pick up the pace a bit. The pro to this, however, is that the other shinobi are explored and made alll the more interesting to the audience.

I definitely agree that is a plus seeing the charters developed more, It goes to add depth to the hole universe... Naruto is one of those shows were you don't watch it for the mane character but for those around him
the producers of Naruto even poke fun at this because one time Shikamaru is caught saying "He is the kind of person that could never be a mane character in a story" in reference to Naruto...
Thought that was really funny

its ture that was funnylol but in away its ture lol

Characters like Rock Lee and Shikamaru make the show. No one really cares about Naruto the character, but the way Naruto acts with those around him.

its really kinda funny and smart the way they done Naruto the Character u see if it wasn't for everyone else in the show Naruto himself would sem boring for some reason when u look at it he acts like any kid would around new frends and old friends around sasuke he'd try to be better then him and around everyone else he acts himself like around Lee its more into his trainig mode and when hes around the other dude that i've for got his name he acts more clam and not bothered all in all the way they made the character was really smart i think but i still love his super hiden move that seems to fix everything :P his motorvatian

Naruto is sooo hard to figure out. I mean he is silly, but strong and sometimes I think hi motivations are a little unclear. It would be easy to classify Naruto as another happy go lucky character who is too honest for his own good, but sometimes I wonder. If someone acts so different around different people, it may mean he is not showing his true emotions!

i think u mite be right but only time will tell ^-^

NARUTO UZUMAKI is a really cool character....I've just watched the Naruto series and he's soo awsome....

hehe... my favourite character is Tsunade ^^ she's just soooo awsome!

oo...naruto...i seldom see it...BAD ENGLISH...hehe

I only seen a few eps of Naruto.Well...lets say the series doesn't interest me.

I wanted to watch, but is very long...much episodes!!

Don't care to much about the series.I guess it ain't my type of anime*shrugs*.

my officemate here is a chinese and he is watching naruto (when there's no things to do) almost all day, and of course i also watching although it's japan audio and chinese-subtitles, i saw the action scene and it's so nice, we can compare it to.....to........to.....hmmm.......i don't know.