The pacing. Oh, the pacing. The show loves to stretch a 5-minute fight into three episodes of internal monologue and flashbacks. And the filler? Some of it is fun (Giant Mecha Naruto, anyone?), but much of it halts the narrative momentum completely.
If you log into Netflix, Hulu, or Crunchyroll today, the math changes completely. Streaming services chop the series up into smaller, digestible chunks (usually 10–15 episodes a piece). how many season are there of naruto