Maddy's commentary is a pretty heavy blow against Naruto and its love for flashbacks, and some may even see it as an insult. After completing the flashback count for Naruto Shippuden, they don't see themselves watching Shippuden again, although perhaps one day, they will rewatch the first part.
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Maddy explained that they still love the Naruto series but choose to enjoy it in other mediums now, such as fan fiction, where the story and characters can still be enjoyed and explored but through the voices of other fans. "I could watch an episode and the only thing to happen is two characters staring at each other and inner monologuing about their childhood," they said. The experience of counting up the flashbacks changed Maddy's view of the show. "It definitely felt like it changed my view of the show," they said, "When each episode is 20 minutes long and you get two minutes for the intro and another minute playing the last bit of the previous episode, there isn't much time for actual plot and when that 17 minutes are taken up with flashbacks of things we've already seen (not to mention the absurd amount of inner monologuing) you feel like nothing ever happens and just watching it becomes tedious, not fun." When asked about how it felt to count up the flashbacks, Maddy shed some light on what it's like to tear into a nostalgic favorite. They are still determined to finish the count. Maddy set out to count the flashbacks in Naruto Shippuden as well, and is currently on Episode 90 with 278 flashbacks thus far, hitting a little less than Naruto at around three flashbacks per episode. Related: Naruto: Why Amegakure Should Have Joined the Fourth Shinobi War Aside from these oft-referenced instances, Maddy also counted flashbacks to events such as the Gosunkugi Capture Mission, the Kyuubi Attack and Naruto's birth. At the top of the list, with a whopping 98 flashbacks, are the Chuunin Exams.
For the top three, 47 flashbacks were about Sasuke and the Uchiha Clan and 56 flashbacks were about the Land of the Wave Arc and related characters.
This evens out to between three to four flashbacks per episode. The list of flashbacks, which can be viewed on Maddy's blog here, groups the flashbacks by theme, giving an idea of what the anime was constantly drawing the audience's attention back to. This fan, who would like to go by Maddy, watched the original Naruto series with 220 episodes between July 2017 and July 2019, eventually completing a list of every single flashback in the anime classic.Īn incredible number of 791 flashbacks are included in the Naruto anime, not even including Naruto Shippuden. Naruto is renowned for being especially flashback-heavy, and in 2017, a fan decided to do an actual count. Anime is notorious for flashback sequences, some series more than others.
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