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What don't you get about my argument. Robbys main point is that the side characters have been used poorly the last couple of hundred chapters and that Kishi could have easily rectified it by giving them more page space.
My counter argument is that to use them properly he would have to extend the Manga by at least 100+ chapters. Any less wouldn't expand upon each one sufficiently enough. Now Kishi has obviously weighed up the pros and cons of this and found it better to fill up that space with Narutos development, and taken the option of using the remaining side characters instead as tools to reveal clans, jutsu styles, political structures and to use them as Narutos family foundations in Konoha.
Both arguments brought up valid points which cannot be proven until the Manga reaches fruition.
Nope, we don't have to wait till it reaches fruition. We can just look at past arcs to show why you're wrong. I'll probably be repeating what Robby has already said but since you wanna play the debating game, I'll oblige.
First off, there's no reason why it would take a 100+ chapters for them to be used properly. By simply arranging some stuff, plenty of pages wasted by the side-characters doing nothing can be used to showcase the character's traits. Look at that example I gave of the Team 7 and Kiba's group. There was so much wasted potential there. Rather than chapters of them doing nothing but stare at Tobi, Kishimoto could have crafted an interesting fight between them with both sides showcasing their strength. Madara's supposed to be an end of series villain, right? it would totally have been believable if say we got both teams (including Kakashi and Yamato) using a bunch of cool moves to damage Madara who manages to over-power all of them regardless. Any information he wanted to impart could have been given by him talking while fighting. It would have been a great buildup and display of Madara's true powers whilst showcasing what the side-characters can do. If Kishimoto had to save Madara for another time, he could have just invented a couple of minions so Madara could test them or for his protection or something. The point is he had the opportunity. He just didn't take it.
Kishimoto doesn't even need to expand upon the characters properly all at once. He can just give little chunks here and there of the character's traits. Eventually these meld together decreasing the amount of work and chapters needed for character display purposes in the future. It's been done before by countless other Mangaka. Negima has tons of characters (with over 30 characters introduced right off the bat) yet with far less chapters than Naruto, Akamatsu has managed to not only give them all incredible coverage but craft a huge well-developed world and progress his story to the point where almost all the mysteries are about to be explained. One Piece has tons and tons and tons of side-characters. Oda doesn't take up a bunch of space expanding on each one of them. However by the use of even only one or two panels of them doing their thing, he can relay to the readers that they are still important and are part of the world he built. Look at the secondary characters like the Super Novae (who are practically the equivalent of the chunnin group). For the duration of the Saboady arc, we got 9 new characters all built and propped up to be potential rivals. Then only recently we got about a page of them showing their personalities and their interests and promising to be important to the story(which might be sooner than we think if they get involved in the war). That's the kind of payoff we never got in Naruto with the secondary characters. We don't get pages of them doing their own thing anymore. The most we can hope for is them doing nothing but standing there. Just let us see them do something, ANYTHING. To bring up my Negima example again, until it's their turn for some spotlight, most of the girls don't do anything substantial to the plot. But at least you still see them chatting it up with their friends, doing their thing and showing that they're still part of the story Is that really too much to ask from Kishimoto especially as he did it a lot in part one? Just a panel here and there to bring up the secondary characters and not just when the plot calls upon them that he's forced to show them? Would that really take a 100 chapters?
Kishimoto didn't weigh up anything. He's just not interested anymore. If he really wanted to focus on solely Naruto's development, he wouldn't have built up the other characters as much as he did in part one. And he's doing a piss-poor job of building up Naruto at all with half the manga devoted to Sasuke. He just doesn't care anymore. Also, the friends that support Naruto could easily make up part of his development. Keeping the manga fresh and varied. Focusing solely on one character would stagnate the entire series.
It's wrong to say that he only made them to show off clans and whatnot as well. If that was all they were ever meant for, then they wouldn't have gotten the dreams and aspirations that they had. Do you really believe that that Rock Lee is nothing but a plot tool? With all the blood and sweat and tears that he exuded to protect his dreams giving us the best fight in the series? Why didn't Kishimoto cripple him for life then? Show how tough the ninja world is. Why waste chapters to bring him back? It's because he cared then but doesn't care now. Also if they were simply tools to showcase that stuff you mentioned, Kishimoto's doing a piss poor job at even that. Over half of Shippuden is taken up by the fucking Uchiha clan. Like five chapters were wasted on a long-ass story about them. The other clans have had little to no effect. Neither have any jutsu styles with most of the jutsus being used are either new ones or the fucking sharingan. A couple of recent minor characters having the side-characters' techniques isn't gonna cut it compared to the volumes and volumes of sharingan tripe. They haven't affecting anything on the political structure or family ties aspect. The only political structure of significance is the Root which was introduced in Shippuden and the Kage summit. What do the side-characters have to do with them? And the only significant family tie to Naruto is the gay relationship between the Uchiha group and the First Hokage's group.
Face it, they're not tools to show anything. They were simply built up for a use but Kishimoto ended up not using them because he gave up on his series at that point. It's pointless to say that we need to wait till the series finishes. Kishimoto has had PLENTY of reasonable opportunities. He just didn't take them.
But regardless of what evidence I have shown or what points we've both conceded on you'll remain being a whiny little bitch suckling on robbys balls…..
....Good luck with that.
Oh my, I didn't catch this colorful edit. What should I do with it? There are so many ways I can break down its pointlessness and cheapness and its immaturity and how its a distraction to cover up your poor debating skills. Nah, too easy.
Also you hadn't shown any evidence. Like at all. Robby gave images of chapter pages and I myself have cited my own examples (though without images). All you've done is spout farcical statements without any back-up.