@Captain:
Does anyone agree that Naruto is getting hella boring, it's losing it's original touch, and that the name of the manga should be changed to Sasuke!
My friend and I make that joke a lot (he started it, correcting me on the name whenever I mentioned Naruto). The series has been off-and-on for me ever since Naruto punked Kakuzu* with the most basic trick in his arsenal. That fight just utterly disappointed the hell out of me… the current events with Madara-Tobi look promising, though.
If anything disappoints/concerns me though, it's that Madara is likely going to end up being Sasuke's ticket back into the Good Guy fold without having to suffer any significant consequences for his actions. He ran away, nearly killed his best friend, turned his back on everything and everyone who held him dear to join a snake-themed pedophile and obsessively pursue revenge against a single man who might not've been evil in the first place!** By joining Orochimaru, an enemy of Konoha, Sasuke is, at best a traitor. And yet, I'm almost positive that joining together against Madara will prevent Sasuke from even being jailed, and that irritates me, given that he should suffer more than winning the most anticipated fight in the series in the most drawn out and anticlimactic manner possible.
I don't know about original, for me I tend to go more towards different. Various "I'm gonna be the best beep ever!" exist all over the Shonen genre, so originality is going to be tricky to come by. Therefore, I tend to like series that are different/interesting. If they ahve something original (or that I just haven't seen) yay. If not, long as it's fun to read I don't mind. That's what Naruto's losing, in my mind.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
*Kakuzu's miserable showing doesn't deserve "Pwned"
**I'd made a rough a guess we might see something like this, when Itachi revealed Madara to Sasuke.