
The Great Ninja War had dragged on for over a year of manga chapters, with diminishing amounts of weekly progress killing my interest in continuing to read. As a socially awkward nerd who had just discovered that Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon were part of a larger media genre, I spent years avidly following the adventures of the titular hero, Sasuke, and Sakura from their beginnings as trainee ninjas into adults dealing with complex issues.Īnd then one day, I just stopped following the series.

Almost a decade ago, in my mid-teens, I was hugely into Naruto.
