Quote Originally Posted by Kraco
Unless that was a tasteless joke, you should just drop watching any shounen fight anime, because what you described is the basic concept behind them.
Nope. Naruto I find to be different. Lots of different well-made characters that many people can relate to. Good development on the characters. Actual story line. Good life lessons.

There's a constant strive to get better, but it's not one disposable boss character after another. And it's most definitely not MAIN CHARACTER TO THE RESCUE at the last second non-sense. And there are actually goals and purpose to the madness. Not just, Oh, I have to save the world again.

Ichigo had purpose and although his companions suck ass as characters, they were somewhat on a close level. Now it's just DBZ Goku reincarnated and Ichigo's a stupid emo-kid.